Act Quotes
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We have been shaken by the deaths of Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, and Tamir Rice - shaken, but not sufficiently unsettled. We must contextualize those losses, force our neighbors to become so deeply disturbed by what has occurred that they, too, are inspired to act to change the system.
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Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.
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When you produce and direct, your movies are different to you. They're not just something you act in.
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I love Canada. It's a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land.
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I know I can act. There aren't too many other jobs I know how to do.
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My mom was born in Jamaica and has always been around a community of black people, so she encouraged me to get out and act. My dad, on the other hand, is from suburban Massachusetts, so he had not been around a lot of black people.
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It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of contemplation itself is of course an enjoyment.
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Comedy was why I got into acting the first place. Peter Sellers was a huge influence on my wanting to act. I grew up with him and found him hysterical. The Pink Panther films were an inspiration, from my earliest childhood days, when I was watching them with my brother and my dad.
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Some Muslim students experience secularism as an act of aggression.
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Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
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I believe now the industry has seen a different side of me. They have seen me in advertisements, they have seen me act, and now they have seen me as an all-rounder, complete with my dancing ability.
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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.
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The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
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When I see something that's wrong, I just speak and act first and I'll take the consequences later.
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I'm an actor, paid to act. I don't bring personal problems to the sets. Dad taught me that.
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It's like the old rule-if you introduce a gun into the first act of a play, it's going to be used in the third act. So if you do a movie about criminals, you have to accept there's going to be Some action.
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I just went to an acting agency one day and just said, 'I would like to act. Would you take me?' And they took me.
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I find it hard to act other than the way I feel.
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One of the disadvantages of being a patrician is that occasionally you're obliged to act like one.
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You see I found I didn't have to act to be happy.
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Many ribosomes act simultaneously along the mRNA, forming superstructures called polysomes.
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A library implies an act of faith.
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When I saw rappers in the '90s cameo in films - all of those '90s rappers - it seemed like whenever you chucked a rapper in a film, they could just act. It seemed like all rappers could act.
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If you take away the cross as an atoning act, you take away Christianity.
