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  • Eric Hoffer Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Joseph Conrad Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions.
    Nostromo
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Albert Pike Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the
    Albert Pike
    American attorney, soldier, writer, and Freemason (1809 - 1891)
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  • Robert South Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.
    Robert South
    English churchman (1634 - 1716)
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  • William James Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Brandon Lee Action-adventure, that genre, only works for me if you can care about the characters. If the hero's not taking some kind of a journey, then there are no stakes - and no stakes, then you don't care if he lives or dies, wins or loses.
    Brandon Lee
    American actor (1965 - 1993)
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  • Thomas à Kempis Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard Actors are always nervous about not only hurting each other, but maybe perhaps hitting each other's face and ending one's career.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Donald Sinden Actors ought to be larger than life. You come across quite enough ordinary, nondescript people in daily life and I don't see why you should be subjected to them on the stage too.
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  • Brendan Gleeson Actors will always tell you it's more fun playing bad guys. A lot of the time, it's criminals who are the people who don't care. There's something extraordinarily seductive about the guy who doesn't care, and to play that guy is terribly empowering, because you don't have to worry about the consequences of your actions.
    Brendan Gleeson
    Irish actor and film director (1955 - )
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  • Aaron Stanford 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.
    Aaron Stanford
    American actor (1976 - )
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  • Cate Blanchett Actresses can get outrageously precious about the way they look. That's not what life's about. If you starve yourself to the point where your brain cells shrivel, you will never do good work. And if you're overly conscious of your arms flapping in the wind, how can you look the other actor in the eye to respond to them?
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Alan Cumming Actually I like working kind of fast, because if you got it, why bother doing it over and over?
    Alan Cumming
    Scottish-American actor, comedian, singer, and activist (1965 - )
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  • Bono Actually oddly enough, I think my work, the activism, will be forgotten. And I hope it will. Because I hope those problems will have gone away.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Ben Barnes 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.
    Ben Barnes
    English actor (1981 - )
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  • Billy Corgan Actually, I was having dinner with Michael (Stipe, of R.E.M.) when our second album went platinum, which up until that point was the highest success we'd ever had. And he turned to me during dinner and said, 'Welcome to the deep waters, kid.' I'll never forget that.
    Icon Magazine. April 1998
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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  • Bahman Ghobadi Actually, the only thing I regret is not making more underground films and bringing them with me as historical documents.
    Bahman Ghobadi
    Iranian-Kurdish film director, producer and writer (1969 - )
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  • George F. Will Actually, there is only one ''first question'' of government, and it is ''How should we live?'' or ''What kind of people do we want our citizens to be?''
    George F. Will
    American columnist (1941 - )
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  • A. D. Hope 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.
    Imperial Adam (l. 25-28)
    A. D. Hope
    Australian poet and essayist (1907 - 2000)
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