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"Of course I was delighted the flight was over, but I still had to worry about cleaning up inside the cabin, I had to worry about the hatch, how to get in the sling, and so on."
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"It's a waste of time worrying about something that worry won't fix. It's about as useful as trying to feed your pet rock."
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"And we had the perhaps unfair advantage of not having to worry about what an audience was gonna think. We were in a vacuum. We were making little short films, really."
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"I've done almost 20 films and I still worry about not finding the next one."
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"You've got to just go do what you do - you can't really worry about who was attached to the movie before."
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"Worrying can only come as an enemy of the solution to your problem."
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"I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol."
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"Of course I was delighted the flight was over, but I still had to worry about cleaning up inside the cabin, I had to worry about the hatch, how to get in the sling, and so on."
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"I'm always using a towel around my head. Airports don't worry about me."
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"When things are perfect, that's when you need to worry most."
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"No one had to worry about Peter after his conversion. Your investigators can be that converted."
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"We also knew it would be difficult, because of the financial condition of the family, for me to go to college."
Family
"I'd like to say I was smart enough to finish six grades in five years, but I think perhaps the teacher was just glad to get rid of me."
Education
"The excitement really didn't start to build until the trailer - which was carrying me, with a space suit with ventilation and all that sort of stuff - pulled up to the launch pad."
Excitement
"You've done it in the simulator so many times, you don't have a real sense of being excited when the flight is going on. You're excited before, but as soon as the liftoff occurs, you are busy doing what you have to do."
Being
"I think the sense of family and family achievement, plus the discipline which I received there from that one-room school were really very helpful in what I did later on."
Family
"Whether you are an astronomer or a life scientist, geophysicist, or a pilot, you've got to be there because you believe you are good in your field, and you can contribute, not because you are going to get a lot of fame or whatever when you get back."
Life
"I didn't mind studying. Obviously math and the physical science subjects interested me more than some of the more artistic subjects, but I think I was a pretty good student."
Science
"It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract."
Government
"You may not have any extra talent, but maybe you are just paying more attention to what you are doing."
Talent
"Then there was the challenge to keep doing better and better, to fly the best test flight that anybody had ever flown. That led to my being recognized as one of the more experienced test pilots, and that led to the astronaut business."
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