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Paul Allen Quotes

My quest to expand access to space began more than a decade ago, when I teamed up with Burt Rutan at Scaled Composites to build SpaceShipOne. This innovative air-launched vehicle was the world's first private spacecraft to carry an astronaut into sub-orbital space.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: american
Birth: January 21, 1953 - October 15, 2018

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Space World Build More First Decade

My initial training was on the keyboard - mainly the great American songbook. In junior high, during the day, I was a classical clarinetist, but after school, I played New Orleans jazz and big-band music.

Music Great Day Training School New

My dad always wanted to sail. They lived on a boat for eight years.

Sail Boat Always Years Lived Eight

I like crafts that are made out of necessity because they're a little naive - you made it because you needed it.

You Naive Out Little Necessity Made

I haven't been offered a lot of comedy. In theater, I've done quite a bit of comedy or dramas that included a lot of funny stuff. But in my TV work, those aren't the roles that I've been offered.

Work Funny Comedy Done Been Stuff

Bowdoin was the first place that I fell in love with. When I visited, I just had never been to a place with that many resources and that much access to information. That was stuff that you saw in movies. I didn't know that existed in real life.

Life Love You Information Place

But so much of being an actor isn't so great - the auditioning, the rejection, the financial insecurity.

Great Insecurity Financial Rejection

There is no public out there who needs to change. It's each one of us.

Change Out Us Who Needs Public

I haven't had many injuries, and I know that's because I take care of my body, and I do the things that I need to do to keep it strong.

Strong Care Take Care Injuries Body

If I lived my life according to what Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh said about me, I would just stay in bed all day.

Life Day Me My Life Bed Said

Although cover notes for classical music albums tend to say that the trill of flutes suggests mountain streams and so on, I don't think anybody listens to music with the expectation that they're going to be presented with a sort of landscape painting.

Music Mountain Painting Think Say

The moon puts on an elegant show, different every time in shape, colour and nuance.

Time Moon Elegant Colour Shape Show

I maintain an ongoing survey of Internet Publishing and self publishing, so that it is now possible for any writer with a book to get it published at nominal cost or free, and to have it on sale at booksellers like Amazon.com.

Book Free Self Internet Possible

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