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"I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you."
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"Mars is the only place in the solar system where it's possible for life to become multi-planetarian."
"Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket - half a million dollars. It can be done."
"Become aware of the physical distance and spatial orientation that you experience while in the company of others. Being empathetic and sensitive to a person's physical comfort zone can have a huge effect on the way in which you are received and perceived."
"It would take six months to get to Mars if you go there slowly, with optimal energy cost. Then it would take eighteen months for the planets to realign. Then it would take six months to get back, though I can see getting the travel time down to three months pretty quickly if America has the will."
"The revolutionary breakthrough will come with rockets that are fully and rapidly reusable. We will never conquer Mars unless we do that. It'll be too expensive. The American colonies would never have been pioneered if the ships that crossed the ocean hadn't been reusable."
"I think we are at the dawn of a new era in commercial space exploration."
"SpaceX is only 12 years old now. Between now and 2040, the company's lifespan will have tripled. If we have linear improvement in technology, as opposed to logarithmic, then we should have a significant base on Mars, perhaps with thousands or tens of thousands of people."
"Rockets are cool. There's no getting around that."
"Canada has made a strong commitment as a partner in the International Space Station and, like the other partners, wishes to see the assembly of this unique orbiting laboratory continue."
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"I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones."
"My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor."
"I don't want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and roll is that I'm suspicious."
"Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives."
"I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry."
"Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed."
"We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power."
"What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other."
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