Act Quotes · Page 35

Politicians generally act as if there is no cost to reconnecting with voters by building new New Deals. But the whole exercise…

— Amity Shlaes

The Taliban and its backers bear the responsibility for the consequences of this outrageous act.

— Amanullah Khan

I think that hope is the act of continuing in the face of the truth.

— Daphne Gottlieb

Years ago a friend and fellow writer, Nick Antosca, once made a remark about it being best not to threaten, but to…

— Helen Oyeyemi

I really do think that dreaming and fantasies are very important to the human psyche and the soul. That's why I want…

— James Duval

For me it's even more interesting, because my character comes out of the shadow. It's a chance to really act emotionally, because…

— Ian McDiarmid

I've said it before: Barack Obama is really the president Richard Nixon always wanted to be. You know, he's been allowed to…

— Jonathan Turley

If you ask me what is civilisation, it's little more than an act of faith.

— Mary Beard

I was branded a Negro in the States and had to act accordingly. They wouldn't even give me a chance in the…

— Willie Wells

I'm not one of those people who has an act.

— Ani DiFranco

I want to act. That'd be so much fun.

— Manny MUA

“You may not be able to do anything about how you feel; but you can do something about how you act. People…

— Israelmore Ayivor

The act of founding a company is its own act of narcissism: 'I alone can do this.'

— Andy Dunn

I do not want to insult anyone with my act and am very careful about it.

— Javed Jaffrey

Movies were always the goal, but I had a lot of goals. Twelve-year-old me wanted to do everything: act and sing and…

— Joss Whedon

The act of writing is a way of tricking yourself into revealing something that you would never consciously put into the world.…

— Chuck Palahniuk

If you can act as if something is true, in a sense that makes it true.

— Roger Ebert

People get into debt head over heels because banks make it so easy to do so. Then the banks come along and…

— Jonathan Raymond

To act, no matter how the character is, you have to love and have compassion for the character you're playing.

— Marshall Allman

When you see me on the street, act like you know me.

— Tracy Morgan

I feel, as an adult, I'm very similar to how I was as a pre-teen. Maybe it's a case of arrested development,…

— Jeff Kinney

Faith is almost the bottom line of creativity; it requires a leap of faith any time we undertake a creative endeavor, whether…

— Julia Cameron

It is one thing to recognise certain potentially useful affinities, and another to act on them.

— John Burnham Schwartz

I would have never signed the Patriot Act. I would have never signed the National Defense Authorization Act allowing for arrests and…

— Gary Johnson

“You have gone through enough theory, now it's time to take actions.”

— Amit Kalantri