Act Quotes
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Our sainted aunts prate of living for others while our rich uncles call us mollycoddles for not fighting for what we want. Murder is a patriotic act if you commit it in a uniform; it is the blackest sin if you kill someone while wearing a gray flannel suit.
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At that moment, I do now truly believe, the deed was done, in the sense that the decision of the will is the true essence of the act.
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Actors just need each other to act together.
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We must act as if we answer to, and only answer to, our Ancestors, our children, and the unborn.
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I just like to act.
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Here's the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.
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You can certainly destroy enough of humanity so that only the greatest act of faith can persuade you that what's left will be human.
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I shall be very careful to preserve and maintain the Act of Toleration, and to set the minds of all my people at quiet; my own principles must always keep me entirely firm to the interests and religion of the Church of England, and will incline me to countenance those who have the truest zeal to support it.
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Either I act or I die.
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When you act, you want to emote and think in that language. I don't enjoy the process of doing a film in a language I am not good with.
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I think that you form the way that you act from others around you; it's a kind of environmental thing.
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The real goal of politics has to be getting people to act on what they already know was wrong.
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I didn't really know I wanted to act when I was a child. I have a lot of interests, and I really wanted to finish my education - go to college - and didn't really want to have a career as an adolescent.
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One of the things that I find most incredible about dad is the third act of his life.After all he accomplished in his professional career and what he's given for his country, at the point in his life where he's faced adversity, losing a son, having a helicopter crash, having a stroke, and what he's accomplished in this third act in his life, I find quite extraordinary.
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People who act like angels ought to have angels to deal with.
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... all things are possible if you are willing to put yourself on the line. You cannot stand back and hope for the best. You have to act.
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The act of giving voice to this spiritual suffering is, in my view, the sacred duty of the writer.
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If I run into someone on the street, that's one thing. But answering mail for a living? I like a job where you can play and act kind of goofy and have some fun.
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I had no choice. It was just something that happened. I was always looking for ways to act out, and I got a camera and it acted out for me.
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I saw a Harry Reid statement saying, there's nothing in the Constitution that says the Senate has to act on any presidential nominee. Well, that was back when President Bush was president and vice versa. So this is not a pretty carrying-on at the moment.
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Partner dancing is a cultured act.
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Hounds and hearthstones, girl, haven't you ever heard a story about Koschei? He's only got the one. Act one, Scene one: pretty girl. Act one, Scene two: pretty girl gone!
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Treat a boy like a fool and he'll act like a fool, I say, but there's some folks need convincing.
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You must want to - in other words, you must act.
