"I had both male and female heroes."

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"Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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"A hero: a man or woman who is unsatisfied by his condition, and resolves to do something about it."

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"True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost."

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"A hero is someone we can admire without apology."

Kitty Kelley, American Journalist

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"Stretch yourself a bit to know the difference between humans and heroes."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

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"Don't dare try to be heroes."

S. A. Tawks, British Author

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"Heroes don't have the need to be known as heroes, they just do what heroes do because it is right and it must be done."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"A hero must hero."

Robert A. Heinlein, American Writer

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"The hero isn't the one who is right, but the one who steps forward to take the blame-deserved or not-and apologize to save a relationship."

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"Why do we love heroes? Because life is a fight."

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"It takes a couple of years just to get the background and knowledge that you need before you can go into detailed training for your mission."

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"I slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle."

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"So most astronauts are astronauts for a couple of years before they are assigned to a flight."

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"My background is in physics, so I was the mission specialist, who is sort of like the flight engineer on an airplane."

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"The most anxious time was during launch, just because that is so dramatic."

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"So I decided on science when I was in college."

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"I felt very honored, and I knew that people would be watching very closely, and I felt it was very, very important that I do a good job."

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"Well, we spend an awful lot of our time working and doing experiments. It's very busy up on the shuttle."

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"I was always very interested in science, and I knew that for me, science was a better long-term career than tennis."

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"Once you are assigned to a flight, the whole crew is assigned at the same time, and then that crew trains together for a whole year to prepare for that flight."

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