Mary Roach Quotes
My books are not really books; they're endless chains of distraction shoved inside a cover. Many of them begin at the search box of Pub Med, an Internet database of medical journal articles.
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If you're in a film that you're proud of and you care about, then you're always happy to talk about it.
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When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
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My fans are so loving and encouraging. They're with me on good days and bad days.
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I think chemistry and great acting go hand-in-hand.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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I still have a young attitude.
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I never drink anything hot; I don't like hot drinks, very strange.
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In neurotics, worm phobias are usually found as well as snake phobias.
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The problem with most Hollywood movies is they don't give the director enough control.
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My dad doesn't hug me enough!
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By resisting almost any change aimed at improving our public schools, teachers' unions have become a ripe target for reformers across the ideological spectrum.
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But I could also start F1 or rallying. I love rallying much more.
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I always wrote about things that were important to me. I think our past success showed that it was also important for a lot of others.
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My one issue in this country is to get on a firm financial footing. There's not much you can do if you're bankrupt.
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I'm not trying to be a star on TV. I am who I am, which I hope comes out. I have a little bit of a different sense than most people know, and it takes a while to get used to it.
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My protest about the post exchange seating bore some results. More seats were allocated for blacks, but there were still separate sections for blacks and for whites. At least I had made my men realize that something could be accomplished by speaking out, and I hoped they would be less resigned to unjust conditions.
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These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over.
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I will only speak off the record about Debra Winger.
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I'm usually pretty good about meeting people. I try to remember they are human, too!
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If there is any message in the 'Wimpy Kid' books, it is that reading can be and should be fun. As an adult reader, when I see an obvious moral lesson to be taught, I run in the other direction... Kids can sniff out an adult agenda from an early age. I'm writing for entertainment, not to impress literary judges.
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A lot of people in the media, and some everyday people, really aren't in search of the truth. They're in search of something worse than that. Money, yeah. I think the media's the kind of a thing where the truth doesn't win, because it's no fun. The truth's no fun.
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I tend to do something for two years then move on to something new. Yoga, then biking, then weight lifting, then back to biking. The moment it feels like a rut, I switch and search for a new love. It's like having a midlife crisis, but without the new wife or cheesy BMW.
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Life is a search for yourself.
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My books are not really books; they're endless chains of distraction shoved inside a cover. Many of them begin at the search box of Pub Med, an Internet database of medical journal articles.
