Mary Roach Quotes
Literally thousands of e-mails over the course of a book go out to people I've never met, people who might end up being the focus of a chapter.
Mary Roach
Quotes to Explore
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Architecture is undistinguished, sometimes derelict, but occasionally, as in 'Post and Beam,' there is something arresting in a setting... the building behind the Cathedral.
Edith Pearlman
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
Hannah Arendt
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On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.
Walter Salles
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Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.
Kate Williams
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God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.
Camille Pissarro
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Booksellers are the bartenders of the reading world. People share thoughts and interests they keep private from others in their lives.
Victor LaValle
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But let's face it, I still have to look at my self and look at the things I've done down the stretch.
Luther Allison
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I'm just like everyone. I like to feel togetherness with someone.
Lucinda Williams
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I love it when people say things to me in public and want to meet me, because I want to meet them! Early on, my manager told me, 'If you want to sell 500,000 records, then go out there and meet 500,000 people.'
Taylor Swift
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People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of life which bears no relation to true immortality but through which they continue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. It is as though they were traveling abroad.
Marcel Proust
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When you play the same character for a long time, you have a shorthand. You get onto the set, you put on your outfit and two-thirds of your work is done because you've built on that work for so many years.
Lisa Edelstein
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Literally thousands of e-mails over the course of a book go out to people I've never met, people who might end up being the focus of a chapter.
Mary Roach
