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Sally Ride

"But even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space program."

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Akshay Vasu

"School...school... is just nothing... if you think that you are going to learn something. You are here wrong, you wanna see the system?It's in about23 Channels as a start then increases... decreases... even with different topics in the end... they want you to recall the whole data from the 23 Channels as for Perfect, as For under Perfect Okay..okay... but still not perfect, as for Good... Just an Okay... and as for Middle... Little from there and little from there as for the last... Nothing at all."

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Akshay Vasu

"I learned to read at two. I was in a Montessori school and they teach you to read really, really young."

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Akshay Vasu

"I rolled myself up into a tight ball of resistance and it was thus that I went through my school years."

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Akshay Vasu

"He nodded toward the sub. "This is going to be a blow-off day."I dragged my mind away from magical intrigue. After being homeschooled for most of my life, some parts of the "normal" school world was a mystery. "What does that mean, exactly.""Usually teacher leave subs a lesson plan, telling them what to do. I saw Ms. Terwilliger left. It said, 'Distract them."

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Akshay Vasu

"Lou and I met while we were in high school in our senior year. We were in many of the same classes together and quite a few times we went over to his house to hang out."

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Akshay Vasu

"I spent most of my high school years on movie sets and I'd have like one teacher, which was really bad."

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Akshay Vasu

"I was head of the Sixth Form Centre when I left the school."

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Akshay Vasu

"I educated myself. To me, school was boring."

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Akshay Vasu

"I believe in myself as I look forward to graduating from Hamilton Heights High School in 1991."

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"Besides, I think that when one has been through a boarding school, especially then, you have some resistance, because it was both fine comradeship and a fairly hard training."

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Sally Ride
"So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do."

Space

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Sally Ride
"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

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

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Sally Ride
"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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Sally Ride
"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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Sally Ride
"So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth."

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Sally Ride
"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."

Time

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Sally Ride
"When you're getting ready to launch into space, you're sitting on a big explosion waiting to happen."

Space

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Sally Ride
"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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Sally Ride
"Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space."

Space

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