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Leonard Nimoy, born on March 26, 1931, was a renowned American actor. Best known for his role as Captain Spock in the 'Star Trek' series, Nimoy became a iconic figure in the science fiction genre. His acting career spanned film, television, and theater, with a diverse range of roles. Nimoy's performance in 'Star Trek' brought him widespread recognition, and he was honored with numerous awards, including the Emmy and Saturn Awards. His unique acting style and profound interpretation of characters have left a lasting impact on science fiction films and television.

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“I'm touched by the idea that when we do things that are useful and helpful - collecting these shards of spirituality - that we may be helping to bring about a healing.”

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“You proceed from a false assumption: I have no ego to bruise.”

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“I also do my own processing, so it means a big commitment in lab time.”

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“I became involved in photography when I was about thirteen years old.”

Years Inspiration Involved Photography Thirteen Thirteen Year Olds

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“I deal with this spiritual issue every day - either shooting or processing or sorting or discussing or having conversations - I'm in constant contact with it.”

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“My wife and I are affiliated with a temple here in Los Angeles. We feel very close to the congregation and to the rabbi, who happens to be my wife's cousin and who I admire greatly. I talk to him regularly but I consider myself more spiritual than religious.”

Feels Inspiration Happens Spiritual Religious Wife My Wife Admire Temples Los Angeles Cousin Congregation My Cousin Rabbi

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“Some words having to do with the death of the people in the World Trade Center attack had been added, and when I got to it, I had this overwhelmingly emotional experience. I struggled to get through the words; tears were streaming down my cheeks.”

People World Inspiration Tears Emotional Trade Cheeks Streaming World Trade World Trade Center

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“The book tour has been really interesting and very gratifying. I have not book toured before. I've never had quite as much pleasure, as much satisfaction.”

Has Beens Book Inspiration Pleasure Interesting Satisfaction Really Interesting

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“I became hooked on the idea of being able to shoot an image and process it myself, and end up with a product.”

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“The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.”

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“A neighborhood friend showed me how it was possible to go to a camera shop and pick up chemicals for pennies... literally... and develop your own film and make prints.”

Inspiration Film Picks Cameras Shops Neighborhood Print Chemicals Pennies

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“But if you're talking about fine art work, then I think you have to ask yourself some pretty deep questions about why it is you want to take pictures and what it is you want to say.”

Ifs Thinking Want Art Inspiration Asks Talking Fine Fine Arts

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“For me it's all about personal vision; is there something about a subject that uniquely speaks to me.”

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“I certainly don't live in a kosher home although I was raised in a kosher environment.”

Home Inspiration Environment Raised Environmental Kosher

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“Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.”

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“My memory of those places is better than my pictures. That's why I get much more satisfaction out of shooting thematic work that has to do with an idea that I'm searching for, or searching to express.”

Ideas Inspiration Memories Satisfaction Shooting Thematic

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“That's true, because I'm a photographer now.”

Inspiration Photography Photographer

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“I use a computer. I don't know if that qualifies me as a techie, but I'm pretty good on the computer.”

Ifs Knows Inspirational Use Inspiration Computer Techie

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“The means of many outweigh the means of the few or one.”

Inspirational Mean Inspiration

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“Whatever I have given, I have gained.”

Inspirational Inspiration Given Inspired

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“My dream concept is that I have a camera and I am trying to photograph what is essentially invisible. And every once in a while I get a glimpse of her and I grab that picture.”

Trying Dream Inspiration Concepts Cameras Photograph Invisible Glimpse

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“Art, if it is successful, needs no explanation. Star Trek and Spock, if they are works of art, can be discussed. But finally the response comes in individual terms. Each viewer sees what is there for him, depending on his frame of reference.”

Ifs Needs Art Inspiration Individual Stars Term Successful Response Explanation Works Of Art Viewers Frame Of Reference

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“Other times, you're doing some piece of work and suddenly you get feedback that tells you that you have touched something that is very alive in the cosmos.”

Inspiration Pieces Alive Touched Cosmos Feedback

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“I could not deprive you of the revelation of all that you could accomplish together, of a friendship that will define you both in ways you cannot yet realize.”

Way Inspiration Together Realizing Accomplish Revelations Define You

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“Without followers, evil cannot spread.”

Inspiration Evil Spread Followers Kirk Mr Spock

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“After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing after all as wanting. It is not logical, but is often true.”

May Inspiration Hope Logical Mr Spock

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“In critical moments, men sometimes see exactly what they wish to see.”

Men Sometimes Moments Inspiration Wish Critical Critical Moments

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“May I say that I have not thoroughly enjoyed serving with humans? I find their illogic and foolish emotions a constant irritant.”

Humans May Inspiration Emotion Constant Foolish Enjoyed Serving Illogical Irritants Mr Spock

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“I'm not an equipment nut. I tend to use whatever's at hand. I have several cameras, of course, but I'm not emotional about any of them”

Use Hands Inspiration Courses Emotional Cameras Nuts Equipment

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“I began working with a family camera. It was called a Kodak Autographic, which was one of those things where you flopped it open and pulled out the bellows. And I've been at it ever since - I've never stopped”

Inspiration Cameras Kodak

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“This time, there have been a lot of interesting discussions about the subject matter, and I've had a good time talking about it. And in some of the cases, I'm not just signing books - I'm showing slides and talking about the work”

Has Beens Book Matter Inspiration Interesting Talking Cases Subjects Discussion Good Times Slides Subject Matter Signing Had A Good Time

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“That's the most difficult issue for me - to find a subject that holds my interest long enough that I'm prepared to go to work and spend the time and energy to shoot the subject.”

Long Enough Inspiration Energy Difficult Interest Issues Subjects Prepared Time And Energy

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“Most of my images have been done in-studio, under very controlled lighting conditions. There have been a few that have shot in nature, but even then they were shot almost exclusively at night, and again, under controlled lighting conditions.”

Has Beens Done Inspiration Night Conditions Shots Studios Controlled Lighting

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“I became enamored with photography when I was about 13 or 14 years old. I've been at it ever since. I studied seriously in the '70s.”

Years Inspiration Photography Enamored

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“I have a Master's Degree in photography as a fine art, and I would call my work primarily conceptual. I don't carry cameras with me wherever I go. I get an idea of a subject matter I want to deal with and I pull out my cameras.”

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“Years ago - in the 70s, for about a decade - I carried a camera every place I went. And I shot a lot of pictures that were still life and landscape, using available light.”

Years Stills Light Inspiration Shots Years Ago Cameras Available Decades Landscape Still Life

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“I am not Spock. But given the choice, if I had to be someone else, I would be Spock. If someone said, "You can have the choice of being any other TV character ever played," I would choose Spock. I like him. I admire him. I respect him”

Ifs Said Character Inspiration Would Be Choices Given Tvs Admire I Like Him

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“I did not move into developing or processing color. I stayed with black and white. I still think to this day that I prefer to work in black and white if it has to do with poetry or anything other than specific reality. I have worked in color when I thought it was the appropriate way to express the thought that I was working on”

Ifs Thinking Way Stills Reality Inspiration Moving Black White Color Developing Appropriate This Day Black And White Processing

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“For a period of time, I carried cameras with me wherever I went, and then I realized that my interest in photography was turning toward the conceptual. So I wasn't carrying around cameras shooting stuff, I was developing concepts about what I wanted to shoot. And then I'd get the camera angle and do the job”

Inspiration Wanted Jobs Stuff Interest Periods Photography Concepts Cameras I Realized Developing Shooting Angle Camera Angles

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“Boston was a great city to grow up in, and it probably still is. We were surrounded by two very important elements: academia and the arts. I was surrounded by theater, music, dance, museums. And I learned how to sail on the Charles River. So I had a great childhood in Boston. It was wonderful.”

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“What I'm exploring right now is the subject of my own mortality, It's an area that I'm curious about, and I'm researching it to see if there's a photographic essay in it for me. If images don't start to come, I'll go to something else.”

Ifs Inspiration My Own Subjects Right Now Areas Curious Mortality Exploring Essays

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“Spock is definitely one of my best friends. When I put on those ears, it's not like just another day. When I become Spock, that day becomes something special.”

Inspiration Special Ears My Best Friend Something Special Another Day

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“I think about myself as like an ocean liner that's been going full speed for a long distance, and the captain pulls the throttle back all the way to 'stop', but the ship doesn't stop immediately. It has its own momentum and it keeps on going, and I'm very flattered that people are still finding me useful.”

People Thinking Way Long Stills Inspiration Ocean Findings Distance Speed Ships Captains Momentum Long Distance Flattered Throttle

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About the Author

Born: March 26, 1931
Died: February 27, 2015
Known for: Actor
Quotes: 115

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