Marina Sirtis Quotes
What they told us about 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' when we first started was that we were guaranteed 26 episodes, so that was the longest job I've ever had. And that was basically it - we didn't know what the premise of the show was going to be and we waited, week by week, to see a script.
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There is no question that chemical weapons attacks are a heinous abuse of humanity and power. But to assume that military strikes are an effective retribution for the crime committed is wrong.
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My mother was a classical pianist and my stepfather was an industrialist who was passionate about composing contemporary music.
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If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.
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You do not have to dramatize everything. In fact, you usually can't, not without ending up with a half-million-word novel.
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I have not fully had the opportunity to evaluate the impact of cameras in the courtroom.
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Forgiveness is a very personal and intimate thing. Forgiveness is not something that you can speak for others because it includes not only your desire and will, your reflection and intellect, but also your emotions.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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Language is possible due to a number of cognitive and physical characteristics that are unique to humans but none of which that are unique to language. Coming together they make language possible. But the fundamental building block of language is community.
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The best a health care system can do is to equip itself to meet the needs of each individual woman and birth. Those needs run the gamut from undisturbed home birth to planned cesarean section.
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I grow up in the States, in Miami, but I was born in Guatemala, and my father's Cuban, and in 'Body of Lies,' I played an Iraqi.
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We need to focus on building up our own nation and creating jobs here at home.
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Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.
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Location is the sole difference between mobile and traditional Web.
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It's been amazing to watch, because for 'Thor', which was always a mid-selling book, to be in the top ten for every single issue since the reboot is just a great compliment.
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You have to stay alert. You've got to keep raising your game.
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I do get stopped a bit now and then, but I can go to the supermarket and on the Tube without being noticed. It's usually me that gets starstruck, especially by TV stars.
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I travel a lot. I spend close to 300 days a year on the road.
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I like change, and I like being in the middle of change.
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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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Sometimes life turns out hard, Isabel. Sometimes it just bites right through you. And sometimes, just when you think it's done its worst, it comes back and takes another chunk.
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I don't care about the rules. In fact, if I don't break the rules at least 10 times in every song then I'm not doing my job properly.
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Part of my job is to make sense of all that I hear, and to retell it in a forceful way so that the decision-makers at Treasury can hear it. At least that's how I see it.
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Saving a life overrides territories.
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What they told us about 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' when we first started was that we were guaranteed 26 episodes, so that was the longest job I've ever had. And that was basically it - we didn't know what the premise of the show was going to be and we waited, week by week, to see a script.
