LeVar Burton Quotes

I'm enormously proud of the fact that Star Trek has really not just sparked an interest, but encouraged, a few generations of people to go into the sciences.

LeVar Burton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 16, 1957

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I had never taken acting at Brown to be the beginnings of a career. I always did it just for fun.

John Krasinski

FunCareerActingNeverBeginnings

As a director, you see something in someone; you know it's there, you just got to go get it. You do that with any actor. That's your job.

Jeff Nichols

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Yes, but I think if you look at it with a sort of gay sensibility and want everything to be positive about gay life, it could be interpreted as antigay.

John Schlesinger

LifePositiveThinkYouLookGay

I always feel so pretentious talking about comedy and deconstructing it. It always feels somehow self-centred to talk about any sort of process.

Steve Carell

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When people ask if Marquette University is in Michigan, and I tell them my alma mater is in Milwaukee, they sometimes say, 'What's the difference?'

Steve Rushin

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I know that to write you have to have stories you want to tell. You have to keep your mind alive, and you have to work hard.

Tracy Kidder

WorkMindWork HardYouAliveKnow

A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly.

Mary Wortley Montagu

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Let me know myself; let others guess at me.

Joseph Hall

MyselfMeKnowOthersGuess

There is probably no such thing as a level playing field in political campaigns.

Deborah Tannen

PoliticalPlayingLevelFieldThing

I'm a girl from a good family who was very well brought up. One day I turned my back on it all and became a bohemian.

Brigitte Bardot

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When I go down to the bodega and grab a BLT, I throw on my sweatpants and sweatshirt.

Aquaria

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A number of people have read 'Two-Way Split' and made certain assumptions about what the author's like, and I'm highly disappointing to them. I don't drink, I don't eat meat; that's very disappointing for a hard-boiled writer.

Allan Guthrie

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