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One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently.

I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor.

Manuel Puig

What qualifies me to tell people how to act or what to think? I'm Charley Pride, country singer. Period.

Acting isn't the be-all end-all. There are a lot of other things in my life that will bring me joy if I didn't act anymore.

Too often we act - ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, because we're giving them children who have, you know, they're not ready to learn. And if they're not ready to learn by the third grade, they know they're behind.

The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.

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 yeast.

The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination.

The Patriot Act removed major legal barriers that prevented the law enforcement, intelligence, and national defense communities from talking and coordinating their work to protect the American people and our national security.

Under current law volunteers who are not working with an official nonprofit organization are not covered by the Volunteer Protection Act. Therefore, there are absolutely no legal protections for the average American who wishes to volunteer.

Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

Alexander Pope

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Lies

Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.

I still feel that a movie has to attempt to say something - even if it fails miserably. But I've sort of given up on believing that I'm going to change the world with every film I choose to act in.

If they don't think, people act senselessly.

Andrei Platonov

People

Act

What if we all suddenly get carried away thinking - who will be left to act?