Maria Monk Quotes
The only recreation there allowed, however, is that of the mind, and of this there is but little.Maria Monk
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I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row, and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves a crime. Every one of them I want to be personal, and I want him to grow and change. The problem with that is, it makes the series limited, you can't write a series where a guy is always going through some kind of crisis.
Harlan Coben -
Romantic love can be terrifying. We experience another human being as enormously important to us. So there is surrender - not a surrender to the other person so much as to our feeling for the other person. What is the obstacle? The possibility of loss.
Nathaniel Branden -
There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
Quico Canseco -
Any film is about heroism: the triumph of good over evil. If you look back at my films, you will see that as a recurring theme.
Salman Khan -
Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.
Felix Adler -
You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.
Rachel Brosnahan
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When I decide I want something, I go in like an Exocet missile.
Sam Taylor-Johnson -
I believe the Thai people are patient, and the people at least give me a chance to prove my ability to help them.
Yingluck Shinawatra -
Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
Abbi Glines -
I'm constantly maxing out my Gmail account, and that is hard to do.
Rachel Sklar -
When I pick my subcommittee chairmen, I look for people that understand what it's like to run successful businesses, who know what it's like to sign the front of the check instead of the back of the check: somebody that gets it.
Sam Graves
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I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
Oscar Wilde -
Cinematic icons of the police detective are more male role models than female.
Frances McDormand -
I think all actors have a similar deal. You want some people who understand. Although it looks great - and is great - there are also shoddy moments when you feel really rotten, and when it's going well, you're not allowed to complain.
Eddie Redmayne -
I'm not a revolutionary, and I'm not a warrior.
Bassem Youssef -
I actually did go through severe depression and anxiety attacks where I couldn't sleep for weeks. It was definitely several months of being not myself.
Felicia Day -
Because I was always a fat child, I got fatter and fatter, and I ended up 18 stone and with a 40-inch waist.
Rafe Spall
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The more you consume, the more insecure you are. It's the nature of the world.
Manoj Bhargava -
What a chimera then is man. What a novelty! What a monster... what a contradiction, what a prodigy.
Blaise Pascal -
Tracking action without cutting is the least jarring method of placing the audience into a real-time experience where they are the ones making the subtle choices of where and when to look.
Steven Spielberg -
When I pull my hair back in a ponytail, that's how you know I'm having a hard day.
Belinda Johnson -
In old age, she thought, how it all falls away. Your good opinion of yourself, all the virtues you had thought you had, your beauty, your wealth.
Elizabeth Goudge -
The only recreation there allowed, however, is that of the mind, and of this there is but little.
Maria Monk