William Shatner Quotes
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I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.
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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
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Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
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Being away from home for six months of the year and seeing your kids grow up on Skype all that time - I think I saw Molly walk for the first time on Skype. That's not good.
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I was actually pretty shy in school. My defense mechanism was to be the class clown. I remember getting into a lot of trouble for being disruptive, and I was brought in front of the headteacher, who said: 'What's going to happen to you; what are you going to do when you grow up?' and I said: 'Well, I'm obviously going to be a comedian.'
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Knowledge is sometimes superfluous: when we need it, we have it not.
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Opinions are like snowflakes, you know what I'm saying?
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I get a lot of disbelief that my accent could actually be real, which seems strange.
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Can anyone seriously contend that whether a 14-year-old boy, who thinks he is a girl, gets to use the girls' bathroom is a civil rights issue comparable to whether African-Americans get the right to vote?
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No war is inevitable until it breaks out.
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I am not a director or a writer, but a filmmaker.
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Our target is not negotiations, it is the end of the apartheid system. There can be no compromise about that.
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People read more mysteries than they do political pamphlets.
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Whether labeled as such or not, I think every book I've ever written has been, more or less, a romantic suspense. I have always put tremendous effort into making each book a page turner: The harder it is for the reader to put it down, the better I've done my job.
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I want to upset people, I want to make people think, I want to keep people interested.
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It wasn't glamorous in my day. In the regions, reporters were seen as such low life that they didn't merit their name in the Radio Times. Now people are interested in being famous. I never gave it a thought.
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Both of my parents were first-generation Americans, the children of Jews who left Eastern Europe around the turn of the century.
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There are individuals who are working very hard to promote fear and antagonism towards Islam and Muslims in this country. It's fueled, in part, by the first African-American president that we have. Obama's father was a Muslim and people have used this to arouse hostility against him.
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The global triumph of American technology has been predicated on the implicit separation between the business interests of Silicon Valley and the political interests of Washington.
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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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You can be totally involved, you could admire just the shape of or you could be totally emotionally mushed up into the dance.
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The political scene is already so turgid, it doesn't need more of that from me.
