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"When we went on the air, I didn't want to be interrupted for an act-one curtain."
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"Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven."
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"It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego."
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"I will act as if what I do makes a difference."
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"Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk."
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"The denial of our duty to act in this case is a denial of our right to act; and if we have no right to act, then may we well be termed the white slaves of the North, for like our brethren in bonds, we must seal our lips in silence and despair."
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"I didn't act like I was there. I just got into the story."
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"I used to be a real prince charming if I went on a date with a girl. But then I'd get to where I was likely to have a stroke from the stress of keeping up my act. I've since learned the key to a good date is to pay attention on her."
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"Too often we think we can act without explaining and take decisions without justifying them."
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"The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty."
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"He's very alive in a scene. He's a very good actor to act with. Even though through most of the picture he's blind, there are many places early in the picture I got to be with him before he was blind. Like convincing him in the office to do the picture."
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"TV that people will never see, that giant international corporations will never touch, will never pay your salary."
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"Life is about having a good time, and it was a good time. We did some things well and some things poorly, but that was always the case."
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"At great, great remove sit the head of General Electric, the head of News Corp, the head of Viacom, or the head of this giant international corporation that wants these ratings."
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"We are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition."
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"Life goes on pretty much the same way. I've been working on a couple of films on the side. You may see some more. You may even see another television show."
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"I guess because the shows were activist in their own way - the marriage of my public activism and my career activism, you know - people understand me very well. They also understand there's a very strong bipartisan part in all of this."
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"In the area we're discussing, leadership begins on Madison Avenue, on the desks and in the offices of people who spend hundreds of millions of dollars buying what will get them ratings."
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"When we went on the air, I didn't want to be interrupted for an act-one curtain."
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"I think the greater responsibility, in terms of morality, is where leadership begins."
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"The trafficking of sex and violence is comes after the demand for ratings."
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