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Action in war is like movement in a resistant element. Just as the simplest and most natural of movements, walking, cannot easily be performed in water, so in war it is difficult for normal efforts to achieve even moderate results.
Source: On War (1832) Ch. 7, as translated by Michael Howard and Peter P -
Actors are just entertainers, even the serious ones. That's all an actor is. He's like a serious Bruce Forsyth.
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Actors between plays are like ghosts looking for bodies to inhabit.
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Actors, we like stories, we like storytelling, we love being a part of the story, and if you give us a story that's interesting then we'll want to do it.
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Actually I like working kind of fast, because if you got it, why bother doing it over and over?
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Actually what I'd like is to have a reputation as someone who's been wild and gone straight, but without having to go through the trouble of being bad.
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Adam had learned the jolly deed of kind:
He took her in his arms and there and then
Like the clean beasts, embracing from behind,
Began in joy to found the breed of men.Source: Imperial Adam (l. 25-28) -
Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.
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Advice is like castor oil, easy to give, but dreadful to take.
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Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them.
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Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.
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Affirmations are like prescriptions for certain aspects of yourself you want to change.
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After all, I don't see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles when every year there are miracles like white dogwood.
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After all, what is reading but a vice, like drink or venery or any other form of excessive self-indulgence? One reads to tickle and amuse one's mind; one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking.
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After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.
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After I left LA... it was like waking up. And so I moved back east and stopped auditioning.
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After some time, with my eyes closed, I began to enjoy this wonderful play of colors and forms, which it really was a pleasure to observe. Then I went to sleep and the next day I was fine. I felt quite fresh, like a newborn.
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Age, like distance lends a double charm.
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Ah, but it is incredible how often things force one to do the thing one would like to do.
Source: Death in the Clouds (1935)
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