Monica
Monica
R&B recording artist who sang at the 1996 Olympics at age fifteen and sang "Don't Take It Personal" and "Before You Walk Out of My Life."
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionR&B Singer
Date of Birth24 October 1980
CountryUnited States of America
waiting everyday gone
Sometimes I look back and I am shocked. Everyday of my life I have prepared for success, worked for it, waited for it, and you don't notice how the days pass until nearly a lifetime is finished. Then it hits you--the thing you have been waiting for has already gone by. And it was going in the other direction. It's like I've been waiting on the wrong side of the road for a bus that was already full." p. 265
leaving brain asking
I like Beryl Bainbridge a great deal, and she is a writer who absolutely demands to be read a second, third, and fourth time. I admire her great courage in leaving so much unsaid and asking the reader to really engage her brain.
jobs real book
I guess there's a sort of cycle with writing books. There's all the researching and then the imagining and writing - which is the real job - and then there's always a period when the book comes out and you have to lift your head and venture out.
people want protagonists
People always want to identify a writer with their protagonist.
book thinking excited
I get really excited if I think I'm going to introduce somebody to a writer they haven't found before and I think they'll love. My favorite books to get as gifts are any that the giver is messianic about.
thinking choices culture
If the culture is so all pervasive that you can’t think outside of it, how are you making genuine choices?
getting-older needs certain
The thing about getting older is that you don't need everything to be possible any more, you just need things to be certain.
emotional voting intellectual
Voting is as much an emotional act as it is an intellectual one.
hate special looks
Oh absolutely. Look they hate all conservatives but they have a special kind of loathing for women conservatives.
might information week
The information-deprived general populace might have been surprised this week to see a lower paycheck.
book may want
Many Muslims may not seek to kill the infidel, but they don't want to condemn those carrying out the holy book command.
two white house
During President George W. Bush's two terms, you couldn't drive far without seeing a particular bumper sticker: Dissent is the highest form of patriotism. Now that Democrats control the White House and Congress, the left treats dissent as the lowest form of treason.
things-in-life best-things-in-life-are-free best-things-in-life
Best things in life are free, and money can't buy you love.
responsibility warrior rallying-cry
I developed the concept of the Happy Warrior as a rallying cry for those of us who want to restore America to its great foundational principles: individual freedom, personal responsibility, fiscal restraint, and economic liberty.