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Act Quotes
"I think all those actors from that generation, like Bogart - they were wonderful actors. They didn't act. They just came on and they did it, and the characters were wonderful."
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"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've been on stage since I was 7. That's where I'd rather be than anywhere else. Just because you can do a bunch of things doesn't mean you are a bunch of things. I can act. I can sing. But I am a dancer."
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"Listening is such a simple act. It requires us to be present, and that takes practice, but we don't have to do anything else. We don't have to advise, or coach, or sound wise. We just have to be willing to sit there and listen."
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"NAFTA and GATT have about as much to do with free trade as the Patriot Act has to do with liberty."
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"Japan is a great nation. It should begin to act like one."
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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."
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"While we have entertained the contention that a deed may make more propaganda than hundreds of speeches, thousands of articles, and tens of thousands of pamphlets, we have held that an arbitrary act of violence will not necessarily have such an effect."
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"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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"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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"My legislation, the Simple Savings Tax Relief Act of 2005, simply eliminates the taxation of interest earned in savings accounts, such as passbook savings accounts or bank certificates of deposit."
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"I just don't want to be known as the actress who can sing. I want to be known as the singer who can act, too. It's great cross-promotion."
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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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"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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"It is not impossible to think that the minds of philosophers sometimes act like those of other mortals, and that, having once been determined by diverse circumstances to adopt certain views, they then look for and naturally find reasons to justify these views."
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"I want to act because I don't know how to do anything else."
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"The free man must be born before freedom can be won, and the brotherly man must be born before full brotherhood can be won. It will come into being only if we build it out of our very muscle and bone - by trying to act it out."
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"The mental act of sensation which issues in reflex movement is so simple as to defy analysis."
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"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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"The Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Act is an important authorization for our country and for our citizens, as we have seen so vividly in the last few weeks."
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"Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist."
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"You can't act for the editing. You just go in and do the scene the way you think is right."
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"Unlike other peoples the United States found their origin in a deliberate act of corporate self-assertion, and ever since the Revolution every little American has been taught to associate himself personally with this creative act."
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"I'm getting to the point where they see me as a good actor, rather than just a good guy who can act."
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"You get to act for a living. You're fortunate. So act like it."
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"The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection."
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"A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward."
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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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"Murder is an offensive act. The term cannot be applied legitimately to any defensive act."
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