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"When you launch in a rocket, you're not really flying that rocket. You're just sort of hanging on."
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"I was a fighter pilot, flying Hurricanes all round the Mediterranean. I flew in the Western Desert of Libya, in Greece, in Syria, in Iraq and in Egypt."
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"Everything has changed. The flying changed. The airports have changed."
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"I can't tell you how much we laughed on the set to have Alec Guinness in a scene with a big, furry dog that's flying a space ship."
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"You've got to keep things flying."
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"The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss."
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"I could not claim them because I was not supposed to be flying in combat."
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"When you perform in front of an audience after only two days of rehearsal, you're flying by the seat of your pants - particularly when they're rewriting the show right up to the moment the camera goes on."
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"I ate a bug once. It was flying around me. I was trying to get it away. It went right in my mouth. It was so gross!"
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"A lot of these things will fly in later forms on the space station themselves, or a later form of that research will, once they kind of find out some of the basics from flying it on shuttle."
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"I had that flying wheel tattooed on my forehead and on my butt."
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"If you want something that's going to provide you with a lot of challenges and a variety of different things to do, then you really can't beat a place like the Air Force. I don't mean this to sound like a recruiting pitch. But it's been a lot of fun."
Force
"There are just hundreds of people that have inspired and influenced me in a number of different ways. First of all, you can't forget your parents and all they've done to help you to get here."
People
"It's a great view from here. I'm having the time of my life."
Life
"I went to the University of Washington as a physics and astronomy major. My other interest, of course, was aviation. I always wanted to be a pilot. And if you're going to fly airplanes, the best place to be is the Air Force."
Aviation
"Science was something that really caught my attention. It was something I really could sink my teeth into."
Science
"As you look back at your life, there are just a million different things that have happened, just in the right way, to allow you to make your dreams come true. And you know, someone has all that under control."
Dream
"It looks like the future's really bright."
Future
"Fortunately, I got called down to NASA for an interview. And one thing led to the next, and one day I got that call. I've been here about seven years now and am really enjoying it."
NASA
"Like most kids growing up, I had a very wide interest. I was interested in everything. I tried to take advantage of everything, from the sciences to music to writing to literature."
Music
"When you launch in a rocket, you're not really flying that rocket. You're just sort of hanging on."
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