It's just poetry, beauty and love. How hard can that be to act?
All nonmimetic fiction is a balancing act between 'reality' and the obviously unreal, with no attempt by the author to make the latter seem like the former. Sometimes it's not an easy tightrope to walk. But when it succeeds, such fiction can brilliantly illuminate the human condition.
When we act ignorant as a community, we are not doing the right thing.
The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
I'm really interested in passivity as a type of action - sort of allowing the situation to change you, choosing to give in being an act of agency rather than an act of submission.
Poland is one of the few countries that can afford to conduct a conventional monetary policy and that means we have to act against the buildup of imbalances in the economy.
Europe must act quickly where it's needed and must, once and for all, let member states handle what is their exclusive domain.
I think Hadley is to Rice as Scowcroft was to Kissinger; not inclined to think or act independently.
It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self.
Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit it.
I wanted to be a singer, but once I started acting, I felt so comfortable. Now, all I want to do is act.
I was born in Poland I came to Sweden when I was eight and always wanted to act and suddenly ended up in a Bond movie which was for me at that time absolutely enormous.
There are consequences if you act militarily, and there's big consequences if you don't act.
I like to act with people that know what they're doing.
I knew when I was 10 that I wanted to act full-time.
No matter what happens, we couldn't let people say Asian-American actors can't act.
I have always wanted to act ever since I was a little girl. I would put a blanket under my shirt and pretend that I was pregnant. Then, I would go through childbirth.
I don't think you learn how to act. You learn how to use your emotions and feelings.
I'm really vulnerable onstage because it's just me. I'm not really trying to put up a front or act a certain way.
A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action. You must act as you breathe.
If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act.
While the debate on the Patriot Act is far from over, it is important that all Americans continue in this dialogue and work together to ensure greater security for our nation.
Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.
I like to act. I work for scale. I don't have an acting agent. I'm in the book.
Quite honestly I never had a desire to be an actor. I tell people, I did not choose acting; acting chose me. I never grew up wanting to be an actor. I wanted to play football. In about 9th grade an English teacher told me I had a talent to act. He said I should audition for a performing arts high school so I did on a whim. I got accepted.
When we run out of them upstairs, I've been known to appropriate some from our greenroom, pocketing a few with one hand as I smile and greet our guests with the other. One time, Dave Zinczenko of 'Eat this, Not That!' fame, busted me in the act. The cookies apparently fall in the 'not that' category. I made a note of it.
Hope is trust in God's promises, faith that if we act now, the desired blessings will be fulfilled in the future.
The general consensus seems to be that I don't act at all.
Sketching in general - anywhere, not just in Gitmo, but in life, in the world - is a profoundly disruptive act. Because you're creating something when you're kind of expected to consume or sit passively. I've always sketched things as a way to get into them, whether it was a fancy nightclub or, you know, to have kids think I was cool, whatever.
Girls bat their eyelashes and act like they don't know anything in front of guys they like, or give a little bit of eye contact, but not too much, or a bit of touching. Or being coy. Sure, I do a bit of that.
Onstage, there's no hiding; you either can or can't act. There's no second take.
Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.
My sister and I used to act as maids and waitresses at my great aunt and uncle's cocktail parties, which were very much sort of retired, minor stars of the Yiddish theater and the Yiddish opera.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 laid the foundation for the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but it also addressed nearly every other aspect of daily life in a would-be free democratic society.
Last year, I co-sponsored the Highlands Conservation Act and in a bipartisan effort we passed the bill through Congress.
You don't have any communication between the Israelis and the Iranians. You have all sorts of local triggers for conflict. Having countries act on a hair trigger - where they can't afford to be second to strike - the potential for a miscalculation or a nuclear war through inadvertence is simply too high.
