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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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It's always good to be known. You want to build your brand up, want to build your name.
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I like the language in Proust but not the context.
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As for the Canadians - good actors and good directors are sometimes taken by the American market, you know, if they're good enough.
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My goal from being a child was to have a happy home life.
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…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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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My cash cows, the slick magazines, were put out of business by TV.
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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.
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I never go into a situation with any type of expectations.
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I'm oddly not competitive. What I love about show business is there is a home for everyone.
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Katy Perry's politics I could probably do without, though I have friends who have interacted with her that say she's very nice.
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With random urinalysis, there's a clear choice - either get high or go to jail.
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If government could create jobs and raise children, socialism would have worked.
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An unexamined life is a life of no account.
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Usually a feeling of disappointment follows the book, because what I hoped to write is not what I actually accomplished. However, it becomes a motivation to write the next book.
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I would like to see the Iraqi government guarantee social insurance for the Yazidi women who were enslaved and to recognise their status as prisoners of war.
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Discovery is in absolutely great shape. I'm pretty confident about the entry into the atmosphere and I'm thinking about the landing.
