Eileen Collins Quotes

Discovery is in absolutely great shape. I'm pretty confident about the entry into the atmosphere and I'm thinking about the landing.

Eileen Collins

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• I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Good
  • Long
  • Value

• California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • California
  • Environmental

• Apparently 'The Office' plays in Brazil. Who would've thought that Brazilians would identify with a bunch of pasty white Scrantonians in a paper company? But the Brazilians I've met have really loved the show.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Thought
  • Loved
  • Brazil

• It's always good to be known. You want to build your brand up, want to build your name.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Up
  • Good
  • Want

• I like the language in Proust but not the context.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Like
  • Language
  • Context

• As for the Canadians - good actors and good directors are sometimes taken by the American market, you know, if they're good enough.

  

  Karine Vanasse
  • Good
  • American
  • Taken

• My goal from being a child was to have a happy home life.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Life
  • Home
  • Happy

• The key measurement will not be how many people are watching the Univision network. But, believe me, I still think we are going to grow and are shooting for No. 1, and that spot is certainly on our radar. But engagement will be the focus and the main measure.

  

  Randy Falco
  • People
  • Believe
  • Focus

• …if we intend to pursue the history of our species in its further attainments, we may soon enter on subjects which will confine our observation to more narrow limits. The genius of political wisdom and civil arts appears to have chosen his seats in particular tracts of the earth, and to have selected his favourites in particular races of men.

  

  Adam Ferguson
  • Men
  • May
  • History

• The very idea of the law in a constitutional republic involves the requisite that it be a rule, a guide, uniform, fixed and equal, for all, till changed by the same high political power which made it. This is what entitles it to its sovereign weight.

  

  Levi Woodbury
  • Power
  • High
  • Political

• I always create book soundtracks to capture the overall mood I'm going for and listen to them as I write. Those songs and scores really fuse with the scenes in my mind.

  

  Claudia Gray
  • Mind
  • Book
  • Mood

• Now, what is it which makes a scene interesting? If you see a man coming through a doorway, it means nothing. If you see him coming through a window - that is at once interesting.

  

  Billy Wilder
  • Interesting

• First, President Reagan was not enthusiastic. But I built up a relationship with him in other areas and then persuaded him that this was important to us and to me, and that we had to at least be in the process of looking at this seriously.

  

  Brian Mulroney
  • Up
  • Important
  • Relationship

• My cash cows, the slick magazines, were put out of business by TV.

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • Business

• Whenever you do a film for the wrong reasons, it may or it may not pan out. Sometimes people do it because it is a good move or the right move. I don't know; maybe one day I will do a film for the wrong reasons, and it will work for me.

  

  Alia Bhatt
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• I never go into a situation with any type of expectations.

  

  Kevin Gates

• I'm oddly not competitive. What I love about show business is there is a home for everyone.

  

  Jay Mohr
  • Home
  • Business

• Katy Perry's politics I could probably do without, though I have friends who have interacted with her that say she's very nice.

  

  Arthur Ashin
  • She
  • Friends
  • Nice

• I think my biggest fear is trying to communicate in Spanish with someone I don't know and them laughing at me or thinking it's awful, but for the most part, people I've encountered just see that I'm trying, and they're helpful. It's helpful to me to communicate with people.

  

  Megan Nicole
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Trying

• I'm always thinking about time. That's one of themes I return to in my work, the way the past bears on the present, the way that time is not linear, and how that expresses itself in people's everyday lives.

  

  Jesmyn Ward
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• If the fidelity [ in a book] isn't maintained, the reader will think your structure is extraneous, or superficial, or that you're trying to curry favor, or live up to the expectations of some sort of genre or structure.

  

  David Bezmozgis
  • Thinking
  • Book
  • Expectations

• Who wants to be used? I love to read, so books are my main friends. They're always available, always friendly, and always interesting, and they never make me choose sides.

  

  Lurlene McDaniel
  • Book
  • Friends
  • Interesting

• I have also seen it stated that Capital punishment is murder in its worst form. I should like to know upon what principle of human society these assertions are based and justified.

  

  Benjamin Tucker
  • Society

• Discovery is in absolutely great shape. I'm pretty confident about the entry into the atmosphere and I'm thinking about the landing.

  

  Eileen Collins
  • Thinking
  • Discovery
  • Atmosphere