William Shatner Quotes
My kids say if there's any family dinner that doesn't result in somebody crying, it's not a good dinner. They cry because it helps relieve them of a guilt or some onerous emotional burden. It's like a family tradition.
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Actors are always the last to see what they have created.
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I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.
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I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.
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I'm always nervous when I start a new picture.
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Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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When police or security personnel work in schools, they should follow the community policing model that integrates officers into school life, not just involve them when trouble arises.
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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.
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I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.
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Racism is everywhere - the older generations in Malaysia still say things like, 'She's darker-skinned; maybe don't marry her,' and it's very judgmental. A lot of girls do try to get fairness cream to lighten their skin, and I'm against all of that.
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I don't really see myself as an actor.
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Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.
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Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other.
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Baseball's future? Bigger and bigger, better and better! No question about it, it's the greatest game there is!
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I just always want to play people. I don't want it to be necessarily that you relate to the character as female or male, but that you relate to them as a person. That's the driving force.
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I could hum Beatles songs before I could talk - not very well, but sort of.
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In the '90s, I wouldn't have been a supermodel.
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I'm not afraid of stereotypes. There are some truths to it - but the problem is that people keep sort of owning that one thing to be the truth.
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Then I discovered I loved writing poetry more than fiction.
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The soul's joy lies in doing.
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Cycling has been my passion throughout my life.
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Kids deserve arts, and it's just as important as science, math, history, English or athletics.
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My kids say if there's any family dinner that doesn't result in somebody crying, it's not a good dinner. They cry because it helps relieve them of a guilt or some onerous emotional burden. It's like a family tradition.
