William Shatner Quotes
I've been in a multimedia extravaganza for 50 years and it's gone by so quickly that it's unimaginable. And it's also a major part of my life that has gone by.
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When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English.
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'I can't get no satisfaction,' in political terms, has haunted Hungarian politics for 20 years.
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What I'm most pleased about is that there's no particular decline. The songs I wrote 40 years ago are no worse and no better - there's a consistency.
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Diving has been in the game for years. Probably the coverage the game gets now, with all the cameras around, it gets highlighted a bit more. But it hasn't got any worse.
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I boxed 15 years in a club.
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It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
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When drawings of the main buildings I have designed in the last five years are juxtaposed, the fact that they all involve the pursuit of certain configurations is obvious to anyone.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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I tried for years to get an agent because I was told you needed an agent. The agent-hunting process was grim indeed.
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I think I've become more modest as the years have gone on.
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In Montreal, I kept thinking, 'Pay attention: this is the Olympics! It only happens once every four years!'
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My mom started working at the California Shakespeare Theater in Oakland when I was two years old, so I've always grown up around theater.
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I have a whole closet in my house that's dedicated just to jackets and coats, stuff that I've collected over the years.
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After 20 years, a million written words, and nine rejected novels, I finally landed a book contract.
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I started playing trumpet when I was 11 years old. All I wanted to be was a jazz trumpet player when I grew up.
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I was on a well-beaten path of actors - what we all call 'the Law and Order route'. I spent two years of auditioning for everything... and then 'The Wire' came up.
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In the last 1,000 years, the Arabs have translated as many books as Spain translates in just one year.
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In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.
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'Paper Planes' was an accident. It wasn't a song we made for the masses. It took two years to get popular, and there were many fights about censoring the gunshot sounds.
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I just want to make it clear that I have been working since I was ten years old.
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Two seconds are a thousand years.
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When I was growing up, we had cats, dogs, guinea pigs, rabbits, goats, chickens - a whole menagerie.
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I enjoy being a girl.
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I've been in a multimedia extravaganza for 50 years and it's gone by so quickly that it's unimaginable. And it's also a major part of my life that has gone by.
