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I was asked to act when I couldn't act. I was asked to sing 'Funny Face' when I couldn't sing, and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn't dance - and do all kinds of things I wasn't prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it.

~Audrey Hepburn

Topics: Act Asked Astaire Cope Dance Face Fred Fred Astaire Funny Kinds Like Mad Prepared Sing Then Things Tried I Tried

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A novelist writes a novel, and people read it. But reading is a solitary act. While it may elicit a varied and personal response, the communal nature of the audience is like having five hundred people read your novel and respond to it at the same time. I find that thrilling.

~August Wilson

Topics: Act Audience Communal Elicit Find Five Having Hundred Like May Nature Novel Novelist People Personal Read Reading Respond Response Same Same Time Solitary Thrilling Time Varied While Writes Your

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A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators.

~Augustine Birrell

Topics: Act Bad Bath Become Conventional Creation Good Innovative Know Read Readers Relaxing Surely True Which

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Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them.

~Augustus Hare

Topics: Act Apt Bad Good Impulse Men More Much Neither Nor Persons Principle Since Than Them Think

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I think that when a film does its job, it poses questions rather than gives answers. It should act as a frustrating counselor who, at your bidding for advice, says, 'What do you think?' I think that's some of what the culture critic Greg Tate meant by art leaving a 'metaphysical stain.'

~Aunjanue Ellis

Topics: Act Advice Answers Art Bidding Counselor Critic Culture Does Film Frustrating Gives Job Leaving Meant Metaphysical Poses Questions Rather Says Should Some Stain Than Think Who You Your I Think

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I love to act because I love trying on other people's skin.

~Autumn Reeser

Topics: Act Because Love Other People Skin Trying I Love

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Friendly governments do not act so as to undermine the national security of their friends, and do not presume to know better than their friends how they should contend with the many challenges they face. The Swedish government would do well to rethink its intention to act in this way towards its friend Israel.

~Avigdor Lieberman

Topics: Act Better Challenges Contend Face Friend Friendly Friends Government Governments How Intention Israel Know Many National National Security Presume Rethink Security Should Swedish Than Towards Undermine Way Well Would

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We have parties at my house. My girlfriends and I play our iPods, with all of our favorite songs. We pick our songs and jump up on the counter and dance, and do runway stuff, and we take video with my camera. When I'm with my girlfriends, I act like I'm 19.

~Avril Lavigne

Topics: Act Camera Counter Dance Favorite Girlfriends House Jump Like Our Parties Pick Play Runway Songs Stuff Take Up Video

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I am consumed, or I have been consumed, with these issues of motherhood and the way we act out societal expectations and roles. So both my nonfiction and my fiction have been pretty much exclusively about that.

~Ayelet Waldman

Topics: About Act Am Been Both Consumed Expectations Fiction Issues Motherhood Much Nonfiction Out Pretty Roles Societal Way I Am

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We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.

~Ayn Rand

Topics: Act Anything Approaching Brute Brute Force Citizens Darkest Fast Force Free Government History Human Human History May Only Periods Permission Pleases Rule Stage Ultimate Where Which While

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