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 home. I'll stay up there for days on end, I won't even go down the driveway to look for the mail.
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I can't remember ever not singing.
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I know he's smiling right now, ... He's overjoyed. We were so happy for him when he finally won the Stanley Cup. We couldn't wait to get through on the phone to him and congratulate him.
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I've always been fascinated by the concept of reincarnation. I learned that many brilliant people were interested in reincarnation, including Carl Jung. I'm a big Jungian. So I began writing novels involving theories integrating past and present, even if the past element in the novel took place 500 or 1,000 years ago.
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I rarely listen to music while writing. I wish I could, but it distracts me.
