Lauren DeStefano Quotes

'Dystopian,' by definition, promises a darker story.

Lauren DeStefano

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• It's something you dream about, working in Scotland, working in Glasgow, walking down the same streets I used to walk down when I was a drama student, daydreaming about being in an American TV show or doing something that was well known. I guess I sort of pinch myself.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • American
  • Dream
  • Myself

• A lot of actors and actresses pull from past experiences.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Past
  • Experiences
  • Pull

• Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Beautiful
  • Growth
  • Building

• I've played many characters that have consumed me and owned me.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • Me
  • Characters
  • Many

• I come from nowhere Brooklyn, New York. Williamsburg, Brooklyn. These days Williamsburg is kind of a hip area, but when I grew up there, the taxi drivers wouldn't even go over the bridge, it was so dangerous.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • Up
  • New
  • New York

• You have an entire generation of kids who grew up with the idea that music is something that you can download for free.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Up
  • Music
  • Kids

• Second only to the sea, the Miami sky has been the greatest comfort in my life past 50. On a good day, when the wind blows from the south, the light here is diffuse and forgiving.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Life
  • Good
  • Past

• Twenty-four hour news delivers people who stand and talk to camera rather than deliver reported packages with their own camera crew where it's happening.

  

  Kate Adie
  • People
  • Stand
  • Camera

• He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

• Individualism is going around these days in uniform, handing out the party line on individualism.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Party

• Have you ever had a dream so realThat you felt the life you live was fake

  

  Fetty Wap
  • Life
  • Live
  • Dream

• Speaking of Chinese president Sun Yat-sen ...combined Benjamin Franklin and George Washington of China.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Sun
  • Chinese

• A gun is not an argument.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Gun

• There's nothing like having a bit of somebody else in you.

  

  Kevin Rudd

• The worst programs are the ones where the programmers doing the original work don't lay a solid foundation, and then they're not involved in the program in the future.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Work
  • Future

• What we Americans go through to pick a president is not only crazy and unnecessary but genuinely abusive. Hundreds of millions of dollars are spent in a craven, cynical effort to stir up hatred and anger on both sides.

  

  Matt Taibbi
  • Up
  • Crazy
  • Effort

• There's a thing called the 'One Drop' theory in African-American culture, which is if you have one drop of black blood in you, you're black.

  

  Keegan-Michael Key
  • American
  • Black
  • Culture

• I think the world is full of evil people. I think in some ways we're in more danger now than before.

  

  Dean Koontz
  • People
  • World
  • Evil

• Where we are going as a species is a big question. Human evolution certainly hasn't stopped. Every time individuals produce a new zygote, there's a reshuffling and recombination of genes. And we don't know where all of that is going to take us.

  

  Donald Johanson
  • Time
  • Question

• People on the lower rungs are more vulnerable to sexual harassment than those at the top.

  

  Dawn Steel
  • People

• I'm not used to not having enough time to live with the songs. Usually, if I write something, I live with it for a little while.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Time
  • Live
  • Enough

• I think there's as much violence, in a way, as a scene with two women having a cup of coffee in a Ruth Rendell novel - in terms of emotional violence and the violence you can inflict with language - as there is in the most graphic kind of serial killer/slasher novel you can think of.

  

  Mark Billingham
  • Women
  • Violence
  • Emotional

• The Arab monarchies, especially Jordan and Morocco, are more legitimate than the false republics, with their stolen elections, regime-dominated courts and rubber-stamp parliaments.

  

  Elliott Abrams

• 'Dystopian,' by definition, promises a darker story.

  

  Lauren DeStefano