Pilots Quotes - Page 6

• I know that some people think differently about pilots, but I really enjoyed shooting Awakening.

  Lucy Griffiths

  Thinking, People, Shooting

  "Lucy Griffiths Talks TRUE BLOOD, Auditioning to Play Nora, and Talking With Fangs". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 22, 2012.

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• I was a pilot and flying hang gliders, paragliders, aerobatics airplanes, and then I discovered skydiving. Free fall. Free. With nothing around you, just a parachute on your back. And you go down. But you don't feel like you're going down. Total freedom.

  Yves Rossy

  Fall, Airplane, Flying

  "I Can Fly" by Nate Hopper, www.esquire.com. September 13, 2013.

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• It's not like I'm a rookie pilot. In fact, I invented airplanes. And air.

  David Blatt

  Airplane, Rookies, Facts

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• The beauty of new media is that no evidence is necessary. The brave blog-troopers have stormed the cockpit of news, and wrestled the joystick of authority away from the seasoned pilots of the press who would land our country at the Facts International Airport.

  Stephen Colbert

  Country, Airports, Media

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• The most melancholy thing about human nature, is, that a man may guide others into the path of salvation, without walking in it himself; that he may be a pilot, and yet a castaway.

  Prince Augustus William of Prussia

  Men, Hypocrisy, May

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• Don't 'over-control' like a novice pilot. Stay loose enough from the flow that you can observe it, modify, and improve it.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Novices, Flow, Enough

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• I started writing sketches with Dennis Kelly, who I ended up writing 'Pulling' with. We entered a BBC competition and did quite well, then started writing bits for other people's shows. You wheedle your way in, write pilots and eventually you end up writing a sitcom.

  Sharon Horgan

  Writing, People, Competition

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• I just personally decided I was going to be the first woman fighter pilot.

  Martha McSally

  Firsts, Fighter, Decided

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• Am I responsible or are you', a senior official asked his pilot, dubiously beginning a flight to Baghdad, 'for seeing that this machine is not overloaded?' 'That will have to be decided at the inquest.

  LeBron James

  Senior, Responsibility, Baghdad

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• With two sons born eighteen months apart, I operated mainly on automatic pilot through the ceaseless activity of their early childhood. I remember opening the refrigerator late one night and finding a roll of aluminum foil next to a pair of small red tennies. Certain that I was responsible for the refrigerated shoes, I quickly closed the door and ran upstairs to make sure I had put the babies in their cribs instead of the linen closet.

  Mary Blakely

  Baby, Son, Night

  Mary Kay Blakely (1995). “American Mom: Motherhood, Politics, and Humble Pie”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• The only thing that I'm not willing to do is really stupid, horribly written sitcoms. It can be tempting during pilot season time, but I realized this a while ago when I almost signed my life away to a stupid pilot.

  Ari Graynor

  Stupid, I Realized, Tempting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• May the strength of God pilot us, may the wisdom of God instruct us, may the hand of God protect us, may the word of God direct us. Be always ours this day and for evermore.

  Saint Patrick

  Hands, May, Protect

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• By day, or on a cloudless night, a pilot may drink the wine of the gods, but it has an earthly taste; he's a god of the earth, like one of the Grecian deities who lives on worldly mountains and descended for intercourse with men. But at night, over a stratus layer, all sense of the planet may disappear. You know that down below, beneath that heavenly blanket is the earth, factual and hard. But it's an intellectual knowledge; it's a knowledge tucked away in the mind; not a feeling that penetrates the body.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Wine, Night, Men

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• Science, freedom, beauty, adventure: what more could you ask of life? Aviation combined all the elements I loved. There was science in each curve of an airfoil, in each angle between strut and wire, in the gap of a spark plug or the color of the exhaust flame. There was freedom in the unlimited horizon, on the open fields where one landed. A pilot was surrounded by beauty of earth and sky. He brushed treetops with the birds, leapt valleys and rivers, explored the cloud canyons he had gazed at as a child. Adventure lay in each puff of wind.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Children, Adventure, Flames

  Charles Lindbergh, “Untitled”

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• I worked in television; I'm the Failed Pilot Queen, I've done so many television shows, pilots, theater ... when you do it for so long, I'm telling you, you get to the point where it becomes varied because you take what's available for a number of reasons. It's just an occupational hazard.

  Viola Davis

  Queens, Numbers, Long

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• As actors, if you get a pilot on HBO or on USA, your odds are good that it's going to get picked up.

  Tim DeKay

  Hbo, Odds, Usa

  "A Roundtable With Tim DeKay, Carla Gugino, and Gabriel Macht". Interview with Mark Peikert, www.backstage.com. June 27, 2012.

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• No, he probably wouldn't mention it - except to another flier. Then they will talk for hours. They will re-create all the things seen and felt in that wonderful world of air: the sense of remoteness from the busy world below, the feeling of intense brotherhood formed with those who man the radio ranges and control towers and weather stations that bring the pilot home, the clouds and the colors, the surge of the wind on their wings.

  Percy Knauth

  Home, Men, Clouds

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• The hardest thing about doing a series and having it stick is that you've never performed with each other, and the pilot is kind of a dress rehearsal, and you don't know the tone until two or three episodes in.

  David Giuntoli

  Two, Tone, Sticks

  Source: collider.com

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• I think it is love of that blue vault of sky that becomes your playground if, and only if, you are a fighter pilot. You don't understand it if you fly from A to B in straight and level, and merely climb and descend. You're moving through the basement of that bolt of blue.

  Robin Olds

  Moving, Thinking, Blue

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• I've been enjoying 'Life on the Mississippi' by Mark Twain that I picked up at the airport randomly. It's very witty and interesting to read about his time as a steamboat pilot.

  Roman Coppola

  Witty, Airports, Interesting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I paid my way through school doing set construction for film and television. I'm a member of Local 44. I was a construction coordinator on 'Beverly Hills 90210' for 4 1/2 years and ran their whole construction program. I did two other pilots as a coordinator for Aaron Spelling.

  Michael Cudlitz

  School, Years, Two

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A lot of people think Formula One isn't a sport because everyone drives a car when they go to work in the morning. But we're pulling up to six G on a corner or during breaking, which is almost like being a fighter pilot. So we have to do a lot of work on our neck muscles.

  Jenson Button

  Sports, Morning, Thinking

  "Button your lip" by Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. March 5, 2005.

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• I worked with people I admire; Josh Lucas, who I'd worked with many many years ago on a pilot called The Class of 61 and Kurt Russell, and so there were a variety of different people that I enjoyed working with.

  Andre Braugher

  Years, Class, People

  Interview with Eric Goldman, www.ign.com. March 24, 2006.

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• Pilots get made, and they don't go to series. Stuff gets written and never gets made. I've tried to develop stuff that never went. It comes and it goes. It's a part of the process.

  Jason Lee

  Stuff, Made, Process

  Source: collider.com

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• Pilots are so hard because you have to introduce all these characters, you have to hook an audience, and an audience has such a smaller attention span than maybe they used to have.

  Max Greenfield

  Character, Attention, Hook

  "Talking Schmidt: Why We're Rooting for New Girl's Max Greenfield at the Emmy's". Interview with Bruce Handy an Juli Weiner, www.vanityfair.com. September 20, 2012.

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