"Yes... well, I used to have a pilot's license."
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"Well, I'm about to do another western, a pilot for HBO this fall."
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"During World War II, the pilot losses were staggering. In some bombing raids, as many as 80% of the planes that left did not return."
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"I don't know why I am internally a violent person. I don't have the normal nerve endings most people do, which was very good for me as a pilot in Viet Nam. When most people are afraid, I'm actually quite excited about things. The more dangerous something is, the happier I am."
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"The true exceptional performer is on super pilot. Every single sense, every fiber of his body is brought together in what he is doing."
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"Pilot season tends to be grueling, because you can be thrown all of these auditions at once - last-minute, always - and you're going on three a day, especially back in the day."
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"My very first job was something called Nobodys Watching, that Bill Lawrence who created Scrubs, it was his pilot. It was my very first TV job, and it was a sitcom. Ever since that experience, Ive been so itching to get back to that kind of environment and just to be involved with comedy."
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"We are never without a pilot. When we know not how to steer, and dare not hoist a sail, we can drift. The current knows the way, though we do not. The ship of heaven guides itself, and will not accept a wooden rudder."
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"Had an audition for a pilot today, but realized I could save gas and help the environment by pissing up a rope here at home!"
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"On Thursday, a passenger forced his way into the cockpit of a United Airlines flight from Miami, but was subdued after the co-pilot hit him with a small ax. Good to see our airlines are being kept secure by the latest in 12th century technology."
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"Nothing's worse than telling your family you got a pilot, hearing the pilot got picked up, and then finding out it's not in the fall lineup."
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"Once you have established Your inner contact With your inner Pilot, Your life's transformation-victory Will not remain a far cry."
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"As an Asian American at pilot season you take whatever there is."
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"The philosopher is Nature's pilot."
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"I wrote six pilots, none of which ever got picked up. When you stop trying, it then it falls in your lap."
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"At best, the true philosopher can fulfil his mission very imperfectly, which is to pilot himself, or at most a few voluntary companions who may find themselves in the same boat."
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"What they did was to make a pilot and it may well go to series at the next festival but I don't have any news on that. It's already been on Paramount actually, but as it's on Paramount it'll probably be on several more times... hopefully."
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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."
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"The second episode of any new show can be tough. You have about a week to top the well-crafted and polished pilot episode that was written over six months."
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