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"NASA was going to pick a public school teacher to go into space, observe and make a journal about the space flight, and I am a teacher who always dreamed of going up into space."
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"I was getting a lot of hassles from the public. Everybody recognized me."

"I give everything I have to give on the screen. I feel I don't owe the public anything else."

"How few, since the foundation of the world, have found themselves in a position environed with public perils so numerous, oppressed with responsibilities so high and solemn, as yourself!"

"Every three days on average, I am alone on stage, facing the public."

"Sometimes that mantle is hard to adjust to wearing but we are at a stage that we are comfortable with it and we recognize how we are perceived and how the real core individual that each one of us has apart from the facade that the public believes that we are."

"I am perfectly happy to believe that nobody likes us but the public."

"Honestly, if the public still wants to hear me in some works, I have to go down a half step."

"You can certainly keep a low public profile if you want to."
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"The Twilight Zone' wasn't around with the kids. They think going up in space is neat. Within their lifetime, there will be paying passengers on the shuttle."

"I will go around the space shuttle and give a guided tour of the major areas and describe what is done in each area. This will be called The Ultimate Field Trip."

"The president felt that it was important to send an ordinary citizen to experience the excitement of space travel as a representative for all Americans."

"I can remember in early elementary school when the Russians launched the first satellite. There was still so much unknown about space. People thought Mars was probably populated."

"It's not the Olympics. It's Concord, New Hampshire, and a homecoming should reflect the community I'm part of."

"I cannot join the space program and restart my life as an astronaut, but this opportunity to connect my abilities as an educator with my interests in history and space is a unique opportunity to fulfill my early fantasies."
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