Sean Astin Quotes

To me there is nothing so admirable as a passionate love-bond between two human begins. Sam loves Frodo and wants to protect him and Frodo is extremely protective of Sam. So what you have are these two people locked into this journey together. They don't need to explain what they are to each other, they don't need to talk about it; they just are.

Sean Astin

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• We lived on a farm in the English countryside, where we wrote a lot of our music. You really were treated like an artist during those days-not like product, which is now the mode.

  

  Gary Wright
  • Music
  • Artist
  • English

• I'm into environmental and ecological issues, so maybe that is an avenue to go down.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Down
  • Environmental
  • Maybe

• In the '60s, people were still very protective of each field that they belonged to. Avant-garde artists didn't know about rock or pop or jazz. And the jazz people of course didn't want to know about any other music. They were all just kind of protecting their territory.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Music
  • Rock

• If you don't make the best-seller list, if you don't get shortlisted for any prizes, it's goodbye.

  

  Val McDermid
  • You
  • Goodbye
  • Prizes

• If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Help
  • You
  • Help Others

• Che l'uomo il suo destin fugge di raro.

  

  Ludovico Ariosto

• I try to tell the best story, and the story that has some heart and some genuine terror and some social commentary and some comedy and some romance and some sex and some violence.

  

  Alan Ball
  • Heart
  • Comedy
  • Violence

• My first lip balms were Bonne Bell Lip Smackers, which, correct me if I'm wrong, sometimes had little bracelets attached to the caps-meaning your lip balm could idly dangle from your wrist like a charm bracelet when not in use, not unlike some iPhone accessories.

  

  Emily Weiss

• If you don't get adventurous, you stay in the same spot; you don't really grow.

  

  Jaimoe

• I was doing everything that a kid would be doing anyway, but on top of that, I was able to fly to different cities.

  

  Jason Bateman
  • Different
  • Fly

• Reality shows can put a lot of stress on you.

  

  Karishma Tanna
  • Reality
  • Stress

• I was an only child of a father who loved me deeply, but we didn't play catch, even though I was an athlete. We didn't go fishing or hunting or any of the things I wanted to do. Why not? He just didn't do that.

  

  Charlie Rose
  • Why
  • Father
  • Athlete

• Usually, when we go out, it's because we made a new studio album, and that becomes the focus of the tour throughout the world for a year or so.

  

  Chris Squire Cinema
  • World
  • Focus

• At the time I was growing up, literature was involved with the so-called confessional poets. And I was not interested in that. I did not think that specific and personal perspective functioned well for the reader at all.

  

  Mary Oliver
  • Up
  • Time
  • Growing

• My 'Black Panther' run really wasn't about Black Panther. It was about Ross. It was about exploding myths about black superheroes, black characters, and black people, targeted specifically at a white, male-dominated retailer base.

  

  Christopher Priest
  • People
  • Black

• I am able to say that I was very much liked at the school. I even had quite some ascendancy over my comrades, and as soon as I appeared in the school yard, I was surrounded by young friends, most of them bigger than I, but who were quite willing to give the appearance of disciples; they would have defended me furiously if necessary.

  

  Marquis de Lafayette
  • School
  • Friends

• If George W. Bush is the kind of person folks might like to have a beer with, John McCain is the guy you pray you don't get seated next to at a dinner party.

  

  Ellen Malcolm
  • Guy
  • Party
  • Beer

• Wisconsin's a special place.

  

  Brett Favre

• My mother-in-law fell down a wishing well. I was amazed; I never knew they worked.

  

  Les Dawson
  • Mother
  • Law

• Somebody said once 'Follow the money' and that is what it is all about.

  

  Murray Walker
  • Money

• As a DJ I am never 100 percent in charge of the sound. The sound levels are controlled by someone at the sound board of the venue.

  

  DJ Jazzy Jeff

• There are a lot of idiot fund managers out there who add no value to the process at all.

  

  Kevin O'Leary
  • Value

• Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny.

  

  Aristotle
  • Destiny
  • Intelligent
  • Choice

• To me there is nothing so admirable as a passionate love-bond between two human begins. Sam loves Frodo and wants to protect him and Frodo is extremely protective of Sam. So what you have are these two people locked into this journey together. They don't need to explain what they are to each other, they don't need to talk about it; they just are.

  

  Sean Astin