Act Quotes
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Act so that the maxim of your act could be made the principle of a universal law.
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The only choreography I have in my act is where I walk about ten feet, from stage right to stage left. Then I say, "You may be wondering why I went from over there to over here. Well, that was choreography.
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Being an artist and a human in this world always means confronting people who make you feel like you have to act according to their rules.
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We're a festival that was started because of an act of war, so we have always had films and panel discussions that bring up difficult subjects.
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I had wanted to act since I was a kid, but I had a lot of shame attached to it. I didn't tell anyone because I didn't think it was ever a possibility.
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It is in your act that you exist, not in your body. Your act is yourself, and there is no other you.
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I do not act, and people become reformed by themselves.
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To live creatively free, do what you know how to do now, then 'act as if' you know how to do the rest.
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Songwriting, I have to take myself away from everybody to do. It's an unsightly act.
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Do not Bodies and Light act mutually upon one another; that is to say, Bodies upon Light in emitting, reflecting, refracting and inflecting it, and Light upon Bodies for heating them, and putting their parts into a vibrating motion wherein heat consists?
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I am committed to furthering the self-determination of Indian communities but without terminating the special relationship between the Federal Government and the Indian people. I am strongly opposed to termination. Self-determination means that you can decide the nature of your tribe's relationship with the Federal Government within the framework of the Self-Determination Act, which I signed in January of 1975.
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A cowardly act! What do I care about that? You may be sure that I should never fear to commit one if it were to my advantage.
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When I look at a dividing cell I feel as an astronomer might do if he beheld the formation of a double star: that an original act of creation is taking place before me.
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It's something that black men still go through to this day, which is women clutching their purses, hitting the lock button on store, or just basic attitudes. And even as a U.S. congressman, as a black man, it is very, very frustrating, and you build up an internal anger about it that you can't act on.
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this is what I know about courage: You don't have to think about courage to have it. You don't have to feel courageous to be courageous. You don't sit down and say you're going to be courageous. At the moment of action, you don't see it as a courageous act. Courage is the most hidden thing from your eye or mind until after it's done. There's some inner something that tells you what's right. You know you have to do it to survive as a human being. You have no choice.
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When I act, I try to understand the character, why she's behaving like that.
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The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.
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Europe must be able to act independently precisely in the areas where Europe must act independently.
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When you start as an actor, you can only hope you'll be able to act at all - let alone on a show that lasts seven seasons.
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He who wants, but doesn't act, is a pest.
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It isn’t God’s job to make sick people healthy. That’s the doctors’ job. God’s job is to make sick people brave, and in my experience, that’s something God does really well. Prayer, as I understand it, is not a matter of begging or bargaining. It is the act of inviting God into our lives so that, with God’s help, we will be strong enough to resist temptation and resilient enough not to be destroyed by life’s unfairness.
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I always try to act as though there is a little boy or a little girl around, and I try never to do anything that would give them a bad example.
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Your hair is an act of God.
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For humans, the challenge is to unite soul and role, to discover the hidden wholeness that enables us to be in the world who we are in our souls, and to act in accordance with our deepest and truest natures.
