Sean Astin Quotes
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I watch my films with my mum and other family members, you know. I also know there are thousands of women who watch my films. I don't want to set wrong examples.
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You don't implement change easily in Japan unless you explain very clearly why you need to do this change, how you're going to do this change and what's going to be the outcome of this change. If you offset or you forget to explain one of these three steps you're not going to do it.
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I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.
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I love David's attitude in the Bible. He wasn't afraid to go against the trends. He wasn't going to be defined by the opinions of others.
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Egyptian comedy has a very, very old tradition. Our theater and our movies are just, like, amazing. And Egypt is kind of like the Hollywood of the Middle East. I mean, we had cinema maybe decades before the other Arab countries ever got independence.
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Twenty-six million Russians died in the defense of their homeland against the Nazis.
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The Israeli public is frustrated with the way it is portrayed abroad.
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My only personal time is a couple of hours in the gym in the morning.
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I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
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I don't feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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I grew up in a farm town in Indiana. In the early years I played by myself, because there were no other musicians around.
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By the first week of shooting, you know exactly where your film is heading based on the psychology of your director.
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I've trained myself to find time to exercise relaxation of the body. I have these programs - I just listen to the instructions, and they're simple. Sometimes you just hold your hand tight and keep your breath - you hold it, hold it, feel all the tension, and then relax.
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I'm extremely happy in my life. I consider myself to be very blessed.
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To be a writer was always my greatest aim. I remember writing a play about Guy Fawkes when I was 10. I suppose it's significant, at least to me, that my first work should be about a historical figure.
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I hate personal competition, and so each time in my career I came in a field where it was highly competitive, I gave up.
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My mother married my father in 1956. She was twenty-eight, and he was thirty-one. She loved him with a fierce steadiness borne of loyalty, determination, and an unyielding dignity.
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The only thing cooler than having a dream and accomplishing that dream is getting to do it with your buddies.
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A consistent Christian may not have rapture; he has that which is much better than rapture - calmness - God's serene and perpetual presence.
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It's not about where you were born or where you come from that makes you a good scientist. What you need are good teachers, co-students, facilities.
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I have to see a definitive cut of the film before I even start thinking about the music, I tell the director what my feelings are and what I would like to do. He accepts what I say or discusses it or destroys it. Eventually, we have to find a compromise.
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Each individual has their own opinions about whether war is an answer to any problems. Personally I think it's a waste of time, but I think more importantly, that it's is an issue that we haven't had any say in. That's why I feel so strongly about it. I don't feel like we've really been given any choice in this matter. I think if you had a referendum tomorrow, Tony Blair would have no choice but to call off the war.
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I think I've begun to take for granted how easily information can swirl around me.