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The very act of saying anything more nuanced than 'us good, them bad' is under attack, and I'm proud to stand with artists who do.
Corey Stoll
Saying
Good
Bad
More
Attack
Proud
Very
Than
Artists
Anything
Them
Us
Act
Stand
Who
The act of willing this or that, of choosing among various courses of conduct, is central in the realm of ethics.
Corliss Lamont
Ethics
Willing
Various
Courses
Conduct
Central
Realm
Act
Choosing
Among
I worry about making work more important than what I know to be the truth. Throughout all areas of life, we're told how to look, how to act, what to speak, what to wear, what we should have and other people don't have, and we know none of that means anything. Yet these other messages never stop coming.
Craig T. Nelson
Life
Work
Truth
People
Speak
Important
Other
Worry
Wear
About
More
Area
Throughout
Never
Never Stop
Know
Look
Messages
None
How
Making
Coming
Than
Stop
Anything
Should
Means
Act
When I first moved to L.A. as a dancer, all I wanted to do was dance. I never even considered trying to act or direct.
Cris Judd
Dance
First
Dancer
Considered
Direct
Never
Trying
Moved
Wanted
Act
Even
I started out as an actor but now I act to fund my own productions. I've managed to separate my mindset.
Crispin Glover
Own
Mindset
Out
My Own
Separate
Act
Productions
Fund
Now
Actor
Started
So many singers want to act, and so many actors try to sing.
Crystal Gayle
Try
Sing
Singers
Want
Act
Many
Actor
Short of baseball and my family, it was gaming. And gaming is a $20-million to $200-million multi-year effort. It's an insane, stupid and utterly irresponsible act. But I did it.
Curt Schilling
Family
Stupid
Insane
Effort
Did
Short
Irresponsible
Act
Gaming
Baseball
Utterly
I love London - its where I'm born and bred - but New York just has such an energy when you're walking around, and if you act or you write and you act like I do, its just such a good town for you because people here like people who can do more than one thing.
Cush Jumbo
Love
Good
You
People
Energy
One Thing
London
Born
More
Write
New
Town
Like
Because
Around
Walking
Than
York
Just
New York
Where
Bred
Act
Who
Thing
Here
To be a Jew is an act of the strenuous mind as it stands before the fakeries and lying seductions of the world, saying no and no again as they parade by in all their allure. And to be a writer is to plunge into the parade and become one of the delirious marchers.
Cynthia Ozick
Saying
World
Mind
Become
Before
Lying
Parade
Plunge
Writer
Allure
Again
Act
Stands
Jew
Strenuous
For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?
Cyril Connolly
Liberty
Will
Translation
Act
They say 6 million people see you when you act in a film; it may only be 600 in a play. But the effect on the 600 may be truer and more lasting.
Cyril Cusack
You
People
Lasting
Say
See
More
Only
Truer
Effect
May
Act
They Say
Film
Play
Million
Million People
There are times when leadership needs to take a bold move forward. And there are times when the leadership needs to act on the basis of what the grass roots say. You need to have your political thermometer constantly in the political waters to know when to give leadership in what way.
Cyril Ramaphosa
Leadership
Needs
You
Political
Grass
Waters
Way
Say
Constantly
Give
Take
Know
Times
Move
Move Forward
Roots
Act
Your
Forward
Bold
Grass Roots
Thermometer
Basis
Need
Now supposing I had the part of a young woman to give out, one that wanted some excellent acting. If I were to go to the stage for my actress I would have to take a matured woman, one who would act splendidly, but who would look too old for the requirements.
D. W. Griffith
Woman
Old
Young
Stage
Too
Out
Would
Some
Give
Excellent
Take
Had
Part
Supposing
Look
Go
Were
Matured
Wanted
Young Woman
Act
Requirements
Acting
Who
Now
Actress
It'd been about four months since shooting 'Power Rangers,' and 'Stranger Things' was the first thing I saw that made me think, 'I need this.' I had one day to get my act together, so I made a short film rather than a self-tape. It had an opening score, opening titles, and I may or may not have put on a g-string and danced to 'Hungry Like a Wolf.'
Dacre Montgomery
Day
Me
Together
Made
Power
First
Wolf
Think
Danced
Saw
Months
Rangers
One Day
Hungry
About
Rather
Had
Put
Since
Opening
Like
First Thing
Been
Score
Than
Get
Shooting
May
Short
The First Thing
Short Film
Titles
Act
Stranger
Film
Thing
Things
Four
Need
To communicate the truths of history is an act of hope for the future.
Daisaku Ikeda
Hope
Future
History
Communicate
Truths
Act
Writing and directing might be a red herring, and really I'm just re-examining what it is to act, to do it well and do it properly.
Damian Lewis
Writing
Herring
Properly
Directing
Red
Well
Just
Might
Really
Act
I think the Internet is comparable to the Homestead Act: Here's a parcel of land. Sign up, cultivate it, it's yours.
Dan Abrams
Internet
Think
Sign
Parcel
Cultivate
Up
Land
Act
Yours
Comparable
Homestead
Here
Let us learn from the lessons of September 11 and not wait for a major strike before we act. We must work together - Democrats and Republicans, Congress and the White House, government and the private sector - to make our country a safer and more prosperous place.
Dan Coats
Work
Government
Together
Wait
Country
Before
White
White House
Congress
September
Our
Strike
Sector
Must
More
Major
Prosperous
House
Make
Learn
Safer
Democrats
Democrats And Republicans
Private
Private Sector
Place
Republicans
Work Together
Us
Act
Lessons
Let Us
If you've become a huge act and you're still doing the same music you wrote with your friends when you were making zero dollars, you're lazy.
Dan Deacon
Music
You
Become
Lazy
Wrote
Making
Still
Doing
Were
Dollars
Huge
Friends
Same
Act
Your
Zero
One of the criticism I had about the Affordable Care Act is it made insurance so expensive that people who had it didn't even use it because their premiums were high. Their deductibles were high. Their copays were high.
Dan Donovan
People
Care
Made
Criticism
High
About
Had
Because
Insurance
Were
Affordable
Affordable Care Act
Expensive
Act
Use
Who
Even
I think I approach everything as an actor first. I'd rather walk onto a set and just act and just worry about that.
Dan Fogler
Walk
First
Think
Approach
Everything
Worry
About
Rather
Onto
Just
Act
Actor
Set
Right now, I'm thinking in terms of just having a good band, man. Having a good act for the stage. Being a good performer, you know? Connected to that is future recordings, and future tunes, that kind of stuff.
Dan Hicks
Future
Good
You
Man
Band
Stage
Thinking
Kind
Having
Recordings
Stuff
Performer
Know
Terms
Just
Being
Tunes
Act
Good Band
Connected
Now
Right
The golf ball has no sense at all, which is why it has to be given stern lectures constantly, especially during the act of putting.
Dan Jenkins
Sense
Constantly
Given
No Sense
Putting
Stern
Ball
Lectures
Golf
Golf Ball
Which
Act
Why
'Real talk' refers to the act of speaking the honest truth about something or someone without fear of consequence.
Dan Levy
Truth
Fear
Honest Truth
About
Someone
Something
Talk
Without
Real
Act
Speaking
Consequence
Honest
There is something transformative about the act of finding your own way without a to-do list.
Dan Levy
Own
Way
Finding
About
Something
Without
List
Transformative
Act
Your
To edit someone from your life must be a properly evaluated decision. After all, the act of distancing yourself is difficult and, if executed improperly, could prove even more troublesome than if you were to have done nothing at all. The key is to create the distance gradually - a 'fade out' as I like to call it.
Dan Levy
Life
You
Yourself
Key
Decision
Nothing
Difficult
Distance
Out
Must
Someone
Properly
More
Could
Troublesome
Fade
Like
Executed
Call
Edit
Prove
Were
Than
Gradually
Done
After
Create
Act
Your
Even
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