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Nancy, October 19, 1950.
“Who are we as a country?”
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Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in the face of certain defeat.
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Simone Weil, in a letter
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Νέος ἐφ’ ἡμέρῃ ἥλιος. [The sun is new every day.]
Heraclitus
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Every day is a new deal.
Harvey Pekar, “Alice Quinn”
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Nos plus grandes craintes, comme nos plus grandes espérances, ne sont pas au-dessus de nos forces, et nous pouvons finir par dominer les unes et réaliser les autres. [Our worst fears, like our greatest hopes, are not outside our powers, and we can come in the end to triumph over the former and to achieve the latter.]
Marcel Proust, Finding Time Again
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Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try.
Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living
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I don’t really deeply feel that anyone needs an airtight reason for quoting from the works of writers he loves, but it’s always nice, I’ll grant you, if he has one.
J.D. Salinger, Seymour: An Introduction
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I laughed.
I thought you would. : )
It was the (an?) episode with Ricardo Montalban. Shatner was falling out of a chair in agony.
Ah, yes—“Space Seed”— the episode the Star Trek: Wrath of Khan movie is based on.
Shatner is perfect as Kirk, but acting?
Is that what he’s doing?
Lol
Look up the Naked City episodes with Young Shatner — “Portrait of a Painter,” “Without Stick or Sword” — same affect. (They’re still at YouTube.)
With domestic comedy posts, I almost never identify who said what, but I have to say that Elaine had the winning line here.
I'm going against the grain here. Every now wad then (too often) Shatner goes over the top. But when he's good, he's very good. His facial expressions and body language in The Trouble with Tribbles are perfection.
All perspectives welcome!
His style of acting was perfect for Kirk!
I will add that my Trekkie friend Marz agrees with Slywy--she says Shatner is a good actor. At least sometimes.
I saw Shatner do his one-man show "It's Shatner's World", and he was very good--unexpectedly (to me) powerful telling stories about his own life. But inhabiting the role of yourself is a very specific kind of acting.
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