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I was about 14, and my friend's stepdad asked me to do a 10K with him because his son - who was more into basketball - didn't want to. It was amazing, and I still remember the time I got: 48:23. ↗

— Sean Astin

#amazing #asked #basketball #because #friend

The arts (painting, poetry, etc.) are not just these. Eating, drinking, walking are also arts; every act is an art. ↗

— César Vallejo

#art

There was a combination of not wanting to look a gift horse in the mouth, but also really not wanting to be stuck in Lord of the Rings for the rest of my life, and being desperate to kind of make sure that I could do something else with my life. ↗

— Sean Astin

#being #combination #could #desperate #else

It has long been known that the chemical atomic weight of hydrogen was greater than one-quarter of that of helium, but so long as fractional weights were general there was no particular need to explain this fact, nor could any definite conclusions be drawn from it. ↗

— Francis William Aston

#atomic #been #chemical #conclusions #could

It's a matter of style. The Evan Hunter style and the Ed McBain style are very, very different. ↗

— Evan Hunter

#ed #hunter #matter #style #very

I acted in millions of TV shows. ↗

— Sebastian Bach

#i #millions #shows #tv #tv shows

I think most British people who say they can do an American accent are so bad at it. I find it excruciating. I find it excruciating the other way around, too. ↗

— Eileen Atkins

#american #american accent #around #bad #british

You know, they just don't make big movie stars the way they used to, maybe because the system has changed, the studio system, but it's sad to see people like Jimmy Stewart go, all the giants of the past. ↗

— Tom Atkins

#big #big movie #changed #giants #go

It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge. ↗

— Brooks Atkinson

#college education #education #five #knowledge #learn

Marketing is what gets you noticed, and that side of it something - this side of it, if you like, doing interviews - is the side of it that I least enjoy, and yet is 50% of the project. ↗

— Rowan Atkinson

#enjoy #gets #i #interviews #least