William Shatner Quotes
The idea of being a professional actor never occurred to anybody, including myself, for a long time.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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Whenever I dream about flying, it's the best feeling in the world.
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I'm still learning my craft.
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A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.
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As independent filmmakers, we are actually deeply dependent on each other. The Spirit Awards are a public expression of those bonds, the intricate set of relationships and histories that we filmmakers depend on to make our most personal work.
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I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.
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I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.
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Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.
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As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.
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Television shows and movies that are all white, I can't watch them. They totally alienate me.
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Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.
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I'm one of those crazy people, if I'm watching the trailer for a movie and I'm really excited by it, I'll turn it off because I don't want to know anything. I want to be surprised because I love that more than knowing anything.
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I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.
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Our pluralist society must provide its citizens with the tools to understand religions, their symbols and their practices.
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Al Qaeda has overplayed their hand. What the al Qaeda do when they go into a town or village or a neighborhood inside a major city is they get a stranglehold on the people themselves. They force the men to wear beards and the women to be properly costumed and essentially completely covered up.
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Safeco Field is a lot like a National League park. Because of that, we're more of a pitching-defensive type club. Anaheim and Oakland - and even Texas - are more offensive oriented. We're a club that doesn't blow anybody out, but at the same time we don't get blown out much. We're in most of the games.
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Sometimes stereotyping happens not because of any nefarious reasons but rather because people don't know who you are or where you come from, so they go for the broad strokes about you, your culture, your faith, all that.
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I find the past so fascinating. Photographs are strange, almost surreal, almost here yet gone. I slip into thinking what the past must have been like and I enjoy creating that ambience and atmosphere - 1730 to around 1870 is the most interesting period.
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As countries grapple with modernization, people who are left behind tend to hold firmer and firmer to their view of the evil of modernity.
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What is in reality cowardice and faithlessness, we call charity, and consider it the part of benevolence sometimes to forgive men's evil practice for the sake of their accurate faith, and sometimes to forgive their confessed heresy for the sake of their admirable practice.
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When you have a magazine like 'Vogue,' you know a lot of kids are going to follow your pictures.
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Girls like to see girls dressed up like princesses occasionally.
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The nostalgic notion of the family orchards is lovely - all that wholesome fruit for our forebears to sit on the back steps biting into - but basically we were growing it to drink.
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The idea of being a professional actor never occurred to anybody, including myself, for a long time.
