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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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"There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself."

"Since I also act, sometimes I get over my resentment and commit to the pitch as an acting job."

"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."

"One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses."

"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."

"The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty."

"Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven."
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"When you look at the startling ruins of Nuremberg, you are looking at a result of the war. When you look at the prisoners on view in the courthouse, you are looking at 22 of the causes."

"By jove, no wonder women don't love war nor understand it, nor can operate in it as a rule; it takes a man to suffer what other men have invented."
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