William Shatner Quotes
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I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
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Enthusiasm will steady the heart and strengthen the will; it will give force to the thought and nerve to the hand until what was only a possibility becomes a reality.
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Tone is somewhat totalising in that, once I locate it, it tells me what kind of syntax to use, what word choices to make, how much white space to leave on the page, what sentence length, what the rhythmic patterning will be. If I can't find the tone, I sometimes try narrating through the point of view of someone else.
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I like to take walks in the park by myself, where no one can bother me and I can think.
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You know what I like? I like classic stuff. I like 'The Andy Griffith Show' – the variety of characters was so amazing to me.
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I think as a guy you need a little bit to be on your own from early on, to start to live your own life, and try to understand what is going on around you, you have to be able to survive.
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I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
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I don't really approach stories to make them different from other stuff I've seen, I just try to get into the character, into his or her head. Try to make it as funny, as scary or as wild as I can so that I really like it.
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Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
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When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
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No other date on the calendar more potently symbolizes all that our nation stands for than the Fourth of July.
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I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination.
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It's taken me time to find my feet in L.A.
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I think it's a tough transition. It's easy to go from comedian to rapper, but to go from rapper to comedian is tougher.
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When companies minimize their costs, they can spend more on R & D and marketing. It's just very logical.
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I like American women. They do things sexually Russian girls never dream of doing - like showering.
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I don't purposely speed, but I might go over by five or six miles an hour from time to time. It doesn't give me a buzz driving on normal roads, because I can't go fast enough. It's never going to be anything like an F1 car.
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Since I was a little girl, I've collected ladybugs. Not real ones - I never had a weird ladybug farm!
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The first part of this statement is quoted without attribution as early as 1897, and is widely attributed to Irving separately as well as in this joined form, but in research for Wikiquote, no original source has yet been found.
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I want to be a vampire. They're the coolest monsters.
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A pretty girl is certainly comparable to a good horse.
