Act Quotes
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When you have thrown a stone, you cannot afterwards bring it back again, but nevertheless you are responsible for having taken up the stone and flung it, for the origin of the act was within you. Similarly the unjust and profligate might at the outset have avoided becoming so, and therefore they are so voluntarily, although when they have become unjust and profligate it is no longer open to them not to be so.
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One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable.
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I guess because of my act, people think that I say things they want to say, and that they can just come up and say anything to me.
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The act the act must not be a revenge. It must be a calm, weary renunciation, a closing of accounts, a private, rhythmic deed. The last remark.
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Roy Orbison was the only act that The Beatles didn't want to follow.
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If you're working opposite an actor who can act, then all you have to do is listen and respond.
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People who speak or act in an ordinary fashion are most likely to be those who have been the recipients of higher experiences. But because they do not rage around, wild-eyed, people think that they are very ordinary folk and therefore not aware of anything unknown to the general run of man.
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The act is truth. Nothing that was ever recorded is truth. Nothing that was ever said is truth. Only the act.
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I refuse to act the way someone expects me to.
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Cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love.
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My act's not heavy on pop culture or stories, just lots of jokes.
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Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.
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Whenever you can, act as a liberator. Freedom, dignity, wealth - these three together constitute the greatest happiness of humanity. If you bequeath all three to your people, their love for you will never die.
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Peace in the Middle East isn't going to be created by another war or violent act on the other side.
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Whenever I act well, my head clears. Always a bit frail I was personally, but never professionally.
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The golf ball has no sense at all, which is why it has to be given stern lectures constantly, especially during the act of putting.
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I don't like it when people who are young act like they're 40. That's taking too much on. Putting up a shield and trying to act like you're so mature or whatever – I don't try to act mature. Some people might say I'm mature for my age, but it's not something I'm trying to do, you know? I'm just me.
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Act well your given part; the choice rests not with you.
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Were I a nightingale, I would act the part of a nightingale; were I a swan, the part of a swan.
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I don't think that Simon and Garfunkel as a live act compares to Simon and Garfunkel as a studio act.
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They (the publishers) would be ecstatic, I just refuse to. You can't repeat a great act.
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Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced.
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Do we really need these big, gigantic, heavy rockets? What if we launch a rocket that's empty, and its sole purpose is to act as a source of fuel on the Moon? Who should build that? Well, I think the U.S. should build that.
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Actors should ACT. Not sell perfume, or write cookbooks.
