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Peggy Whitson Quotes

One thing that flying in space does for you is it gives you a change in perspective. We all have to live in the same place.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: astronaut
Nationality: american
Birth: February 9, 1960

Topics

Change Live Perspective Space Flying

Movies are this thing that came into my life, and it still feels pretend in some way. I kind of do this thing, and I never really accepted this idea that I'm a film actor. That's what I do. I feel like I'm a theater actor that started doing films. Most people have never seen me in a play. They're fun, though.

Life Fun People Me My Life Doing

Working at Pixar has been like my graduate school for screenwriting.

School Graduate School Working Been

I think many people have this sense that something about modern society - the screens, the noise, the traffic, the constant busyness - has approached a point where living in the world feels somewhat unhealthy.

People World Society Think Living

Moviemaking is a time machine: narrative spliced into fragments and reassembled into a constant present, the end of a story shot before the beginning, which is shot after the middle.

Time Beginning Story Present End

I'm from New York, so I'm a big Howard Stern fan.

New York New Big Fan Stern York

The relationship between a director and an editor in documentaries is so important.

Roger Ross Williams

Relationship Important Director

I was being singled out as the best in the class at this, that and the other, nearly always to do with art. And then I was a very good swimmer from a very early age, and once again the best in the class, and when I was about five or six, I was the best in the school.

Good Age Art Best School Early

I am a keen medievalist and like going around museums and ruins and finding out about the people and local culture. I'm not one for sitting by a pool or lying on a beach. I also like to sketch while I'm on holiday, if I have time.

Time Culture Beach I Am People Pool

For me, I'm just trying to keep it fun, keep it interesting, not get stuck on the same sound, the same wave for too long.

Fun Me Wave Interesting Trying Long

The Catholic tradition maintains that the objective norms governing right action are accessible to reason, prescinding from the content of revelation.

Pope Benedict XVI

Action Tradition Right Reason Norms

When I think about moguls, I think like Donald Trump who... owns NYC practically. That's a mogul. I feel like I'm on my way to a lot more, but mogul is a really serious thing. I think it's a word that gets thrown around easily.

Think Feel Donald Trump Serious Way

It is easier to speak to those who have had similar experiences than to those who are as yet ignorant.

Richard Jefferies

Speak Ignorant Experiences Easier

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