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It's so easy to get used to playing a role. Then all of the sudden when you're tossed out of it, it's almost like you have to remember how to act again!
A. J. Cook
You
Remember
Out
Easy
Tossed
Almost
Like
How
Role
Get
Again
Then
Act
Used
Sudden
Playing
If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster.
A. R. Ammons
Time
Poem
Lead
Taken
New
Disaster
Discovery
May
Then
Act
Fulfillment
Each
Each Time
Necessarily
Chance
No matter where I'm at in life, whether I'm in the music industry, rich, poor, everybody need love in their life. Gangsta or not, everybody need love in their life. You can't act too hard about that.
A Boogie wit da Hoodie
Life
Love
Music
You
Matter
Rich
Gangsta
Too
Everybody
Music Industry
About
Industry
Where
Whether
Poor
Act
Hard
Need
One thing I really liked about David Winfield, man, just... the way he played the game, and such a class act he was on and off the field.
Aaron Judge
Game
Class
Man
Field
On And Off
Way
One Thing
About
David
He
Liked
Off
Just
Really
Act
Thing
Played
You have to learn how to act a pop song. You have to find the balance of the pop from the pop song and the lyrical significance of the scene you are in.
Aaron Lazar
You
Balance
Song
Lyrical
Significance
Find
Scene
Learn
How
Pop
Act
Pop Song
We must erase bin Laden's ugly legacy, not extend it: by ending the Patriot Act's erosion of our civil liberties, we can protect the freedoms that make America worth fighting for.
Aaron Swartz
Worth
Ugly
Ending
Fighting
Our
Liberties
Must
Civil
Civil Liberties
Freedoms
Protect
Make
Erase
Erosion
Legacy
America
Patriot
Act
Bin
Extend
I was always told at school that you had to have a back-up plan, but all I ever wanted to do was act. There was no plan B for me.
Aaron Taylor-Johnson
Me
You
School
Had
Always
Wanted
Plan
Act
Ever
Usually when I write a script, I have in mind some real people that I'm writing about, who don't always act in the film afterward.
Abbas Kiarostami
People
Writing
Mind
Some
About
Write
Always
Real
Real People
Afterwards
Script
Act
Who
Film
When I step into a character's shoes, I don't judge them. I make a conscious effort not to look from the outside in but look from the inside out, and when you do that it allows you to feel and sense things more, and act and react from a core, you know?
Abbie Cornish
Character
You
Judge
Shoes
Sense
Out
Inside
Inside-Out
More
Outside
Step
Feel
Know
Look
React
Make
Effort
Them
Act
Conscious
Things
Conscious Effort
Core
The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 represented precisely such a hope - that America had learned from its past and acted to secure a better tomorrow.
Aberjhani
Hope
Rights
Better
Tomorrow
Past
Secure
Civil
Civil Rights
Civil Rights Act
Had
Better Tomorrow
Learned
Passage
America
Precisely
Act
Acted
I'm an actor, paid to act. I don't bring personal problems to the sets. Dad taught me that.
Abhishek Bachchan
Me
Problems
Sets
Personal
Taught
Act
Paid
Dad
Actor
Bring
Plays are painful. But the very act of writing is a basic freedom denied some women. Some would call it a privilege. So what's a little pain?
Abi Morgan
Freedom
Women
Writing
Pain
Would
Some
Call
Denied
Very
Privilege
Little
Act
Painful
Basic
Plays
Gratefulness is a double-edged sword. Because I think we've poured it into a feeling. And the batter of gratitude gets kind of stuck to the edges of the Williams Sonoma melamine mixing bowl. But gratefulness, the act of being grateful is actually... a verb. It's an activity.
Abigail Spencer
Gratitude
Grateful
Feeling
Think
Batter
Williams
Kind
Stuck
Poured
Bowl
Edges
Because
Verb
Mixing
Gets
Being
Double-Edged
Double-Edged Sword
Act
Activity
Sword
Actually
It is hard to imagine an area in which Congress has more express constitutional authority to act than in protecting the right of minorities to vote.
Adam Cohen
Vote
Congress
Minorities
Constitutional
More
Area
Protecting
Than
Authority
Which
Act
Hard
Express
Right
Imagine
If a company knows it may have to pay a large amount of money if it poses an unreasonable threat to others, it will have a strong incentive to act better.
Adam Cohen
Money
Strong
Better
Will
Pay
Others
Threat
Unreasonable
Knows
May
Act
Incentive
Large
Company
Amount
Poses
Acting, to me, has been many things: It's a business, and it's a craft, and it's a political act - it's whatever adjective is most applicable.
Adam Driver
Me
Business
Political
Whatever
Adjective
Has-Been
Most
Political Act
Been
Craft
Act
Acting
Many
Things
Applicable
During 'Saturday Night Fever' at the end of the first act dance number I tried to perform a split-jump, only I can't do them so I ended up on my ass followed by the most unsightly backward roll out of it, followed by the cast falling over in laughter and a good portion of the audience too.
Adam Garcia
Good
Dance
Laughter
First
Too
Backward
Out
Tried
Followed
Only
Cast
Perform
Over
Most
Audience
Falling
End
Up
Roll
Ended
Fever
Them
Act
Saturday
Portion
Saturday Night
Night
Number
The act of song writing and recording became one and the same to me; because I essentially recorded everything I did from the day I began trying to write songs. I've always had a lot to say. I'd always written poems.
Adam Goldberg
Day
Me
Song
Writing
Recording
Everything
Say
Recorded
Poems
Write
Song Writing
Had
Songs
Written
Became
Because
Always
Lot
Began
Trying
Did
Same
Essentially
Act
When you're good at controlling your own emotions, you can disguise your true feelings. When you know what others are feeling, you can tug at their heartstrings and motivate them to act against their own best interests.
Adam Grant
Best
Good
You
Emotions
Disguise
Feeling
Feelings
Own
Controlling
Others
Best Interests
True
Know
Motivate
Tug
Against
Them
Interests
Act
Your
I always wanted to act.
Adam Rickitt
Always
Wanted
Act
When you're around the kids, you feel like you act the most grown up just because you're supposed to lead. I say things, like every other parent, that reminds you of your own parents. One thing I do know about being a parent, you understand why your father was in a bad mood a lot.
Adam Sandler
You
Father
Bad Mood
Parents
Own
Every
Other
Say
Mood
Kids
Bad
One Thing
About
Parent
Lead
Feel
Reminds
Like
Supposed
Know
Most
Because
Around
Understand
Lot
Up
Just
Being
Just Because
Act
Your
Grown
Why
Grown-Up
Thing
Things
There is nothing more unpleasant than watching someone on a TV or movie set act like they are entitled to a particular kind of treatment just because they have been doing it for longer. We are all in the same boat - one job at a time.
Adam Scott
Time
Job
Entitled
Nothing
Kind
TV
Unpleasant
Someone
More
Longer
Particular
Like
Particular Kind
Because
Doing
Been
Than
Same
Just
Just Because
Movie
Movie Set
Boat
Act
Watching
Set
Treatment
I feel that I don't know anything, I don't know how to act, but I can surrender myself to a director I respect and love. I feel very lucky to be a part of their visions.
Aditi Rao Hydari
Love
Myself
Respect
Director
Surrender
Visions
Part
Feel
Know
How
Very
Anything
Act
Lucky
To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.
Adlai Stevenson I
Man
Nation
Circumstances
Perilous
Also
Test
Act
Cool
The places chosen for the administration of the ordinance, and the circumstances attending those instances, in which the act of baptizing is particularly described in the New Testament, plainly indicate immersion.
Adoniram Judson
Those
Circumstances
Administration
Indicate
Attending
New
Particularly
Testament
New Testament
Ordinance
Which
Places
Plainly
Act
Chosen
I have a dual role as founder of AERIN and Image and Style Director of Estee Lauder. So work is a bit of a juggling act.
Aerin Lauder
Work
Director
Style
Bit
Dual
Juggling
Role
Act
Founder
Image
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