Yes, I remember the barbed wire and the guard towers and the machine guns, but they became part of my normal landscape. What would be abnormal in normal times became my normality in camp.
GEORGE TAKEIYou know, I grew up in two American internment camps, and at that time I was very young.
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Unfriending me when I didn’t even know we were friends? It’s like breaking wind when you’re home alone. If I can’t smell you, knock yourself out.
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We need to take our passion and effect real change at the local, state, and federal levels, to help elect progressive leaders, and to stem the tide of division, fear and scapegoating.
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Life is too short not to order the bacon dessert.
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I have two passions in my life. One is to raise the awareness of the internment of Japanese-American citizens. My other passion is the theater.
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Plays close, movies wrap and TV series eventually get cancelled, and we were cancelled in three season.
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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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Nothing is what it seems on the surface of Heroes.
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I think we learn more from those times in our history where we stumbled as a democracy than we learn from the glorious chapters.
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Do your duty as an American, and as a citizen of the galaxy… Vote!
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Today we have the economic collapse that the whole planet is suffering, but there is hope, and that’s what’s going to keep us moving ahead.
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Cat’s are unpredictable. It is a fine line between the cure, inquisitive and innocent creature resting on our lap and the hissing, spitting and deranged banshee it might become at any moment. This is why we’re trying always to win their love.
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I am emboldened, not cowed, by the words and actions of Trump and his circle. I believe many others are as well. Together we will stand in opposition. I’m not going anywhere, and I won’t be silenced.
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It’s really hard to hate someone for being different when you’re too busy laughing together.
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Well, the whole history of Star Trek is the market demand.
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