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Act Quotes
"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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"This type of mass influx is simply too much to handle. What we've had since the disaster of the 1965 Immigration Act will take 100 years or more to absorb."
5
"There are three rape scenes that I've had to act in, and none of them have gotten to film. I don't think it's something that should be promoted in any way."
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"A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are."
Act,
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"I don't want to act just to be on the screen doing anything and looking any kind of way."
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"I would act whether or not I was paid. I would be involved in ensemble groups. I would have the desire to tell stories."
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"Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light, and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the sky."
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"The more I had to act like a saint, the more I felt like being a sinner."
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"For our part, the U.S. must act quickly to ensure Most Favored Nation status to China."
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"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."
4
"Just the act of listening means more than you can imagine to most employees."
4
"One of the disadvantages of being a patrician is that occasionally you're obliged to act like one."
4
"If we don't act, drilling will be allowed only 3 miles off Florida's east coast beaches."
4
"For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?"
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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."
4
"Race to race, the Republicans are putting up candidates that are quite far out of the mainstream in terms of should we have passed the Civil Rights Act or does Social Security need to exist."
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"Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it."
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"You know, we have a fiscal train wreck before us. And unless we act, and act deliberately, we're not going to enable our kids to have what we have. It's plain and simple as that."
4
"Among other things, the Real ID Act sets minimum security criteria that states would have to meet to have their driver's licenses accepted as identification to board a commercial flight or enter federal facilities."
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"My parents taught me to believe that through the creative act, we're able to transcend and give a response to desecration."
4
"I grew up in the 1950s and '60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan."
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"I know I can act. There aren't too many other jobs I know how to do."
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"I cannot imagine a context that would some day, in some manner, make the monstrous crime of September 11 an understandable or comprehensible political act."
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"Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners."
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"I only got to be able to act, because I gave myself a job as a producer."
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"And I think that we're more of an alternative act in that sense, and that flavor comes across to the audience."
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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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"The Patriot Act allows and provides a basis for an exchange of information."
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"If bitterness wants to get into the act, I offer it a cookie or a gumdrop."
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"And capital punishment, however ineffective it may be and through whatever ignorance it may be resorted to, is a strictly defensive act, - at least in theory."
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