Eileen Collins Quotes
I leave the astronaut job with great memories but also great expectations for our country's future in space.
Quotes to Explore
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Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years. Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center.
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Parenting is an impossible job at any age.
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I'd always fantasized about writing a new play. Even when I had all this success in television, what I was daydreaming about in my dressing room is that one day I would do it.
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For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.
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I'm a great believer in the experiential theory of writing.
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Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.
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It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
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I did grow up in a military family but lacked the perspective to grasp the cognitive dissonance carried by most people who serve in the armed forces or the circumstances that push lots of folks into the military. I don't blame G.I. Joe or Rambo for that atmosphere, but they certainly reflected the final stage of a two generation cultural myth.
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My castings sort of go in phases. There'll be several icy professional parts - a lawyer or a cop. And then there'll be the intelligent-but-wounded group and then the period things. It goes in sequence.
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The constant in all the businesses I've become a part of is taking what I do and making it real for everyone. I believe fantasy and dreaming can be made a reality. You don't have to be rich. You don't have to be a VIP.
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I'm anti-cheese in a salad.
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I'm not a good liar. I just tell the truth; I think that's the best way.
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Assurance of hope is more than life. It is health, strength, power, vigor, activity, energy, manliness, beauty.
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In post offices throughout the United States, Selective Service posters reading 'A Man's Gotta Do What A Man's Gotta Do remind men that only they must register for the draft. If the Post Office had a poster saying 'A Jew's Gotta Do What A Jew's Gotta Do...' or if 'A Woman's Gotta Do...' were written across the body of a pregnant woman...
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One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.
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Prince Charming, prince of the mockers - compared with him the foulest of sinners is grace incarnate...
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Music is in me. I don't have much of a choice. People might listen to one of my songs or come and see my because of my famous last name, but if my music's not good they won't hang around.
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I love 'Jaws,' and I think Robert Shaw's performance in 'Jaws' is one of the best screen performances of all time. I am a massive Robert Shaw fan. I think he's a brilliant, brilliant talent and we lost him way before his time.
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Time takes away the grief of men.
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It's no good kicking progress In the teeth - there's nothing wrong with a tractor.
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I never really felt like I quite fit in. Other boys were playing sports and into hunting and stereotypically masculine activities. I was always more attracted to the arts. I loved to dance, I loved to sing, and I always knew I would be an actor. I don't really know why.
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Is it the factitious and the conventional that most surely succeed on earth and in the course of life?
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For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
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I leave the astronaut job with great memories but also great expectations for our country's future in space.
