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 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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A lot of times on tour it's about, 'OK, where am I today? Wow, I'm in Costa Rica. What is their famous dish?' And it's about trying the food, and really experiencing it.
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I opened the door for a lot of people, and they just ran through and left me holding the knob.
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It's something I've always loved doing. I'm not one of the artists who comes in and just does my bit. I'm there every second of every day. That's my hands-on situation.
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Americans have long trusted the views of Democrats on the environment, the economy, education, and health care, but national security is the one matter about which Republicans have maintained what political scientists call 'issue ownership.'
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I'm not talking about Russia in my music. I've never been to Russia. I'm not talking about Africa, Switzerland, China. I'm talking about me being American and growing up in a crazy world and helping to reflect all different sides of life.
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Classic nineteenth century European imperialists believed they were literally on a mission. I don't believe that the imperialists these days have that same sense of public service. They are simply pirates.
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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.
