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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Never tell a lie. Anyone who can tell you the slightest of lies is also capable of any evil.
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Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything. If you don't write stories you love, you'll never make it. If you don't write stories that other people love, you'll never make it.
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If you want to publish data, you should do it to share knowledge.
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I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
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If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you. Besides, those voices are merely guardians and demons protecting the real treasure, the first thoughts of the mind.
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This is really a chance for us to share what we did on the flight.
