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I remember thinking, 'I can't act.' Pretending to be someone else is a terrifying thought. The thing was that, along with other people, I could create a whole world. I felt absolutely right directing.
Garry Hynes
People
World
Remember
Thought
Pretending
Thinking
Other
Else
Someone
Directing
Could
Absolutely
Along
Terrifying
Felt
Create
Act
Whole
Right
Thing
The general consensus seems to be that I don't act at all.
Gary Cooper
Seems
General
Act
Consensus
Imagine a libertarian president challenging Congress to repeal the PATRIOT Act.
Gary Johnson
Congress
President
Libertarian
Repeal
Patriot
Patriot Act
Act
Challenging
Imagine
There's still people who think me being married to a sista is an act. What, you think I'd make that up for a persona?
Gary Owen
Me
You
People
Think
Married
Make
Still
Up
Persona
Being
Act
Who
I can honestly say that I've done everything I've wanted to do, always. Not without difficulty. But every time I wanted to do something, I just did it, from the age of 18 when I started my own theater with my friends. When I decided I wanted to act. I just bit the bullet.
Gary Sinise
Time
Age
Own
Every
Difficulty
Honestly
Every Time
Everything
Say
Bit
Something
My Own
Without
Always
Bullet
Friends
Did
Done
Just
Wanted
Decided
Theater
Act
Started
The self is just our operation center, our consciousness, our moral compass. So, if we want to act more effectively in the world, we have to get to know ourselves better.
Gary Wolf
World
Better
Our
Ourselves
Moral
Moral Compass
More
Self
Know
Operation
Effectively
Get
Just
Want
Center
Act
Compass
Consciousness
Only choices made in love are compassionate. There are no exceptions. Do you have the courage to act with an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome? If not, you have no ability to give or experience compassion. That is the shocking truth.
Gary Zukav
Love
Truth
You
Heart
Courage
Experience
Compassion
Made
Outcome
Ability
Give
Only
Attachment
Exceptions
Empowered
Without
Shocking
Choices
Act
Compassionate
I act on my principles, whether they're popular or not.
Gavin Newsom
Principles
Whether
Act
Popular
When Californians see something we truly believe in, we say so and act accordingly - without evasiveness or equivocation.
Gavin Newsom
Believe
Say
See
Something
Californians
Without
Truly
Accordingly
Act
When my friends and I would act out movies as kids, we'd play the guys' roles, since they had the most interesting things to do. Decades later, I can hardly believe my sons and daughter are seeing many of the same limited choices in current films.
Geena Davis
Daughter
Believe
Films
Later
Kids
Out
Would
Seeing
Guys
Had
Sons
Since
Most
Limited
Friends
Decades
Roles
Same
Current
Interesting
Movies
Interesting Things
Choices
Act
Many
Play
Hardly
Things
If the EPA cannot or will not act to halt the toxic e-waste trade to developing nations, then Congress should take action.
Gene Green
Will
Congress
Action
Take
Developing
Toxic
Trade
Halt
Nations
Cannot
EPA
Then
Should
Act
To be honest with you, I get a little fed up with actors who act crazy to make themselves more interesting.
George Eads
Crazy
You
To Be Honest
More
Fed
Fed Up
Make
Up
Get
Interesting
Little
Themselves
Act
Who
Actor
Honest
There's a lot of faith expressed by scientists about science. It's kind of an act of faith that science is a good thing. We don't know that for sure. We may not know that millions of years from now.
George M. Church
Faith
Good
Science
Kind
About
Good Thing
Know
Sure
Scientists
Years
Lot
May
Act
Expressed
Now
Thing
Millions
Millions Of Years
It may be tripe, but it's my tripe - and I do urge other authors to resist encroachments on their brain-children and trust their own judgment rather than that of some zealous meddler with a diploma in creative punctuation who is just dying to get into the act.
George MacDonald Fraser
Creative
Trust
Judgment
Own
Other
Punctuation
Diploma
Some
Rather
Than
Get
Authors
May
Just
Dying
Urge
Act
Who
Zealous
Resist
The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.
George Orwell
War
Destruction
Labor
Essential
Human
Act
Products
Lives
Necessarily
The Internet - central to modern life - provides new ways for our enemies to plan and act against us.
George Osborne
Life
Enemies
Internet
Our
Ways
New
Provides
Modern
New Ways
Modern Life
Central
Against
Plan
Us
Act
Leaving the E.U. was not the outcome that I wanted or campaigned, but now that democracy has spoken, we must act on that result. I will fully respect that result.
George Osborne
Democracy
Respect
Result
Will
Must
Outcome
Spoken
Leaving
Wanted
Act
Fully
Now
The Endangered Species Act was designed to preserve biodiversity, not enrich trial lawyers and political activists.
George P. Bush
Political
Enrich
Trial
Trial Lawyers
Lawyers
Endangered
Endangered Species
Endangered Species Act
Act
Activists
Species
Biodiversity
Designed
Preserve
In a meritocracy, actors who act well get good roles. They don't get to be journalists, too - a job that, in a meritocracy, should go to those who do journalism well.
George Packer
Good
Job
Too
Those
Journalism
Journalists
Well
Go
Get
Roles
Should
Act
Who
Actor
I don't judge anyone of any stripe by what they read. Reading is always good for you. It's a positive act.
George Pelecanos
Positive
Good
You
Judge
Reading
Stripe
Read
Always
Any
Anyone
Act
To reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides of this act are not always equally intended nor equally successful.
George Santayana
Sides
Shatter
Another
Equally
Always
Nor
Reform
Intended
Form
Create
Successful
Means
Act
Two
We could never verify that there was any Iraqi authority, direction and control, complicity with al Qaeda for 9/11 or any operational act against America. Period.
George Tenet
Control
Complicity
Direction
Could
Never
Period
Operational
Verify
Iraqi
America
Authority
Any
Against
Act
Al
Al-Qaeda
If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.
George Weinberg
Time
You
Confession
Will
Sex
Own
Every
Every Time
Sexuality
Never
Box
Accept
Go
Engage
Act
Your
The 1935 Social Security Act established 65 as the age of eligibility for payouts. But welfare state politics quickly becomes a bidding war, enriching the menu of benefits, so in 1956 Congress entitled women to collect benefits at 62, extending the entitlement to men in 1961.
George Will
Politics
War
Age
Women
Benefits
Entitlement
Welfare
Men
Entitled
Congress
State
Enriching
Collect
Security
Menu
Welfare State
Bidding
Becomes
Quickly
Established
Social
Act
Social Security
Extending
When you act dramatically in that way it often has a consequence that is very negative.
George Woodcock
You
Negative
Dramatically
Way
Very
Often
Act
Consequence
I can't drive, so I don't need a flash car, and I like living at home, so I don't need a mansion. I'm sensible with money. It's not why I act.
Georgia Groome
Home
Money
Car
Drive
Living
Like
Flash
Sensible
Act
Mansion
Why
Need
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