Act Quotes
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America’s progressive rulers, like France’s, act less as politicians gathering support than as conquerors who enjoy punishing captives without worry that the tables may turn.
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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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In 1666, an Act designed to promote the wool industry came into force, insisting that everyone should be buried in a woollen shroud. Other fibres, such as silk or linen, were banned.
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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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Don't you find it odd," she continued, "that when you're a kid, everyone, all the world, encourages you to follow your dreams. But when you're older, somehow they act offended if you even try.
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Most people lived their lives like criminals: act first, worry about the consequences later.
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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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The highest art is where has been most perfectly breathed the sentiment of humanity...Some persons suppose that landscape has no power of communicating human sentiment. But this is a great mistake. The civilized landscape peculiarly can: and therefore I love it more and think it more worthy of reproduction than that which is savage and untamed. It is more significant. Every act of man, every thing of labor, effort, suffering, want, anxiety, necessity, love, marks itself wherever it has been.
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Songwriting, I have to take myself away from everybody to do. It's an unsightly act.
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He who considers himself a paragon of wisdom is sure to commit some superlatively stupid act.
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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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To know is to care, to care is to act, to act is to make a difference.
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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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I do not act, and people become reformed by themselves.
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I was always pretty good at adapting to my situations. My act was never that inside, where it was like, "Okay, they're either going to get this or they're not."
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I am the kind of woman who loves hurricanes. They put me in a party mood. Make me want to eat oysters on the half shell, and act slutty.
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Design is as much an act of spacing as an act of marking.
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Act your part with honor.
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And then it was like, wait, you can go to college and study theater? And act in plays? This is almost a racket, you know. And then when the opportunity came along to do it professionally, I thought I'd won the lottery.
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I live or die by how well I act.
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The act of giving is simply a behavior, and the gift merely a symbol. It is the energy behind both that will determine their impact on our lives.
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Many [Western Christians] habitually think and act as if there is no eternity. . . . We major in the momentary and minor in the momentous.
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Your hair is an act of God.
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When you truly have the courage to dream, you have the courage to act as well.
