"I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was, three shelves of books about Tolkien and Middle-earth, and I was like, 'Holy cow, what else am I missing out on?'"

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Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Sean Astin

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“Memo to extreme partisans: If you can't bring yourselves to love your enemies, can you at least learn to hate your friends?”
“Brian Laws has lifted his team out of precocious waters”
“Shape and color are my two strong things. And by doing this, drawing plants has always led me into my paintings and my sculptures.”
“Part of becoming a little bit older and having the opportunities that I have, you want to start giving back to people who have been influential and helped you along the way.”

Source : "A Conversation with Grant Achatz". Interview with Joanne Camas, www.epicurious.com.
“A multitude of words doth rather obscure than illustrate, they being a burden to the memory, and the first apt to be forgotten, before we come to the last. So that he that uses many words for the explaining of any subject, doth, like the cuttle-fish, hide himself, for the most part, in his own ink.”
“I went to New York and Miami and hung out by the beach, and I love the American boys, so I wrote a song about it.”
“If nobody talks about books, if they are not discussed or somehow contended with, literature ceases to be a conversation, ceases to be dynamic. Most of all, it ceases to be intimate. It degenerates into a monologue or a mutter. An unreviewed book is a struck bell that gives no resonance. Without reviews, literature would be oddly mute in spite of all those words on all those pages of all those books. Reviewing makes of reading a participant sport, not a spectator sport.”
“We have no alternative but to protest. For many years we have shown an amazing patience... But we come here tonight to be saved from that patience that makes us patient with anything less than freedom and justice.”

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