Maika Monroe Quotes
I've never experienced complete terror, knock on wood, or running for my life or any of that.
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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In our culture, the shame about accidental pregnancy is inextricable from the shame about having had sex. That disapproval of sex is one reason our record with contraception is so poor. If you're not supposed to be sexual, you don't plan for sex. You cross your fingers and hope for the best.
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But I used to have a bit of a gambling problem. And that would have been the answer to my prayers. It got worse when I started playing this character, too.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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Back in the 1960s, I got a superb education for very little money. The bill for my first year at Harpur College in New York was a few hundred dollars.
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Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.
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I prayed every day of my life, and that was instilled in me as a kid, and as I've gotten older, that's just matured in me.
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Not everybody is a great rapper; not everybody lives for the art of lyricism.
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I don't want to sound disingenuous here - controversy is obviously good for business, especially if your business is satire. And it does amplify the discussion - in my view, a good thing.
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There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
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To win a championship, you have to have a little bit of luck on your side.
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I think there's a time to be private and a time to be public, and I think that companies like Facebook and Groupon are basically transformational companies. You don't come across them very often, and I'm pretty sure that they can continue to grow for a long time even being public.
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I would say issues around human rights - either you're going to take a hard stance, or you're not. You can't borrow money from China the way the U.S. has done and then turn around and say, 'But you've got a human-rights problem.' You can't be half pregnant.
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Winning one league title at Roma, to me, is worth winning 10 at Juventus or Real Madrid.
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A movie set is like a petri dish for neuroses, you know? It's just, like, egos and weird personalities and, more than anything, fear.
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Those shows I did with Queen were pretty surreal. I was really excited and super-flattered, but intimidated at the same time.
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Title IX came along and changed a lot of things for the better, but nevertheless, it meant that money became more important.
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Why wear pants when you can wear a muumuu?
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And it was then that I realized wow, I'm able to write lyrics and sing and stuff like that.
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I'm instinctively very suspicious and guarded, and I try to counteract it so much. I find reason allows you to be open, and my only sort of ambition in life is to try and be as open as possible.
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The greatest gift in life is to be remembered.
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I've never experienced complete terror, knock on wood, or running for my life or any of that.
