Monica (Monica Denise Brown) Quotes
I talk a lot about strength, faith and love, but I don't ever talk about the fact that I am one of the most sensitive people in my family. That might be the most shocking, because you always see me fighting the good fight, with the strong face on, but I am the most emotional.
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Most women's pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men's pictures. In place of a car chase or a battle scene, what you get is an extreme closeup of a woman breaking down.
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Advertising is what you do when you can't go see somebody. That's all it is.
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I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.
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You can only be free as an artist if you're free as a person.
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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I'm not the type of person that is forced.
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The difference in the quality of medical care received by people with mental illness is one of the reasons why they live shorter lives than people without mental illness. Even in the best-resourced countries in the world, this life expectancy gap is as much as 20 years. In the developing countries of the world, this gap is even larger.
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Carelessness makes me cross. And unkindness.
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You have to really prove yourself to young people, and if your answer is clear and consistent and loving - even if it's angry and disappointed - what's important is that you're being real and honest and not going anywhere.
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I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.
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I'm obsessive. That's the word for me. I obsess – perhaps to the point where it's moderately dysfunctional. I tend to put a book through about 100 revisions. If anything, that's an understatement. If there's another author out there who does this sort of revision, I would really like to meet him. Maybe we could form some sort of support group.
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Eventually you just have to realize that you're living for an audience of one. I'm not here for anyone else's approval.
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I've always been attracted to action stuff.
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Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.
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It's some weird idea to think that you've always got to say everything is great and perfect.
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Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
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Nancy Lopez has always been a role model of mine... so to have the opportunity to play for her and spend time with her has been amazing.
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I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.
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You grow up a lot in terms of your understanding of the industry and how to deal with the corporate things.
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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
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Women are strong, and we're way too hard on ourselves.
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The national debate on Social Security has been cheapened by demagoguery on all sides.
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Art is what we do. Culture is what is done to us. A photograph of an art object is not the art object. An essay about an artist's work is not the artist's work.
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I talk a lot about strength, faith and love, but I don't ever talk about the fact that I am one of the most sensitive people in my family. That might be the most shocking, because you always see me fighting the good fight, with the strong face on, but I am the most emotional.
