"The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep."

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"The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep."

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"Begin when you have the strength. You have it now, therefore the best time to begin is now."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

Action, Strength, Beginning, Success

"Thinking without acting makes you a coward. Acting without thinking makes you insane. You need both the thoughts and actions, they never walk alone!"

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

Action, Thinking, Balance, Success

"Act for the joy and beauty of action not for the fruits of creation."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Action, Beauty, Joy, Creation

"Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery."

Henry Miller, American Author

Action, Fact, Mystery, Philosophy

"Do it or not, but do."

Fakeer Ishavardas, Indian Spiritual Leader

Action, Decision, Discipline, Motivational

"I'm good at doing things I'm not supposed to, she said, then kicked the door open."

Brandon Sanderson, American Author

Action, Rebellion, Strength, Independence

"Don't wish away your problems. They need action, not wishful thinking."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

Action, Problem, Solution, Effort

"Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting over lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; Boldness has genius, power and magic in it."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

Action, Time, Motivational, Opportunity

"Taking action provides immediate feedback and an opportunity to review your progress to see if you are on the right track."

Mensah Oteh, Nigerian Author

Action, Progress, Motivational, Success

"But it is not always the people who say most who do most."

Agatha Christie, English Writer

Action, Speech, Truth, Impact

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"Our relationship was cursed by the fact that we agreed on everything."

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"I hate the Communists and have for many years and don't feel right about giving up my career to defend them. I will give up my film career if it is in the interests of defending something I believe in, but not this."

Career

"I didn't have that much confidence. Maybe it looks that way. I'm glad it does."

Confidence

"I would rather do what I did than crawl in front of a ritualistic Left and lie the way those other comrades did betray my own soul."

Lie

"When you know what an actor has, you can reach in and arouse it. If you don't know what he has, you don't know what the hell is going on."

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"I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did."

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"I was both very successful and very left; the living demonstration of how you could be on the left and still be in the gossip columns and be envied for the money you made."

Money