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Act Quotes
"I have to say that it's very few countries that are willing to look back at its past and apologize for its act, or make amends for its act, as the United States had one."
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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."
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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."
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"I'd like to ask you: what you would prefer us to do? I'd like to ask my colleagues, would any other country act differently? I think the answer is very clear. No one would act differently."
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"I claim for Canada this, that in future Canada shall be at liberty to act or not act, to interfere or not interfere, to do just as she pleases, and that she shall reserve to herself the right to judge whether or not there is cause for her to act."
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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."
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"You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one."
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"I actually find it harder to act in the scenes where there's not much happening, say having a milkshake in the diner. That is far harder to do than straight scenes where there's a drama going on and you have something to do."
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"The Patriot Act allows and provides a basis for an exchange of information."
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"I feel constricted if I become too much aware of the act of making. Liberty is lost and instead of an instinctual lyrical expression the whole thing becomes arid."
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"In Congress, I am a strong supporter of the New Apollo Energy Act. This plan would help to establish our energy independence, create jobs, and provide cleaner, reliable, and more affordable energy."
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"I act for the reality, for the moment, and most of all I do it for the process."
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"It never became an act in the sense of an act. It was always, no matter where we worked, little revues."
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"To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know."
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"To be honest with you, I get a little fed up with actors who act crazy to make themselves more interesting."
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"You get an image after you act in a film, but it is not necessary that you last long because of that image."
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"The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act."
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"In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects."
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"I've always wanted to act and I can't think of anything else I'd want to do, honestly."
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"To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation."
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"I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act."
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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."
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