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Whenever the lion fish in the fish tank in the captain's ready room died it was always a sad moment.
Patrick Stewart

Sad, Moment, Fish

I'm a big supporter of Joe Johnston and I think that 'Captain America' is going to be really fun and I gather that the story is really interesting. It just wasn't what I wanted to do next, to be honest.
Emily Blunt

Fun, America, Big

The day you hear someone call me captain will be the day I buy a boat.
Guy Lafleur

Someone, Call, Hear

Anyway, I've never been captain in 16 years in the NHL. But that didn't stop me being a leader in my own way.
Guy Lafleur

Leader, Stop, Anyway

We've never had nannies. We've had great grandparents, great support from family, and the kids have been on every set: they've seen me play Gollum, King Kong, Captain Haddock, the lot. They totally get it, and they want to go into the business. Ruby, my daughter, is very keen to become an actress.
Andy Serkis

Family, Great, Business

Most of the southern hemisphere is unexplored. We had more exploration ships down there during Captain Cook's time than now. It's amazing.
Robert Ballard

Time, Amazing, Down

You know, the reward for 'Captain America' is amazing. It's always fun to see a giant spectacle film and see the fun stuff - the special effects.
Chris Evans

Amazing, Fun, America

I decided to make 'Captain America' because I realized I wasn't doing the film because it terrified me. You can't make decisions based on fear.
Chris Evans

Fear, America, Decisions

During my time as England captain I have always been both helpful and direct in my communications with the ECB.
Kevin Pietersen

Time, Both, England

I'm very thrilled and excited to have been given the opportunity to captain England.
Kevin Pietersen

Excited, England, Thrilled

I'd like to think that every captain around the world has a vision of how they want their teams to play and most of them are allowed to take their teams forward in their own way.
Kevin Pietersen

Forward, Play, Around

To me it's like, every time I'm a director, like today, you're the captain of the ship, so you better dress like it. You're the host of the party.
Mike Mills

Time, Today, Party

For sure I would be a very emotional captain. A very hands-on captain.
Payne Stewart

Emotional, Sure

I very rarely saw Tom Kite around. I've talked to Tom about it. I don't think Michael Jordan needed to be on the captain's cart with Kite; he needed to be walking in the gallery, supporting them from outside the ropes.
Payne Stewart

Around, Outside, Needed

I went over before the British Open and played Valderrama thinking that I might make the team, might be a captain's pick. I made the effort to go over there.
Payne Stewart

Thinking, Made, Before

I'd come out of the army after five years as a medic. I was a medical administrator and we ran hospitals, and I was a Captain in the army at the end, in 1945.
Eli Wallach

Medical, End, After

People like Howlin' Wolf, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, John Lee Hooker, Nina Simone, Captain Beefheart - all of these artists were what I grew up listening to every day of my life. And there's a very healthy music scene in the west country of England, where I grew up.
P. J. Harvey

Life, Music, Country

I wanted to play a good guy after doing this lunatic on The Sopranos for two years. And then they did the sequel to Bad Boys, where I get to play the barking captain again.
Joe Pantoliano

Suddenly in the end when it's over, you feel a big weight on your shoulders. That's the role of the captain. Unfortunately, it's sometimes like that in sport.
Guy Forget

End, Sometimes, Big

The team should have implicit confidence in the captain's decisions.
Lord Mountbatten

Confidence, Team, Decisions

I haven't yet figured out how I was made first captain, because I was not an outstanding student. I was an adequate student.
William Westmoreland

Made, Student, Adequate

My mom and dad met at UCLA when he as a captain in the Air Force and she was in her junior year.
Tracy Austin

And it was where I learned how to play tennis and eventually became captain of the tennis team at the school and was on the Junior Davis Cup in New York City.
Sanford I. Weill

School, Play, Learned

Henry Fonda's son: That's how everybody identified me until Easy Rider came along. Good old Captain America.
Peter Fonda

Good, America, Son

Captain Fisher, the commander, with a party of young ladies from the city and gentlemen belonging to his ship, came one day to pay me a visit in the midst of a deluge of rain.
Joshua Slocum

Rain, Young, Pay

I don't wilt easily, and a director can't either. He's the captain of the ship and he's got to be in total control. He also has to have respect for the people he's working for. From being an actor and being on a set my whole life, I'm very comfortable there. And I'm not afraid.
Ricky Schroder

Life, Respect, Control

Well, my transition into being a captain was easy.
Mark Messier

Easy, Transition

I was assistant in Edmonton with Wayne as captain, and Kevin Lowe was the other assistant.
Mark Messier

Assistant, Kevin, Wayne

When Wayne was traded, I became captain. For me it really wasn't anything - I didn't do anything or I didn't feel I had to do anything different than what I had been doing all along.
Mark Messier

Different, Along, Traded

But I just think as a captain, everybody's different.
Mark Messier

Different, Everybody

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