William Shatner Quotes - Page 5

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• People have an affinity towards things, and you don't know where it comes from. Mozart wrote a symphony when he was four, so it's said; the theory is maybe because his father was a conductor, it happened in vitro, and he heard the music before he was born, and by the age of four he knew how to write music.

  William Shatner

  Father, Writing, Symphony

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I love cameras but I find myself reluctantly taking pictures because what's past is past.

  William Shatner

  Past, Cameras, Taking Pictures

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Here's something pompous - you take your day and artistically create it, so every moment has an artistic flavor.

  William Shatner

  Inspirational, Success, Insightful

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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.

  William Shatner

  Kids, Emotional, Guilt

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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.

  William Shatner

  Country, Dog, Loneliness

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• We live in grief for having left the womb, for having left the teat, then school, then home. In my case, it was leaving marriages, and the death of my wife.

  William Shatner

  Grief, Home, School

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• Divorce is simply modern society's version of medieval torture. Except it lasts longer and leaves deeper scars. A divorce releases the most primitive emotions; the ugliest, raw feelings. Emotionally wounded people do their best to inflict pain upon the other party, but rather than using claws they use divorce lawyers.

  William Shatner

  Pain, Party, Divorce

  William Shatner (2009). “Up Till Now”, p.136, Pan Macmillan

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• I believe in taking what happens as inevitable.

  William Shatner

  Believe, Inevitable, Happens

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• Divorce is probably as painful as death.

  William Shatner

  Divorce, Painful

  "William Shatner Bares His Soul". Interview with Mickey Rapkin, www.elle.com. October 31, 2011.

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• The great mystery of our consciousness is beyond our grasp.

  William Shatner

  Mystery, Consciousness

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• When I did the film Generations, in which the character died, I felt like a guest for the first time. That made me very sad.

  William Shatner

  Character, Generations, Guests

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• I didn't want to do the sitcom thing, but I didn't know what else to do.

  William Shatner

  Want, Minstrels, Sitcom

  "William Shatner Interview S#*! My Dad Says". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 19, 2010.

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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.

  William Shatner

  Flags, Approval, Mark

  "It's 'Shatner's World' And He Wants You To See It". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. February 18, 2012.

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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.

  William Shatner

  Stars, Book, Quests

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• Death is an absolute marvel.

  William Shatner

  Absolutes

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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.

  William Shatner

  Inspirational, Success, Hard Work

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• Pain and guilt can't be taken away with the wave of a magic wand. They're the things we carry with us, the things that make us who we are. If we lose them, we lose ourselves. I don't want my pain taken away! I need my pain!

  William Shatner

  Pain, Taken, Cynical

  "Fictional character: James T. Kirk". "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier", 1989.

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• The basic quality that any great story must have is a story that illustrates the human condition.

  William Shatner

  Quality, Stories, Human Condition

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• All I know is that I am constantly intrigued by something I'm doing.

  William Shatner

  Intrigued, Knows

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. August 28, 2002.

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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.

  William Shatner

  Kids, Watches, Popcorn

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• If you make a fool of yourself, you can do it with dignity, without taking your pants down. And if you do take your pants down, you can still do it with dignity.

  William Shatner

  Down And, Pants, Fool

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• Mythology needs heroes and it needs villains, it needs heroes to fail, it needs heroes to struggle.

  William Shatner

  Struggle, Hero, Needs

  Source: therumpus.net

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• My beautiful wife is dead. She meant everything to me. Her laughter, her tears and her joy will remain with me the rest of my life.

  William Shatner

  Beautiful, Death, Laughter

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• Things people say strike me as amusing, and I am prone to saying out loud what everybody's thinking.

  William Shatner

  Thinking, People, Amusing

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• All in all, Kirk's character is something I am very proud of.

  William Shatner

  Character, Proud, Kirk

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