Monica Raymund Quotes
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The big thing that Moneypenny changed was the amount of charity work that I was able to be involved with.
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'In A World...' changed my life a thousand per cent. I feel thankful that something I believed in so much - I love dialect, so I dedicated five years of my life to making a film about it - yielded such rewards. It led to 'Man Up,' as well as 'No Escape,' which comes out later this year... two movies where I am the female lead.
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He's an honest man - you could shoot craps with him over the telephone.
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You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
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With legitimate journalists I've always had a great time - I've never gone out of my way to court the press. That's probably cost me some money, but I've always had the respect of my peers.
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Challenges give me a kick. The day I stop getting challenges, I would quit.
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Race differences show up early in life.
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This is the first time in my life I've ever been happy, not completely happy, but happier than I've ever been.
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It was my dream, and probably the dream of every one of us, to bring about a revision of the Versailles Treaty by peaceful means, which was provided for in that very treaty.
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The militia had the same equipment as the military to protect them against the tyrannical government. It's more important today than ever that we uphold our Second Amendment.
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I'm happy in Lululemon, with a glass of red wine, watching HGTV.
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I was all about my thoughts, my work, my inspiration. I was always in hair.
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Be yourself, but always your better self.
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Being serious just makes me a little bit embarrassed.
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I always say that polo, for you to pursue a career, mainly any sport, you have to be born in the right place. If you're born in Hawaii, you surf. If you're born in Austria, you probably will ski. If you're born in Argentina, you most likely ride horses and have a chance to play polo.
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Only in America could you get away with the kind of comedy I did.
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I don't have a child, so Women for Women is like my child. But I always said I would step down after 20 years. I didn't want to be a 60-year-old woman holding on to something I created when I was 23.
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It's easy to get next to music theory, especially between your peers and music classes and so forth. You just pay attention. I had a good ear, so I realized that printed music was just about reminding you what to play.
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Anyone can love a perfect place. Loving Baltimore takes some resilience.
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I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot. But a lot of effective and interesting radio is based on one character who reacts to the world.
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It does not pay a prophet to be too specific.
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Have the courage to act instead of react.
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I think in terms of the themes that I have worked on most is establishing questions of race in the context of Latin America. This is a theme that makes uncomfortable a lot of people, and it obviously makes the Latin American Left uncomfortable.
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Race, to me, is a very blurry thing.
