William Shatner Quotes
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One of the advantages of being a captain is being able to ask for advice without necessarily having to take it.
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A series is filled with compromises.
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I love living in Los Angeles.
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I was built for the long run, not for the short dash, I guess.
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I think making a good film shot is joyful.
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I existed before Star Trek. I started in live television. I was there when the cameras were as big as a table, had internal fans that were whirring and tubes that, because of the heat, had to come right up to our face for a close-up. Now, we are talking about green screen and putting us in locations that we'll never visit. What has happened to us is a miracle, and the miracle is our inventiveness. The tragedy of our lives is also our inventiveness.
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I love the musicality of words.
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I've never been without a dog. I've made trips across the country with a dog. I've been in that angst of loneliness, where you're really alone in the universe, except for the dog.
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If there's anything I'm not pompous about, it's myself or my work. But I seem to be able to play 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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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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Heroes, classical heroes have the look of eagles, too. They're looking beyond the immediate problem and into the future.
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I think of doing a series as very hard work. But then I've talked to coal miners, and that's really hard work.
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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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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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A pretty girl is certainly comparable to a good horse.
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The good life is one that's artistically made.
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There's an ecstasy about doing something really good on film: the composition of a shot, the drama within the shot, the texture... It's palpable.
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Even one word, or certainly one sentence, should be able to describe the basic characteristic that the scene has, or the character has, or the story has. And then you begin to detail that one spine, and you have offshoots from that spine, and it becomes more and more complex, but all of it stems from that one-word, one-line theme, which can give the character, the scene, or the play its uniqueness.
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I envy the people who say, 'oh, well, I've got my name in the golden book and I'm going to be entered into the pearly gates.'
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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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My site has the whole thing - blogs, information, video interviews.
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I slept for four days when I turned 40.
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Yeah, I do stand-up, my own type of stand-up.