William Shatner Quotes
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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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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.
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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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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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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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A series is filled with compromises.
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I don't Twitter. I can't even remember my password name. I have problems with electronics, so what I've done is hire a young man out of college, whose very fingers are the extension of computer keys, and he Twitters. He does the mechanics, but I very carefully modulate what is said and have used Twitter to publicize stuff, have conversations and instigate competition.
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I enjoyed reading all the classic authors like Isaac Asimov and Bradbury.
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We're all embers from the same fire. Our ember winks out, we're ashes, we go back to the fire.
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Things people say strike me as amusing, and I am prone to saying out loud what everybody's thinking.
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Most people, including myself, keep repeating the same mistakes.
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I'm always open to the possibility that somebody's got a better idea than I have. It happens with some frequency.
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We were basically one and the same, although Jim Kirk was just about perfect, and, of course, I am perfect.
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I'm looking for the perfect paintball movie.
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There's a joy and a pain about directing where the dreams you have are becoming concrete but the attention to detail, the need for time is such that it's overwhelming at times, and the stream of responsibility.
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We meet aliens every day who have something to give us. They come in the form of people with different opinions.
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Although I'm a business major out of McGill University, I know nothing... but then I found out much later in life, nobody knows anything.
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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 played comedies and dramas.
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Mythology needs heroes and it needs villains, it needs heroes to fail, it needs heroes to struggle.
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My mother was born in the city, my dad was an immigrant. Probably from Germany. Could have been Austria, could have been Poland. The borders were changing. My dad brought over a large family of Shatners when he was very young. Scraped together the money, got 11 brothers and sisters a passage on the boat. There's a lot of Shatners in Montreal.
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I guess the disc jockey thought I was trying to sing or something so ... they had fun with it. But the reality was that it was something, there was a concept behind it.
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These people who come to Comic-Con and dress up - all across the country, the rest of the population who doesn't understand are scoffing at them.
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I love the musicality of words.