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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• I never reflect or convey that which I have not experienced myself.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Reflect

• My dad died when I was 23. His death was sudden and shocking - the result of a car crash - and I never got to say goodbye.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Death
  • Dad
  • Car

• 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

• 'A quotation's only a short neat way of sayin' somethin' everybody knows, like 'It's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide.'' (Italics in original)

  

  Margery Allingham

• 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

• I sort of lived half my life in California, half in England, so I am, I suppose, a little bit American.

  

  Alice Eve
  • Life
  • American
  • California

• 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

• When I go into schools to speak, I am not giving a speech - it's really a one-man show. I call it 'didactic standup.'

  

  Bruce Coville
  • Giving

• If you're a persistent soul artistically, you'll find the truth of your art.

  

  Ken Jeong
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Soul

• I am not frightened of much, but I wouldn't like to get ill.

  

  Marianne Faithfull

• 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

• What's near and dear to my heart is cooperative conservation.

  

  Gale Norton
  • Heart
  • Dear
  • Conservation

• Without the compassionate understanding of the fear and trepidation that lie behind courageous speech, we are bound only to our arrogance.

  

  David Whyte
  • Fear
  • Understanding

• You will not find the warrior, the poet, the philosopher or the Christian by staring into his eyes as if he were your mistress: better fight beside him, read with him, argue with him, pray with him.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Eyes
  • Christian
  • Warrior

• I was the jokester, the one who made the family laugh.

  

  Nicole Beharie
  • Family
  • Laugh
  • Jokester

• 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