Maika Monroe Quotes
For me, it's first about the characters. I look for a character who is intriguing and challenging and different from what I've done before.

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My works look to how images are produced, but specially based upon how the material reacts.
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You put anyone in the outfit, and they look like Gandalf. Not that clever.
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I'm not sure specifically but there's definitely parts of me in Rikku.
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Let's not just look at it as taking votes away from Gore. Our support comes from a lot of people.
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I look back on some of my outfits, and I'm like: 'Why did I wear that? Where are my friends and why didn't they tell me not to leave the house?' If they had, I probably would've said, 'You don't know what you're talking about. This looks amazing.'
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The Kiss scene was attempted three times. The first was in a peculiar spot of the fort on the ground level. It felt forced to me, and I knew right away that, in spite of what others were saying, it was dead wrong.
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I tell myself every offseason I'm not going to say anything crazy. I'm just going to have a peaceful season... Can't do it. I'm cut from a different cloth.
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I suppose if I'd got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today, but I hope not. People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.
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It was deeply important for me to understand where Mandela came from. Because we know where he was going, and that's a famous story, but who was he? Where did he come from? What was his upbringing?
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As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us.
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I like to put a stake in people, because I know people helped me.
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My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.
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It's too bad I'm not a flirt. When I'm on the sets, I'm too busy working on my scenes to look at the ladies.
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If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?
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It really bugs me the way people criticise how actors look. We're not models. Models exist.
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I have a dear friend here in Toronto, Sarah Millman, who has helped me a lot as a stylist.
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Anne Boleyn is an intriguing character. She seems to appeal to modern-day women in a very potent way. Because she was such an independently opinionated and spirited young woman, which at the time was unheard of.
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One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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I had a father and mother, who were devout and feared God. Our Lord also helped me with His grace. All this would have been enough to make me good, if I had not been so wicked.
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It's not easy being Hugh Jackman, but he wears the attention better than anyone I've ever met. He treats every person he meets the same and finds joy in everything he does. The lesson I've learned is that if you work incredibly hard, and you're nice to everybody, you'll be fine.
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For me, it's first about the characters. I look for a character who is intriguing and challenging and different from what I've done before.