"Iâ€™m not a risk taker. But astronauts are professionals, so you get out on the field and play ball. I tried to take it in stride because thatâ€™s what I had to do to get into space. Thatâ€™s where I belong, and Iâ€™m pretty good at it."

-- Story Musgrave

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“I have seen the player who will inherit my place in Argentine football and his name is Messi. Messi is a genius.”
“The camera fails to capture the 'business' in show business! We typically will give 10 percent of our salary to the agent, 10 percent to the manager, and 5 percent to the lawyer, plus the publicist gets a flat fee, which needs to be budgeted for.”
“The special forces gave me the self-confidence to do some extraordinary things in my life. Climbing Everest then cemented my belief in myself.”
“I had a terrible dream when I was pregnant; I dreamt the baby had a ventriloquial mouth, but there was no hand hole; I had to flick the mouth down to get words out.”
“A modest critique of an age in which an actor is the President, in which fashion models are asked for their opinions, in which getting into a nightclub is seen as a significant human achievement.”
“From a performance standpoint, it just gives [actors] so much - I had such a great cast [ in Valley of Violence] - and it gives them the ability to go wild with it and to have performances that are memorable.”
“The toughest thing for a homeschooler is the same as for a school teacher - shifting from a weak tea vision of math being grinding calculations to a rich frothy mug of math as an active way of thinking.”
“Guitar comes more out of its limitations for me, like putting it in a weird tuning and then just go places.”

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