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"I only got to be able to act, because I gave myself a job as a producer."
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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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"The School Energy Crisis Relief Act authorizes the Secretary of Energy to issue energy assistance grants to help the poorest school districts across the Nation offset these unexpected and challenging costs."
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"The act of willing this or that, of choosing among various courses of conduct, is central in the realm of ethics."
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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."
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"Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire."
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"But at the same time, never having final cut before, I really learned an interesting thing for any studio executive who is reading this: that if a director has final cut, it's actually easier and more interesting to listen to notes."
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"I only got to be able to act, because I gave myself a job as a producer."
Act
"In the '80s, I can't say that Amy and I were aware of an independent film community. We could only get a certain amount of money for our pictures, which made them low budget movies, but they were distributed through studios."
Money
"Every movie is wildly different. So many of the problems are the same, but they take on different guises."
Problems
"I think we were the first picture to cut on Final Cut Pro. So we were the guinea pigs, because we got a deal on the system. But with that comes all sorts of technological problems I couldn't begin to describe."
First
"New York means so much to people. If you're inclined to leave the nest, New York is where most people think they have to go, and it's been that way since the first skyscraper."
People
"I met Steve McQueen once. Well, met isn't really the right word."
Right
"I produced six movies with Amy Robinson since the very early '80s."
Movies
"It struck me that working digitally with a small crew, I could lay out a general plan for Famous and hope for mistakes which would create something more than satire and something less than truthful reality."
Hope
"On every movie I've done as a director, I look at the producers and having done it, I don't envy them, at all."
Envy
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