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Act Quotes
"If bitterness wants to get into the act, I offer it a cookie or a gumdrop."
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"He's very alive in a scene. He's a very good actor to act with. Even though through most of the picture he's blind, there are many places early in the picture I got to be with him before he was blind. Like convincing him in the office to do the picture."
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"The only thing I can do is act, but it's not something I even feel comfortable doing. It costs me a lot, because I'm a shy person, even if I don't look it."
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"The public conviction that a railroad linking the West and the East was an absolute necessity became so pronounced after the gold discoveries of '49 that Congress passed an act in 1853 providing for a survey of several lines from the Mississippi to the Pacific."
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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."
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"A resignation is a grave act; never performed by a right minded man without forethought or with reserve."
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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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"I don't think anybody can be told how to act. I think you can give advice. But you have to find your own way through it."
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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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"I know I can act. There aren't too many other jobs I know how to do."
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"Begin thus from the first act, and proceed; and, in conclusion, at the ill which thou hast done, be troubled, and rejoice for the good."
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"If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want - except neurosurgery."
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"I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act."
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"I have always wanted to act ever since I was a little girl. I would put a blanket under my shirt and pretend that I was pregnant. Then, I would go through childbirth."
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"It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of contemplation itself is of course an enjoyment."
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"The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was indeed a vital instrument of democracy, ensuring the integrity and reliability of a democratic process that we as a Country hold so dear."
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"Laws protecting the United States flag do not cut away at the freedom of speech guaranteed in the First Amendment... Congress made this position clear upon passage of the Flag Protection Act of 1989, which prohibited desecration of the flag."
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"That's something I go through every day - you know - Am I good enough to act?"
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"There is a need for Social Security reform to ensure its stability, and Congress must act."
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"Often, even after years, mental states once present in consciousness return to it with apparent spontaneity and without any act of the will; that is, they are reproduced involuntarily."
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"Collaboration on a book is the ultimate unnatural act."
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"If we don't act, drilling will be allowed only 3 miles off Florida's east coast beaches."
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"Too often we think we can act without explaining and take decisions without justifying them."
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"I always try to act as though there is a little boy or a little girl around, and I try never to do anything that would give them a bad example."
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"Unfortunately, the media, which are not at all reluctant to act in their own self-interest, have succeeded in equating reform in the public mind with further restrictions on just about everyone else's freedom of political speech."
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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 knew I wanted to act, and I was really driven, so I kept going for it. We moved to L.A. full-time when I was 8 or 9."
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"The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act."
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"We're building on an international network with many others for the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. There are so many things we can do to carry forward policies."
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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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"Are Christians too stupid that we can't write a script, we can't film a movie OR we don't know how to act?"
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"In 1765, Parliament passed the Stamp Act, which, as any American high school student can tell you, was an act that apparently had something to do with stamps."
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