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Monique Roffey Quotes

All my books explore fatherhood. I look at what it means to have a big father figure at the centre: sometimes they're a good father, sometimes bad.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: british
Birth: 1965

Topics

Good Father Look Bad Sometimes Big

Finding meaning in your work is your responsibility. Any job can be better when you actively work to find meaning in the work.

Work Responsibility Job Better You

I have inherited my father's sense of humour about myself. It's a lot more pleasant to make fun of yourself than when someone else does.

Stephen Sondheim

Father Myself Yourself Fun Someone

You can't possibly fathom the ins and outs of a prepubescent beauty treatment until you've felt the strange but exhilarating tingle of a cottage-cheese-and-Pop-Rocks facial.

Beauty You Strange Facial Treatment

One day, I can come up with 50 content ideas, and I'm like, 'Boom, I want to do this idea, this idea, this idea.' I have a YouTube notebook, and I write them all down. Then other days, I'm like, 'I have no clue what I want to do today.' I rarely have days like that.

Today Day Ideas Down I Can Want

I am often asked what it is like to be on the 'front line.' But I do not use the term 'front line' to describe us, the protesters. Because everywhere in America, wherever we are, our blackness puts us in close proximity to police violence.

Police I Am America Violence Line

I'm really loud. I can't sing softly.

Sing Loud Really Softly

What if Shakespeare had had a test audience for Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet?

Test What If Audience Shakespeare

A quarterback that goes out and performs for you and is a franchise quarterback is more valuable than a player playing another position, but there's a lot more risk there. It's a more difficult position to play, and there are lot more failures.

You Play Risk More Difficult Out

Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.

Antonio Tabucchi

Dreams Job Me Literature Fantasy

We need to stop fighting Christian against Christian. I have no time for anything but trying to love other people. That is a full-time job.

Love Time Job People Fighting Stop

Stay true to yourself, yet always be open to learn. Work hard, and never give up on your dreams, even when nobody else believes they can come true but you. These are not cliches but real tools you need no matter what you do in life to stay focused on your path.

Life Work Never Give Up Dreams Path

Both the historian and the novelist view history as the struggle of a tiny minority, able and determined to make judgments, which is up against a vast and densely packed majority of the blind, who are led by their instincts and unable to think for themselves.

Lion Feuchtwanger

History Struggle Think Blind View

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