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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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"There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself."
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"It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over."
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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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"Since I also act, sometimes I get over my resentment and commit to the pitch as an acting job."
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"Begin thus from the first act, and proceed; and, in conclusion, at the ill which thou hast done, be troubled, and rejoice for the good."
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"I think all those actors from that generation, like Bogart - they were wonderful actors. They didn't act. They just came on and they did it, and the characters were wonderful."
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"One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses."
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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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"I act as a sponge. I soak it up and squeeze it out in ink every two weeks."
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"I will act as if what I do makes a difference."
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"I'll drink your champagne. I'll drink every drop of it, I don't care if it kills me."
Risk
"...he told me all the things he liked to THINK he thought in the misty past."
Psychology
"All she wanted was to be a little girl, to be efficiently taken care of by some yielding yet superior power, stupider and steadier than herself. It seemed that the only lover she had ever wanted was a lover in a dream."
Desire
"I was alone again in the unquiet darkness."
Emotion
"Writers aren't exactly people.... They're a whole bunch of people trying to be one person."
Writing
"Unlike Gatsby and Tom Buchanan I had no girl whose disembodied face floated along the dark cornices and blinding signs and so I drew up the girl beside me, tightening my arms. Her wan scornful mouth smiled and I drew her up again, closer, this time to my face."
Romance
"Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint."
Connection
"Her eyes in the half-light suggested night and violets, and for a moment he stirred again to that half-forgotten remoteness of the afternoon."
Memory
"Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction."
Money
"Just as a cooling pot gives off heat, so all through youth and adolescence we give off calories of virtue. That's what's called ingenuousness."
Youth
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