DeForest Kelley Quotes
I ran around with the other youngsters, hunting, fishing and raising tadpoles and all the rest.
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My view is that life is too short. I'm not being melodramatic or anything, but when your mother dies in your arms - just you and her, and it's one o'clock in the morning, and you're waiting for her to exhale - you just think, life's too bloody short to argue about the little things.
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For a long time on Earth humans didn't worship good gods; that's a new idea. The ancient Greek gods, the Hindu gods, are fairly amoral, most of them. We get stuck when we insist that God be both good and all-powerful.
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The high point was that the people are really nice - despite the crazy politics - and I loved being there. The hardest part was knowing some of the things I was probably going to write about Texas would make those nice people very unhappy.
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People are everything in education, just as in the corporate world.
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What people say isn't going to stop me. I have to do things for myself.
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I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.
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My mum's really short so she always wears really tall heels, and I used to steal them and now it's just a part of my everyday life.
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I don't want to set the world up for surprises.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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I always follow what my spirit tells me to do.
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I think slavery is the next thing to hell. If a person would send another into bondage, he would, it appears to me, be bad enough to send him into hell if he could.
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I just think that everything is symbolic, and who you are determines everything that you do, small moves and big moves.
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Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
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I'm not a wimpy kid at all. I don't care what other people think - I only care what I think about myself.
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What I write, I write. I'll always do it in some form.
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Writers, not psychiatrists, are the true interpreters of the human mind and heart, and we have been at it for a very long time.
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I swam very competitively till I was 15, then I swam for fun until I was 18. But athletics remain a very big part of my life. I try to keep that as much in balance with work as I can.
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From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.
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As far as innovation goes, I can tell you that Korean students are reluctant to step out of line. If I ask questions, nobody raises their hands - not because they don't know the answers, but because they don't want to step out of line.
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I think it's harder - much harder - to be a good parent than to write a book.
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I think all actors are supposed to be character actors.
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I don't know why it is we are in such a hurry to get up when we fall down. You might think we would lie there and rest for a while.
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Phrenology taught us that the mind thinks by means of the brain, is liable to become fatigued by too long attention, as the locomotive muscles are by too much walking; and I therefore proposed to them to take a brief rest.
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I ran around with the other youngsters, hunting, fishing and raising tadpoles and all the rest.
