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Sean Astin Quotes

My dad was a Buddhist when I was young, so when I was begging to become a Catholic, he was saying no and imparting Buddhist precepts.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: February 25, 1971

Topics

Saying Young Become Begging He Dad

We need an attorney general for the people, not a presidential protector and puppet of the administration.

People Need Puppet Protector General

I love extreme sports, I like snowboarding and motorcross and rollerblading and hockey.

Love Sports Hockey Snowboarding Like

The process of open adoption is not discussed in the way it should be. Everyone I know who has adopted domestically has at least one tragic story. It was important to me to be able to describe those situations.

Jennifer Gilmore

Me Story Process Know Important Way

Federal research dollars invested at the National Institutes of Health seem expensive until we factor in the economic growth and jobs created by our world-leading life sciences industry.

Life Growth Health Research Industry

It is publication week for my new novel 'The Sunshine Cruise Company.' Go me! Anyway, I may as well get the shameless plug over with right away - buy it. You'll like it. It's about a bunch of old ladies who rob a bank.

Sunshine Me Week You Go New

My father taught me to paint when I was young with watercolors and so I learned at a very young age the essential elements of the value of light and composition.

Father Age Light Value Me Young

Normally, I love to go to the movies and when I see a character portrayed by different actors at different ages, it kind of pops a little bit for me. It brings me out of the movie experience. Now we have the technology to cure that.

Love Technology Character Experience

Fiction just has a lot more room for ambivalence and internal conflict, contradiction, and for me that sums up so much of what people felt after 9/11 - confusion even. And I think that's hard to capture in journalism.

People Me Conflict Think Journalism

I don't like to watch myself on screen because in my mind there is a touch of George Clooney about me, but when I see it, there is more than a little Donkey from 'Shrek' about me.

Myself Mind Me Touch More See

Universal suffrage should rest upon universal education. To this end, liberal and permanent provision should be made for the support of free schools by the State governments, and, if need be, supplemented by legitimate aid from national authority.

Rutherford B. Hayes

Education Support Free Rest End

I grew up in the countryside in the middle of nowhere in England and got out as soon as I could!

Out Up Nowhere Countryside Middle

I've read stories of slave owners who were very generous. They didn't keep them in shackles, they didn't whip the slaves, they built schools and churches for them, free housing, free food, free everything. It's wrong. No matter how nice you make it look, it's wrong.

Food Free You Look Wrong Nice

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