"You have to get up pretty early in the morning to invent the news."

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Source : Lauren Beukes (2010). “Zoo City”, p.7, Jacana Media

Lauren Beukes

#Morning Quotes #News Quotes

“Off pitch, I keep things simple. I enjoy spending time with my family. I never forget my roots and regularly give back to children in West Africa. I support several youth associations, and I am also involved in the protection of the forest in my country [Ivory Coast]. When away from home, I mostly miss people and enjoying a good laugh with my peers.”
“If you make more roads, you will have more traffic.”
“The sense of loss of control over what happens to you at work (and thus in your life is vital). This further involves a sense of fairness as in, I did my part and look where it got me! "The deal," the contract between employee and employer has eroded and been replaced with unilateral power by the organization over the employee.”
“One minute you're bleeding. The next minute you're hemorrhaging. The next minute you're painting the Mona Lisa.”
“I began writing books after speaking for several years and I realize that when you have a written book people think that you're smarter than you really are if I can joke. But it's interesting. People will buy your book and hire you without reading the book just because you have a book and you have a book on a subject that they think is of interest to themselves or e to their company.”
“Right after 'Desperate' sold to China, we were the most watched show around the world at the time. That's really something great to be a part of.”
“Doth the Reality of sensible things consist in being perceived? or, is it something distinct from their being perceived, and that bears no relation to the mind?”
“My airplane is quiet, and for a moment still an alien, still a stranger to the ground, I am home.”

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