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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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 am anything but a misogynist - I am quite far to the other side of that.
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My husband is a fall-away Catholic, but with a vengeance. He's actually more of a feminist than I am.
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We are quick to stick labels on others - especially those who don't fit in with the norm. 'Harold Fry' is about a broken marriage; 'Perfect' is about a broken person. They are both about finding kindness where you least expect it.
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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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Nothing comes without hard work. I've been taught that by many people growing up.
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I liked 'Star Wars' as a kid. I liked science fiction.
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I have dedicated many years to economic study, up to the Ph.D. level, to analyze and understand the inherent weaknesses of aid and why aid policies have consistently failed to deliver on economic growth and poverty alleviation.
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I didn't foresee my career. Things happen.
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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.
