Mo'Nique (Monique Angela Hicks) Quotes
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For me, acting is becoming naked in front of people, you know? And when you know in the back of your mind somebody is testing you, you cannot really bare yourself. That's a feeling I always have when I'm auditioning.
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Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it. They were under the heel of the French... and they got together and swore a pact to the devil.
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Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody.
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People gravitate toward information that implies a happier outlook for them.
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People assume that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit.
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Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.
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When I'm playing a team sport, it's not about one individual, it's about everyone, from me to the other 23 people who were there, to all the support staff who've worked very hard behind the scenes.
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It's weird how people who are the least close to me or who've never even met me purport to be experts on the real me; and then, sadly, there are those who could be in touch with me but prefer to gossip with strangers about me instead.
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In terms of comedians, I loved, growing up, Jonathan Winters, Sid Caesar, Jackie Gleason, Phil Silvers, Carol Burnett, all those people.
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I'm not one of those people who's so blinded by my own work and my sweat. It's kind of risky writing a memoir when you're really part of a larger universe.
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Prior to getting into music, I interacted with, on a daily basis, about 5-10 percent of the people that I've interacted with since then. I've been meeting people from different backgrounds and different cultures. That did allow for a lot of change. I've changed as a product of that, but it's been positive.
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I didn't invent forensic science and medicine. I just was one of the first people to recognize how interesting it is.
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I'm not running for office. I just want people to come to my stuff and escape and see me as a character, not as anything else.
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The main reason people want to pay for Spotify is really portability. People are saying, 'I want to have my music with me.'
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...reports about very innocent people being thrown into detention where they could be held for years without any representation or charges is distressing.
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Cybercrime is becoming everything in crime. Again, because people have connected their entire lives to the Internet, that's where those who want to steal money or hurt kids or defraud go. So it's an epidemic for reasons that make sense.
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A pastor has to be media-savvy if he's going to reach everybody. I don't mean to be ugly and harsh, but to be forthright and candid. And the result is that people that don't like you start listening.
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I'm not sure that, for a lot of people, the real world is an easy place to live in. And yet we still soldier on.
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People hate searching.
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The list of women to potentially be on a major party ticket, in both parties, is embarrassingly short.
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The comic, more than the tragic, because it ignites hope, leads to more, not less, participation in the struggle for a just world.
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The first fantasy books I can remember reading were 'The Shy Stegosaurus of Cricket Creek' and the series of 'Mushroom Planet' books.
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Today, we've got what seems to me to be binary-choice politics: black and white, ones and zeros, either you are with me or against me. How did we get here?
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Let's be healthy big people. Everybody can't be a size 0 or 45, but let's be healthy.
