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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You have the courage to tell the masses what no politician told them: you are inferior and all the improvements in your conditions which you simply take for granted you owe to the effort of men who are better than you. If this be arrogance, as some of your critics observed, it is still the truth that had to said in the age of the Welfare State.
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I had a very rainbow-colored childhood.
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It just comes out of my subconscious. If you asked me to draw you a doodle, I couldn't do it.
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On the other hand, the concept owes its meaning and its justification exclusively to the totality of the sense impressions which we associate with it.
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La majestueuse égalité des lois, qui interdit au riche comme au pauvre de coucher sous les ponts, de mendier dans les rues et de voler du pain.
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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.