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To do theater you need to block off a hunk of time.

I've run the marathon several times, so I definitely don't look like the Great Ancestor!

And it seems to me important for a country, for a nation to certainly know about its glorious achievements but also to know where its ideals failed, in order to keep that from happening again.

As you know, when Star Trek was canceled after the second season, it was the activism of the fans that revived it for a third season.

George Takei

Activism

Fans

But when we came out of camp, that's when I first realized that being in camp, that being Japanese-American, was something shameful.

George Takei

Being

First

Every time we had a hot war going on in Asia, it was difficult for Asian Americans here.

I marched back then - I was in a civil-rights musical, Fly Blackbird, and we met Martin Luther King.

George Takei

Martin

I spent my boyhood behind the barbed wire fences of American internment camps and that part of my life is something that I wanted to share with more people.

I thought this convention phenomenon was very flattering, but that's about the extent of it.

George Takei

Thought

I'm a civic busybody and I've been blessed with an active career.

George Takei

Career

I'm an anglophile. I visit England regularly, sometimes three or four times a year, at least once a year.

George Takei

England

Visit

Plays close, movies wrap and TV series eventually get cancelled, and we were cancelled in three season.

George Takei

Movies

STAR TREK is a show that had a vision about a future that was positive.

You know, I grew up in two American internment camps, and at that time I was very young.

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Time

American

This is supposed to be a participatory democracy and if we're not in there participating then the people that will manipulate and exploit the system will step in there.