#tin

When I started writing I wanted the best tools. I skipped right over chisels on rocks, stylus on wet clay plates, quills and fountain pens, even mechanical pencils, and went straight to one of the first popular spin-offs of the aerospace program: the ballpoint pen. They were developed for comber navigators in the war because fountain pens would squirt all over your leather bomber jacket at altitude. (I have a cherished example of the next generation ballpoint, a pressurized Space Pen cleverly designed to work in weightlessness, given to me by Spider Robinson. At least, I cherish it when I can find it. It is also cleverly designed to seek out the lowest point of your desk, roll off, then find the lowest point on the floor, under a heavy piece of furniture. That's because it is cylindrical and lacks a pocket clip to keep it from rolling. In space, I presume it would float out of your pocket and find a forgotten corner of your spacecraft to hide in. NASA spent $3 million developing it. Good job, guys. I'm sure it's around here somewhere.) ↗

— John Varley

#nasa #pens #tools #writing #design

I go down to Newport and Huntington a lot. It's more crowded than where I grew up on Phillip Island, but I think it's helped me adjust to life in America - getting into the water as much as I can. ↗

— Liam Hemsworth

#america #crowded #down #getting #go

Buzz has reduced my range. Running safely with him means using fewer and shorter routes, with multiple laps per day or multiple returns there per week. Neither of us minds repeating ourselves. This is what runners do. ↗

— Joe Henderson

#day #fewer #him #laps #means

What I loved about the acting class was that you got to think all day long about a person that wasn't you, and figure out why they were sad and what they wanted, what they dreamed. ↗

— Beth Henley

#acting #acting class #all day #class #day

You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it. ↗

— Lance Henriksen

#actor #around #gotta #know #something

I hear that melting-pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven't melted. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#hear #i #i can #lot #melted

Unlike any other time in our history, we have to know that staying in school and getting an education is the most important thing you can do. ↗

— Alexis Herman

#education #getting #history #important #important thing

I guess Species was a movie made for me and hence I bagged the role. In fact even when acting, I never thought the outcome would be so good which I think it was! The entire role was a challenge. I was to be this strange yet sexy thing which was challenging! ↗

— Natasha Henstridge

#challenge #challenging #entire #even #fact

Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in. ↗

— Katharine Hepburn

#fascinating #position #trying

Self-help isn't really self-help unless someone else is also helping you. We'd like to be that someone. ↗

— Kenneth Schwarz

#diet-self-help #dieting #dieting-self-help #self-help #self-help-books