Mary Roach Quotes
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Age for me is just a number.
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I believed I was invincible.
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I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I wanted to do.
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Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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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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I don't think any media has to feel obliged to show the cover of 'Charlie Hebdo.'
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War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.
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I think there's a couple of things going on. One is that Trump's relationship with his base is not the traditional relationship of a politician and the people who elected him, and the constituency, which is a relationship of some accountability, right? The idea is that the politicians are working for the people. They're public servants.
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I am very excited to be able to work more with young designers and support them.
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Success is so bad for everybody, period. Especially a certain kind of success, when people practically give up their identity. They forget who they are, how they are.
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The amount of culture going on in a small country like Israel is amazing.
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I'm just abnormal. I'm a weird dude.
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Because I think in order to get famous you have to be known for something. Like 'You're the romantic comedy girl' or 'You're the Oscar-winning whatever girl.'
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You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living.
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Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.
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I think they are very important because westerns have a code and a symbolism.
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The primary one being, like I said, I don't like rock 'n' roll piano.
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I think it's very important that whatever you're trying to make or sell, or teach has to be basically good. A bad product and you know what? You won't be here in ten years.
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Mr. Burns is a father symbol to me, and you can omit the word symbol.
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I grew up playing in an alley on the south side of Milwaukee.
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What I so like about Poussin and Cezanne is their sense of organization. Ilike the way in which they develop space and shape in architecturalcontinuity - the rhythm across their paintings. When I paint a landscape, Iget the greatest pleasure out of composing it. As I paint, I try to work outa visual sonata form or a fugue, with realistic images.
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Lyndon Johnson is still the most formidable, fascinating, frustrating, irritating individual I think I've ever known in my entire life. He was huge, a huge character, not only standing six feet four, but when you talked to him, he violated the normal human space between people. He was a great storyteller. The problem was that half his stories, I discovered, weren't true.
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A space station is a rangy monstrosity, a giant erector set built by a madman.
