Shannon Lucid Quotes
You're in charge but don't touch the controls. Recounting what the two Russian cosmonauts tell her each time they leave the Mir space station for a spacewalk.
Quotes to Explore
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I am blessed to have worked in big-budget films at an early stage of my career.
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I don't watch television. I'm not a TV guy.
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What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
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I love sitcoms, and I grew up on sitcoms. That's my tasty junk food.
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I want to be promoted in the urban areas. A lot of African-American people should know more about me.
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It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.
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Watching game film motivates me a lot. It shows me what I need to work on and determines the specific workouts I do.
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I've been sober now for a couple of years and I'm taking my sobriety very seriously - one day at a time and I am moving forward in my career.
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Magic is the mysteries into which not everyone is so lucky, or unlucky, as to be initiated. It can be affected by belief, the whims of the unseen, harsh language. And it is not. Supposed. To make. Sense. In fact, I think it's coolest when it doesn't.
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There weren't really any visible men in my family when I was growing up, but of course there have been men in my life, wonderful men.
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I don't really watch all that much television, I have to say, because I'm so intimidated by how many channels there are. I really cannot find my way back to anything. But I'm compulsively addicted to '24.' I love that show.
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Democratic leaders, whose power is ultimately dependent on popular support, are held accountable for failing to improve the lives of their citizens. Therefore, they have a powerful incentive to keep their societies peaceful and prosperous.
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You wish me to tell you why and how God should be loved. My answer is that God himself is the reason he is to be loved.
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In all honesty, once you become a professional, number one, you're no longer a fan. I don't root for the Dodgers, really. I just try to do the game as best I can. And the winning and the losing will take care of itself.
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I still have my feet on the ground, I just wear better shoes.
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I think the most important thing we as writers can do is figure out how we define what success will mean to us and focus on that.
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The first movie that I saw was Godzilla and I loved it.
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I hate this argument that says little Britain or something outside, or Britain is part of a wider Europe. We can both be within our trading relationships within Europe but we can also be a fantastic global trader.
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When I'm working on a book, I constantly retype my own sentences. Every day I go back to page one and just retype what I have. It gets me into a rhythm.
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Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
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Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories.
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I think you need to be intentional at times about your leadership - where you're eating lunch, who you're interacting with, making guys feel like you're interested in what they're doing. If it's authentic, then it's going to be an easy conversation and easy hangout time.
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The CGI landscape is another world. It has its own physical laws; it can defy gravity. But surely the wonder of cinematic space is that it is wedded to reality?
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You're in charge but don't touch the controls. Recounting what the two Russian cosmonauts tell her each time they leave the Mir space station for a spacewalk.
