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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I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
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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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Glamour to me is about remaining graceful and understated.
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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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Everywhere, people are discovering that doing things more slowly often means doing them better and enjoying them more. It means living life instead of rushing through it. You can apply this to everything from food to parenting to work.
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My hope is that I can continue writing and, in the future, I can just be Maya Soetoro-Ng.
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It's unrealistic to think that the future of humanity can be achieved only on the basis of prayer; what we need is to take action.
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The future will be in the hands of those of you who belong to the 21st century. You have the opportunity and responsibility to build a better humanity. This means developing warm-heartednes s in this very life, here and now. So, do whatever work you do, but ask yourselves now and then, 'How can I contribute to human beings being happier and more peaceful?'
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I leave the astronaut job with great memories but also great expectations for our country's future in space.
