Mary Roach Quotes

I talk to a lot of people who, when you try to sum them up in a couple of sentences, seem like they must be insane.

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• When you're not under a 'series regular' contract, and other jobs come up, you try to juggle everything.

  

  Laura Prepon
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• I love England from head to toe. I love the weather, the people. I was there in the summer and it was nice. The people are so groovy.

  

  Otis Redding
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• I see my fans as music lovers. I really love that. There's no age group or demographic. It's people of all ages and backgrounds. Country people and non-country people. I wanted to make music across the board.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
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• In order to fully realise our aspirations, we must create in the masses of the people the sense of sacrifice and responsibility that has been the characteristic of the anarchist movement throughout its historic development in Spain.

  

  Federica Montseny
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• In my flat in Chicago, I've got this big room with an office in the corner and a balcony so I can watch people go by.

  

  Irvine Welsh
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• We were very influenced by The Beatles, no question.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
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• A racing tipster who only reached Hitler's level of accuracy would not do well for his clients.

  

  A. J. P. Taylor
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• You have to understand that while I pre-plot the meta story of a given book, I often have no idea of what will happen on the next page, let alone the next chapter. That's what makes it fun for me; I write the books the same way many people read them.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
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• This may sound trite, but bad things happen to good people, and when you're facing terrorism, natural disaster, you can have every wonderful plan in place, but I am a realist.

  

  Warren Rudman
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• We have this historic problem that we have a quarter of our population, the people of Quebec, who have never signed on to the Constitution. That can't go on forever.

  

  Jack Layton
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• I always wear the shoes of the character a week before going on set; the idea of just putting on a new pair of shoes on the first day of filming is just horrific.

  

  Felicity Jones
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• I think probably one of the coolest things was when I went to play basketball at Rucker Park in Harlem. First of all, who would think that Larry the Cable Guy would go to Harlem to play basketball? And I was received like a rock star. It was amazing! There were people everywhere. There were guys walking by yelling, 'Git 'r done!'

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
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• The batsman does not always need to create big hits. He can hit a boundary, then pick up some singles and still gets nine runs. To avoid that, I need to plan in a way where he must look to hit wherever there is a fielder. That is what is called 'bowling to the field.'

  

  Harbhajan Singh
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• I have enjoyed every call. The ones involving direct contact with people have been most rewarding.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
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• Life would be very dreary if there were no magic. If the real world were only that veil of tears, I just don't think could get up in the morning.

  

  Victoria Moran
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• Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
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• A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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• I believe, for a long time, protracted wars test the will of any democracy, to be sure, and people will underwrite a protracted war if they see some progress. But if they don't see progress, and it appears to be futile and useless, then that political support begins to evaporate rather quickly.

  

  Jack Keane
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• To me, to be political means you associate your work with a larger number of people’s living conditions, and that includes both mental and physical conditions. And you try to use your work to affect the situation.

  

  Ai Weiwei
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• I believe in the power of motion, the wisdom of gravity, the emptiness of true love, the fact that there is no way out but through the body, no way up unless we all go together, no way down unless we follow the beat, no way in unless we embrace the dark.

  

  Gabrielle Roth
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• Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique. When you're willing to stand up within the group and say, 'It is wrong for Black people to be anti-Semitic,' or 'It is wrong for America to discriminate against persons of African descent and made them slaves and based its wealth upon free labor,' it's crucial to say that.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
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• People going off on politics on Grindr is one of the stupidest things I've ever seen. That's an immediate sign to run in the other direction.

  

  Billy Eichner
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• Seeing architecture differently from the way you see the rest of life is a bit weird. I believe one should be consistent in all that one does, from the books you read to the way you bring up your children. Everything you do is connected.

  

  David Chipperfield
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• I talk to a lot of people who, when you try to sum them up in a couple of sentences, seem like they must be insane.

  

  Mary Roach
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