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"Creating a believable world on the ship was very important, and technically they got better and better and better at showing the ship too."
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"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."

"Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world."

"The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down."

"Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without."

"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."

"One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality."

"The world is not black and white. More like black and grey."

"Cannot you conceive that another man may wish well to the world and struggle for its good on some other plan than precisely that which you have laid down?"

"What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?"
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"I became a better listener than I ever had been as a result of playing Jean Luc Picard because it was one of the things that he does terrifically well."

"William Shatner has one style. We have completely contrasting personalities. We're very good friends. I adore him, but we're very different people, so they were smart enough to write characters that reflected that."

"I had come to the point when I realized it was unlikely that my film career was going to move beyond a certain level of role. And I was - because I had graphic instances of it - handicapped by the success of Star Trek. A director would say, 'I don't want Jean-Luc Picard in my movie' - and this was compounded by X-Men as well."

"Having played many roles of scientific intellect I do have an empathy for that world. It's been hard on me because flying the Enterprise for seven years in Star Trek and sitting in Cerebro in X-men has led people to believe that I know what I'm talking about. But I'm still trying to work out how to operate the air conditioning unit on my car."

"During my time we had two chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, at different times of course, on the bridge, both of whom asked my permission to sit on the captain's chair."

"I would like to see us get this place right first before we have the arrogance to put significantly flawed civilizations out onto other planets, even though they may be utterly uninhabited."

"I certainly wanted to maintain some sense of mystery about Picard and that's why we never allowed certain situations to fully evolve, like the relationship between Picard and Beverly Crusher."

"The only still center of my life is Macbeth. To go back to doing this bloody, crazed, insane mass-murderer is a huge relief after trying to get my cell phone replaced."
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