Mackenzie Astin Quotes
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It takes two years on the stage for an actor or an actress to learn how to speak correctly and to manage his voice properly, and it takes about ten years to master the subtle art of being able to hold one's audience.
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I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
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I am very concerned about nutrition and always try to be careful about what I eat.
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Peer pressure is something everyone will face in school. You have to really go by what you think is the right thing to do. Turn to the friends you trust the most when you are put in a compromising situation. If your friends are making the wrong decision, then turn to your parents.
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To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.
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Love is a strange emotion. It is ever evolving. Lust is transient. With time, one realizes that love and togetherness are two different things. Very few people are lucky enough to experience the two emotions simultaneously.
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I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration papers in order, so working for a university was a way of resolving the issue.
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I'm not going to lie; the most fun of writing these books is just saying, 'Where am I going to write about? Let me go there!'
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Life is not about dwelling on the bad.
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There is no shortage of embarrassing facts about healthcare, and people die every day in the U.S. due to preventable errors - would you fly planes if you knew several of them would drop out of the sky every day?
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It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.
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I think everyone is forgetting what plastic surgery is for - if you have a face-eating tumour, lose a breast or are involved in a car accident, then it's a good idea.
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It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with his monuments. Stalin was once a journalistic hack, and I can personally testify to how frustrated they are. Pol Pot left a very edgy photo collection behind. And Osama seems quite interested in video.
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When I wrote my eighth thriller, 'Inside Out,' in 2009, the villains were a group of CIA and other government officials who colluded to destroy a series of tapes depicting Americans torturing war-on-terror prisoners.
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We seem to think we have some control over this planet.
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Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.
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My profession has helped me to grow up.
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Thanks to President Obama for joining a unanimous Congress and signing S 2195 into law.
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A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.
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I believe the main task of the spirit is to free man from his ego.
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I don't want to believe my own hype. I want to stay hungry and stay eager and be the best that I can be.
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Learn to take rejection, keep fit and work only with the best in your field.
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I just try to make the best film possible, and once the movie's done, we deal with the DVD.
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And it is easy to believe you are not good enough if you listen to everybody else.
