Marlies Dekkers Quotes & Sayings

It was almost pleasant, in a life-sucks-but-at-least-there's-good-music sort of way. — Lauren Myracle

I grew up with all these hippies. Ten of them and one of me. None of them wanted to work and spent all their time talking and dreaming and fooling around. 90% of that hippie stuff is just bullshit but the ideals of that generation were very beautiful and powerful and rebellious. I had to dress and feed myself from the time I was six, which meant I became a very organised person. But there came a point when I was about seven or eight, when I saw the absurdity of living in a commune and I said to them, Why don't you just DO SOMETHING!? — Bjork

We're all competent in different ways, we've just got to find a way to push ourselves up more. — Benjamin Clementine

If you live in a baboon troop in the Serengeti, you only have to work three hours a day for your calories, and predators don't mess with you much. What that means is you've got nine hours of free time every day to devote to generating psychological stress toward other animals in your troop. So the baboon is a wonderful model for living well enough and long enough to pay the price for all the social-stressor nonsense that they create for each other. They're just like us: They're not getting done in by predators and famines, they're getting done in by each other. — Robert M. Sapolsky

So what do you do? Really? (Kat)
Nothing. Really. It's boring as hell. Artemis won't allow me to bring anything here with me. No guitar. No Cartoon Network. Occasionally, I sneak a book in just to watch her wig out when she finds it. (Acheron) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

I had never even thought I'd be an actress - I was supposed to be a lawyer. But the motivation is the same: when you act, you defend a role; you have to be convincing. It's the same career. — Anne Parillaud

God became man, granted. The devil became a woman. — Victor Hugo

It does not seem that the contradiction which exists between the aristocratic function of art and the democratic structure of modern society can ever be resolved. — Herbert Read