"The blackness of space was a big shock to me. It is a deep, three-dimensional, oily blackness. You can feel the distance."

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Source : "My Conversation With an Astronaut". Interview with Ben Arnon, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 11, 2012.

Thomas Marshburn

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“Taking up marriage is a good excuse for taking up cursing, I think.”
“People's talk and the stories they tell have been engraved on my heart, and some of them have flown into my pen.”
“I guess I would model myself after the Bill Condons, the Frank Darabonts and the David Nutters if I were to direct a feature, which I would love to do, by the way.”
“I was the first athlete, from a training standpoint, with Adidas to have their own signature shoe.”
“We have medicalized a lot of things that I think are not really medical conditions.”

Source : "Conversations on Creativity with Darold Treffert, Part I: De". Interview with Scott Barry Kaufman, www.psychologytoday.com. April 11, 2011.
“I was a fat girl growing up and had to change schools because kids were so mean.”
“I believe in love. And beauty. I believe that every single person has something they find beautiful and that they truly love. The smell of their child's hair, the silence of a forest, their lover's crooked grin. Their country, their religion, their family. And I believe that if you follow this love all the way to its end, if you start with the thing you find most beautiful and trace it's perfume back to its essence, you will perceive an intangible presence, a swath of stillness that allows the thing you love to be visible like the openness of the sky reveals the presence of the moon.”
“No one was there. Some teammates, huh? I guess they didn't want to get their lip busted like the gentleman I busted. Sorry for that sir.”

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