Mary Roach Quotes

When I was a kid, I hated everything. I was really skinny, and I'd have a milkshake with an egg in it. Growing up, I ate, like, five different foods. I was not an adventurous eater. But as soon as I left home, that all changed and from that point on, I've been a pretty enthusiastic eater of new and strange food.

Mary Roach

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 20, 1959

Topics

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I'm not particularly interested in my phone. I'm interested in human contact. I think phones have created a certain social incapacity; it's made people socially deficient.

Maya Hawke

PeopleThinkPhoneHumanPhones

Creating time to reflect on your life could be the key to reaching your greatest potential.

Amy Morin

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I hadn't thought about that before, this passionate following, with fan fiction and artwork. At first it felt like an invasion of privacy, but then I realized it's nice that the character can be shared.

Alycia Debnam-Carey

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I think because my parents died in their early 50s, mid 50s, I always thought I would die young. And that's been both a useful thing and I suspect something that's haunted me a little bit.

Stephen Dunn

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Divorce is one of the key predictors of poverty for a child growing up in a home that's broken.

Mike Huckabee

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You never just do a scene once; you do it an insane amount of times.

Michiel Huisman

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All my books explore fatherhood. I look at what it means to have a big father figure at the centre: sometimes they're a good father, sometimes bad.

Monique Roffey

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Sundance is such an acquisition-frenzied, industry-centric experience, and at SXSW, many of the movies have distribution. And the focus is more on positioning the movie as opposed to selling them. People are more relaxed.

Jason Blum

ExperienceFocusPeopleMoviesMore

Dating is just awkward moments and one person wants more than the other. It's just that constant strangeness. I think it's a very real thing.

Jason Schwartzman

DatingThinkMomentsPersonMore

When I was one day old, I learned how to read. When I was two days old, I started to write. By the time I was three, I had finished 212 short stories, 38 novels, 730 poems, and one very funny limerick, all before breakfast.

Jon Scieszka

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Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.

Deepak Chopra

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I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false.

Clifford Geertz

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