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In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act. Don DeLillo
Unlike other peoples the United States found their origin in a deliberate act of corporate self-assertion, and ever since the Revolution every little American has been taught to associate himself personally with this creative act. Christopher Dawson
Edie Falco quote: "I wanted to act; that was my one goal. I wanted to devote all..."
I wanted to act; that was my one goal. I wanted to devote all my time to acting and not waitressing or anything else. Edie Falco
It was the moment I learned acting is not acting out. After that light went on, I spent the rest of my life trying to figure out how to make other people realize it. William Hurt
My advice has always been to study the craft of acting if you want to be an actor. There are many great schools that teach acting. NYU being one of them. Peter Facinelli
The important thing is that when you come to understand something you act on it, no matter how small that act is. Eventually it will take you where you need to go. Helen Prejean
It really helps you to go through difficult situations by just thinking about it as being a big amount of work which you have to solve how to do. For example, I don't feel very inspired when I act, I just act. That's it. Isabelle Huppert
If you're acting, then there's a prescribed way to behave; whereas in life there's no prescribed way. So acting feels like a comfortable way to get through the day. Jesse Eisenberg
Kelly McGillis quote: "To me, acting is acting... I'd be happy working on a street..."
To me, acting is acting... I'd be happy working on a street corner in a mime troupe. Kelly McGillis
I think if my daughter was interested in acting, I would find ways for her to act in theater that has to do with her school or a kids' improvisational thing. There are ways to do it where you're not on a movie set with 60 adults, which I loved at the time, but as a parent, I don't know that I'd be dying to put her in that spot. Helen Hunt
Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience. Johan Huizinga
Well, I think one of the main things that you have to think about when acting in the movies is to try not to make the acting show. James Stewart
My first real kiss came when I was 10, and it was in an acting class. I had to do a scene from a movie where someone gets kissed under a tree, and I did not want to do it! But my acting partner wanted me to feel comfortable, so he bought a picnic basket with all these snacks. He made such an effort - and it was cute. Vanessa Hudgens
Well I was eight years old, and I have an older cousin who is three years older than me and she was doing acting, commercials, and modeling at the time and... to see my cousin doing that was really inspiring and I wanted to do it. So I went to my mom and I asked her if I could do it, and for the acting part of it, she made me study for a year. Hailee Steinfeld
I have long observed that the act of writing is viewed, by some, as an elite and otherworldly act, all the more so if a person isn't paid for what she writes. Joyce Maynard

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