Eileen Collins Quotes
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I completely get the drag thing.
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I don't really care that much about eating. But I like impressing people with how good a cook I am. So I will cook. I'm an excellent cook. Not many people know that about me.
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I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually.
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How are we doing in the electronics field as opposed to, you know, we hear how advanced the Japanese are? Do you think we're still pretty competitive? Oh, yes.
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Obviously Hall & Oates wasn't overlooked by the masses in terms of the record sales.
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If you've got a plot the size of a car or a tiny yard in Italy, you're going to be growing tomatoes and basil and celery and carrots, and everybody is still connected to the land.
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Both villains and heroes need to have a steadfast belief in themselves.
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Weeks go by, and I don't talk to another living soul.
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I'm by no means condemning prescription medicine for mental health. I've seen it save a lot of people's lives.
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I hated my big hair. I always wore it straight.
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The people suffering most from the Taliban were Afghans.
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Unlike Milan, Italy's banking capital, or Rome, its religious center, Florence was the place where the rich went to buy goods that would showcase how wealthy they were.
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In '87, I used to do this awful, awful James Brown impression.
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I believe in music.
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The trick to being a novelist is to act like an iceberg. Make it seem as if you're displaying only one-tenth of what you know, and the other nine-tenths isn't visible and never mind if that part is pure styrofoam!
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Who can love to walk in the dark? But providence doth often so dispose.
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The way that people show me love on Twitter? I don't know man. It's amazing.
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The appointment of judges to the higher judiciary cannot be the sole domain of a few members of the higher judiciary. This turf must be shared.
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Shakespeare cared little for the State, the source of all our judgments, apart from its shows and splendours, its turmoils and battles, its flamings out of the uncivilized heart.
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For whatever reason we were obviously in some foul trouble. I don't want to talk about the fouls anymore.
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I do assure you that I am not one of those young ladies (if such young ladies there are) who are so daring as to risk their happiness on the chance of being asked a second time. I am perfectly serious in my refusal. You could not make me happy, and I am convinced that I am the last woman in the world who could make you so.
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Intuition is something all of us have been given.
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This is really a chance for us to share what we did on the flight.
