Act Quotes

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I don't believe in acting. I think that people in life act, but when you are on the stage, or in my case also on… — Luise Rainer
Some of the best ideas I've gotten for my act have come from comedians and not magicians. — Andrew Mayne
The greatest act of love was to make a tape for someone. It was the only way we could share music and it was also… — Lavinia Greenlaw
I once made the mistake of writing a story with David Corbett. The man smoked me. He can delineate the character and personality of an… — Luis Alberto Urrea
My inner wolf seeks to destroy the one I love for reasons of self-preservation. For the only cure to free my soul is to be… — Bree Despain
Look like a girl, act like a lady, think like a man and work like a dog. — Caroline K. Simon
Whether you are Minor White or Robert Frank, almost every photograph starts with an act of pure description - a window. But every now and… — Alec Soth
It is not an act of bravery to try to save your own village. It is an instinct to protect what you possess. Bravery is… — Gail Tsukiyama
Generosity brings happiness at every stage of its expression. We experience joy in forming the intention to be generous. We experience joy in the actual… — Gautama Buddha
Isn't it funny how the memories you cherish before a breakup can become your worst enemies afterwards? The thoughts you loved to think about, the… — Ally Condie
We are social beings who make communities with an urgency, and it is a stern charge to make us take refuge in the lonely world… — Vijay Prashad
To dream a garden and then to plant it is an act of independence and even defiance to the greater world. — Stanley Crawford
Friends are supposed to act like harbor boats-let you know if you're off course. But it ain't always possible. — Rebecca Wells
An organization that treats its programmers as morons will soon have programmers that are willing and able to act like morons only. — Bjarne Stroustrup
Commonly, people believe that defeat is characterized by a general bustle and a feverish rush. Bustle and rush are the signs of victory, not of… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
There's so much more to life than that, though I think that acting is fascinating because you can forget your own sorrow as you act… — Beatrice Wood
A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own… — Dennis Potter
It is the world's first Ebola epidemic, and it's spiraling out of control. It's bad now, and it's going to get worse in the very… — Tom Frieden
Design is as much an act of spacing as an act of marking. — Ellen Lupton
Shift your frame of reference. Realise that all you see around you, Âthe reality we perceiveÂ, is a small stage upon which you act, and… — Alex Bennett

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