Pilots Quotes - Page 22

• Once embarked on a course of sensationalism, the composer is forced into a descending spiral spin from which only the most experienced pilot can flatten out in time.

  Constant Lambert

  Spirals, Descending, Composer

  "Music, Ho!". Book by Constant Lambert, "Music and the Naughty 'Nineties", Hogarth Press edition, p. 64, 1985.

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• My family are doctors and pilots and people involved in indigenous First Nation land rights; not overtly artistic.

  Deborah Kara Unger

  Doctors, Rights, Land

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• We never had books at home, but my dad, seeing how keen I was to read, took me to Islington Library when I was about eight and we pulled out two - a Biggles and a science fiction novel. I never got the ace fighter pilot but fell in love with all things to do with the future and space. Isaac Asimov soon became my guiding star.

  Gary Kemp

  Stars, Dad, Book

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• Oftentimes, you read these pilot scripts that come through for American work, and they dont sing to you. Ive got to be honest, not many of them ignite the flame or give you that burning feeling of, Oh, God, I really want to be a part of this.

  Antony Starr

  Flames, Giving, Feelings

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• Even though I'm a family guy, there is something that feels really beautiful about eliminating all children from flying. So, children have to fly on child-only planes. And the pilots have to be children as well.

  Jay R. Ferguson

  Beautiful, Children, Family Guy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• But when we start to focus in on what our own mind is up to, for instance, it is not unusual to quickly go unconscious again, to fall back into an automatic-pilot mode of unawareness. These lapses in awareness are frequently caused by an eddy of dissatisfaction with what we are seeing or feeling in that moment, out of which springs a desire for something to be different, for things to change.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Spring, Fall, Focus

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life”, Hyperion

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• I just personally decided I was going to be the first woman fighter pilot.

  Martha McSally

  Firsts, Fighter, Decided

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• The second episode of any new show can be tough. You have about a week to top the well-crafted and polished pilot episode that was written over six months.

  Michael Patrick King

  Months, Six, Tough

  "Showrunners 2012: '2 Broke Girls'' Michael Patrick King". Interview with Lacey Rose, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 3, 2012.

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• I get inspired when I look at Tom Lennon, who did Reno 911! for six seasons while writing huge movies and directing, and also doing other pilots; he did that FX pilot, the Star Trek thing.

  Scott Aukerman

  Stars, Writing, Six

  "Comedy Bang Bang's Scott Aukerman talks about turning his podcast into a strange, funny TV show". Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. June 7, 2012.

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• I know that some people think differently about pilots, but I really enjoyed shooting Awakening.

  Lucy Griffiths

  Thinking, People, Shooting

  "Lucy Griffiths Talks TRUE BLOOD, Auditioning to Play Nora, and Talking With Fangs". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 22, 2012.

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• I was a pilot and flying hang gliders, paragliders, aerobatics airplanes, and then I discovered skydiving. Free fall. Free. With nothing around you, just a parachute on your back. And you go down. But you don't feel like you're going down. Total freedom.

  Yves Rossy

  Fall, Airplane, Flying

  "I Can Fly" by Nate Hopper, www.esquire.com. September 13, 2013.

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• It's not like I'm a rookie pilot. In fact, I invented airplanes. And air.

  David Blatt

  Airplane, Rookies, Facts

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• The beauty of new media is that no evidence is necessary. The brave blog-troopers have stormed the cockpit of news, and wrestled the joystick of authority away from the seasoned pilots of the press who would land our country at the Facts International Airport.

  Stephen Colbert

  Country, Airports, Media

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• Don't 'over-control' like a novice pilot. Stay loose enough from the flow that you can observe it, modify, and improve it.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Novices, Flow, Enough

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• I was born in Georgia. That's where my grandparents-and all my people-are from. But my family traveled a great deal because my dad was in the army as a helicopter pilot.

  Michael Stipe

  Dad, Army, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The character and the actor in a long-running series slowly become one. I think there must be funny stories about actors who, in the pilot for a TV series, did some weird thing with their eyes, or some speech impediment or something, and the next thing you know, it's eight years later, and they're still doing that freaking gag.

  William H. Macy

  Running, Character, Eye

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• The most melancholy thing about human nature, is, that a man may guide others into the path of salvation, without walking in it himself; that he may be a pilot, and yet a castaway.

  Prince Augustus William of Prussia

  Men, Hypocrisy, May

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• On Thursday, a passenger forced his way into the cockpit of a United Airlines flight from Miami, but was subdued after the co-pilot hit him with a small ax. Good to see our airlines are being kept secure by the latest in 12th century technology.

  Dennis Miller

  Technology, Thursday, Way

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• I am a Broadway theatre guy... so it was kind of my goal this year to come out to LA for pilot season and expand my horizons

  Jeremy Jordan

  Years, Broadway Theatre, Goal

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• In our most trivial walks, we are constantly, though unconsciously, steering like pilots by certain well-known beacons and headlands, and if we go beyond our usual course we still carry in our minds the bearing of some neighboring cape; and not till we are completely lost, or turned round,--for a man needs only to be turned round once with his eyes shut in this world to be lost,--do we appreciate the vastness and strangeness of nature.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Eye, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.103, Simon and Schuster

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• Am I responsible or are you', a senior official asked his pilot, dubiously beginning a flight to Baghdad, 'for seeing that this machine is not overloaded?' 'That will have to be decided at the inquest.

  LeBron James

  Senior, Responsibility, Baghdad

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• With two sons born eighteen months apart, I operated mainly on automatic pilot through the ceaseless activity of their early childhood. I remember opening the refrigerator late one night and finding a roll of aluminum foil next to a pair of small red tennies. Certain that I was responsible for the refrigerated shoes, I quickly closed the door and ran upstairs to make sure I had put the babies in their cribs instead of the linen closet.

  Mary Blakely

  Baby, Son, Night

  Mary Kay Blakely (1995). “American Mom: Motherhood, Politics, and Humble Pie”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• [D]rawing up 'secret war plans' for a possible attack on Iraq wasn't irrational. The low-level war against Saddam was 12 years old, with no end in sight. American and British pilots were getting shot at, sanctions weren't working, and Bush was getting warnings that Saddam had all those terrible weapons and would use them against America. Bush would have been a fool not to draw up plans. Gee, wait till the critics find out that FDR, without ever informing the media, was plotting to fight Japan and Germany before Pearl Harbor.

  John Leo

  War, Fighting, Japan

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• The pilot who is always dreading a rock or a tempest must not complain if he remain a poor fisherman. We must at times trust, something to fortune, for fortune has often some share in what happens.

  Pietro Metastasio

  Rocks, Complaining, Anticipation

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• I market for the same reason a pilot keeps his engines running once he is off the ground.

  William Wrigley, Jr.

  Running, Reason, Engines

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