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• The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.

  Ralph Ellison

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• You have to be quite stupid to act.

  Rachel Weisz

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• When I got divorced, I thought ‘Well, there goes my act.’

  Louis C.K.

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  We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.

  Bryan White

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• Begin thus from the first act, and proceed; and, in conclusion, at the ill which thou hast done, be troubled, and rejoice for the good.

  Pythagoras

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  It only takes a second to call a girl fat, and she’ll take a lifetime trying to starve herself. think before you act.

  Harry Styles

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  She acts tough like a stone. But cries herself to sleep at night.

  Unknown

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• Voting is the foundational act that breathes life into the principle of the consent of the governed.

  DeForest Soaries

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• There are no second acts in American lives.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

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• My background was art school, documentary director and surfer with a keen interest in thrilling acts of life threatening stupidity.

  Yahoo Serious

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  Tags in Director, Thrilling, Documentary, Stupidity, Act

• Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.

  Victor Hugo

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  Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

  William James

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• I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

  William James

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• Every obnoxious act is a cry for help.

  Zig Ziglar

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• I voted for the Defense of Marriage Act but I do not believe we should institutionalize a form of discrimination against any minority by amending the Constitution.

  Ben Nighthorse Campbell

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• We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.

  Erich Fromm

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  Tags in Purposeful, Doings, Goes, Yet, Least, Our, Awake, Act, Understand, Nothing, Sleep, Strange, Logical, Comparison

• The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

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• On the surface we all act like we all love each other and we’re free and easy, and actually we’re far more moralistic than any other society I’ve ever lived in.

  Kathy Acker

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• The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.

  William Godwin

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• Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

  Oscar Levant

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