Mary Roach Quotes
I write with a sense of my future readers being ever on the verge of setting down the book and pronouncing it a bore. Fear and insecurity are great motivators.
Quotes to Explore
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Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.
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I enjoy building more than managing.
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Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special.
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Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.
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Everything begins with an idea.
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I don't know; it's hard for me to understand people that want to get out there and protest on the first day we elect a new guy.
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
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Well, I have a couple of projects in the pipeline, but I'm taking things slow for now and being choosy about the roles I take up. One thing I can assure you of is that you are going to see a lot of me!
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I am a very selfish person.
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I was lucky that I started very young, since I had a very clear idea of what I wanted to do. But my father is very conservative, and he never considered fashion to be a real career but something I could pursue as a hobby. He wanted me to be a doctor, and at one point, I thought of becoming a plastic surgeon.
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Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true.
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I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward.
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I want to have a career in 10, 20 years, so it's harder now, and maybe more stressful now, but in the future, hopefully it will all pay off.
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It was only a few years ago that I couldn't get hired to save my life.
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I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.
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The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.
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If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.
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I want people to remember me as a guy who works hard.
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'You'll Accomp'ny Me' is a song I've always really cherished. The guy in that song is just so courageous. He's saying this to the girl, 'I know you've got to go do your thing, but eventually, we'll be together. I feel that strong, and I know it in my soul.' And there's something really cool about that.
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I've been in tankers for 50 years, and I like it. For me, it's still fun.
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Jeff Foxworthy had that whole "You might be a redneck" thing; Larry the Cable Guy had "Git-R-Done." Some comics have that hook. Dane Cook had that super finger. So I just caught on early on. I ran with "Fluffy."
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Most fears are basic: fear of the dark, fear of going down in the basement, fear of weird sounds, fear that somebody is waiting for you in your closet. Those kinds of things stay with you no matter what age.
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I write with a sense of my future readers being ever on the verge of setting down the book and pronouncing it a bore. Fear and insecurity are great motivators.
