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"I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it."
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"I write, but I also act."
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"Self-discipline is an act of cultivation. It require you to connect today's actions to tomorrow's results. There's a season for sowing a season for reaping. Self-discipline helps you know which is which."
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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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"For no continuity of social act is possible without a corresponding social status and the many different kinds of act required in an industrial state, with its high degree of specialization, make for corresponding classification of status."
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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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"The honor is overpaid, When he that did the act is commentator."
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"Congress and the White House are working out their scheme for pushing through a healthcare 'reform' bill that has more pages than the U.S. Constitution has words. I guarantee you that not a single member of the House or Senate has a complete understanding of that legislation any more than they understood all the implications of the USA PATRIOT Act back in 2001."
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"One of the disadvantages of being a patrician is that occasionally you're obliged to act like one."
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"An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause."
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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."
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"Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations."
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"You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling."
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"The film depends on the audience's belief in this relationship."
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"I certainly gained a lot by reading about Shanghai."
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"I don't feel particularly comfortable about actors using whatever power they may have to push their beliefs, unless they're extremely well informed."
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"I got to read some writings by serial killers, and they got inside my head. They were quite disturbing. I read disturbing stuff about that very detached way of manipulating people to do things."
People

"I couldn't get as big as a bodybuilder. I tried to put on as much weight in the right places as I could. My weightlifting was impressive for me, but not for some of the guys I see down at the gym."
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"It was just two energies between two people, you can't prescribe that."
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"Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film."
Film

"I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it."
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