Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.
A library implies an act of faith.
One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.
To love is to act.
You have people who can't act and they get all these parts. Paris Hilton falls into her own category. She's made a career out of it.
Guys act strange around me. I swear I don't know why!
It was such a paradox for me that the only thing I know how to do is act, but that the first thing I abandoned while writing were the characters.
Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.
If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.
Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it.
I think all those actors from that generation, like Bogart - they were wonderful actors. They didn't act. They just came on and they did it, and the characters were wonderful.
I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce.
It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.
Some people act as though art that is for a mass audience is not good art, and I think this has been a very negative thing. I know that I have wanted very much to write books that are accessible to the widest audience possible.
It's amazing to me that, in the 42 years since President Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act into law, women today still receive fewer wages than men for the same work.