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Arna Bontemps

"How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored."

Arna Bontemps, American Poet
Act, Literary
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"How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored."

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"I write, but I also act."

Eric Bogosian, American Actor
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"Self-discipline is an act of cultivation. It require you to connect today's actions to tomorrow's results. There's a season for sowing a season for reaping. Self-discipline helps you know which is which."

Gary Ryan Blair, American Author
Act, Actions, Results, Self
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"It's not that the creative act and the critical act are simultaneous. It's more like you blurt something out and then analyze it."

Robert Motherwell, American Artist
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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
Act, Impulses
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"An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause."

John Updike, American Novelist
Act, Applause, Glory, World
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"And what's more I've got no need for anyone to tell me how to do it. I am not interested. You act how you want to and leave me alone to do my own thing."

Olivier Martinez, French Actor
Act, Want
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Amber Hurdle

"We have a right, also, in various ways, to act upon our unfavorable opinion of anyone, not to the oppression of his individuality, but in the exercise of ours."

John Stuart Mill, English Philosopher
Act, Exercise, Individuality, Opinion
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Amber Hurdle

"The general consensus seems to be that I don't act at all."

Gary Cooper, American Actor
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"Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon... must inevitably come to pass!"

Paul J. Meyer, American Businessman
Act, Desire
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"Also, if you watch the film once, there are lots of things that you won't get because there are punch lines in the first act, the setup to which isn't until the second act."

Simon Pegg, British Comedian
Act, Film, First

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