Action Quotes
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What really helps a guy to become an action hero today is the directing of the movie. All those fast cuts.
Jean-Claude Van Damme
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Like all kids who want to be in action movies, I want to jump out of a speeding car, shoot guns, slide out the side in slow motion like a John Woo movie.
Dallas Roberts
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Nonviolent action does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult their consciences.
Barbara Deming
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Every actor who has done an action film has a little tiny scar somewhere from that.
Maggie Grace
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'David,' said Mr. Murdstone, 'to the young this is a world for action; not for moping and droning in.'
David Copperfield
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When 'I' released, I gave a couple of interviews in which I expressed my interest to play an action heroine.
Amy Jackson
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There is an animated version of 'Lazer Team,' with all the action sequences, that exists. It's a pre-visual fidelity, and the voice acting is terrible because it's one of our animators doing it. But we could sit there and watch what the scene is supposed to look like while we're doing individual shots.
Burnie Burns
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Power dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of foresight and raising the haste of action.
Will Durant
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That's what happens in a good horror movie: there are always metaphors of greater subjects like humanity and empathy and compassion. It's not about the action and scary moments: You really care about these characters because they're mirrors of our own reflections.
Edgar Ramirez
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It means that through knowledge have come responsibility and hope, and through both, action.
Edward Livingston
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The best way to avoid a bad action is by doing a good one, for there is no difficulty in the world like that of trying to do nothing.
John Clare
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A horse's eye disquiets me: it has an expression of alarm that may at any moment be translated into action.
E. V. Lucas
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If you find yourself saying 'I can't do something', but you know it in your heart of hearts that if you do it, you're going to grow, you're going to be a better person, it's going to contribute to your family or to your kids or to something that matters, and you keep saying 'I can't do it,' there is no question—you must do it. You don't discuss it anymore. You just take immediate action... You do what's necessary.
Anthony Robbins
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More and more too, the old name absorbs into me. Mannahatta, 'the place encircled by many swift tides and sparkling waters.' How fit a name for America's great democratic island city! The word itself, how beautiful! how aboriginal! how it seems to rise with tall spires, glistening in sunshine, with such New World atmosphere, vista and action!
Walt Whitman
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I feel like having details from their day and having a plot and action and things to do is much more revealing than having a character sitting and thinking to themselves. When I'm writing, I want people to actually have a goal, something that's dragging them forward.
Kaui Hart Hemmings
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A spiritual voice is urgently needed to underline the fact that global warming is already causing human anguish and mortality in our nation and abroad, and much more will occur in the future without rapid action.
Bill McKibben
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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.
Sallust
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Love is the will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth... Love is as love does. Love is an act of will -- namely, both an intention and an action. Will also implies choice. We do not have to love. We choose to love.
M. Scott Peck
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You should see me during an action film. I look like an abuse victim.
Maggie Q
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Action makes more fortune than caution.
Charlotte Whitton
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I'd love to do an action film. I'd love to do a film based on a book series; I love to read the book and then go see the movie. I'd love to have a show on Disney; I love working for them. And I'm also working on getting some new music out of my own.
Katherine McNamara
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Just as I am working hard to adjust to a new level, someone comes along and asks me to move up again. I'm not complaining about it; I just get on with trying to make sure I don't let anyone down. Training with England is just a different gravy again. Movement-wise, finishing-wise, you can learn such a lot from watching the very best in action.
Jamie Vardy
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Never must the existence or the essence of man as a whole be made a stake in the hazards of action.
Hans Jonas
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The Arminian view makes the final decision of our salvation rest upon a human choice, not upon a divine action.
R. C. Sproul