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"For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?"
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"The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box."
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"The simple act of telling a woman's story from a woman's point of view is a revolutionary act: it never has been done before."

"Each wrong act brings with it its own anesthetic, dulling the conscience and blinding it against further light, and sometimes for years."

"You can't act for the editing. You just go in and do the scene the way you think is right."

"I grew up in the 1950s and '60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan."

"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."

"The Massachusetts Land Bank, during Colonial times, prospered, and brought prosperity to the community, until it was forcibly suppressed by special act of Parliament."
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"All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others."

"A great writer creates a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in for a moment, but soon he will watch them filing out."

"It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing."
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