Billie Letts Quotes
Never act like you want it, darlin'. Act like you wouldn't own it if they paid you. Tell them it's dirty, broken...a useless thing. Then make an offer.

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Sometimes, just the act of venting is helpful. Counseling provides a safe haven for precisely that kind of free-ranging release: You can say things in the therapist's office, with the therapist present, that would be incendiary or hurtful in your living room.
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I act on my principles, whether they're popular or not.
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Debauchery is perhaps an act of despair in the face of infinity.
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Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.
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If something is personal to you, you are much more likely to act.
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The mental act of sensation which issues in reflex movement is so simple as to defy analysis.
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
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If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one.
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Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.
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How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.
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It's so easy to get used to playing a role. Then all of the sudden when you're tossed out of it, it's almost like you have to remember how to act again!
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It is hard to imagine an area in which Congress has more express constitutional authority to act than in protecting the right of minorities to vote.
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In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.
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But actors should act. You should see them most often rather than just not.
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When Californians see something we truly believe in, we say so and act accordingly - without evasiveness or equivocation.
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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.
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Before you act, consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
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A resignation is a grave act; never performed by a right minded man without forethought or with reserve.
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Peace in the Middle East isn't going to be created by another war or violent act on the other side.
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There will be killing till the score is paid.
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No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs.
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A lot of politics in art is just institutional critique, which, in my opinion, is not all that political.
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When I feel comfortable, I just like to sing and hum, and I don't even know I'm doing it. But sometimes someone will come over to me like, 'I love that song you were singing, but it's distracting.'
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Never act like you want it, darlin'. Act like you wouldn't own it if they paid you. Tell them it's dirty, broken...a useless thing. Then make an offer.