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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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"Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr, the man who will not act until he knows all will never act at all."
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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."
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"I grew up in the 1950s and '60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan."
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"Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on."
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"I knew that this was what I wanted to talk about on stage. There was no point being coy about it, or pretending that I wasn't gay. That was the substance of my whole act. If you took that away, there would be nothing left."
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"Remember, if you do the same act for 20, 30 years it gets a little boring unless you've got something else going for you... And the orchestra really kept you going. They'd laugh at all your jokes, even if they'd been hearing them for the last 30 years."
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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."
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"I actually started singing those songs six or seven years ago, when I was an opening act for Frank Sinatra."
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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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"The only kind of love worth having is the kind that goes on living and laughing and fighting and loving."
Love
"I never considered the working class anything other than something to get out of."
Politics
"The chief internal enemies of any state are those public officials who betray the trust imposed upon them by the people."
Trust
"I fought fire with oil."
Fire
"Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility."
Business
"A good businessman never makes a contract unless he's sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not."
Marriage
"I am one day going to be working openly in the motion picture industry. When that day comes, I swear to you that I will never sign a term contract with any major studio."
Writing
"One of the disadvantages of being a patrician is that occasionally you're obliged to act like one."
Act
"Democracy means that people can say what they want to. All the people. It means that they can vote as they wish. All the people. It means that they can worship God in any way they feel right, and that includes Christians and Jews and voodoo doctors as well."
God
"Now the truth of the matter is that there are a lot of things people don't understand. Take the Einstein theory. Take taxes. Take love. Do you understand them? Neither do I. But they exist. They happen."
Love
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