William Shatner Quotes
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And I enjoyed the celebrity and the creativity that was involved in Star Trek.
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Conquest is easy. Control is not.
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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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I love the concept of togetherness and the entwinement of marriage.
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I've never not appeared in front of a live audience for any longer period than a month or two.
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I don't want people to know me. I want them to believe my version.
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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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Success should always be just beyond your grasp.
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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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Let women figure out why they won't sleep with you. Don't do their work for them.
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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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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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I love technology. Matches, to light a fire is really high tech. The wheel is REALLY one of the great inventions of all time. Other than that I am an ignoramus about technology. I once looked for the 'ON' button on the computer and came to find out it was on the back. Then I thought, anyone who would put the 'on' switch on the back, where you can't find it, doesn't do any good for my psyche. The one time I did get the computer on, I couldn't turn the damn thing off!
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What part of me was born with the courage to stand in front of strangers and risk rejection?
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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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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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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've been in a multimedia extravaganza for 50 years and it's gone by so quickly that it's unimaginable. And it's also a major part of my life that has gone by.
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Remember - you can't beam through a force field. So, don't try it.
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I always thought that the spine of a character was awe and wonder.
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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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Spencer Tracy was a man who did very much what I do on a set, and that is, he comes down and he does his job, and then he goes back to his dressing room.
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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.
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The possibilities that are suggested in quantum physics tell us that everything that we're looking at may not be in fact there, so the underlying nature of being is weird.