American - Actor | April 20, 1937 -
I'm an anglophile. I visit England regularly, sometimes three or four times a year, at least once a year.
George Takei
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My memories of camp - I was four years old to eight years old - they're fond memories.
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But when we came out of camp, that's when I first realized that being in camp, that being Japanese-American, was something shameful.
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I marched back then - I was in a civil-rights musical, Fly Blackbird, and we met Martin Luther King.
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As you know, when Star Trek was canceled after the second season, it was the activism of the fans that revived it for a third season.
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Well, the whole history of Star Trek is the market demand.
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I'm a civic busybody and I've been blessed with an active career.
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To do theater you need to block off a hunk of time.
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STAR TREK is a show that had a vision about a future that was positive.
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And it seems to me important for a country, for a nation to certainly know about its glorious achievements but also to know where its ideals failed, in order to keep that from happening again.
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This is supposed to be a participatory democracy and if we're not in there participating then the people that will manipulate and exploit the system will step in there.
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Well, it gives, certainly to my father, who is the one that suffered the most in our family, and understanding of how the ideals of a country are only as good as the people who give it flesh and blood.
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