Maryke Beyers Quotes & Sayings

I wanted to consume her; I wanted to break her and put her back together again, because that's what I did - I broke things. — Chanel Cleeton

I have one of those real old American built cars. The kind that just PUNCHES through accidents. — Kevin Rooney

Focus on the opportunities, not on the constraints. — Paul Laseau

The first thing she did after she found out she was sick was to send me to live with my older female cousin in the city. I was in middle school at the time. For my mother, sending me away was her way of loving me. She said I was too young to be tied down to a sick mother and that I had too much to live for. Everybody has to say goodbye eventually, she told me, so you may as well start practicing. I cannot say she was right. I think that if we all have to say goodbye eventually then the best we can do is try to stay together as long as we possibly can. But it's not that one of us was right and the other was wrong. We just saw things differently. — Kyung-Sook Shin

I tend to keep things that bother me clandestine ... well-hidden. I'm also not very good at recognising the reasons that change my moods - they just seem to happen, which is not great for those around me. — Matthew Nable

Whenever I've done a sketch in which I'm asked to play a mom, my brain goes to Minnesota. It makes the character seem matronly, warm, the kind of person that takes care of you and brings you Campbell's soup when you're sick. It's a great shortcut. — Allison Tolman

I don't know why in society when a woman demands perfection she is called crazy. — Janice Dickinson

While the older generation is content to sit around and critique culture, that culture is moving beyond them. At some point the traditional church and all of the expressions of that church will become essentially irrelevant. — Ted Dekker

I can't even remember when I first went, 'I want to be an actress.' It's always been inside of me. — Olivia DeJonge

I usually arrive at the first rehearsal with a vague memory of most of it. But the real work happens in rehearsal, oddly enough, because what happens is that you match the words to the movement, and once you know where you're moving, then the words that accompany that movement become not locked into your mind and your brain and your whole body. — Angela Lansbury

In a determined reversal of her inherent nature, Kochu Maria now, as a policy, hardly ever believed anything that anybody said. — Arundhati Roy

Auntie Yang is not hard of hearing. She is hard of listening. — Amy Tan

The secret to happiness is short-term, stupid self-interest! — Bill Watterson