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Acted drama requires surrender of one's self, sympathetic absorption in the play as it develops. -- George Pierce Baker
Acted drama requires surrender of one's self, sympathetic absorption in the play as it develops. -- George Pierce Baker
Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it. -- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes. -- Stanley Kubrick
I never look backwards. I have always been an athlete. I boxed before I acted. -- Mickey Rourke
Warren Beatty has always acted like a Movie Star even when no one knew who he was. -- Dwayne Hickman
The difference between you and the funny person on TV is that they acted on their ideas. -- Rob Manuel
Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time. -- Viktor E. Frankl
An object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force. -- Isaac Newton
I knew it was time to get off of reality TV when someone asked me if I sang as well as acted. -- Ozzy Osbourne
I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy. -- Rabindranath Tagore
There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out under the guise of virtue. -- Erich Fromm
It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world. -- Thomas Jefferson
Surely we have always acted; it is an instinct inherent in all of us. Some of us are better at it than others, but we all do it. -- Laurence Olivier
In this watering-place I acted an heroic character, badly studied; and being a novice on such a stage, I forgot my part before a pair of lovely blue eyes. -- Adelbert von Chamisso
Though I had success in my research both when I was mad and when I was not, eventually I felt that my work would be better respected if I thought and acted like a 'normal' person. -- John Forbes Nash, Jr.
If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way. -- Anais Nin
I acted in high school and studied at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford for one summer. I minored in theater, and I was always acting growing up, but really, I was just more interested in the comedy of it all. -- T. J. Miller
Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph. -- Haile Selassie
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. -- Aristotle
The best news of the Christian gospel is that the supremely glorious Creator of the universe has acted in Jesus Christ's death and resurrection to remove every obstacle between us and himself so that we may find everlasting joy in seeing and savoring his infinite beauty. -- John Piper
I've gone to prom multiple times, had fights with the principal, a relationship with my teacher. When people ask if I wish I had gone to high school, I tell them that I've acted all of that stuff out, and it just doesn't seem like fun. -- Britt Robertson
I'm sure that President Johnson would never have pursued the war in Vietnam if he'd ever had a Fulbright to Japan, or say Bangkok, or had any feeling for what these people are like and why they acted the way they did. He was completely ignorant. -- J. William Fulbright
I just always knew that I lived in two worlds. There was the world of my house and community, but to make my way in that white world I had to modify the way I spoke and acted. I had to sometimes not make direct eye contact. -- Samuel L. Jackson
Noah walked with God; he didn't only preach righteousness, he acted it. He went through water and didn't melt. He breasted the current of the popular opinion of his day, scorning alike the hatred and ridicule of the scoffers who mocked at the thought of there being but one way of salvation. -- Charles Studd
If you wish to strengthen your confidence in God still more, often recall the loving way in which He has acted toward you, and how mercifully He has tried to bring you out of your sinful life, to break your attachment to the things of earth and draw you to His love. -- Alphonsus Liguori
The Football Association have always acted more as a referee than a governor. And the FA, aware the Premier League provide players for the England team, have always had too gentle a hand on the tiller. The result is that the Premier League are the tigers in the English football jungle everybody's scared of. -- Gordon Taylor
I am a very honest person, and I can only say there are moments in my life where I really did think I was being me in the sense of my morals and beliefs and the way I acted. But when I look back at certain things that I wore and my hair and make-up, I was like, 'Whoa! That wasn't me!' But I didn't know it back then. -- Jessie J
I acted my heart out. -- F. Murray Abraham
I've acted professionally since I was 16. -- Nicolas Cage
I acted in millions of TV shows. -- Sebastian Bach
I mean, I've acted professionally since I was 16. -- Nicolas Cage
We can act instead of being acted upon. -- Stephen Covey
Sinnes are not knowne till they bee acted. -- George Herbert
The word book acted as a transient stimulus -- Charlotte Bronte
I thought, acted, and thereupon found myself removed. -- Anton Szandor LaVey
Success leaves clues, but they must be acted upon. -- Tony Robbins
What if we just acted like everything was easy? -- Mary Anne Radmacher
I always sang, I always acted, I always played. -- Theodore Bikel
The highest cannot be spoken; it can only be acted. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I've certainly worked with really great directors who haven't acted. -- Steve Buscemi
I like having written better than I like having acted. -- Carrie Fisher
We would do best in a market where everyone acted foolishly. -- Warren Buffett
Apparently, I've acted like a terrorist. But I'm not a terrorist. -- Mahatma Gandhi
All this world's noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy! -- Abraham Cowley
I acted on my core beliefs on social issues as governor. -- Jeb Bush
In a story, nothing is real until it is acted upon. -- William Kittredge
I always acted like a star long before I was one -- Madonna Ciccone
Christlikeness means to live and act as Christ lived and acted. -- Jim George
If all Christians acted like Christ, the whole world would be Christian. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Content has no economic value unless it's shared and it's acted on. -- Mark Schaefer
Will we act upon life, or will we merely be acted upon? -- Stephen Covey
A man often imagines that he acts, when he is acted upon. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The effects of climate change are real and must be acted on. -- Joe Biden
Great God of wonders:God has always acted in my point of need. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
I acted like Cary Grant for so long that I became Cary Grant -- Cary Grant
I love 'Homeland.' I think it's such a well-done, well-acted TV show. -- Victoria Justice
I wish we could have acted quicker on Detroit or other failing schools. -- John Engler
People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have. -- Anne Tyler
I did not make any big speeches but acted upon working against corruption. -- Narendra Modi
True independence of character empowers us to act rather than be acted upon. -- Stephen Covey
You can't talk your way out of a situation you acted you way into. -- John Kador
A lot of people didn't realize that I acted before I did anything else. -- Maria Menounos
When I read, it is not acted literature; but what I write is written acting. -- Karl Kraus
I actually acted onstage before I'd ever seen a live performance, and I loved it. -- Bob Gunton
Beautifully-acted and precisely observed, ILO ILO is an amazing debut, full of heart and intelligence. -- Ang Lee
Adults always acted like they could fix everything. But they can't. And they know it. -- Jana Oliver
The Puritan did not stop to think; he recognized God in his soul, and acted. -- Wendell Phillips
I think that [James] Comey acted in an outrageous way during the [presidential ] campaign [in 2016]. -- John Lewis
Anger is meant to be acted upon. It is not meant to be acted out. -- Julia Cameron
She might have acted like she didn't know.But she knew,a woman always knows -- D. Lowery
What is worst about America was acted out. What is best in America doesn't export. -- Robert Stone
I've never felt as though I didn't belong, I just acted as though I did. -- Boy George
The only way to see the value of a play is to see it acted. -- Voltaire
If you Christians acted more like your Christ, the world would be a better place. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Anyone or anything that asks you to be untrue to yourself has already acted against you. -- Guy Finley
To have acted otherwise ... would have been the betrayal of the interests of the United States. -- Theodore Roosevelt
There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world. -- Joseph Joubert
The promises of God become the power of God when they are believed and acted upon. -- Phil Pringle
Then came Act II, you seemed to change and acted strange, and why I'll never know. -- Elvis Presley
I've never acted my age and I never will. It's just the way I've always been. -- Mamie Van Doren
A body in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted on by an outside force. -- Isaac Newton
If I'm honest I don't think the world would miss me if I never acted again. -- Jamie Lee Curtis
Saints were saints because they acted with loving kindness whether they felt like it or not. -- Dan Millman
I have never acted in one and I'm not at all interested to do so either. -- Ville Valo
Lawyer acted without authority from our band. He had no right to sell the Wallowa country. -- Chief Joseph
I love the beginning of Magnolia, the thing about the dealer. That scene is genius. Brilliantly acted. -- Patton Oswalt
I used to make fun of the kids in school who acted or went to dance class. -- Matt Dillon
I took pleasure when I could. I acted clearly and morally and without regret. I'm very lucky. -- Jeanne Calment
I have no regrets whatsoever that I have acted in a way to advance my country's interests -- Susan Rice
The real worth of a person came from how he acted during the bad times. (John Fiske) -- David Baldacci
I never have been an anarchist, I've always had goals and always have acted out of love. -- Gloria Trevi
Our ancestors who changed the world did so through new ideas which came to them as they acted. -- Raymond Charles Barker
Faith must become more than a verbal proclamation or an intellectual assent. True faith must be acted out. -- Millard Fuller
I happen to be one of those rare actors that actually loves very intelligent and well-acted science fiction. -- Richard Hatch
A person of "good character" was one who acted in accordance with the expectations of his community -- Sheena Iyengar
So after the Shadows he acted and directed. And it worked out very nicely. And he wrote, obviously. -- Gena Rowlands
I never really acted at school. It was doing small parts on TV that really got me started. -- Freddie Highmore
I know that I and my office acted with the highest integrity as an independent inspector general should act. -- Gerald Walpin
The ingratitude of the world can never deprive us of the conscious happiness of having acted with humanity ourselves. -- Oliver Goldsmith
I think in the immediate days after 9/11, the administration acted very, very well. I liked the decisiveness of it. -- Ann Richards
How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be acted over In states unborn and accents yet unknown! -- William Shakespeare
I was crazy about Elle Macpherson. She modeled, acted and did everything. She was a huge example for me. -- Constance Jablonski
Via Dolorosa is the only thing I have ever acted in my life, professionally, and Ill never act again. -- David Hare
The truth, as much as people acted like they wanted to hear it, was sometimes too cruel and harsh. -- Laura Kreitzer
Mistrust must be acted on, and effective action by the ruled is not solitary and singular, but joint and repeated. -- Elizabeth Janeway
When . . . in the course of all these thousands of years has man ever acted in accordance with his own interests? -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Germany has acted effectively during the euro crisis. It needs to build on this to engage in other spheres too. -- Joachim Gauck
We could change the world tomorrow if all the millions of people around the world acted the way they believe. -- Jane Goodall
In a way she actually preferred Peter to other people because of this. He always acted out of intelligent self-interest. -- Orson Scott Card
But if we never acted except when we were certain our motives were pure, we would never act at all. -- C.J. Sansom
I'd been hurt, and in response I had acted violently, destroying a little of myself each time I did so. -- John Connolly
The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs. -- Thornton Wilder
To play is to listen to the imperative inner force that wants to take form and be acted out without reason. -- Michele Cassou
...the collective white man had acted like a devil in virtually every contact he had with the world's collective non-white man. -- Malcolm X
The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists. -- Vivienne Westwood
The greatest love stories are not those in which love is only spoken, but those in which it is acted upon. -- Steve Maraboli
Lying is sometimes acted, insinuated, or implied, in a manner as injurious and shameful as when the falsehood is spoken outright. -- Elias Lyman Magoon
Yes, that man acted ugly," she told us in plain English. "But throwing more ugliness back at him ain't the answer. -- Lauren Myracle
The international community cannot stand by and watch the massacre of Libyan protesters. In Rwanda we watched. In Kosovo we acted. -- Anne-Marie Slaughter

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