Eileen Collins Quotes
It's just been a wild ride. We've finally been able to put the icing on the cake with this mission.
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The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.
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If you get labeled a winner, people come along for the ride. Might as well enjoy it and they should too.
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I'm in semi-retirement, but what am I going to retire to? I don't ride horses, I don't golf anymore. I shoot a game of pool every now and then.
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Some people like just sitting down and being taken for a ride. That's a beautiful thing that fiction can do. But it's not the only thing. In television and film, people are ready to accept any kind of jump cut, but the slightest disturbance on the page ruffles their feathers.
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Dad went to Canada to learn how to fly with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He took me on my first airplane ride, where I could have a hand on the stick.
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Holding our own government to account for the use of its power is, in my view, the highest mission of a U.S. news organization.
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I was an avid tomboy, and as long as I could ride my bike just as fast, hit the ball just as hard, and catch just as many garter snakes, I was accepted as one of the boys and enjoyed all the perks of superiority.
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I like the fact that Jack is always wearing a tie except when he's on a mission. I do like it when I get out there and dress up, or dress down, a little bit.
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When you make art, you get really invested in it. When art happens by accident and you were just along for the ride? It's way more fun.
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My mission in life is to preserve craftsmanship.
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I've had a great ride. I've got no complaints.
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I don't have time for the news clippings. I got my own mission.
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All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.
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Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.
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When you have a little one, you realize that your only mission in life is to protect this helpless, very sensitive creature. That is your charge. That's primal. I relate to that deeply.
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The White House has embarked on a mission to convince the people of our country that Social Security is in dire need of drastic change in order to save it for all workers.
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I should probably confess that ice cream is my favorite food, and I eat it every night. When I go grocery shopping, I try to buy a new flavor, rather than reverting back to a favorite flavor. I'm on a mission to taste every flavor of ice cream out there!
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My mission is to become part of Time Inc. and push the business forward.
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With my old man I got no respect. He told me never take candy from a stranger unless he offered me a ride.
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For fifteen years, I was a teacher of youth. They were years out of the fullness and bloom of my younger manhood. They were years mingled of half breathless work, of anxious self-questionings, of planning and replanning, of disillusion, or mounting wonder.
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There's never a case of, 'Ooh, I touched a nerve there.' It's make believe.
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It's just been a wild ride. We've finally been able to put the icing on the cake with this mission.
