Quotes with fast-acting

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  • Caroll Spinney Frankly, I think if I won the lottery and won a billion dollars, I'd still want to continue doing this job. I love expressing myself through it. I've gotten to really love acting. And I've gotten to know Big Bird from the inside out so thoroughly it's like playing my kid. I can't imagine deliberately stopping.
    Caroll Spinney
    American puppeteer, cartoonist, author and speaker (1933 - 2019)
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  • Bruce Catton Abraham Lincoln was not all brooding and melancholy and patient understanding. There was a hard core in him, and plenty of toughness. He could recognize a revolutionary situation when he saw one, and he could act fast and ruthlessly to meet it.
    Bruce Catton
    American historian and journalist (1899 - 1978)
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  • Ellen Barkin Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.
    Ellen Barkin
    American actress and producer (1954 - )
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  • Doug Horton Drive slow and enjoy the scenery - drive fast and join the scenery.
    Doug Horton
    American Protestant clergyman
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  • Betty Field I'm not an outstanding personality, and I'm certainly no beauty. Acting ability is all I've got to trade on.
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  • George Orwell In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Richard Bach ''To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is.'' ''He said, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.''
    Richard Bach
    American author (1936 - )
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  • Carl Honore 'In Praise of Slowness' chronicles the global trend towards deceleration that has come to be known as the Slow Movement. Don't worry, though: it is not a Luddite rant. I love speed. Going fast can be fun, liberating and productive. The problem is that our hunger for speed, for cramming more and more into less and less time, has gone too far.
    Carl Honore
    Canadian journalist (1967 - )
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  • Carlo Collodi A boy's appetite grows very fast, and in a few moments the queer, empty feeling had become hunger, and the hunger grew bigger and bigger, until soon he was as ravenous as a bear.
    Pinocchio
    Carlo Collodi
    Italian author, humorist and journalist (1826 - 1890)
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  • Ben Affleck A friend of my mom's was a casting director so, really as kind of a lark, I had a couple of acting jobs that had just enough exposure to give me the option to continue if I wanted to. I followed through with it.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • Ovid A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • Robert Redford A lot of what acting is paying attention.
    Robert Redford
    American actor (born 1936) (1936 - )
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  • Abba Goold Woolson A majority of women seem to consider themselves sent into the world for the sole purpose of displaying dry goods, and it is only when acting the part of an animated milliner's block that they feel they are performing their appropriate mission.
    Abba Goold Woolson
    American writer (0 - 1921)
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  • Carlos Castaneda A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.
    Carlos Castaneda
    American author and anthropologist (1925 - 1998)
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  • Georges Clemenceau A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.
    Georges Clemenceau
    French physician and politician (1841 - 1929)
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  • William Wordsworth A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Bill Owens A renewed commitment to the freedom and opportunity of our people is the touchstone of our time. In this new century, where tests are many and challenges change with the shifting of the wind, we must hold fast to the principles that have made our nation the envy of the world.
    Bill Owens
    American photographer (1938 - )
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  • Jeanne Moreau Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself.
    Jeanne Moreau
    French actress (1928 - 2017)
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  • Marguerite Duras Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.
    Marguerite Duras
    French author and filmmaker (1914 - 1996)
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  • Carrie Fisher Acting engenders and harbours qualities that are best left way behind in adolescence.
    Carrie Fisher
    American actress, writer and comedienne (1956 - 2016)
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