Monica Quotes

I look really young. I always get carded at bars. No one believes that I'm over 18, let alone over 21.

He ended it. He just said he didn't - he - well, what he said was that he didn't feel it was right, and you know, I mean that's - because he ended it, he'd probably have to be the one to answer that.

He could have made it right with the book. But he hasn't. He is a revisionist of history. He has lied.

Complaining is an insult to God.

One thing my parents always taught me was to maximize my options.

Sometimes, growing up, I tried to be very Latina; I would change my voice... experiment with my hair a lot, trying to figure out who I was in a primarily white school.

I was always involved in the arts from a young age. I started studying classical piano at age four as a student of the Associated Board of the Royal School of Music.

Obviously I would love to work with all these great directors like the Coen Brothers, Tarantino. Robert Rodriguez is a dream director of mine.

I don't experience "emotions" then "analyze" them; they always reach me pre-analyzed.

I'm blissfully not writing anything. Just doing a lot of reading and hopefully some thinking as well.

The word of God is very important to Christmas. For unto us a child was born, and we should be reminded of how Christ's amazing journey came to be.

I'm not going to tell you to meditate on what Christmas really means and be thankful.

Persecutions are inevitable as a Christian. We are not greater than our Master, Jesus Christ, in whose Holy Spirit we gain strength to endure.

You know how if you're born in a certain situation you always expect your life to run on a steady trajectory? I've never really had a sense of that. I assume that life is going to go up and down.

I'm not a movie star. I'm just an actress

I've pretty much gotten to the top of my sport.

The information-deprived general populace might have been surprised this week to see a lower paycheck.

Riding is a complicated joy. You learn something each time. It is never quite the same, and you never know it all.

Public humiliation is a commodity and shame is an industry.

As you submit to God more and more, you will get accustomed to being nourished by the power of truth. He is so holy that He cannot lie. God reveals His truth to His people through the Holy Spirit.

With the right to vote, our choice should be for the Holy Spirit to lead us and guide us.

Funny how someone can come into your life for such a brief time but leave such a lasting impression.

I'm about the present.

People think I must have been so talented at an early age, but I don't know - was it talent or hard work? Who knows?

I think for me, food was a way for me to deal with emotional trouble.

I'm 5 feet 10 inches, and whatever my whatever my weight is, that's fine. As long as I am able to move and I feel good, it doesn't matter.

Madonna has total control over her life, and not many women have that

I don't like salads: I like the strong food.

What I put in the stock market, I dont have to touch in my lifetime. I want to live off my bonds. I want to be that safe.

My goal is to never stop growing.

The thought of writing was always pleasant, but the process was painful

American presidential leadership never goes out of style.

Sometimes it's more difficult to exist as a female lead, especially in action movies because all those men are around you. They take so much place.

Yoga's an amazing release.

I was always an outsider, always standing outside, observing and trying to figure things out. Which is exactly what you need to do as a writer, I suppose.

I started writing 'Brick Lane' when my children were two years and five months old. We were on holiday in the north of England when I was overtaken by a compulsion to start writing.

I don't want to get hung up on what 'people,' that nebulous mass, think about me. That's the way to unhappiness, I think.

I always try to create conflict and drama in my books; it's the engine of the novel.

People always want to identify a writer with their protagonist.

I wish I got a lie-in on Saturday mornings but I never do.

I rarely get a moment to myself, but I love the way that my agenda is dictated by the children, not my work.

Once allow your soul to be disturbed by any violent emotion and, like the waters of a tempest-tossed lake, it can no longer reflect the divine Image.

It is a very wonderful experience indeed, when, at fifty years old, you suddenly discover that for the first time in your life, you are really free to be yourself.

The refectory is a cenacle in which the taking of food is transfigured almost into a sacrament.

I live in Paris but I feel I am a daughter of Europe.

In acting process, it's very difficult to explain. It's something very intimate, very private

Oh absolutely. Look they hate all conservatives but they have a special kind of loathing for women conservatives.

When you talk about presidents, loyalty is a great thing until it becomes a bad thing. Witness once again Watergate.

Many Muslims may not seek to kill the infidel, but they don't want to condemn those carrying out the holy book command.

God is not a luxury you can't afford; He's a necessity you truly cannot live without!