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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It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.
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I'd love to play Moon Knight. I don't know if anybody's doing a Moon Knight animated series any time soon.
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I thought it's very funny that I ended up as a voiceover guy because when I started out as an actor, I had a very strong Long Island accent.
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I feel like I'm the luckiest person alive. I'm always waiting for that phone call: 'Hello. We've just realized you're really a no-talent hillbilly. We've made a horrible mistake and we'd like you to leave now.'
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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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There are many today who believe that there are people running around this world right now who are performing greater miracles, performing miracles in greater abundance, and actually doing more incredible acts of divine healing than Jesus himself did. I can't think of any more serious delusion than that.
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The woman sees, I suppose, and the man does not.
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I don't feel as if I belong to an age group.
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People need heroes, in music and every aspect of life.
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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.
