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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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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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 like acting for now. But after seeing Apollo 13, what I really want to do is to be an astronaut. I'm dying to go to a space camp next summer!
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India I have visited a great many times, though there is a lot about it I will never understand.
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I'm starting to feel like so much of rock music is derivative and boring.
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Appreciate good coffee when it's available, but drink whatever they have on set and always say thank you for it.
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You can't write about an iconic Hollywood star of the sixties without bumping up against Elizabeth Taylor.
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If singing weren't happening, then yeah, I definitely would still be working hard at karate. I already have some teaching diplomas in it so would've continued to do that and maybe eventually had opened my own club! Maybe one day I still can.
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Investigation is never complete.
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A space station is a rangy monstrosity, a giant erector set built by a madman.
