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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I'm still learning my craft.
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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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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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I just like playing unique characters that I love.
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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
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I don't think there's a defined contemporary American musical, do you?
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I wanted to keep pushing the musical ideas I had about jazz, music from Africa and the Caribbean.
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The tears stream down my cheeks from my unblinking eyes. What makes me weep so? From time to time. There is nothing saddening here. Perhaps it is liquefied brain.
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If you want to lose weight, you have to be obsessed with it. You can't depend upon your dietician, your trainer or various health aids that you have. You have to be organised. And believe me, it isn't that difficult. The first 10 days are terrible because you have to break the lifelong habits that you have made.
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We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.
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I don't think my body's gonna go to hell if I train for performance. It might change a little and adapt, but I like being strong.
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The idea of being a professional actor never occurred to anybody, including myself, for a long time.
