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		A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death. It not only gives us fortitude to bear pain, but teaches us at every step the precarious tenure on which we hold our present being.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				William Hazlitt
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Well, you always discover a lot in the editing room. Particularly the action, because you have to over-shoot a lot and shoot an enormous amount of material because many of the sequences have to be discovered in the editing and manipulation of it.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Christopher Nolan
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Not every actor is a Tom Cruise. They are not all used to doing big action movies and doing sliding bikes and cars and fights. So you've got to take actors who have maybe not done that kind of stuff and get them through some proper training first.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Wade Eastwood
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Action scenes get me so excited, and my adrenaline starts pumping.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jodi Lyn O'Keefe
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		We're constantly striving to bring something new and different to the table, either in the way that we're using the cameras, or the storytelling we're using in the scene, or the way that the characters are being motivated by the action.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Joe Russo
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		There weren't a lot of action roles growing up - there were a few, maybe, like Wonder Woman, but then it wasn't real action.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Kelly Hu
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
		
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		I'm heartened that, for the first time, we're seeing some of the Internet Service Providers and the social media sites taking action against the Islamic State. That's the kind of initiative that can very, very much augment on an industrial scale what the government is trying to do.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				David Petraeus
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		We've advanced in the construction of a true free-trade area across South America... What's needed now is less rhetoric and more action.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I remember sitting in my room and thinking of where it all went wrong and how I ended up losing control of everything, and I realized I hadn't asked myself one question: And then what? That was my most important lesson. I learned to think about the consequences before the action and that saves me, to this day, from a lot of trouble. If you play it down the line, you'll start making better choices.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Karrine Steffans
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I may never get my own action figure, but at least I think what I'm doing is really legitimate musically.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Gavin DeGraw
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Visual-effects shots should flow into the rest of the live action, and you shouldn't be able to see a difference.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				John Knoll
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		'V-Wars' is a head-on collision of real-world science, terrorism, special forces action, ethics, politics and an exploration of what defines us as human.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jonathan Maberry