"...They hand me a script. I act. I'm here for entertainment, basically,..."
Full 'Brad Pitt' Quote
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Brad Pitt
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"condom, and put it over your head. If you act like a dick, you might as..."
Full 'Rosie O'donnell' Quote
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Rosie O'donnell
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"deed done to a human being, while an act of cruelty to an animal is as bad..."
Full 'Mohammed' Quote
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Mohammed
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"A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our..."
Full 'George Meredith' Quote
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George Meredith
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"Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be"
Full 'Immanuel Kant' Quote
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Immanuel Kant
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"Act in your pauses."
Full 'Ellen Terry' Quote
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Ellen Terry
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"Act like you expect to get into the end zone."
Full 'Joe Paterno' Quote
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Joe Paterno
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"Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all"
Full 'Michael Korda' Quote
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Michael Korda
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"Acting allows me to tell a lot of stories, you know start at the beginning,..."
Full 'Cameron Diaz' Quote
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Cameron Diaz
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"Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from"
Full 'Marguerite Duras' Quote
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Marguerite Duras
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"Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the"
Full 'Laurence Olivier' Quote
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Laurence Olivier
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"Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding"
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Paul Newman
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"Acting is about being honest. Ultimately, the audience doesn't love you or..."
Full 'Kate Winslett' Quote
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Kate Winslett
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"Acting is being susceptible to what is around you and it's letting it all..."
Full 'Meryl Streep' Quote
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Meryl Streep
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"Acting is illusion, as much illusion as magic is, and not so much a matter"
Full 'Laurence Olivier' Quote
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Laurence Olivier
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"Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life."
Full 'Denzel Washington' Quote
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Denzel Washington
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"Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole..."
Full 'Glenda Jackson' Quote
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Glenda Jackson
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"Acting is not about the glory or the glamour - whatever that is, it's about..."
Full 'Sally Field' Quote
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Sally Field
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"Acting is the ultimate luxury. This is one of the luckiest things you could..."
Full 'Emma Thompson' Quote
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Emma Thompson
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"Acting isn't really a creative profession. It's an interpretative one."
Full 'Paul Newman' Quote
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Paul Newman
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"Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as..."
Full 'Glenda Jackson' Quote
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Glenda Jackson
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"Alimony - The act of giving comfort to the enemy."
Full 'Abigail Van Buren' Quote
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Abigail Van Buren
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"the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience."
Full 'Henry Miller' Quote
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Henry Miller
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"no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what..."
Full 'W. H. Auden' Quote
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W. H. Auden
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"to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek..."
Full 'John Updike' Quote
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John Updike
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"save up and be more particular about the acting roles I take...."
Full 'Kathy Ireland' Quote
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Kathy Ireland
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"cast as the Virgin Mary was my first acting buzz, if you like. I was only 5..."
Full 'Kate Winslett' Quote
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Kate Winslett
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"Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail."
Full 'Charles Kettering' Quote
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Charles Kettering
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"Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in..."
Full 'Princess Diana' Quote
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Princess Diana
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"Comedy is acting out optimism."
Full 'Robin Williams' Quote
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Robin Williams
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"to accept if you realize it is not an act of oppression or abrasion... I've..."
Full 'Diane Sawyer' Quote
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Diane Sawyer
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"Saddam the international community must act to enforce its will...."
Full 'Tony Blair' Quote
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Tony Blair
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"Criticize the act, not the person."
Full 'Mary Kay Ash' Quote
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Mary Kay Ash
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"actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary...."
Full 'Blaise Pascal' Quote
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Blaise Pascal
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"and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal..."
Full 'Pablo Casals' Quote
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Pablo Casals
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"power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the..."
Full 'Brigham Young' Quote
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Brigham Young
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"Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like"
Full 'Erich Fromm' Quote
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Erich Fromm
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"Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction."
Full 'Pablo Picasso' Quote
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Pablo Picasso
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"Every charitable act is a stepping stone towards heaven."
Full 'Henry Ward Beecher' Quote
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Henry Ward Beecher
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"Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that..."
Full 'Mohammed' Quote
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Mohammed
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"events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of..."
Full 'Robert Kennedy' Quote
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Robert Kennedy
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"foremost I am a father-- who just happens to act."
Full 'Andy Garcia' Quote
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Andy Garcia
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"(for one is only free when alone), the act of leaving is the bravest and..."
Full 'Isabelle Eberhardt' Quote
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Isabelle Eberhardt
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"the unhampered translation of will into act?"
Full 'Dante' Quote
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Dante
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"Forgiveness is the act of admitting we are like other people."
Full 'Christina Baldwin' Quote
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Christina Baldwin
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"Gardening is not a rational act."
Full 'Margaret Atwood' Quote
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Margaret Atwood
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"Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error."
Full 'Benjamin Disraeli' Quote
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Benjamin Disraeli
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"He who desires but acts not breeds pestilence."
Full 'William Blake' Quote
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William Blake
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"I act as a sponge. I soak it up and squeeze it out in ink every two weeks."
Full 'Janet Flanner' Quote
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Janet Flanner
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"I adore the buzz with acting. There is a sense of instant gratification..."
Full 'Jerry Hall' Quote
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Jerry Hall
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"future, but only in the present can I act. The ability to be in the present..."
Full 'Abraham Maslow' Quote
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Abraham Maslow
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"clearly now ... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more..."
Full 'Richard Nixon' Quote
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Richard Nixon
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"I don't get acting jobs because of my looks."
Full 'Alec Baldwin' Quote
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Alec Baldwin
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"artist who opened a lot of doors for black acts. Michael Jackson is still..."
Full 'Missy Elliot' Quote
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Missy Elliot
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"if I'm a different person. I used to act dumb. That act is no longer cute...."
Full 'Paris Hilton' Quote
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Paris Hilton
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"wanted to do something that wasn't 9 - 5. Acting was the first thing I..."
Full 'Michael J Fox' Quote
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Michael J Fox
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"I know very little about acting. I?m just an incredibly gifted faker."
Full 'Robert Downey Jr' Quote
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Robert Downey Jr
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"I love acting but I don't like all of the other stuff associated with it...."
Full 'Nicole Kidman' Quote
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Nicole Kidman
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"I love acting, but it's much more fun taking the kids to the zoo."
Full 'Nicole Kidman' Quote
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Nicole Kidman
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"I loved acting. I was a ham. I was good at goofing off. I didn't know if I..."
Full 'Sandra Bullock' Quote
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Sandra Bullock
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"I must say acting was good training for the political life which lay ahead"
Full 'Nancy Reagan' Quote
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Nancy Reagan
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"I really don't like to act. At the beginning, back in '51, I had to force..."
Full 'Steve Mcqueen' Quote
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Steve Mcqueen
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"say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital..."
Full 'J Edgar Hoover' Quote
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J Edgar Hoover
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"feeding on the caviar of Shakespeare. An actor must act...."
Full 'Laurence Olivier' Quote
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Laurence Olivier
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"I studied acting, I studied dancing, I studied singing, I was prepared. And..."
Full 'Goldie Hawn' Quote
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Goldie Hawn
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"I think a woman gets more if she acts feminine."
Full 'Nancy Reagan' Quote
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Nancy Reagan
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"of which I did as soon as I left the [Acting] Company and was starving...."
Full 'Kevin Kline' Quote
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Kevin Kline
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"significant percentage of men commit acts of violence against women they're..."
Full 'Alec Baldwin' Quote
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Alec Baldwin
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"nudity in films. For me, personally... To act with my clothes on is a..."
Full 'Julia Roberts' Quote
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Julia Roberts
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"if I did do acting, I would try to tackle it from an artistic standpoint..."
Full 'Robin Thicke' Quote
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Robin Thicke
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"say they are feminists. Either they are acting out of guilt, trying to..."
Full 'David Thomas' Quote
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David Thomas
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"we would define it essentially as an act of courage..."
Full 'Cynthia Ozick' Quote
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Cynthia Ozick
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"audience a chance they will do half your acting for you."
Full 'Katharine Hepburn' Quote
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Katharine Hepburn
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"If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf."
Full 'Nikita Khrushchev' Quote
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Nikita Khrushchev
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"If you think before you act, the other fellow gets in his joke first."
Full 'Edgar Watson Howe' Quote
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Edgar Watson Howe
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"history have meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one...."
Full 'Albert Camus' Quote
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Albert Camus
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"I'm a song and dance girl. I can act enough to get by. But that's the limit"
Full 'Betty Grable' Quote
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Betty Grable
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"opinion of his fellow men. He is constantly acting a studied part...."
Full 'Washington Irving' Quote
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Washington Irving
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"existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection...."
Full 'Charles Darwin' Quote
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Charles Darwin
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"that is always how he has more or less acted it...."
Full 'Havelock Ellis' Quote
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Havelock Ellis
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"36 percent of all worldwide terrorist acts were directed against..."
Full 'John Ashcroft' Quote
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John Ashcroft
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"It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history..."
Full 'Robert Kennedy' Quote
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Robert Kennedy
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"It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly."
Full 'Anatole France' Quote
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Anatole France
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"day schedules to learn and maintain the act of steadfast attention to God;..."
Full 'Evelyn Underhill' Quote
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Evelyn Underhill
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"get. It's really crazy, isn't it? We act to live, then we have to die. What..."
Full 'Gilda Radner' Quote
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Gilda Radner
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"how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it..."
Full 'Samuel Johnson' Quote
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Samuel Johnson
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"wide scale to ensure that world leaders act...."
Full 'Mikhail Gorbachev' Quote
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Mikhail Gorbachev
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"I've got a talent to act. No matter what any newspaper says about me, I am..."
Full 'Jean Claude Van Damme' Quote
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Jean Claude Van Damme
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"I've had a tough time learning how to act like a congressman. Today I..."
Full 'Joseph Kennedy' Quote
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Joseph Kennedy
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"you to be, everyone needs a friend to act goofy with...."
Full 'Andy Rooney' Quote
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Andy Rooney
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"good play with a badly written third act."
Full 'Truman Capote' Quote
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Truman Capote
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"Like with acting, if you're charming or just good-looking, you might be..."
Full 'Robin Thicke' Quote
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Robin Thicke
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"a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time."
Full 'Viktor Frankl' Quote
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Viktor Frankl
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"Man is only truly great when he acts from his passions."
Full 'Benjamin Disraeli' Quote
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Benjamin Disraeli
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"strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the..."
Full 'Ralph Waldo Emerson' Quote
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when..."
Full 'Grover Cleveland' Quote
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Grover Cleveland
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"Most men act so tough and strong on the outside because on the inside, we..."
Full 'Jerry Rubin' Quote
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Jerry Rubin
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"Most people don't act stupid: it's the real thing!"
Full 'Alfred E Newman' Quote
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Alfred E Newman
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"Most people put acting behind them when they reach puberty, and very often..."
Full 'Laurence Olivier' Quote
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Laurence Olivier
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"No act of kindness is wasted."
Full 'William Purkey' Quote
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William Purkey
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"That would be boring. It wouldn't be acting...."
Full 'Anna Paquin' Quote
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Anna Paquin
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"One secret act of self-denial, one sacrifice of inclination to duty, is..."
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John Henry Newman
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"Our acts of liberty are our strongest propaganda"
Full 'Paul Goodman' Quote
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Paul Goodman
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"along comes someone with a one- or two-act opera without all that pompous..."
Full 'Giuseppe Verdi' Quote
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Giuseppe Verdi
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"People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have."
Full 'Anne Tyler' Quote
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Anne Tyler
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"People figured I couldn't act [just] because I modeled. 'Good!' I thought...."
Full 'Rene Russo' Quote
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Rene Russo
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"right now. I'm definitely not opposed to acting or modeling or something. I..."
Full 'Antonella Barba' Quote
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Antonella Barba
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"to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin,..."
Full 'Henry David Thoreau' Quote
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Henry David Thoreau
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"as a whole it does not follow that its acts are always favorable to all..."
Full 'Hirobumi Ito' Quote
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Hirobumi Ito
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"Surely we have always acted; it is an instinct inherent in all of us. Some..."
Full 'Laurence Olivier' Quote
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Laurence Olivier
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"touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot..."
Full 'George W Bush' Quote
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George W Bush
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"The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having..."
Full 'Richard Quarles' Quote
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Richard Quarles
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"The act of divine worship is the inestimable privilege of man, the only..."
Full 'Hosea Ballou' Quote
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Hosea Ballou
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"The act of giving expands one's entire life experience because nothing is..."
Full 'Phylicia Rashad' Quote
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Phylicia Rashad
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"The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the"
Full 'Gail Godwin' Quote
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Gail Godwin
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"The art of acting is to be other than what you are."
Full 'Whoopi Goldberg' Quote
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Whoopi Goldberg
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"the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The..."
Full 'Carl Gustav Jung' Quote
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Carl Gustav Jung
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"back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines."
Full 'Charles Kuralt' Quote
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Charles Kuralt
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"The important thing in acting is to be able to laugh and cry. If I have to..."
Full 'Glenda Jackson' Quote
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Glenda Jackson
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"more criminals than any other single act of government."
Full 'Barry Goldwater' Quote
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Barry Goldwater
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"The morality of an act is a function of the state of the system at the time"
Full 'Garrett Hardin' Quote
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Garrett Hardin
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"role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel,..."
Full 'Jim Morrison' Quote
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Jim Morrison
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"self-centered of all that we do. It is a purer act of faith than the..."
Full 'Thornton Wilder' Quote
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Thornton Wilder
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"of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of..."
Full 'Thornton Wilder' Quote
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Thornton Wilder
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"The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way."
Full 'Keanu Reeves' Quote
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Keanu Reeves
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"garden. I'm thankful for the money, but the acting itself ... it's a damn..."
Full 'Rene Russo' Quote
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Rene Russo
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"produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that..."
Full 'Thomas Paine' Quote
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Thomas Paine
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"them. And we do. We get into a ring and act out other people's hates...."
Full 'Floyd Patterson' Quote
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Floyd Patterson
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"like actors. It's hard to explain. They acted more like they knew they were..."
Full 'J D Salinger' Quote
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J D Salinger
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"Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into..."
Full 'Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe' Quote
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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"accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream, not only"
Full 'Anatole France' Quote
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Anatole France
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"To act the part of a true friend requires more conscientious feeling than..."
Full 'Sarah Ellis' Quote
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Sarah Ellis
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"break training without permission is an act of treason."
Full 'John Heisman' Quote
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John Heisman
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"years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day...."
Full 'Winston Churchill' Quote
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Winston Churchill
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"character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to..."
Full 'Katharine Hepburn' Quote
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Katharine Hepburn
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"To me, acting is the most logical way for people?s neuroses to manifest..."
Full 'James Dean' Quote
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James Dean
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"conditions of tyranny, it is far easier to act than to think."
Full 'Hannah Arendt' Quote
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Hannah Arendt
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"television only affects children whose parents act like television"
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David Byrne
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"We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements in life,..."
Full 'Charles Kingsley' Quote
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Charles Kingsley
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"We ape, we mimic, we mock. We act."
Full 'Laurence Olivier' Quote
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Laurence Olivier
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"about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom..."
Full 'Warren E. Burger' Quote
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Warren E. Burger
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"twinkies. You've seen them on television acting the news, modeling and..."
Full 'Linda Ellerbee' Quote
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Linda Ellerbee
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"change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain..."
Full 'Charles Swindoll' Quote
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Charles Swindoll
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"We must act out passion before we can feel it"
Full 'Jean Paul Sartre' Quote
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Jean Paul Sartre
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"men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs...."
Full 'Henry Miller' Quote
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Henry Miller
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"What is acting but lying and what is good lying but convincing lying?"
Full 'Laurence Olivier' Quote
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Laurence Olivier
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"headset, so these are things that you would actually use if you were a..."
Full 'Paris Bennett' Quote
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Paris Bennett
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"exactly the way a director orders, it isn?t acting. It?s following..."
Full 'James Dean' Quote
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James Dean
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"When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who..."
Full 'Max Lerner' Quote
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Max Lerner
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"When I act, I'm free..."
Full 'Keanu Reeves' Quote
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Keanu Reeves
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"between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot..."
Full 'Cynthia Heimel' Quote
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Cynthia Heimel
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"the U.S. military, you are approving of acts morally equivalent to to the..."
Full 'Timothy Mcveigh' Quote
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Timothy Mcveigh
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"Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes"
Full 'Bette Davis' Quote
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Bette Davis
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"Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar."
Full 'E. B. White' Quote
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E. B. White
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"you talk of benevolence and virtue; I act with benevolence and virtue and..."
Full 'William Blake' Quote
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William Blake
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"cheapened or enhanced by your subsequent act."
Full 'Tunde Alan-Taiwo' Quote
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Tunde Alan-Taiwo
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"Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make"
Full 'Francis Picabia' Quote
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Francis Picabia
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