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

• To the extent that I can serve as a role model or mentor for other women in what might be traditionally viewed as a male-dominated field, I welcome that.

  

  Marianne Lake
  • Women
  • Model
  • Mentor

• Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand.

  

  Andre Maurois
  • Hand
  • Style

• We really don't rest if we think our kids are drifting, or if we think they don't have the right work ethic. It drives us crazy. Because we ultimately want them to succeed and, until they do, we feel in some way that something is not complete.

  

  Kevin Costner
  • Work
  • Kids
  • Drifting

• There are women to whom nature has granted the gift of silent emotion. They have mobile faces, changeful eyes, soft lips, which express joy or desolation naturally, and with the charm of perfect simplicity and truth.

  

  Sarah Doudney
  • Women
  • Truth
  • Eyes

• When the possessions and households of citizens are no longer honored by the acts, as well as the principles, of their government, then the concentration camp ceases to be one of the possibilities of human nature and becomes one of its likelihoods.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Nature

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

  

  Lauren DeStefano