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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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"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."
"The Massachusetts Land Bank, during Colonial times, prospered, and brought prosperity to the community, until it was forcibly suppressed by special act of Parliament."
"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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"Men seek for vocabularies that are reflections of reality. To this end, they must develop vocabularies that are selections of reality. And any selection of reality must, in certain circumstances, function as a deflection of reality."
"Our purpose is simply to ask how theological principles can be shown to have usable secular analogues that throw light upon the nature of language."
"We not only interpret the character of events... we may also interpret our interpretations."
"Creation implies authority in the sense of originator. The possibility of a 'Fall' is implied in a Covenant insofar as the idea of a Covenant implies the possibility of its being violated."
"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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