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Ellen Stofan Quotes

We have to ask, 'How can we break a huge challenge like sending humans to Mars into a series of doable, affordable steps? How can we break that problem down into chunks in order to keep making progress?'

Ellen Stofan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Challenge Progress Problem Down Mars

My family's support and the negative environment of the day toward blacks in South Carolina became the forces that led me out of the South - first to New York, then to Philadelphia, where I found opportunity in the form of a PAL gym and my trainer, Yank Durham.

Joe Frazier

Family Opportunity Day Support Me

I think everybody has a moment in their career where you have to test whether it was right or wrong. We've all been there. I've looked back at performances of my own, where only you know if it is something you want to repeat. As long as you know when it's not right that you don't repeat it all the time.

Jessie J

Time Moment Think Long You Career

The first rock stars were incredibly theatrical. Little Richard and Chuck Berry and Elvis Presley - they were theater artists.

John Cameron Mitchell

Stars Rock First Little Artists

It's our job as fiction writers to provide a delight that nothing else can - to such a degree that people have no choice but to read our work. Now that's a very tall order, if not impossible. But why not try?

Jennifer Egan

Work Job People Impossible Choice

An answer is always a form of death.

John Fowles

Death Always Answer Form

We should be more anxious that our afflictions should benefit us than that they should be speedily removed from us.

Robert Hall

More Us Anxious Benefit Than Our

I've got great joy from rediscovering Western music. I love Schumann and Chopin, and those amazing symphonies of Bruckner.

John Tavener

Love Music Great Joy Amazing Got

All New Orleans music is based off dance music, even jazz.

Trombone Shorty

Music Dance New Jazz New Orleans

The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mary McCarthy

Life Moment Process House Labor

I have 'the first' attached to my name in a whole lot of different aspects when it comes to the sport of basketball.

Lisa Leslie

Basketball Name First Different Lot

My way of dealing with the world has always been to make fun of it and observe it but not take part in it. That's how I became a writer. But when you have kids, suddenly you have to be part of things. It leads almost to a breakdown because your whole defense mechanism is now really destructive.

Judd Apatow

Fun World You Now Way Always

When Merle and I started out we called our music 'traditional plus,' meaning the traditional music of the Appalachian region plus whatever other styles we were in the mood to play.

Doc Watson

Music Meaning Play Mood Whatever