"Shakespeare would have it wrong these days. It's not the world that's the stage - it's social media, where you're trying to put on a show. The rest of your life is rehearsals, prepping in the wings to be fabulous online."

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Source : "Broken Monsters". Book by Lauren Beukes, 2014.

Lauren Beukes

#Media Quotes #Wings Quotes #Trying Quotes

“"Native" always means people who belong someplace else, because they had once belonged somewhere. That shows that the white race does not really think they belong anywhere, because they think of everybody else as native.”
“A world-class playboy once told me that the key to mesmerising women is to listen to them and look deeply into their eyes.”
“We cannot possibly take them all into this country [asylum seekers] - it is a completely unrealistic expectation.”
“It may also be pertinent to ask whether a greater effort in the less expensive basic stages of research may not lead to reductions of effort in the far costlier stages of development and prototype construction.”

Source : "Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists" Vol. 9, No. 2, published by by Educational Foundation for Nuclear Science, Inc., (p. 38), March 1953.
“What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give.”
“Federalism is the best curb on democracy. [It] assigns limited powers to the central government. Thereby all power is limited. It excludes absolute power of the majority.”
“Stick with your passion, and keep moving forward. You can't go wrong.”
“More important than talent, strength, or knowledge is the ability to laugh at yourself and enjoy the pursuit of your dreams.”

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