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It's very easy to say that men think about things more simply, but it kind of is true. And that's not actually a bad thing. Approaching things in a more logical, practical fashion. This is a massive generalisation, but women tend to think about things more first, then act afterwards.
Sarah Snook
Fashion
Women
Logical
Approaching
Men
First
Think
Say
Kind
Bad
Easy
About
More
Tend
Bad Thing
Simply
True
Massive
Practical
Very
Afterwards
Then
Act
Actually
Thing
Things
My advice to young people who want to act is just to do it as much as you can! Find friends who also want to do it and have readings of great plays in your apartment. You don't have to wait for someone else to tell you that you can do it. You can be getting better on your own all the time.
Sarah Steele
Time
Great
You
You Can Do It
People
Better
Wait
Advice
Own
Young
Else
Tell
Find
Someone
Also
Readings
Friends
Getting
Getting Better
Just
Want
Young People
Apartment
Much
Act
Your
Who
Plays
I went to high school in Frisco, Texas, where a lot of people look the same, dress the same, act the same. People are either like, 'You're not black enough for this' or 'You're not white enough for this.'
Sasha Lane
You
People
School
Black
White
Enough
High
Dress
High School
Like
Look
Lot
Texas
Same
Where
Either
Act
After the comedy boom of the '80s, there was a certain formula that comedians had to do and could do in order to be successful touring comedians, and those were mainly observational comedians who had a very strict structure of what made an act, and I think it was very performance oriented.
Scott Aukerman
Comedy
Strict
Made
Think
Boom
Those
Structure
Could
Had
Observational
Touring
Mainly
Performance
Comedians
Were
Very
Order
After
Formula
Successful
Certain
Act
Who
Oriented
My dad taught me everything. It's been fun walking in his footsteps. He played for his whole life and traveled the country and had a great career. He taught me everything about life and playing golf and how to act. Just everything. I learned so much from him and those days hanging around the driving range.
Scott Harvey
Life
Great
Me
Country
Great Career
Everything
Range
Those
About
Had
Driving
He
Days
Footsteps
Him
Learned
Around
How
Been
His
Walking
Hanging
Just
Taught
Golf
Much
Act
Fun
Whole
Dad
Traveled
Played
Playing
Career
As big as Metallica are, they're still not like a pop act. As big as they are, they're still not U2 or Lady Gaga. It's still underground.
Scott Ian
Big
Like
Underground
Metallica
Still
Lady
Lady Gaga
Gaga
Pop
Act
I would say that as a government employee, I am subject to the Hatch Act.
Scott Kelly
Government
Say
Would
Hatch
Employee
Am
Subject
Act
I might not like a statute... but if you know what to expect, you can plan. The law is static. It's stable. It gives you confidence. You know you have to act a certain way.
Scott Pruitt
You
Confidence
Law
Way
Static
Gives
Like
Know
Expect
Stable
Might
Plan
Certain
Act
Certain Way
There are issues the EPA should be dealing with. When I talk about the EPA and its role with the states, it's not an abolitionist view, that we don't need that agency. It's that the agency should act within the outlines established by Congress.
Scott Pruitt
Congress
States
About
Outlines
Talk
Within
Dealing
Issues
Role
Established
EPA
Agency
Should
Act
View
Need
As Oklahoma attorney general, it is not my job to formulate or implement Oklahoma's plan, but it is my job to preserve Oklahoma's right to do so - particularly when the Clean Air Act so clearly recognizes that Oklahomans, and not federal bureaucrats, are best situated to determine Oklahoma energy and environmental policies.
Scott Pruitt
Environmental
Best
Job
Energy
Air
Oklahoma
Oklahomans
Determine
General
Clean
Clean Air
Federal
Implement
Clearly
Attorney
Attorney General
Particularly
Policies
Situated
Bureaucrats
Formulate
Plan
Act
Right
Preserve
I would say that something important for me and for my generation in Northern Ireland was the 1947 Education Act, which allowed students who won scholarships to go on to secondary schools and thence to university.
Seamus Heaney
Education
Me
Generation
Important
Secondary
Say
Would
My Generation
Something
Students
Allowed
Scholarships
Schools
Go
Won
Ireland
Northern
Northern Ireland
Which
Act
Who
University
I'd like to act as a fair, easy-going, kind man at some point.
Sean Bean
Man
Kind
Some
Point
Fair
Like
Act
I think that's good that I have to watch how I act and what I say. I think that's a part of growing up.
Sean Combs
Good
Think
Say
Part
How
Up
Act
Growing
Growing Up
Watch
My favorite thing to do is not act - it's that simple.
Sean Penn
Simple
Favorite
Favorite Thing
Act
Thing
You can act as nice as you can 100% of the time, and it will still not make everybody say nice things about you.
Sean Young
Time
You
Will
Nice
Everybody
Say
About
Make
Still
Act
Nice Things
Things
I was writing when I was very young, and then I became interested in everything - I wanted to do photography. I wanted to act. I wanted to write plays, and then I wanted to film and to paint, but I felt that film had a condition that reunites everything.
Sebastian Lelio
Photography
Writing
Young
Everything
Write
Had
Became
Felt
Condition
Very
Wanted
Interested
Then
Act
Paint
Film
Plays
Every time I act on a fear, I feel disappointed in myself. I have a lot of fear. If I can quit all fear in my life and all guilt, then I tend to be much, much more living up to my standards. I've never seen a person fail if they didn't fear failure.
Sebastian Thrun
Life
Time
Myself
Failure
Fear
Guilt
My Life
Seen
Living
Every
Every Time
More
Tend
Never
Fail
Disappointed
Feel
Lot
Up
Person
Quit
Then
Much
Act
Standards
One reason I encourage people to blog is that the act of doing it stretches your available vocabulary and hones a new voice.
Seth Godin
People
Vocabulary
Voice
New
Doing
Blog
Encourage
Available
Act
Your
Reason
Today's voguish threats, including climate change, population growth, massive war, and resource depletion, are all amenable to a fix if we act prudently. And even if we don't, these problems are incapable of obliterating all of humanity, let alone destroying the Earth. No, the real End of Days will happen slowly, as the Sun ages.
Seth Shostak
Today
War
Alone
Change
Humanity
Problems
Will
Resource
Earth
Sun
Destroying
Threats
Slowly
Days
Massive
Climate
Climate Change
Real
End
Amenable
Fix
Happen
Ages
Incapable
Act
Even
Including
Population
Population Growth
Growth
I always wanted to act. I am very passionate about the art. So when I got the opportunity, I was more than happy.
Shaheer Sheikh
Art
Happy
Opportunity
About
More
Always
Got
Am
Passionate
Very
Than
Wanted
Act
American media has just become talk radio, incredibly partisan name-calling and op-eds. I think the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan proved it has completely failed to act as an effective fourth estate. And young people didn't sleep through that, as is widely believed; they learned instead not to trust what they were being told.
Shane Smith
Trust
People
Become
Young
Think
Incredibly
Through
Instead
Failed
Talk
Talk Radio
Partisan
Learned
Proved
Were
Iraq
Effective
American
Afghanistan
Just
Being
Estate
Young People
Act
Wars
Radio
Media
Believed
Widely
Fourth
Sleep
That's something I go through every day - you know - Am I good enough to act?
Shannen Doherty
Good
Day
You
Every Day
Every
Enough
Something
Through
Know
Am
Go
Act
Being Bruce Lee's kid, everyone wants you to be an action-film star. I took martial arts, and it's fun to do those types of movies, but I wanted to act, not fight.
Shannon Lee
You
Fight
Took
Types
Everyone
Kid
Those
Martial
Martial Arts
Bruce
Lee
Arts
Being
Wanted
Wants
Movies
Act
Fun
Star
If you act like you know what you're going, you can do anything you want - except neurosurgery.
Sharon Stone
You
Except
Like
Know
Going
Want
Anything
Act
We live in a country where movies, music, and sports are more important than God to a lot of people. It's why Colin Kaepernick's protest rocked the nation and got the whole world talking. Taking a knee is a simple act of defiance. Had Colin done it anywhere other than the football field, it might not have even made the news.
Shaun King
Music
God
News
Sports
People
World
Simple
Defiance
Made
Country
Important
Nation
Field
Live
Other
Colin
More
Simple Act
Had
Knee
Football
Football Field
Taking
Talking
Protest
Got
Lot
Than
Done
Where
Anywhere
Movies
Might
Act
Whole
Even
Why
I liked working on 'The Grudge 2.' It was really fun, and I got to meet a lot of cool people. I think the film is a fine example of horror, and I felt excited that I could act in something like that.
Shaun Sipos
People
Example
Think
Meet
Fine
Something
Horror
Could
Excited
Like
Liked
Felt
Got
Lot
Really
Working
Act
Cool
Cool People
Fun
Film
Grudge
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