"I just wanted to act. I didn't want to do anything else."

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"I just wanted to act. I didn't want to do anything else."

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"I will act as if what I do makes a difference."

William James, American Philosopher

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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."

Abraham Lincoln, American Politician

Act, Liberty, Sheep

"When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?"

Eleanor Roosevelt, American First Lady

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"There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord."

Thomas Paine, English Writer

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"The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable."

Horace, Roman Poet

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"It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment."

Honore De Balzac, French Novelist

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"We have a right, also, in various ways, to act upon our unfavorable opinion of anyone, not to the oppression of his individuality, but in the exercise of ours."

John Stuart Mill, English Philosopher

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"Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven."

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

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"There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself."

Erich Fromm, American Psychologist

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"Everything has an end."

End

"It's certainly more interesting for me as an actor, but I think it's also more interesting for the audience to see three-dimensional characters, rather than just a bad guy or a good guy."

Actor

"It seems there's a sliding scale between the money they spend on a movie and its creativity."

Money

"I wanted more in depth ideas about the character and it never came."

Ideas

"I'm living in L.A. but my heart's in Vancouver."

Heart

"And I've been lucky in that I haven't had another job besides acting in the last five years."

Acting

"We both have a great loyalty to it, and I think that it's important to give it our best shot."

Loyalty

"I would like to look back on my career and be proud of what I've done."

Career

"It makes you realise that people are the same wherever you go."

People

"So, I completely and utterly support David and Gillian's decision to go to Los Angeles, but I think that Vancouver is the perfect location for the show."

Decision