#ai

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. ↗

— Patrick Stewart

#beyond #career #certain #certain level #come

I wasn't campaigning for a role in a Hollywood television series, it was a fluke. So you've got to have a measure of good luck, you really have, being in the right place at the right time. ↗

— Patrick Stewart

#campaigning #fluke #good #good luck #got

One day, out of irritation, I said, you know all of those years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, all those years of playing kings and princes and speaking black verse, and bestriding the landscape of England was nothing but a preparation for sitting in the captain's chair of the Enterprise. ↗

— Patrick Stewart

#captain #chair #company #day #england

My parents came from a poor background and worked their way up because of education. They saw it as a way to succeed. So they cared about me getting straight A grades when I was growing up. ↗

— Jennifer Garner

#background #because #came #cared #education

How can my son not be straight after all I've said and done for him? ↗

— Rod Stewart

#done #him #how #i #said

I'm just delighted that this woman I love can be a mum again. ↗

— Rod Stewart

#delighted #i #i love #just #love

You're supposed to look a certain way when you're a celebrity, but I want to take care of my baby, and those two things don't mesh very well. ↗

— Jennifer Garner

#care #celebrity #certain #certain way #i

It was in the 1960s that I began the detailed study of public regulation. ↗

— George Stigler

#detailed #i #public #regulation #study

The memories of men are too frail a thread to hang history from. ↗

— John Still

#hang #history #memories #men #thread

In justice to human society it may perhaps be said of almost all the polities and civil institutions in the world, however imperfect, that they have been founded in and carried on with very considerable wisdom. ↗

— Ezra Stiles

#been #carried #civil #considerable #founded