Sean Astin Quotes
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I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.
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The willingness and ability to live fully in the now eludes many people. While eating your appetizer, don't be concerned with dessert.
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As Governor, I've worked to solve problems the New Hampshire way - bringing together Democrats, Republicans and Independents to help hard-working Granite Staters adapt to our changing economy so that everyone has the opportunity to get ahead and stay ahead.
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It's not enough to just mildly want what you want. You must wildly want what you want. Nobody ever got their greatest wishes by being wishy-washy. You need to put extreme energy into your power of intention to win what you wanna win.
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I love simplicity.
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In the name of the constitution of Texas, which has been trampled upon, I refuse to take this oath. I love Texas too well to bring civil strife and bloodshed upon her.
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The art world is a very prissy little thing over in the corner, while the major cultural forces are being determined by techno science.
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Fame is a delicate and dangerous creature; I saw people who didn't honor it, who refused to take responsibility for it, get destroyed by it. I also saw that stardom in and of itself was empty.
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All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.
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The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
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Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.
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I don't really see myself as an actor.
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I was fourteen, watching 'The Princess Bride' for the 254321th time, captivated by Wesley and Inigo dueling on the cliff-top. I had never held a sword in my life, but I phoned my mum and said, 'I want to learn to fence!'
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I took the first James Kelman novel, 'The Bus Conductor Hines', home to my dad. I thought, 'My dad will like this; it's written in Scots.' But my dad said: 'I can't read that.' He was reading James Bond and John le Carre. That was part of what attracted me to crime - the idea of getting a wide audience.
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I don't know if this classifies as a video game, but I have a terrible obsession with Angry Birds.
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O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
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Even more than dying itself, I'm scared of the horror-movie changes that happen to the human body as it ages. I think of it as a sort of haunted-house effect, living inside a crumbling, creaking structure that is full of ghosts and will, some day, fall down.
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It's the way the human brain works: when enough events occur in a pattern, we stop thinking and go into macro mode.
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Art is the signature of civilizations.
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My mother is very funny. She is from a village; she has a typical village kind of humour. Often she says a lot of things she herself isn't aware is a punch line.
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I do try and curb my mouth, but I find it really hard. I wonder how many jobs I've talked myself out of!
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I'm actually named Matthew William Kearney: my middle name is named after my grandfather.
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I think you realise how terrifying and scary the world is when you're bringing kids into it.
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When you're a kid, you just have no concept of anything other than what you're doing.
