John M. Grunsfeld Quotes
Science fiction has been an inspiration to generations of scientists and engineers, and the film series 'Star Wars' is no exception.
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If Harvard is $60,000 and University of Toronto, where I went to school, is maybe six. So you're really telling me that education is 10 times better at Harvard than it is at University of Toronto? That seems ridiculous to me.
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I like the detail work of telling a story in small pieces, as is done in movie-making, and also the long leap of faith needed to see a theatre performance through each night. Both require focus and self-discipline.
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I can hardly eat meat because it has to look like something what it was not when it was alive.
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If your mom is still around, you're so lucky.
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All reactionaries are paper tigers.
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Everything begins with an idea.
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You don't go into politics unless you want to win.
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If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.
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I really appreciate people like Rosie coming out and saying I've inspired them.
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I don't want to subject myself just to one scheme. I think it's just if you can play, you can play no matter what scheme you play in.
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I have always been small, so defenders have always been taller and tougher than me. So that's difficult for me; they foul me sometimes, but there you are - that's what the rules of the game are for.
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Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.
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I think I have music in me! I had a scholarship to study singing at one point, and I've never really done anything about it. I've done some music on stage, but it's been a long time. It would be kind of fun.
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We need to write books that publicists and marketers and booksellers and book club leaders and librarians and readers can get excited about. That have something about them that makes them stand out. That makes them shine.
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Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.
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I grew up in a two-parent household. We all played sports, all sports, which cost a lot of money. My pops was an attorney; he went to College of the Holy Cross with Clarence Thomas. My mom worked a bit, then gradually came home and took care of us full time.
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I have great respect for the semicolon; it is a mighty handy little fellow.
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I try to play my game and that's being emotional because I'm that kind of guy.
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The environment I was raised in, you had to, to survive.
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You bet I arrived overnight. Over a few hundred nights in the Catskills, in vaudeville, in clubs and on Broadway.
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Harry Potter to me is a bore. His talent arrives as a gift; he's chosen. Who can identify with that? But Hermione - she's working harder than anyone, she's half outsider, right? Half Muggle. She shouldn't be there at all. It's so unfair that Harry's the star of the books, given how hard she worked to get her powers.
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We take a lot of inspiration from punk rock and early rock 'n' roll from the '50s and early '60s.
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I starved and slept on park benches. I wrapped myself in the pages of my manuscript to keep warm. For two and a half years I took odd jobs; nothing was going to deter me.
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Science fiction has been an inspiration to generations of scientists and engineers, and the film series 'Star Wars' is no exception.
