Mary Roach Quotes

I love words, but I also love finding out that there is a word for something that you've experienced but didn't know there was a word for. Like 'toothpack' - that is a word for when you eat biscuits or cookies and you get that annoying layer of chewed substance on your molars that you kind of have to pick out.

Mary Roach

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I came from a family in Texas who simply never spoke about money.

Jim Parsons

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Traditional values are big in my life.

Jennifer Hudson

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I used to want to be a children's writer, because I would have all these great ideas when I was little, and I'd write them and draw them, and turn them into class.

Jena Malone

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To create a beautiful thing with unlimited money is easy!

John Rocha

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Freedom comes with the impossibility of choosing.

Stephen Hough

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I'm trying as hard as I can to keep pushing the boundaries of what a woman is capable of doing. And it turns out there's a lot we can do. There's a lot we can speak about.

Rita Moreno

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Living off the grid and being kind of an outlaw brings a dangerous reality.

Ron Perlman

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I can safely say that I had an incredibly difficult and trying past growing up and trying to be an artist and standing up as who I am in this world.

Matt Bomer

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My style has a lot to do with where I've been brought up. I've lived half my life in Puerto Rico and the other half in Florida, so I listen to music in English as well as Spanish.

Luis Fonsi

LifeMusicStyleMy LifePuerto Rico

It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes.

Louis Pasteur

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This sense in which so much of who we are doesn't break the surface - our knowability to one another is always something I like to explore.

Claire Messud

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I tell everyone I interact with what I'm working on and let them bring me anecdotes that illustrate my themes.

Chuck Palahniuk

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