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" The conundrum of free will and destiny has always kept me dangling. "
William Shatner
Destiny
Always
Me
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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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" I see people putting text messages on the phone or computer and I think, 'Why don't you just call?' "
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" If someone criticizes my acting, they may be right. "
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" I didn't realize that, in doing a documentary, there is this process of discovery. It's not like a film or a play with a set script. It sort of reveals itself. "
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" Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot. "
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" The name Shatner is Austrian and partly Germanic, and there's Germanic reticence and silence perhaps, but there is passion underneath. "
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" Acting is easier - writing is more creative. The lazy man vies with the industrious. "
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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 think that prog rock is the science fiction of music. Science fiction speculates on what the future might be and look like and how we'll get there, and yet there's always a central theme of humanity, or there should be. Progressive rock has the same concept of exploration into the parts of the music world that hasn't been explored. "
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" Every day I realized I would not be a star. "
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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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Family
Good
" Divorce is probably as painful as death. "
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" My name is William Shatner, and I am Canadian! "
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Am
I Am
" So many dot-com companies were formulated on air. "
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Dot-Com
" All I know is that I am constantly intrigued by something I'm doing. "
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Am
" The problem is I don't know anything or anyone. I am so focused on the immediate picture in front of me. "
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I Am
" Fate gives you the finger and you accept. "
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Finger
Gives
Fate
" 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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Within
" 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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Think
" Remember - you can't beam through a force field. So, don't try it. "
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Try
You
" Success is different for everyone; everybody defines it in their own way, and that's part of what we do in 'Close Up', finding what it was each person wanted to achieve and what their willingness to sacrifice for that was. "
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Finding
Achieve
Success
" I'm not out to convince anybody of anything. "
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Out
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" All in all, Kirk's character is something I am very proud of. "
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Character
Something
" I've never not appeared in front of a live audience for any longer period than a month or two. "
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" Montreal is a very cosmopolitan, sophisticated, erudite, educated, glorious city today. But it wasn't quite that way when I was growing up there. There was a lot of anti-Semitism. And I had to deal with that in an area of the city that had very few Jews. "
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" If saving money is wrong, I don't want to be right! "
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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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" 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've never been without a dog. I've made trips across the country with a dog. "
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