Mary Roach Quotes
I'm always imposing my taste in books on others. I hope that people enjoy being surprised by a book they might not otherwise read - I enjoy the surprise myself when others do this to me.
Quotes to Explore
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There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.
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I'm not going to just say nice things about everybody unless I mean it.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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To gain strength in our struggles, we must have a positive perspective of the principles in the plan of salvation. We must realize that we have a personal Savior whom we can trust and turn to in our times of need.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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The songs I've written that are the strongest, I'm like: 'I don't know where that came from. It just kind of popped out.' You feel you can't take a whole lot of credit for it. I didn't purposefully will it into existence.
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I am a great believer that a captain is as good as his team.
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We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.
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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
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A lot of hard work goes into making a film. It's not all fun time, as people tend to think. There are always stereotypes attached to every profession, but I found out this industry breaks them all.
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It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.
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There was a long time where I was an 'artist' in quotes, who had no money. But I guess back then I also never had a girlfriend.
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I am not a hound; I am an attention-seeker. Very different animal. My kind of attention requires greater finesse.
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I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.
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R. Kelly is a thing on TV, but nobody knows Robert and what he's been through.
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I mean... if you're raised as a decent human being, killing somebody is against every moral thing you've ever been taught. And so, generally, in combat it's 'krauts,' the 'gooks,' the 'yanks' - whatever you want to do to try and make it so that it's not a human being.
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I hope I'm a spiritual person. I'm trying to be a spiritual person.
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A lot of people like to run in plays because it's a nice, steady job.
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Games have always presented an opportunity to escape. But they are also an opportunity to go somewhere that you come to know well.
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I'm not trying to be the highest-paid receiver in the National Football League. I've never received that, and that's not ever going to happen. So I'm fine with what I have, I make good money, and I'm happy about it.
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By their very nature, human beings are so capricious, so complex, so delightfully contradictory, that they deserve not only our consideration but our reconsideration.
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I'm always imposing my taste in books on others. I hope that people enjoy being surprised by a book they might not otherwise read - I enjoy the surprise myself when others do this to me.
