"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."

Flying, Greece, Iraq

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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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"I'm not sure I always feel like I'm in the seat. Sometimes I'm only holding on by one hand and flying out behind the roller coaster. I don't know anybody who doesn't feel that way."

David Morse, American Actor

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Steve Fossett, American Aviator

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"I could not claim them because I was not supposed to be flying in combat."

Adolf Galland, German Soldier

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"The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it."

Orson Welles, American Actor

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"Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind."

William Golding, English Novelist

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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!"

Hilary Duff, American Actress

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"It's difficult to do that internally, because you're flying five, six hours."

Vince McMahon, American Entertainer

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"Be able to blow out a dinner candle without sending wax flying across the table."

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"In 1975 I decided that there was no future in flying (airline jobs were impossible to get, and who wants a job where you are judged only by seniority?) and headed off to grad school."

W. Richard Stevens, American Scientist

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"The transformation scene, where man is becoming insect and insect has become at least man and beyond that - a flying, godlike, shimmering, diaphanous, beautiful creature."

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"A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not."

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"All Norwegian children learn to swim when they are very young because if you can't swim it is difficult to find a place to bathe."

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"Pain was something we were expected to endure. But I doubt very much if you would be entirely happy today if a doctor threw a towel in your face and jumped on you with a knife."

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"An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details."

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"All through my school life I was appalled by the fact that masters and senior boys were allowed quite literally to wound other boys, and sometimes very severely."

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"When I walked to school in the mornings I would start out alone but would pick up four other boys along the way. We would set out together after school across the village green."

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"Pear Drops were exciting because they had a dangerous taste. All of us were warned against eating them, and the result was that we ate them more than ever."

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"The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn't go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him."

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"The Bristol Channel was always my guide, and I was always able to draw an imaginary line from my bed to our house over in Wales. It was a great comfort."

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"The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it."

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