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Ellen Stofan Quotes

We actually look to the scientific community to kind of come back to NASA and tell us what the priorities should be. And then at NASA, we try to look within our budget and say, 'What can we accommodate, and what are the most important things for the nation?'

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: american
Birth: February 24, 1961

Topics

Community Priorities Look Back NASA

I often think of it this way: The 21st century is going to be a war on the attention of humanity. Where civilization focuses its attention, I mean, that's what defines what the civilization cares about.

War Think Humanity Attention Way

I'm from New York City. I grew up in the city. Suburban life was very odd to me.

Life New York City Me New Up

I remember watching 'A Streetcar Named Desire' when I was quite young, I was about 12, or 13, and I watched it, thinking, 'Wow. That is pretty cool. I'd like to do something like that.'

Aneurin Barnard

Cool Thinking Remember Desire Young

Writing of that caliber spoils you for any other kind of writing for awhile. But that's probably good.

Good Writing You Kind Spoils Awhile

Music is a male-dominated field. Women are not always taken as seriously as we should be, so sometimes we have to put our foot down.

Women Music Down Sometimes Seriously

I'm from New Orleans, but I lived in L.A. for a very long time.

Time Long New Long Time New Orleans

People must realize that a crime motivated by racial or ethnic prejudice against one group is a crime against all of us.

People Group Crime Prejudice Realize

I like art with a visible string to the world.

Art World Like Visible String

I've never written a book with an outline or a predetermined theme. It's only in retrospect that themes or subjects become identifiable. That's the fun of it: discovering what's next. I'm often surprised by plot developments I would not have dreamed of starting out, but that, in the course of the writing, come to seem inevitable.

Fun Writing Book Inevitable Become

Savasana is the easiest and most important yoga move because it's so simple. Lying there is meditative.

Simple Important Lying Move Because

In college, I studied political science, policy, and law. My plan was to move to New York, pay off student debt in a year or two, and then run for office.

Science New York College Law Plan

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