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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The first movie I really clicked with was 'Die Hard' when I was 6 years old, which is crazy that I was watching it that young. That was the one that made me want to become an actor.
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As you know with the Arab Spring, there were no dividends.
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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 learned a lot doing 'Wolverine,' and I was also very fortunate, in the sense that I got to do a huge number of visual effects shots.
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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 know that when you talk about something that may hurt someone, reactions are normal, and you are touching some nerves... But I don't do things because people always like what I do.
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Once I've taken photographs, I look at them, and I get into them, and I'm there for the moment - and then that's it. I find little time for reflection.
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Most beautiful dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the whole, aren't much smarter.
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I'm a female in comedy, so of course I want there to be more women on 'SNL', and women of color.
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A pretty girl is certainly comparable to a good horse.
