When I look back and think how fortunate I've been to work with some wonderful people and had some marvelous experiences, then I can look at 'Star Trek' and think it's almost like the cream on the coffee. I don't approach it as anything but a magnificent plus.
Interpretation
The quote conveys gratitude for positive experiences and relationships while highlighting that success is an added benefit.
Deforest Kelley's quote reflects a sense of appreciation for the people and experiences that have shaped his life. He considers his involvement in 'Star Trek' not as the primary achievement but as a delightful bonus to an already fulfilling journey, suggesting that the quality of relationships and experiences often far outweighs the significance of individual accomplishments.
In practice
In a speech about teamwork, I would use this quote to emphasize the importance of collaboration.
I love movies, but sometimes I think it's better for actresses not to be total cinephiles. You have to be able to do the work at some point; you can't be totally starstruck. 'I can't believe it's Woody Allen!' You have to get past that.
Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.
I would that my photographs might be, not the coverage of a news event, but an indictment of war - the brutal corrupting viciousness of its doing to the minds and bodies of men; and, that my photographs might be a powerful emotional catalyst to the reasoning which would help this vile and criminal stupidity from beginning again.
The body cannot lie. You cannot be somebody else onstage, no matter how good of an actor or dancer or singer you are. When you open your arms, move your finger, the audience knows who you are, you know.
Literature was not born the day when a boy crying "wolf, wolf" came running out of the Neanderthal valley with a big gray wolf at his heels; literature was born on the day when a boy came crying "wolf, wolf" and there was no wolf behind him.
Leave America and you'll find that the consumers in many other countries enjoy watching advertising. Not because the products are better, but because the ads are produced to be entertaining. Sometimes they are funny. Sometimes they are dramatic. Sometimes they are just beautiful.
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