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Action Quotes by Shane Black
- Any time anyone fires bullets in an action movie that don't hit the target it immediately undermines the movie.
- I always have humour in my action movies. I think characters that make jokes under fire are more real. It somehow helps put you in…
- I hate 'The Professional.' It's one of the worst action/adventure movies ever made.
- An action film can have too much action; picture an equaliser on a stereo, with all the knobs pegged at 10. It becomes a cacophony…
- An action movie should, like any other, follow the narrative traditions of literature. That means there should be subtlety, a slow build and a gradual…
- Once I started selling scripts for a great deal of money - action scripts, no less, which people tend to pooh-pooh anyway - then I…
- The worst of the action films are the ones where everything is one shout from beginning to finish. And there's no differentiation between beats, like…
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- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people. — Joe Biden
- Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as… — Marcus Aurelius