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I remember really wanting to go into space. I liked the idea of flying.
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It’s like arriving somewhere that you’ve always wanted to be.
I worked on a kibbutz in Israel and had to clean out the chicken run. It was like an oven. Inside were rows and rows of chickens that had been shitting for months – the whole floor was six inches deep in chicken shit.
Not following through on things.
Unemployment – I’m an actor.
On the interstate. Anyone who has driven in the United States will know that you are always very close to death – it is like the wild west on the freeways.
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