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I didn't really realize that writing... would be fun and people would pay you to do it. Being an astronaut is a glory profession, and so... - Mary Roach

I didn't really realize that writing... would be fun and people would pay you to do it. Being an astronaut is a glory profession, and so is writing, in a way.

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The script for 'Thirteen' is tight, and not because of the now-famous six day writing spree, but more because it started out as 15 pages longer.

Catherine Hardwicke

He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

Charles Caleb Colton

We've got 50 percent voter turnout for presidential elections. That's appalling. We can do so much better.

When we see what the universe has to show us, we can go no further.

People are doing too much e-mail. The basic thing is eyeball-to-eyeball. Business relationships are made to be personal. The more people get away from it, the more they are going to lose that personal relationship. That's what I learned - to develop personal relationships with people.

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

Leonardo da Vinci

I have always thought of music as a highway with many lanes.

Marvin Hamlisch

Total Divas' is all about us women backstage and our personal lives.

We have, in the E.U., a market rigged in favour of the rich and stacked against the poor, and I think that's wrong.

My legacy would be that you don't have to give up anything. You can be chic but have a sense of humor, you can be sexy but comfortable, you can be timeless but fresh.

Journalism took me around the world. I worked in London for ten years and reported on the collapse of the Soviet Union, the troubles in Northern Ireland, and the first Gulf War.

Michael Robotham

The whole idea of escapism really resonates with a lot of kids.

Truly great actors carry their characters in silence with them. They communicate without words the relationships that predate the movie.

Yakima Canutt was famously John Wayne's stunt double, and in the Western movie 'Stagecoach', there is a fantastic scene where there are some horses thundering along, pulling a carriage. He climbs out onto the horses and drops down underneath them, so he's being dragged along, and then he lets go.

My father and his brothers and sisters were childhood Irish jig champions in the Bronx. At our family celebrations, they all get out and do the jig. And of course, the younger generation, me and my cousins and my brothers, we have our own Americanized renditions of the Irish jig, which is a bit more like 'Lord of the Dance.'