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I realized that filmmaking is an eminently scalable act. No matter how big or how small, there's joys and stresses that will all scale themselves magnificently to fit the production.

~David Lowery

Topics: Act Big Filmmaking Fit How Joys Matter Production Realized Scale Small Stresses Themselves Will

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Ego suppression can be an act of ostentation.

~David Milch

Topics: Act Ego Suppression

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I like to act because I can forget about everything else.

~David Morrissey

Topics: About Act Because Else Everything Everything Else Forget Like I Can

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As awesome as it is to be with a big act and get three catered meals a day and get a dressing room with an actual shower in it, it's hard sometimes as a new artist to come across in 25 minutes. You get 25 minutes to hopefully impress these people. I think the longer set is more suitable for us and gives us an opportunity to connect better.

~David Nail

Topics: Across Act Actual Artist Awesome Better Big Come Connect Day Dressing Dressing Room Get Gives Hard Hopefully Impress Longer Meals Minutes More New New Artist Opportunity People Room Set Shower Sometimes Suitable Think Three Us You I Think

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All the questions discussed in the Talmud and related rabbinic literature are normative questions: either they are questions of what one is to think or what one is to do. Every prescribed thought has some practical implication; every prescribed act has some theoretical implication.

~David Novak

Topics: Act Discussed Either Every Literature Practical Prescribed Questions Related Some Theoretical Think Thought

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The simple act of sitting down and playing something enormously complex and spiritually uplifting on a harpsichord just bores kids to tears. There's no sizzle, there's no grab. But it's the great lesson of serious music, that it invites you to listen, rather than demands that you listen.

~David Ogden Stiers

Topics: Act Bores Complex Demands Down Grab Great Invites Just Kids Lesson Listen Music Playing Rather Serious Simple Simple Act Sitting Something Spiritually Tears Than Uplifting You

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What we usually do to great men and women is relegate them to homogenised heroism. Their words and actions become soundbites and images in a way that gives us an excuse not to act bravely in our own lives.

~David Oyelowo

Topics: Act Actions Become Bravely Excuse Gives Great Great Men Heroism Images Lives Men Men And Women Our Own Them Us Way Women Words

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The Orlando terrorist is an example of someone who was in the sights of law enforcement but never crossed the threshold from pre-criminal to criminal behavior and, thus, was not tracked adequately before this horrific act.

~David Petraeus

Topics: Act Adequately Before Behavior Criminal Crossed Enforcement Example Horrific Law Law Enforcement Never Orlando Sights Someone Terrorist Threshold Thus Who

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The economy is too weak right now. We need to jump-start it. The American Jobs Act will provide that jump-start, to help us into next year and the year after that.

~David Plouffe

Topics: Act After American Economy Help Jobs Need Next Next Year Now Provide Right Too Us Weak Will Year

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And so whether it's failing to move forward on the Dream Act, failing to move forward on putting teachers back to work, failing to do all the things we could do right now to help the economy and middle class, this Congress is just saying no.

~David Plouffe

Topics: Act Back Class Congress Could Dream Economy Failing Forward Help Just Middle Middle Class Move Move Forward Now Putting Right Saying Teachers Things Whether Work

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