Mary Roach Quotes
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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Women are very intelligent and not appreciated. We try to pretend that we are not clever, and it's such a pity that we can't show how clever we are.
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I don't get manicures, pedicures. I don't get my hair done as often as I should.
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There's nothing unnatural in creation.
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I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
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I've always thought that I'm sexy in my own right, but not in a way that people thought was bankable.
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I'm not very good in crowds, so I usually try to become as small as possible.
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Do we really want Washington administrators coming between us and our doctors?
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I don't know what's going to happen in life, so I don't think it's fair that I know what's going to happen in 'Homeland.'
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With this business, you have to learn to go with the flow. Not being able to grow in comfort is a beautiful thing when you're uncomfortable, so just embrace it and roll with it, and you'll come out stronger.
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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.
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I'm the worst person to be stuck with in a traffic jam.
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Eat well and sleep well. That will feed your nervous system and your psyche. As you get older, you look how you feel.
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I never really did any disco dancing.
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
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The 21st century - and the atheists - needs the presence of religion, just as religion must deal with the real challenges and the thinkers of the day in order to sharpen the conscience and the intelligence of those who study the timeless sacred texts in a spirit of responding to the questions of their time.
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Don't try to be like somebody else. You'll be miserable. You need to be yourself, and don't ever get a big head.
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I love music and love a good audience and still have to make a living. Why would I quit?
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Music and dance is part of everything in New Orleans. So I grew up appreciating it all.
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This is a collection of dexterous, loving, beautifully optimistic work that left me breathless and delighted.... Hannu Rajaniemi's magnificent science fiction - as is paradoxically appropriate - is pure magic.
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I had people at Perrysburg High School in my life in Perrysburg who believed in me and told me I could do anything I wanted too, and I foolishly believed them.
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Baseball has always been filled with negative statistics.
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I rarely listen to music while writing. I wish I could, but it distracts me.
