"I know I can act. There aren't too many other jobs I know how to do."

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"I know I can act. There aren't too many other jobs I know how to do."

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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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"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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"Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one."

Salman Rushdie, Indian Novelist

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"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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"Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation."

Thomas Huxley, English Scientist

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

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

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"I believe that voting is the first act of building a community as well as building a country."

John Ensign, American Politician

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"Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

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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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"Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently, cannot be explained by the social and general causes of the phenomenon."

Emile Durkheim, French Sociologist

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"There is no way you can get people to believe you on screen if they know who you really are through television."

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"We are going as fast as we can as soon as we can. We're in a race against time, until we run out of money."

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"I think that's what distinguishes Schmidt, really. In the movies now, so much of what is appealing to an audience is the dramatic or has to do with science fiction, and Schmidt is simply human. There's no melodrama; there's no device, It's just about a human being."

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"I know I can act. There aren't too many other jobs I know how to do."

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"Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide."

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"Well, a girlfriend once told me never to fight with anybody you don't love."

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"Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago."

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"I have a lot of vanity."

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"In other words, I wouldn't like to be an actor if I could only be real. I like to get wild, behaviorally wild, and it's crazy to think of any form where it's just one way."

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"I don't have any plugs or tucks but people do what they want. I look at it as mutilation."

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