Maika Monroe Quotes
For me, I grew up doing kiteboarding where no girls are doing it, and you had to prove yourself. You just had to know that you could do it, too. It's the mentality you had to have to make it. I work hard like anyone else.
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My memory of my home was that it was very happy, and that there was more fun and life there than there was anywhere else.
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I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.
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We left my birthplace, Brooklyn, New York, in 1939 when I was 13. I enjoyed the ethnic variety and the interesting students in my public school, P.S. 134. The kids in my neighborhood were only competitive in games, although unfriendly gangs tended to define the limits of our neighborhood.
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I like to think I'm quite brave. I stand up for myself.
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I have a love/hate relationship with just about everything, but certainly with America.
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I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.
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My real last name is Galifianakisburg.
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Human beings are a social species. We like to hang together in groups, just like wildebeests, just like lions. Wildebeests don't hang with lions because lions eat wildebeests. Human beings are like that. We do what that group does that we're trying to identify with.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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I can't see myself just endlessly singing the same songs over and over again.
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My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.
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I try to be upbeat. I read this book which tells you to write down everything that you're grateful for each day. Now I'm constantly noticing all the little things that make me joyful.
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You learn from the things that happen in your career. You get up and down. You never give up. All the things that happened in my career, thank God it happened early rather than late in my career.
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A person can't have everything in this world; and it was a little unreasonable of her to expect it.
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TV feels quite constipated, and the thing I find particularly difficult is the branding of the channels where it's not 'Is it a good script?' but 'Is it a BBC2 script?'
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It is not often that idealism of student days finds adequate opportunity for expression in the later life of manhood.
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The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
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I grew up in my neighborhood with salsa, of course bachata, but also hip-hop, Nirvana - it was just like a mixed culture. It was a beautiful thing for me because at the moment I started creating music, having all these different sounds and elements, it was very organic because I grew up with all these types different music.
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I'd say my greatest fear is fear itself.
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I had a job at this French restaurant, and I hated it. I don't like serving; I don't like getting people ketchup.
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He is not necessarily the best teacher who performs the most labour; makes his pupils work the hardest, and bustle the most. A hundred cents of copper, though they make more clatter and fill more space, have only a tenth of the value of one gold eagle.
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For me, I grew up doing kiteboarding where no girls are doing it, and you had to prove yourself. You just had to know that you could do it, too. It's the mentality you had to have to make it. I work hard like anyone else.
