Mackenzie Astin Quotes
I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.
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Writing is literally transformative. When we read, we are changed. When we write, we are changed. It's neurological. To me, this is a kind of magic.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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I'm a single child. I wanted a little brother or a little sister growing up, but when I think about it, I'm happy I'm an only child.
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There should be at least one leak like the Pentagon Papers every year.
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Turning 18 is a big deal.
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I root for anyone who's got kids and if they want to make it work.
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In any human-rights campaign, everybody must do what they can.
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The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.
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Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.
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I worked on the United Parcel Service truck, I sold home delivery of milk. But always, in the back of my mind, I wanted to get into radio.
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Technology determines the possibilities of society. It doesn't matter whether you start out from a fascist state or a communist state or a free-market state.
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There are some good songs, but not the kind of song-writing that I remember, that I like. Springsteen still does it. Paul Simon, and there are also good writers, but that doesn't dominate the charts.
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The problem of suffering is: why is there the suffering we know?
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We really lived, ate, drank and slept Batman - ideas, characters and stories.
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You know how you speed up baseball? Everybody gets one swing. That's it one swing fuck you, you're out sit down!
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A manager's task is to make the strengths of people effective and their weakness irrelevant - and that applies fully as much to the manager's boss as it applies to the manager's subordinates
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I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.
