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"I have long observed that the act of writing is viewed, by some, as an elite and otherworldly act, all the more so if a person isn't paid for what she writes."

"I have long observed that the act of writing is viewed, by some, as an elite and otherworldly act, all the more so if a person isn't paid for what she writes."

Joyce Maynard, American Writer

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"We need to strengthen and save Social Security for today's workers. If we don't act now, this system, born out of the New Deal, will become a bad deal."

"We need to strengthen and save Social Security for today's workers. If we don't act now, this system, born out of the New Deal, will become a bad deal."

Mitch McConnell, American Politician

Act, Now, Security, Today

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"If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender."

"If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender."

Brian Eno, British Musician

Act, Emotion, Listening, Surrender

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"I saw Ronnie Hawkins play near my hometown, Port Dover, Ontario, and I saw him play there on New Year's Eve and the following spring I booked myself to be his opening act on maybe five shows, and he hired me after the first night."

"I saw Ronnie Hawkins play near my hometown, Port Dover, Ontario, and I saw him play there on New Year's Eve and the following spring I booked myself to be his opening act on maybe five shows, and he hired me after the first night."

Rick Danko, Canadian Musician

Act, First, New year, Night

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"I started to act in highschool and became a professional actor at 19."

"I started to act in highschool and became a professional actor at 19."

Nick Mancuso, Italian Actor

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"Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason."

"Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason."

Orson Welles, American Actor

Act, Man, Reason, Temper

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"The Patriot Act allows and provides a basis for an exchange of information."

"The Patriot Act allows and provides a basis for an exchange of information."

John Ashcroft, American Public Servant

Act, Information

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"When I was five years old I knew I wanted to act."

"When I was five years old I knew I wanted to act."

Debra Wilson, American Comedian

Act, Old, Years

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"I can relax in L.A. I think I'm the only person in that town who doesn't want to act. I was an OK singer. I was an OK dancer. But acting? Never could do it."

"I can relax in L.A. I think I'm the only person in that town who doesn't want to act. I was an OK singer. I was an OK dancer. But acting? Never could do it."

Victoria Beckham, English Musician

Act, Acting, Relax, Want

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"Once in a while I get inspired and finish my act with the hillbilly hoedown."

"Once in a while I get inspired and finish my act with the hillbilly hoedown."

Loretta Lynn, American Musician

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"But, you know, all I can do is submit my budget and then make the case to the Legislature to act."

"But, you know, all I can do is submit my budget and then make the case to the Legislature to act."

George Pataki, American Politician

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"Christ in this country would quite likely have been arrested under the Suppression of Communism act."

"Christ in this country would quite likely have been arrested under the Suppression of Communism act."

Joost de Blank, Dutch Bishop

Act, Christ, Communism, Country

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"I think sexy is vulnerability, and there's no way you can act vulnerable. It just has to be there."

"I think sexy is vulnerability, and there's no way you can act vulnerable. It just has to be there."

Michael Zaslow, American Actor

Act, Vulnerability

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"We really enjoy entertaining our children with characters. We'll act out all of The Wizard of Oz together."

"We really enjoy entertaining our children with characters. We'll act out all of The Wizard of Oz together."

Robin Wright Penn, American Actress

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"Think globally, act locally."

"Think globally, act locally."

Paul McCartney, English Musician

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"Congress did a good thing back in 1995 in passing the Deep Water Royalty Relief Act. That act did a simple thing. It provided automatic royalty relief for new leases for 5 years in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico."

"Congress did a good thing back in 1995 in passing the Deep Water Royalty Relief Act. That act did a simple thing. It provided automatic royalty relief for new leases for 5 years in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico."

Bobby Jindal, American Politician

Act, Congress, Deep, Royalty

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"Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again."

"Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again."

Grover Cleveland, American President

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"I actually started singing those songs six or seven years ago, when I was an opening act for Frank Sinatra."

"I actually started singing those songs six or seven years ago, when I was an opening act for Frank Sinatra."

Pia Zadora, American Actress

Act, Singing, Songs, Years

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"I think the point to be understood is that we're all different. I've never been a fan of theories of acting. I didn't go to drama school, so I was never put through a training that was limited by someone saying, 'This is the way you should act.'"

"I think the point to be understood is that we're all different. I've never been a fan of theories of acting. I didn't go to drama school, so I was never put through a training that was limited by someone saying, 'This is the way you should act.'"

Ian Mckellen, English Actor

Act, Acting, Drama, Saying

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"I don't know, in view of the situation and the act going where it was going, I don't know, the rage did go all over the place. It went to everybody in the room."

"I don't know, in view of the situation and the act going where it was going, I don't know, the rage did go all over the place. It went to everybody in the room."

Michael Richards, American Actor

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"There's something about the Houdini act that is not always made clear - about the escape act in general."

"There's something about the Houdini act that is not always made clear - about the escape act in general."

James Randi, Canadian Entertainer

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"It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over."

"It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over."

Arthur Erickson, Canadian Architect

Act, Mystery, Self

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"We've all got to look at ourselves, start with yourself, that's all you can do. I believe that we can act responsibly as a group, it's just that there are vested interests telling us not to bother."

"We've all got to look at ourselves, start with yourself, that's all you can do. I believe that we can act responsibly as a group, it's just that there are vested interests telling us not to bother."

Ben Elton, British Comedian

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"When you act, you're always playing a version of yourself. You can't bring more to the role than what you are."

"When you act, you're always playing a version of yourself. You can't bring more to the role than what you are."

Bradley Whitford, American Actor

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"There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves."

"There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves."

Tom Wolfe, American Journalist

Act, Cooking, Earth, Woman

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"It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever."

"It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

Act, Being, Cleverness

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"Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act."

"Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act."

Leonard Cohen, Canadian Musician

49

"I rise today in strong support of the Children's Safety and Violent Crime Reduction Act, because it is a commonsense way to protect our schoolchildren from pedophiles."

"I rise today in strong support of the Children's Safety and Violent Crime Reduction Act, because it is a commonsense way to protect our schoolchildren from pedophiles."

Ric Keller, American Politician

Act, Children, Crime, Safety

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"We were at the Schubert Theater for two years. And we were the first act."

"We were at the Schubert Theater for two years. And we were the first act."

Eydie Gorme, American Musician

Act, First, Theater, Years

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"We've talked more about civil rights after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than we talked about it before 1964."

"We've talked more about civil rights after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than we talked about it before 1964."

Clarence Thomas, American Judge

Act, Civil rights

48

"In the studio system, things are expected of a film. By the first, second, third act, there's a generic language that comes out of the more commercial system."

"In the studio system, things are expected of a film. By the first, second, third act, there's a generic language that comes out of the more commercial system."

Ralph Fiennes, British Actor

Act, Film, First, Language

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"It's curious how we act in moments of personal despair."

"It's curious how we act in moments of personal despair."

Lawrence Welk, American Musician

Act, Despair, Moments

48

"If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf."

"If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf."

Nikita Khrushchev, Russian Statesman

48

"It's not an act, it's just my way."

"It's not an act, it's just my way."

Arthur Godfrey, American Entertainer

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"I cannot consistently, with self respect, do other than I have, namely, to deliberately violate an act which seems to me to be a denial of everything which ideally and in practice I hold sacred."

"I cannot consistently, with self respect, do other than I have, namely, to deliberately violate an act which seems to me to be a denial of everything which ideally and in practice I hold sacred."

Roger Nash Baldwin, American Activist

Act, Denial, Practice, Respect

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"When you're in Los Angeles, nobody bats an eye, they're so used to seeing actors, they just act really cool."

"When you're in Los Angeles, nobody bats an eye, they're so used to seeing actors, they just act really cool."

Luke Wilson, American Actor

Act, Actors, Eye

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"We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act."

"We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act."

Charles Darwin, English Scientist

Act, Laws, Universe

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"To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation."

"To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation."

Adlai E. Stevenson, American Politician

Act, Circumstances, Man, Nation

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"We speculate as to what is in store for us. But we not only undergo events, we in part cause them or at least influence their course. We have not only to study them but to act."

"We speculate as to what is in store for us. But we not only undergo events, we in part cause them or at least influence their course. We have not only to study them but to act."

Emily Greene Balch, American Educator

Act, Cause, Events, Influence

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"We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives."

"We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives."

Edward Dahlberg, American Novelist

Act, Evil, Motives, Result

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"The information I requested under the Freedom of Information Act has been blocked for two years."

"The information I requested under the Freedom of Information Act has been blocked for two years."

Sibel Edmonds, American Public Servant

Act, Freedom, Information, Years

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"One is just an interpreter of what the playwright thinks, and therefore the greater the playwright, the more satisfying it is to act in the plays."

"One is just an interpreter of what the playwright thinks, and therefore the greater the playwright, the more satisfying it is to act in the plays."

Vivien Leigh, English Actress

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"It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it."

"It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it."

Lillian Hellman, American Dramatist

Act, Confidence, Right

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"A week before shooting, they told me, You don't have the part, yet. We're still trying to find a handicapped kid who can act. Either that or we break your legs."

"A week before shooting, they told me, You don't have the part, yet. We're still trying to find a handicapped kid who can act. Either that or we break your legs."

Kieran Culkin, American Actor

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"My whole act is confession."

"My whole act is confession."

Shelley Berman, American Comedian

Act, Confession

48

"I cleaned up my act because otherwise I would have kicked the bucket."

"I cleaned up my act because otherwise I would have kicked the bucket."

Lou Reed, American Musician

48

"On March 10, 1764, preliminary resolutions passed the House of Commons looking towards the Stamp Act."

"On March 10, 1764, preliminary resolutions passed the House of Commons looking towards the Stamp Act."

Albert Bushnell Hart, American Historian

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"To hold that the act of homosexual sodomy is somehow protected as a fundamental right would be to cast aside millennia of moral teaching."

"To hold that the act of homosexual sodomy is somehow protected as a fundamental right would be to cast aside millennia of moral teaching."

Warren E. Burger, American Judge

Act, Right, Teaching

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"I think that's good that I have to watch how I act and what I say. I think that's a part of growing up."

"I think that's good that I have to watch how I act and what I say. I think that's a part of growing up."

Puff Daddy, American Musician

Act, Growing up

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"It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches."

"It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches."

Frederick The Great, German Royalty

Act, Man, Principles

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