Eileen Collins Quotes
I think about the Columbia crew every day. I feel like we are carrying on their mission.
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Words should have the power to inform and to move, not the power to send people scurrying away. But if you attach that much emotional energy to a word, it gives people the power to hurt each other.
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There is no ethnic cleansing in Bahrain, no mass genocide, no policy of killing innocent people.
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My dad believed in scaring us as we were growing up. Scaring the boys who wanted to date us more.
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While only one day of the year is dedicated solely to honoring our veterans, Americans must never forget the sacrifices that many of our fellow countrymen have made to defend our country and protect our freedoms.
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The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
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I want to act for the rest of my life - and I also want to pursue directing. Watching Bill Condon direct 'Twilight' kind of made me think, 'OK yeah, I really want to do this now.' This idea that you can make an image in your head and be in full control of how it comes out - I thought that was really cool.
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After I won the Tony Award, the film floodgates opened, so I was like a kid in a candy store.
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Games take years to make, and it's important that when we launch, it can't just be a great launch catalog and then a desert for a really long time. To be honest, for a lot of developers, they'd rather not be competing at launch with all this other software.
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When I was playing Gandalf, I didn't think, 'Oh my dear, I'm playing a 7,000 year old wizard,' because I've never met one, and I don't know what they're like.
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I had never dreamt I'd become an actress. It was destiny that put me in the right place at the right time and gave me the right opportunities.
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Sometimes you need to stand with your nose to the window and have a good look at jazz. And I've done that on many occasions.
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The least thing upset him on the links. He missed short putts because of the uproar of the butterflies in the adjoining meadows.
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My father got a phone call to bring me in to meet with Spielberg for 'E.T.,' partially because they knew I was a physical kid, and I was known in the business somewhat as a stunt kid, and I could do all the bicycle riding.
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I know who the leader is on the team, ... I ain't going to say who it is, but I know who it is. I know who the team feeds off. I know who the opposing team comes in knowing they have to defend to stop the Yankees.
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I really don't care what they do, to be honest with you.
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In the state of grace, there is no such thing as opportunity lost that cannot be found.
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I like sparkles; I think I'm a magpie.
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I think I'm a very versatile player, that's how I was at LSU.
