John Astin Quotes

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• People are smarter than you might think.
• There are things so deep and complex that only intuition can reach it in our stage of development as human beings.
• My work is to reach people with ideas, hopes, dreams, encouragement, insight, and revelation. That's what an actor wants to do.
• I figure I basically am a ghost. I think we all are.
• The themes Poe used were universal and timeless. As long as the English language exists at all, we will be able to appreciate what he…
• I get into certain yoga positions at times, when Im working out and for exercises. I use a little of it in some of my…
• One of the great things about being recognized is that you receive this feedback from people. It is easy to see how sincere people are.…
• Poe was a student of many things, and among those things he read and referred to in his work was the Bible.
• Sometimes it was tough doing take after take upside down! I did a lot of that sort of thing.
• Sometimes when I see a performance that really takes me, I struggle. How can I express this to this person, I want this person to…
• We are running ourselves into a damaged earth. But I am optimistic. I believe that we can change; we must change. As a human race,…
• The world is a collective madhouse, its inhabitants are merely faking sanity. It is critical to becoming aware of these aberrations, for pretensions can be…
• United Artists wanted to do records with me. I had no idea, what a rare thing that was... to make an album. And they put…
• With friends like these, who needs hallucinations?
• At a certain point he was very popular, from THE RAVEN. He was never fully appreciated, never made the money, and you know he was…
• Where is the boundary between your thoughts and feelings and my thoughts and feelings? Where does it end - the outer layer of epidermis? If…
• I guess one of the reasons I'm doing the Poe piece is that I think Poe demonstrates that no matter how difficult things are, if…
• My background is basically scientific math. My Dad was a physicist, so I have it in my blood somewhere. Scientific method is very important to…
• One life is worth the universe. Poe was able to go right into the very depth of life and to demonstrate this.
• I think people really want to be happy.

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