Maika Monroe Quotes
My dad showed me loads of films when I was young, but I never thought I would be in movies. That didn't seem like a real job to me.
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A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it gains a certain polish.
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I wish somebody had given me the news that ideas don't just fall on your head like fairy dust. You have to treat that like a job. You have to spend hours each day, where you're just like, 'This is the part of the day when I'm looking for an idea.'
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The fundamentalists are increasing. People, afraid to oppose those fundamentalists, shut their mouths. It is really very difficult to make people move against a sensitive issue like religion, which is the source of fundamentalism.
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Women dress very much according to their moods, so when you see their shoes, it really shows you the character and what they want to show to the world, and what they are feeling at that time.
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A couple of times, I felt like I was cracking and I couldn't go on, and God would put another person in my place to help me.
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There were wonderful moments when I was singing for the first time in the Olympia Theatre and I was pregnant with my son, which was very, very strange for a singer.
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I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.
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Half of my closet is Barbie clothes - PVC skirts, cropped fuzzy sweaters, and velvet minis.
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My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down.
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I've been around - having gone to Princeton, and I went to Oxford after that - some pretty fancy characters in my life. And they're just as nutty as the rest of us - sometimes worse.
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I used the diabetes as my weapon. Of course, I was only hurting myself and making myself sicker, but I guess it was something I had to go through. I never went overboard so much that I really hurt myself, but my early teenage years were very tough.
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I read the Scriptures at the American Cathedral on Christmas and Easter; that's it. It's a task I love.
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I'm very, very sensitive to pain and to people who suffer.
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I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
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I am not keen just for the position; I'm keen to help and to serve. If I can really avoid any bad things on my country, I will not hesitate one second.
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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?
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If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.
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Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.
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I really do have a self-censorship problem, which isn't the way you should be if you're a cartoonist.
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I don't think it is worth trying to look 10 years younger through surgery.
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As a prosecutor, I got a paycheck for coming to work every day. I didn't get a promotion when I won, and I didn't get a demotion when I did a bad job.
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The vampires of '30 Days of Night' never really came into discussions early on. They did later when we were trying to figure out the pathology of the 'Twilight' vampires. '30 Days' is a completely different film. If you are a kid, please ask mum and dad before you watch that one!
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My dad showed me loads of films when I was young, but I never thought I would be in movies. That didn't seem like a real job to me.
