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Valentina Tereshkova Quotes

The missing toothbrush was nothing compared with the fact that the spacecraft was orientated to ascend, not descend. I would have gone up and up instead of going back down to the ground.

Valentina Tereshkova

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: astronaut
Nationality: russian
Birth: March 6, 1937

Topics

Back Down Nothing Ground Up Gone

The shouting and opinion and jokes don't exist if there isn't first a story.

Jim Lehrer

Opinion Story First Jokes Shouting

I was thrilled when this year's National Book Award for Young People's Literature went to Neal Schusterman's 'Challenger Deep.' This brilliant book takes you into the mind of a mentally ill teenager and deserves all the accolades it's received.

John Corey Whaley

People Mind Book Deep Award Year

In high school, I got smacked and kicked around. Two bloody noses. It was horrible.

Steven Spielberg

School High School Two High Horrible

Rap is only one end of a whole spectrum of verbal play and virtuosity. Rap is geared for aural pleasure.

Rita Dove

End Play Pleasure Rap Whole Only

There ought to be an artistic depot where the artist need only hand in his artwork in order to receive what he asks for. As things are, one must be half a business man, and how can one understand - good heavens! - that's what I really call troublesome.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Good Business Man Artist Understand

I've never been one to tear the social fabric.

Judith Guest

Never Social Fabric Been Tear

When you're passionate about something, you want it to be all it can be. But in the endgame of life, I fundamentally believe the key to happiness is letting go of that idea of perfection.

Debra Messing

Life Happiness Perfection Believe Go

I'd been working since I was eleven so I could buy my own comic books. I was that kid knocking on your door, selling subscriptions to the paper and crying because I wasn't going to sell that last paper that would allow me to go to Disneyland.

Boots Riley

Me Door Selling Go My Own Kid

Abu Musab al-Suri is someone I got to know pretty well because he's a Syrian. Very bright guy, lived in London. He actually was the person who took myself and correspondent Peter Arnett and the cameraman, Peter Juvenal, to interview bin Laden for his first TV interview.

Peter Bergen

Myself Someone Person Know London

I like playing characters that are complex, that are intriguing, that come from left field, that do things that are unexpected. I don't like people who just follow one line and that's it - that's why I could never be in a sitcom, I don't think. They're not intriguing enough for me.

Pete Postlethwaite

People Me Think Enough Unexpected

The territory has changed, and a lot of really good actors want to do cable series, but they don't necessarily want to do network TV and make the commitment of 22 episodes or whatever. They find that the liberties and the creative freedoms that you get in cable is more interesting to them than the censorship of a network show.

Richard LaGravenese

Good Commitment Creative Interesting

Harrison Ford invited me to fly on his private plane to Los Angeles, and he's great to work with. He's really down to earth, and we got to know each other quite well.

Nonso Anozie

Work Great Me Fly Down Earth