"We ape, we mimic, we mock. We act."

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"Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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

Erich Fromm, American Psychologist

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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

Act, Fashion, Joy, Motherhood

"Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night."

William Blake, English Poet

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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."

Henry Miller, American Author

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"In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor."

Henry Miller, American Author

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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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"Have a very good reason for everything you do."

Reason

"I often think that could we creep behind the actor's eyes, we would find an attic of forgotten toys and a copy of the Domesday Book."

Actor

"I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shakespeare. An actor must act."

God

"My stage successes have provided me with the greatest moments outside myself, my film successes the best moments, professionally, within myself."

Film

"I take a simple view of life: keep your eyes open and get on with it."

Eye

"Lead the audience by the nose to the thought."

Thought

"Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult."

Acting

"Surely we have always acted; it is an instinct inherent in all of us. Some of us are better at it than others, but we all do it."

Instinct

"I'd like people to remember me for a diligent expert workman. I think a poet is a workman. I think Shakespeare was a workman. And God's a workman. I don't think there's anything better than a workman."

God

"We have all, at one time or another, been performers, and many of us still are - politicians, playboys, cardinals and kings."

Time