Act Quotes
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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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To know is to care, to care is to act, to act is to make a difference.
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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 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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Songwriting, I have to take myself away from everybody to do. It's an unsightly act.
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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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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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Act in such a way that you will be worthy of being happy.
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Design is as much an act of spacing as an act of marking.
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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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He who considers himself a paragon of wisdom is sure to commit some superlatively stupid act.
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I do not act, and people become reformed by themselves.
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I live or die by how well I act.
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But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.
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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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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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When you truly have the courage to dream, you have the courage to act as well.
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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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Your hair is an act of God.
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Act your part with honor.
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Our act started at the bottom and went downhill.
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Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.
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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.
