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I love to play for audiences that are simply made of people rather than so-called special people.
- John Astin
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There are things so deep and complex that only intuition can reach it in our stage of development as human beings. And to Poe... well, a great logician could be an enemy to him, what he called conventional world reason.
- John Astin
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Sometimes it was tough doing take after take upside down! I did a lot of that sort of thing.
- John Astin
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One life is worth the universe. Poe was able to go right into the very depth of life and to demonstrate this.
- John Astin
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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 know how I felt. I want to get this across, and it's not very easy.
- John Astin
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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 you continue to move forward in life, you can eventually become victorious, even if it's later in life.
- John Astin
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It is important to me that what Poe has to say gets across to people. I want to give people the feeling that I get from all this. I think that we are succeeding. The feedback is very warm.
- John Astin
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#Feeling
#Important
#Me
#People
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. It's nothing fake or jive. They're giving sincere appreciation. And it's not that easy to express.
- John Astin
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#Easy
#Fake
#Great
#Nothing
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 me. I think anything that contradicts it is probably not true.
- John Astin
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#Dad
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#Me
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Poe was a student of many things, and among those things he read and referred to in his work was the Bible.
- John Astin
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#Things
#Work
There was one where Gomez was on a Trapeze hanging by the legs upside down. I remember how much the backs of my knees would hurt until I got used to it. It was hard.
- John Astin
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#Hurt
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#Upside Down
The feedback that I get from my association with Gomez is heartwarming. It is very difficult for me to take anything but a positive view of the Gomez phenomenon.
- John Astin
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#Feedback
#Me
#Positive
#View
My work is to reach people with ideas, hopes, dreams, encouragement, insight, and revelation. That's what an actor wants to do.
- John Astin
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#Ideas
#Insight
#People
#Work
I got things like the lotus position long before anybody else did, or at least in the mainstream. But I had fun. I guess my legs are pretty flexible, so I used to get a kick out of doing things like that. I would get into a full lotus with my legs and then roll around.
- John Astin
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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 did. It will not age! It will not become dated!
- John Astin
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#English Language
#Language
#Long
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, we are very young and quite primitive. The sooner we learn the greatness of humanity the better off we will all be.
- John Astin
#Change
#Earth
#Greatness
#Humanity
#I Am
I get into certain yoga positions at times, when I'm working out and for exercises. I use a little of it in some of my meditation, but I chant now and that sort of replaced it.
- John Astin
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#Little
#Meditation
#Now
#Out
People are smarter than you might think.
- John Astin
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#Might
#People
#Smarter
#Than
#Think
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