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" What's gratifying about West Wing is that everybody told us that it couldn't be done - that the man or woman on the street didn't care about politics. But if you set things up correctly, people don't have a problem with it. "

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" When I hear that I realize how quickly time passes and how everybody goes on their journeys and they're always unbelievable and they never go where you think they're going to take you and, quite frankly, it also makes me feel a little old. "

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Feel

Time

Think

" In spite of being professionally gregarious, in my nonpaid hours I'm a bit of a hermit. After being around a crew of fifty people for twelve hours a day on a film set, I really like my alone time, and as always, I abhor small talk. "

" For me, the battle is finding the balance between wanting to spend time with my boys and then having enough perspective to still be the disciplinarian and, like, not be in the best friend business. "

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Time

Business

" My deep dark secret is that I was a nerd in school. I liked the theater. I liked to study. I wasn't very good at sports. "

" I'll be sober ten years and married nine soon. "

" I'm a sportsman, you know, and I shoot skeet, and I grew up in the Midwest, so that's a part of my culture. "

Rob Lowe

Shoot

Culture

" I have a lot of great memories, but I can't imagine anything more exciting than the life I have now. "

" I've had years of psychiatry, and I ask about every six months - it's sort of like getting your oil checked - I ask, 'I'm not an actual narcissist, am I?' The learned men of psychiatry assure me that I meet none of the medical criteria. "

Rob Lowe

Oil

Meet

" Oh my God, I love rehab! I highly recommend it. "

" Children change you. They really do. "

" When I got sober, that was 1990. "

Rob Lowe

Sober

Got

" Matthew Lowe is one of the great water men that I know. He's a surfer, a great water polo player. I think he's half fish. "

" We always reminisce about how everyone tried to get Diane Lane's attention, to very little success. "

" I like the tradition of ordinary men in extraordinary circumstances and how they react to events which force them to be heroic in a way that is not in their natures. "

" Getting married isn't going to make your relationship better. It's just a ceremony. "

" Fame is not a natural condition for human beings. "

" Look, I owns guns. "

" I've gotten to believe it's more fun to play politicians than actually be them. "

Rob Lowe

Believe

Fun

" I am still in love with my wife. "

" It's funny what actors take issue with. Some won't do parts where animals are in jeopardy; some won't ever play anyone remotely unlikable - 'Heroes only, please.' Some won't do violence. I have no such qualms. "

" I made a conscious effort to focus on television so I could stay in Los Angeles, so I wasn't on a location all over the world doing movies. "

" The '80s were about trying to establish myself as an actor with a career. And being a teenager enjoying the fruits of being successful with lots of what I think is appropriate for that age. "

" It's a little bit of a 'if you can't beat 'em - join 'em' mentality for me when I think about Twitter. "

" I've come to really like Twitter. You really do get to see what I'm about, and I like sharing with my fans. "

Rob Lowe

You

Sharing

" When you're writing personal stories, you have to be totally uncompromising - to the extent that you can be - about yourself. I know that if I am uber-uncompromising with myself, that gives me some latitude to write about others. "

Rob Lowe

Yourself

I Am

" Let me just say this - sometimes being a trailblazer is highly overrated. "

Rob Lowe

Being

Say

" Eleven days before 9/11, I was on a plane with the 9/11 hijackers who were carrying out a dry run. "

" As an actor and a fledgling director, I'm used to making snap decisions that I'll have to live with. "

" I couldn't have gotten sober without rehab because I needed the science. "

" I'm a political junkie. "

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Political