Lauren DeStefano Quotes
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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.
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A lot of actors and actresses pull from past experiences.
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Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth.
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I've played many characters that have consumed me and owned me.
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I want to show that the underdog can win. I believe we're all the same: you, a slum girl, my mother.
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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.
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You have an entire generation of kids who grew up with the idea that music is something that you can download for free.
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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.
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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.
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He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once.
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Individualism is going around these days in uniform, handing out the party line on individualism.
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Have you ever had a dream so realThat you felt the life you live was fake
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Speaking of Chinese president Sun Yat-sen ...combined Benjamin Franklin and George Washington of China.
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A gun is not an argument.
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There's nothing like having a bit of somebody else in you.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I think the world is full of evil people. I think in some ways we're in more danger now than before.
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Many people think it's in bad taste to advertise for an insane asylum... but come on down. We're going crazy.
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Love is not a feeling, but an action.
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I have a lot of blurring between fiction and non-fiction in so many of my works. For example, my first novel, 'When Nietzsche Wept,' has a great deal of non-fiction in it. I didn't create many characters at all. Almost all of them are historical characters that actually existed.
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There's so much denial in gymnastics. It's a beautiful sport but the other part is numbing. You become machinelike. They'll refute this, but I've been around it. I know.
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'Dystopian,' by definition, promises a darker story.
