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Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training. ↗

— Fay Godwin

#artist #became #berlin #born #british

I have always loved reading, so was interested in the literary world, and took many literary portraits. ↗

— Fay Godwin

#i #interested #literary #loved #many

The viewer must bring their own view to a photograph. ↗

— Fay Godwin

#must #own #photograph #their #view

Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy. ↗

— August Strindberg

#because #demands #energy #every #evolution

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre. ↗

— Gail Godwin

#good #preparation #pure #teaching #theatre

None of us suddenly becomes something overnight. The preparations have been in the making for lifetime. ↗

— Gail Godwin

#been #lifetime #making #none #overnight

I grew up watching a lot of the coverage of the early U.S. space program, all the way back starting with Mercury and then through Gemini and Apollo and of course going to the moon as the main part of the Apollo program. ↗

— Linda M. Godwin

#back #course #coverage #early #gemini

In the Astronaut Office we're never totally out of training, we always keep our hand in it. But after five years, things have changed and so it's been good to get back into the flow and relearn a lot of things. ↗

— Linda M. Godwin

#always #astronaut #back #been #changed

Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire. ↗

— William Godwin

#cannot #continue #desire #influence #operate

It's really kind of a challenge to keep coordinated with the two station crews that we'll be interacting with. And of course one of them launched quite some time before our mission. ↗

— Linda M. Godwin

#challenge #coordinated #course #crews #interacting