"I am inspired by human sexuality. The act itself is mechanical and holds little interest to me."

Act, Interest, Sexuality

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"I am inspired by human sexuality. The act itself is mechanical and holds little interest to me."

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

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

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"Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night."

William Blake, English Poet

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"I think it's a lame excuse for a lot of these rappers to say they only call girls bitches or hos because they act like that. It doesn't make them right."

Queen Latifah, American Musician

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"After the magical act accomplished by Joyce with Ulysses, perhaps we are getting away from it."

Raymond Queneau, French Poet

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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."

bell hooks, American Critic

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"Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone."

Deborah Tannen, American Sociologist

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"Civil libertarians have raised concerns that some of the Patriot Act's provisions infringe on Constitutional rights. Those concerns are not supported by the facts."

Roger Wicker, American Politician

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"And in this community, as in all others, the Golden Rule still applies - we must be act toward other nations as we would have them act towards America."

Adam Schiff, American Politician

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"It's not that the creative act and the critical act are simultaneous. It's more like you blurt something out and then analyze it."

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"Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon... must inevitably come to pass!"

Paul J. Meyer, American Businessman

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"Mapplethorpe presented the body as a sexual object, separating it from the humanity of the person. He added nothing to photography as a medium. I hold his work in low regard."

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"A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life."

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"It is possible to stand around with a cocktail in one's hand and talk with everyone, which means with no one."

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"I am inspired by human sexuality. The act itself is mechanical and holds little interest to me."

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"There must be no worse punishment to a totalitarian nation than the withdrawal of capital."

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"I can create countries just as I can create the actions of my characters. That is why a lot of travel seems to me a waste of time."

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"In London, the weather would affect me negatively. I react strongly to light. If it is cloudy and raining, there are clouds and rain in my soul."

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"And really the purpose of art - for me, fiction - is to alert, to indicate to stop, to say: Make certain that when you rush through you will not miss the moment which you might have had, or might still have."

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"I do like to live in other people's homes. I enjoy being a guest. I am an inexpensive guest. When one lives in another's home he can enter into the psychic kingdom of that person."

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"I write for a certain sphere of readers in the United States who on average watch seven and a half hours of multichannel television per day."

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