Action Quotes
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In the split second from the time the ball leaves the pitcher's hand until it reaches the plate you have to think about your stride, your hip action, your wrist action, determine how much, if any the ball is going to break and then decide whether to swing at it.
Duke Snider
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In most good stories, it is the character's personality that creates the action of the story. If you start with real personality, a real character, then something is bound to happen.
Flannery O'Connor
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Theories are patterns without value. What counts is action.
Constantin Brancusi
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There were weekends and evening hours. A lot of time went in to defend what proved to be a deceitful action.
F. Thomson Leighton
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If significant amounts of time go by without suspenseful action - which is often most powerfully motivated by backstory - the story loses momentum, and readers lose interest.
Leigh Michaels
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I don't really rehearse, because I don't really step into action until I'm forced to. The only way I prepare is just by memorizing it backward and forward so that when I get in the room, I can become the character and not think about the lines so much.
Constance Zimmer
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I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids.
Og Mandino
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Theron says that she was intrigued by the psychological demands of the material in playing the complicated 'Queen Ravenna', and Stewart's performance as 'Snow White', the fairest of them all, in her first action-heroine role, kept her literally in constant motion.
Elvis Mitchell
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... Our individual well-being is intimately connected both with that of all others and with the environment within which we live.... Our every action, our every deed, word, and thought, no matter how slight or inconsequential it may seem, has an implication not only for ourselves, but for all others, too.
Dalai Lama
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I want to do more action adventures and more romantic comedies.
Maria Bello
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I like the idea of a TV show. You take time to get to know your characters. You can introduce a lot of characters. You don't need your three-action set pieces that you usually need for movies.
Louis Leterrier
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We were forced into this situation. Unfortunately our friends did not stand by us, ... The action they are taking now should have been taken long ago by all concerned parties.
Ayub Khan
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Without any action, this migratory influx will be like the barbarian invasion of the 4th century, and the consequences will be the same. We must immediately stop this madness to safeguard our social pact, freedom, and identity.
Marine Le Pen
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Most movies, once the action starts there's no more characters. You say a couple of dumb lines and then there's just explosions until the end.
John Cusack
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'The Authority,' by Warren Ellis and Bryan Hitch, really pioneered the widescreen, action-packed style of storytelling.
Jim Lee
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The only real antidote to worry or problems is systematic, purposeful action in the direction of your goals.
Brian Tracy
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I feel like the world gets so consumed and gobbled up by action, and the pace of life is so frantic, and people feel like, in order to move somebody, you have to do something shocking or violent or something insane and fast.
James Edward Olliges Jr.
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I'm a really hectic dreamer; I never wake up not out of a dream, and there's loads going on, lots of action, big blockbuster dreams, they're all major enterprises.
Linda Grant
