Monique Roffey Quotes

The romantic idealism of my youth has been replaced with realism and hard work at what I love.

Monique Roffey

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WorkHard WorkLoveRomanticYouth

I always disliked that anytime you had gays represented in - and there were some exceptions, certainly - but represented in popular fiction, they were usually the goofy neighbor next door, you know? And I just thought, 'Well, I know a lot of gay people, and they're just as varied as the heterosexual people I know.'

Joe R. Lansdale

PeopleDoorThoughtYouGayKnow

Rotten Tomatoes is such a great website, in that it has one foot in the Internet world and one foot in the cinema world, and it keeps its grounding between them just perfectly.

John Lasseter

GreatWorldInternetWebsiteCinema

By wrecking something, it's always reinventing. All modern movements in art and music wrecked what came before, in a way - and surprised the cooler generation that was one step ahead. That's how you get ahead.

John Waters

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From the outside, Rick Rubin's house above Zuma Beach is a generic millionaire beach home. There's a rarely used tennis court and a circular drive.

Stephen Rodrick

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The problem of the Middle East is poverty more than politics.

Shimon Peres

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It is scary to write - period - for me, but once you get past the idea that it's scary to write, I still can only be who I am. As a writer, my job, to me, is to expose myself - to really sort of dig in and find out who I am and then put it on the page.

Jason Robert Brown

MyselfJobPastI AmMeYou

I take my part in the food chain very seriously.

Dominique Swain

FoodSeriouslyTakeChainPartVery

Working keeps me young. Anything that exercises the brain like learning lines.

Diana Rigg

LearningMeBrainYoungAnything

Japan cannot conquer China with America in her rear, Soviet Russia on her right and England on her left - her most powerful enemies in the South Sea all flanking her. It is this international situation that constitutes one of Japan's great weaknesses.

Chiang Kai-shek

SeaGreatConquerAmericaPowerful

If I'd stayed on in London and carried on going to literary parties, it would have wrecked me as a writer.

Colin Wilson

MeLondonGoingWouldWriterStayed

Sundays tend to be a day where just I do nothing but visit people. It's kind of like trick-or-treating.

Chuck Palahniuk

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Baseball hasn't been the national pastime for many years now - no sport is. The national pastime, like it or not, is watching television.

Bob Greene

BaseballTelevisionNowWatching

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