Homer Hickam Quotes

Interestingly, 'October Sky' is an anagram of 'Rocket Boys', the same letters just moved around. This was discovered by director Joe Johnston using an anagram program on his computer.

Homer Hickam

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Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 19, 1943

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The year my mom worked as a secretary at an apparel company in midtown, she would often come home in tears because she had mistakenly called her boss by another coworker's name. 'You know how it is,' my father said, 'they all look the same. It's not your mom's fault. There's just no telling them apart. Same high nose and deep-set eyes.'

Jenny Zhang

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Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.

John Morley

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My giving is discretionary, but keeping the business going is not.

Michael Hintze

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What people often ask me is, 'What are the ingredients of Silicon Valley?' While the answer to that is complex, some of the ingredients I talk about are celebrating entrepreneurship, accepting failure, and embracing a mobile and diverse workforce.

John Roos

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A Big Mac - the communion wafer of consumption.

John Ralston Saul

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Strangely enough, through all those school years I decided at 13 or 14 I was going to be a musician and so school was just something to get out of the way, a waste of time and not to bother with it.

Alvin Lee

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When the Internet first came, I thought it was just the beacon of freedom. People could communicate with anyone, anywhere, and nobody could stop it.

Steve Wozniak

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Being a kid during the '80s, I feel I didn't really get the full experience.

Travie McCoy

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I was quite excited, but I was sure I wouldn't win the race. I am a realist.

Jean Alesi

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To be an actor wasn't something that seemed realistic. I started late; I was about 19.

Diego Klattenhoff

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One of my all-time favourite guitarists is, in fact, a bassist - John Entwistle from The Who. He's one of my all-time favourites, the way he kind of expanded. I mean, he could have been a lead guitarist and been one of the best guitarists in the world. He wasn't even bass player; he was a bass guitarist, and he took the bass to another level.

Bradley Wiggins

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I'm more interested in being good than being famous.

Annie Leibovitz

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