#ted

The possibilities that are suggested in quantum physics tell us that everything that we're looking at may not be in fact there, so the underlying nature of being is weird. ↗

— William Shatner

#everything #fact #in fact #looking #may

Montreal is a very cosmopolitan, sophisticated, erudite, educated, glorious city today. But it wasn't quite that way when I was growing up there. There was a lot of anti-Semitism. And I had to deal with that in an area of the city that had very few Jews. ↗

— William Shatner

#area #city #cosmopolitan #deal #educated

So many dot-com companies were formulated on air. ↗

— William Shatner

#companies #dot-com #formulated #many #were

Writing an acceptance speech gives you the expectation of winning, and you are therefore devastated or hurt if you didn't win. ↗

— William Shatner

#devastated #expectation #gives #hurt #speech

I find it incredibly tedious, hate that it murders itself with its own conservative pomposity. ↗

— Fiona Shaw

#find #hate #i #incredibly #itself

I'm not on the run from anything and I'm not at all clear about what I'm running towards. But as some great writer put it, I want to be certain that when I arrive at death, I'm totally exhausted. ↗

— Fiona Shaw

#anything #arrive #certain #clear #death

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#experience #happens #history #history repeats itself #how

I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

#began #characters #complicated #first #i

Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

#curiously #full #life #states #their

I haven't stuck to any formula. Most great writers stick to the same style, but I wanted to be more various. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

#formula #great #haven #i #more