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.
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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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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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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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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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It was a creed written into the founding documents that declared the destiny of a nation.
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We thought that he was going to be - I shouldn't say this at Christmastime - but the next messiah.
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Silence is the only answer you should give to the fools. Where ignorance speaks, intelligence should not give advices.
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It's much harder to detect a lone wolf than it is somebody who's associated with a larger organization who's having planning meetings and making phone calls to people in the organization. And so that is really how the jihad has really developed in the United States.
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I would be honored if someone reads my books and it inspires them to write their own work.
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I think when an actor feels like they're being watched with great sensitivity and a subtle eye and a nose for truthfulness, that has some effect.
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I think if actors don't think of themselves as funny in real life they think they can't do comedy.
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I feel like I've always been a full-time historian, but nobody knows it.
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When I was on stage in the '50s, it was a glory time, a golden time with Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller. There was real talent. And now, the theater is a little Disney-fied.
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I remember the first time Dakota asked me for fashion advice about what to put with what. I was like, 'My big sister is asking me?'
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On a job, there's so much commitment you have to give, in regards to time, research... I like the tunnel vision of it that prevents anything else from getting in. The creativity and collaboration required there is very rewarding.
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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.
