Monique Roffey Quotes

Long-term heterosexual monogamy is still the dominant model: men and women still want to pair for a long period of time.

Monique Roffey

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I've been painting and making things since I was little.

Jemima Kirke

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And with the money from your corn, from your rents, and from the issues of pleas in your courts, and from your stock, arrange the expenses of your kitchen and your wines and your wardrobe and the wages of servants, and subtract your stock.

Robert Grosseteste

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I don't believe in inspiration at all. We live in a world that demands explanation. And fiction has the capability to offer explanations for things.

Alvaro Enrigue

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Panic causes tunnel vision. Calm acceptance of danger allows us to more easily assess the situation and see the options.

Simon Sinek

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For me, there is urgency in fiction, even though writing is, in itself, an act against the corrosiveness of time.

Romesh Gunesekera

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Boldness isn't something you're born with; you either choose it or you don't.

Mike Yaconelli

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In nighttime series, the actor gets billing up front on every episode.

Michael Zaslow

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Citizens of Rome might boast that the claim of 'Civus romanus sum' set them apart from barbarians and slaves, and it was true up to a point, but Roman citizens lived in a society that accepted pain, cruelty, and torture as the norm, and in which there was no suggestion of equality at birth or mercy in the afterlife.

Michael Korda

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I know how much parents love buying clothes for their kids and how they want to give them something new in the closet.

Liya Kebede

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Philosophy teaches you to think big.

Jay Chandrasekhar

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Creativity is not a trait that we inherit in our genes or a blessing bestowed by the angels. It's a skill.

Jonah Lehrer

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Portland in particular is a cheap enough place to live that you can still develop your passion - painting, writing, music. People seem less status-conscious. Even wealthy people buy second-hand clothes and look a little bit homeless.

Chuck Palahniuk

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