Homer Hickam Quotes

'Rocket Boys,' for one reason or the other, just happened to strike a chord across country and across world, maybe because it's set in a little coal-mining town. That's why NASA likes it - most of the engineers come from towns very similar.

Homer Hickam

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Author Biography

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

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My favourite smell is the smell of cut grass, and the sound of sprinklers going on.

Jessica Chastain

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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

John Dewey

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Go to a Cubs game and see how many people are in the stands, because when you can't win, nobody cares anymore.

Ann Coulter

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There is this idea in comedy that you don't want to look like you care about your appearance because that takes away from what's real, what's important. And the real stuff is what's funny.

Steve Howey

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My profile is bigger in Europe than it is in the U.K.

Martin Parr

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Steve Martin is such an exquisite and precise writer. Everything is so clear; it's like a bell. He says what he means and says it so beautifully.

Jason Schwartzman

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So now I'm left with cigarettes, and I'm trying to scrape that off my shoe and then I'll be done.

Diane Lane

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'Armor On' explains why I needed armor in the first place. Sonically, you'll hear this battle of, 'I love you, no I don't. I love you, I hate you.' That's what you'll feel. You see the story kind of fight against itself.

Dawn Richard

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My family and I are very close, and they mean more than anything to me, but I'm also the kind of guy who likes to go out with my friends and have a good time on Friday nights.

Chris Young

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People can criticise all day long, I think I've proven myself, I think I deliver. And I agree, box office does not mean a movie's good, but I feel like I'm making good movies and I'm delivering in box office.

Brett Ratner

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'Stimela' is the very first video I directed. I wanted it to be an emotional visual art piece, displaying humans as free, powerful animals. We are all running from something or searching for something; our instincts have been ignored.

Wynter Gordon

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All the most prominent Darwinists proclaim naturalistic philosophy when they think it safe to do so.

Phillip E. Johnson

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