Mary Roach Quotes
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I am just doing photo shoots. It's not something that extraordinary. I'm not a great artist, I'm not writing books, I'm not a painter, and people in the streets ask me for a picture or a note, and I say, 'Why?'
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Sex and death, the magnetic poles of fiction, attract us children's writers no less than adult authors, but we have to be more leery of their pull.
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Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.
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My childhood was a happy one. I was captain of the school sports team and played cricket after class. I had five younger siblings and a large loving family that lived together. We are still very close.
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Happily, financial capitalism and free trade have not done away with national languages and literatures, as Marx rather too blithely hoped.
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To make crime unprofitable, let the government run it.
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I can play a man who's despicable. But I'll still look inside him to find a point of connection. If I can find that kernel, audiences will relate to me.
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I use Gibson guitars; I prefer the Les Paul custom.
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I believe that pop culture is just, like, so ready for 'Watchmen.' We tried so hard to ride that wave between satire and reality, and all the things that make you still care about the character, but you don't miss the commentary about them.
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It is always dangerous to underestimate anybody.
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The Swedish language combines the strong manhood of the German with the delicate beauty of the Italian.
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Only in America can someone start with nothing and achieve the American Dream. That's the greatness of this country.
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No matter what you say you might do, you never really know until you're in the moment. Every situation is so different.
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We lost our minds in the '80s and '90s; we really as a society just felt that everyone could only care about themselves. There was no responsibility to discuss what's going on in your town, your state, your nation. And it was a blast, it was really fun, but it doesn't work.
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I've seen all types of women. Celebrity girls I've dated and regular 9 to 5 girls. I've had shows where married women have tried to follow me to my hotel. My perception of women isn't very ignorant because I've seen a lot.
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My goal is to give young girls confidence in this world so they can be more like men in the decision-making process.
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History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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There can be raw pain and bleeding where so many thousands see the inevitable ups and downs of only a game.
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Meditation on a passage of scripture... led a young boy into a grove of trees to commune with his heavenly Father. That is what opened the heavens in this dispensation.
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Talking about the loss of my parents... that was really, really difficult to go through.
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I talked to my agent and said that, basically, I'm the Taylor Lautner of TV. We both have our shirts off a lot. And we have the same agent, so we goof around about it. I'm waiting to open a script and see my shirt on.
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I've always written about people who have very abstracted in a certain way. I write about scientists and artists and musicians. I write about people who live in their heads who are very obsessed about a certain set of details in the physical world.
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Day by day, I'm kind of a bore.
