Monique Roffey Quotes

What I always knew about my parents was that they were in love, and this love had a fizz. It was exciting to be their child, to be around them. There was a dynamism between them, a charge.

Monique Roffey

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LoveChildParentsAlwaysExciting

My mood board is archival images of Brigitte Bardot and Iman, and Naomi Campbell in the '90s.

Jillian Hervey

MoodImagesBoardNaomiCampbell

If she has a good, strong, reliable father image, which is hard to find these days, that will be her image of men, probably for the rest of her life. She'll look for a husband who embodies those qualities.

Robert Johnson

LifeGoodFatherMenHusbandRest

Great countries need to secure their border for national security purposes, for economic purposes and for rule of law purposes.

Jeb Bush

GreatLawBorderSecurityNeedRule

I like to be absorbed in what my character's doing.

Mia Wasikowska

CharacterDoingLike

As a little girl, I got to meet Audrey Hepburn, who took my face in her hands and suddenly make me want to be an actress.

Stephanie Zimbalist

GirlMeFaceHandsWantMeet

My very best memory of Montreal was the moment inside the Olympic arena when I was waiting under the stadium and those majestic gates opened up. It was a whole other world.

Sugar Ray Leonard

MomentBestMemoryWaitingWorldUp

I never get enough sleep, even when I travel. I wake up in the middle of the night, either with the help of my kids or because my mind is going. I wish I got eight hours a night, but it is more like an interrupted six or seven. The secret is to go to sleep well before midnight.

Summer Sanders

TravelSleepMindNightWake UpGo

Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.

Rita Mae Brown

CommunicationPowerMoonLanguage

I always have felt that most people don't have the first idea about what musicians, in the traditional sense - I don't mean in the modern media fake way, but traditionally - what they went through, what their lives were like.

Ry Cooder

PeopleFakeMusiciansMediaWay

Ma was legally blind due to a degenerative eye disease she'd had since birth. This meant she was entitled to welfare, and our lives revolved around the first day of every month when her payment was due.

Liz Murray

DayEyeBlindBirthSheFirst

I teach at Harvard that the world and the heavens, and the stars are all real, but not so damned real, you see.

Josiah Royce

StarsWorldYouTeachRealSee

You have to be so willing to hug and say 'I love you' so much. And you have to talk to every single person individually - which I love doing, but it's actually, like, really emotionally tiring.

Jonah Marais

LoveI Love YouDoingYouPerson

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