Michael Dorn Quotes
It was seriously just a name. They didn’t tell you what to do. They didn’t tell you how they wanted the character to be - nothing. You went in to audition for this character name and that was it. When I started, before I came onto the set, I went to Gene Roddenberry and said: hey, what do you want from this guy? Who is he? And being as smart as he is, he said: don’t listen to what you’ve heard or read or seen in the past, nothing. Just make the character your own. And that’s what I did.
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Our music doesn't make many compromises, but we take it into a venue that's larger than people expect.
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When I grew up, my role model was my grandma because she's just the best.
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In writing a little tragedy, 'The Gaol Gate,' I made the scenario in three lines, 'He is an informer; he is dead; he is hanged.' I wrote that play very quickly.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.
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Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.
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I've been to London twice. I saw the Broadway show 'Billy Elliot' there - phenomenal. I was crying through the entire thing.
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When I was growing up in Iraq, there was an unbroken belief in progress and a great sense of optimism. It was a moment of nation building.
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Custom reconciles us to everything.
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I look more to the future. That's where my head is at.
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I used to sit on the Circle Line and go 'round and 'round and write.
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I wondered had I really oversold the Hubble. I have to admit that, since, I have been convinced that I didn't.
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I don't think we'd be the business that we are today if we were spread out in the suburban areas.
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I live in Hollywood, California. It's absolutely nothing like Absaroka County, Wyoming. For me, it's a great escape and I really enjoy it.
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I cannot assume emotions I do not feel, and must describe Jerusalem as I found it. Since being here, I have read the accounts of several travellers, and in many cases the devotional rhapsodies – the ecstacies of awe and reverence – in which they indulge, strike me as forced and affected.
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The bells will ring and the marriages will begin. And it's a great day in our state for equal protection under the law for all people.
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I really wasn't into comic books growing up.
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Only the wise know just where predestination ends and free will begins. Meanwhile, you must keep on doing your best, according to your own clearest understanding. you must long for freedom as the drowning man longs for air. Without sincere longing, you will never find God.
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Actors and singers share common ground in that they both express something.
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I was not able to stop or slow down the Vietnam War.
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Inspector Rebus is a great character, so when the opportunity came up to revive the role for 'BBC Children in Need,' and really have a bit of fun with it, I was happy to take part.
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I loved her audition/work session. Her emotions were so close to the surface,
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It was seriously just a name. They didn’t tell you what to do. They didn’t tell you how they wanted the character to be - nothing. You went in to audition for this character name and that was it. When I started, before I came onto the set, I went to Gene Roddenberry and said: hey, what do you want from this guy? Who is he? And being as smart as he is, he said: don’t listen to what you’ve heard or read or seen in the past, nothing. Just make the character your own. And that’s what I did.
