Jonathan Frakes Quotes
I think Star Trek has been very double-edged for all of us - as actors, writers, directors.
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I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
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I'm about a 160, 170 bowler so I feel like I'm pretty good - I'm average, but I don't stink, you know?
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Is truth always positive? Of course. Once the truth comes out, you know, it's all right. We're scared that if the truth comes out that it's not all right. It's the other way around.
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The McCain-Feingold limit on how much you give a candidate didn't really work because people found ways to get around it.
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Editing and post-production is so important with comedy.
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I just was in the second round. That's painful, because always is tough to lose, but well, that's sport. You win, you lose.
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The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.
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I love all sorts of music. I'm really into Damian Rice and Amos Lee.
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Any time you challenge a big powerful person or special interest, there's going to be blowback.
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Six years, I didn't act. Then I wrote myself a role - I won prizes all over the world.
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I had two passions growing up - one was music, one was technology. I tried to play in a band for a while, but I was never talented enough to make it. And I started companies. One day came along and I decided to combine the two - and there was Spotify.
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My brother was a big marathoner. He was a great collegiate runner at Beloit College. He won his conference's races, and he did tons of marathons. I would go out and run with him every once in a while just to hang out with him.
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The biggest compliments I've heard about 'That Metal Show' are the ones from people that say that they don't even listen to this kind of music, but, 'We love watching the show.'
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I'm a lot more observational than personal in my writing. My writing is mostly a lot of questions without answers.
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Luxury is a state of mind.
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When I get real excited, my muscles go into spasm, so they just shake.
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Our experiences of the Solstice depends entirely upon where we are when it occurs. Neither Solstice encompasses everyone. Neither can. The Solstices stand forever opposed, literally at the two poles of our Earth and experiences.
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Where liberty dies, evil grows.
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I sold a bunch of stuff. I sold Omaha Steaks, vacation packages... the worst, though, was Time Life Books, because no one wants Time Life Books. No one wants an 'Encyclopedia Brittanica' showing up at their house.
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When our daughter was born, a light went on for me - there was more to life than what I was doing. It felt like being famous for being a paint salesman. It wasn't the dream I was sold on. I'd had enough of it.
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Envying another's beauty will diminish your own. But when you praise beauty in others your own beauty deepens.
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We are living in the time of self-creation and you can become your own star and this is the essential set that it needs to take that selfie that's going to take you to that next place.
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Perhaps if you look long enough, for an intent eye there may be a piece of a star wandering in the sky.
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I think Star Trek has been very double-edged for all of us - as actors, writers, directors.
