Maika Monroe Quotes
I grew up watching horror movies with my dad. For as long as I can remember. I grew up loving being terrified. 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' at sleepovers. Hiding behind my fingers.
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You honestly can't go wrong with All Saints. I live in their leather!
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I was noticed by a person from a local model agency, and he proposed that I participate in a beauty contest Miss Chelyabinsk.
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I think where we're still a little bit behind some other countries is just our pure soccer knowledge and our savvy on the field. That takes time and generations that have watched soccer growing up, played the game growing up.
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I don't get bothered by fans.
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I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.
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People should know what they want, not just what they don't want.
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Ever since Romanticism, an oppositional mode, artists have the right, and indeed the duty, to attack social convention. But it is ridiculous and in fact self-infantilizing for them to expect to be financially supported by the general public whom they are insulting.
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What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theology.
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I feel optimistic about how heterogeneous societies pull together. We just have to keep on with the struggle.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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I really connect to strong feminist writers that make their ideas accessible for the rest of the world.
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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The script for what would eventually become my first graphic novel, 'Cairo,' sort of came to me in kind of a bolt of lightning within 24 hours of having moved to that city. Just a jumble of characters and narratives and interesting things that I was seeing and experiencing for the first time.
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In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
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I speak my mind. That's what we loved Tupac for.
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I live by a hill. I began walking it and then I began jogging it and then I began sprinting it.
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The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity.
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I'm not graceful.
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I believe in microfinance because it isn't just a path out of poverty. It's the road to self-reliance. By allowing people to team up and literally become their own bank, you can mobilize people and resources and alleviate poverty on the global scale.
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You can't pick and choose who's going to win or who's gonna mess up.
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You like me, you don't like me, you love me, you hate me. I'm gonna be me, but one thing I have to back it up is skills.
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In putting setting to work, I like to think about long shots and close-ups. The long shot is the overall view of the place in which the characters live - the island, the town, the wide sweep of place. Then we narrow in. The close-up, the tight focus, makes the place different from anywhere else.
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I still love a variety of kinds of music.
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I grew up watching horror movies with my dad. For as long as I can remember. I grew up loving being terrified. 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' at sleepovers. Hiding behind my fingers.
