Quotes with fast-acting

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  • Euripides No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.
    Euripides
    Greek tragedian and poet (480 - 406)
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  • Edmund Burke No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Ang Lee Not taboo - it's just that straight actors still risk their careers commercially and economically. They have to please the crowd - they're movie stars; their image is their industry. It goes beyond acting.
    Ang Lee
    Taiwanese film director, producer, and screenwriter (1954 - )
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  • Lewis Carroll Now here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!
    Lewis Carroll
    British Writer, Mathematician (1832 - 1898)
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  • Barry Humphries Oddly enough, Dame Edna is not interested in show business. Her friends in Los Angeles are mostly in the world of petroleum. She used to have some acting friends. Sadly, Joan Rivers has passed on. Larry Hagman was a close friend. A number of others.
    Barry Humphries
    Australian comedian, actor, artist, and author (1934 - 2023)
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  • Adelbert von Chamisso Of what use were wings to a man fast bound in chains of iron?
    Adelbert von Chamisso
    German writer, liar and explorer (1781 - 1838)
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  • Bill Watterson Oh look, yet another Christmas TV special! How touching to have the meaning of Christmas brought to us by cola, fast food, and beer.... Who'd have ever guessed that product consumption, popular entertainment, and spirituality would mix so harmoniously?
    Bill Watterson
    American cartoonist (1958 - )
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  • Beeban Kidron On telly, there's been a move towards entertainment - with some very high-powered, fast-moving dramas. Then we have the Internet, where we get our information but it's all in bite-size pieces. I think the documentary, as a form, actually speaks to what's missing.
    Beeban Kidron
    British filmmaker (1961 - )
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  • Boman Irani Once, Naseeruddin Shah told me that the wafer shop was the best acting school that I could have attended. And I completely agree. I observed every customer very minutely and picked up some quirk or the other. Later, I used those experiences while playing different characters.
    Boman Irani
    Indian actor (1959 - )
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  • Bishop Joseph Henshaw One doth but break-fast here, another dine; he that lives longest does but suppe; we must all goe to bed in another World.
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  • Brit Marling One of the great pleasures of acting is surrendering to someone else's point of view of the world - living inside a character and a story that never would have come out of your mind or heart.
    Brit Marling
    American actress and screenwriter (1982 - )
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  • Blake Farenthold One of the problems the Republican Party has had is that we're too fast to compromise. You can compromise on the little stuff, but you can't compromise on your core principles.
    Blake Farenthold
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Josiah Gilbert Holland One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast withers as rapidly; and that which grows slow endures.
    Josiah Gilbert Holland
    American Author (1819 - 1881)
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  • Bob Newhart One time I happened to use the word 'denigrate' onstage, and it didn't get any reaction. So as I continued my act, the left side of my brain was fast-forwarding to see if I had any other big words coming up.
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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  • Adam Garcia People do more important jobs than acting in film that should be recognised, but for some reason it's big money, so people are elevated in status. If I was a bus driver, I'm sure you wouldn't be interviewing me.
    Adam Garcia
    Australian actor (1973 - )
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  • Howard W. Newton People forget how fast you did a job, but they remember how well you did it.
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  • Stephen R. Covey People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally ''being lived.'' They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.
    Stephen R. Covey
    American educator, author and businessman (1932 - 2012)
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  • Philip Larkin Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.
    Philip Larkin
    English poet, novelist and librarian (1922 - 1985)
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  • Bitsie Tulloch Portland is a really great city, especially because I'm a shopper and there's no sales tax! That really adds up so fast, because in California, a $1000 pair of shoes ends up costing another $100.
    Bitsie Tulloch
    American actress
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  • Napoleon Secrets travel fast in Paris.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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