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"It's easy to sleep floating around - it's very comfortable. But you have to be careful that you don't float into somebody or something!"
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"In troubled times, one wishes for a sound sleep more than usual, but on the contrary, realizing its amplified importance, sleep smugly impedes all attempts to woo it."
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"I don't even like to sleep - I feel as if there's too much to do."
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"There would be nights when I would wake up and couldn't get back to sleep. So I would go downstairs and write. The staff had a pool going on how many pages of typing I would bring in here in the morning."
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"Because I sleep with him he asked me to audition, you know?"
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"Had I been in Toronto, I would certainly have been killed in this attack. In the room where I normally sleep, the flames and the smoke and the soot is such that the gases would have killed me."
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"It's easy to sleep floating around - it's very comfortable. But you have to be careful that you don't float into somebody or something!"
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"I think I'd have done better if I had been a little more relaxed-if I had not pressed quite so hard, if I'd not lost quite so much sleep."
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"Standards are a little crazy these days. I think that, when you go to sleep, as long as you're happy with the way you are and the way you look, that's the most important thing. I think it's an internal thing. As long as you feel good with who you are and comfortable with what you're wearing, but not if that's the most important thing."
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"I had a migraine for about seven or eight straight days, and I was unable to sleep most nights."
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"Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera."
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"Some astronauts sleep in sort of beds - compartments that you can open up and crawl into and then close up, almost like a little bedroom."
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"But even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space program."
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"NASA has to approve whatever we wear, so there are clothes to choose from, like space shorts - we wear those a lot - and NASA T-shirts."
Space

"The food isn't too bad. It's very different from the food that the astronauts ate in the very early days of the space program."
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"I didn't really decide that I wanted to be an astronaut for sure until the end of college."
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"Even though NASA tries to simulate launch, and we practice in simulators, it's not the same - it's not even close to the same."
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"Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit."
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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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"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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"The most anxious time was during launch, just because that is so dramatic."
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