William Shatner Quotes
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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.
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And I enjoyed the celebrity and the creativity that was involved in Star Trek.
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I got on a horse when I was about 12 years of age, and started galloping around. my mother came up said "where did you learn to ride a horse?" I said "this is the first time I've ever been on a horse" I just knew, I just felt the horse.
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Let women figure out why they won't sleep with you. Don't do their work for them.
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Getting that audience approval is always a question mark, and it's always that flag that flutters in front of you.
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Conquest is easy. Control is not.
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There were many times when I kept silent about being Jewish as I got older, when Jewish jokes were told.
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I love the concept of togetherness and the entwinement of marriage.
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Don't be afraid of making an ass of yourself. I do it all the time and look what I got.
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The mysteriousness and mystique of space is such, that science fiction attempts to tantalize you by telling you a story that could possibly be out there and that's the appeal of science fiction.
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Sci-fi films are the epic films of the day because we can no longer put 10,000 extras in the scene - but we can draw thousands of aliens with computers.
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A series is filled with compromises.
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You might as well aim high. Why shoot yourself in the foot when you can shoot yourself in the head?
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I love to evoke the bones and meat and thoughts of characters.
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I've been approached to do some things with astronauts and the preparation that astronauts go through.
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Success should always be just beyond your grasp.
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When there are tiers of meaning in an ad it intrigues the audience and they look for it again and again.
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You know, the process of making a documentary is one of discovery, and like writing a story, you follow a lead and that leads you to something else and then by the time you finish, the story is nothing like you expected.
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I had a major in business, and I graduated with a business degree, but I was perhaps the worst student to graduate from that program.
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Gradually the live TV scene simmered out, replaced by film, and that took place in L.A. So many actors left New York.
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I love to go to a movie, get a Diet Coke and a barrel of popcorn, and sit there with my kids and watch a film.
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If you read my books, especially the Star Trek books and the Quest for Tomorrow books, you'll see in them the core theme of the basic humanistic questions that Star Trek asked.
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Everybody has their 15 minutes, and those 15 minutes should be spent in a private limo and a private plane. It's the ultimate.
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A sense of the unknown has always lured mankind and the greatest of the unknowns of today is outer space. The terrors, the joys and the sense of accomplishment are epitomized in the space program.