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My parents' generation's benchmark was simple: Fat Equals Bad.

Arabella Weir

It's unfortunate. Title IX is rather simple: don't discriminate on the basis of sex.

Birch Bayh

Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.

Paul Rand

Love, A four letter word, simple in form but yet so complex in action

Love

Smart, Succulent, Simple, Steady, Soulful Self wins the race of life.

Vishwas Chavan

It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.

Virginia Woolf

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

George Eliot

There is no right in acting.

Frank Langella

Character actor' is a technical term denoting a clever stage performer who cannot act, and therefore makes an elaborate study of the disguises and stage tricks by which acting can be grotesquely simulated.

Dramatic Opinions and Essays, volume 1

Our response to the factory farm is ultimately a test of how we respond to the powerless, to the most distant, to the voiceless - it is a test of how we act when no one is forcing us to act one way or another. Consistency is not required, but engagem...

Eating Animals

The direction of a big act will warp history, but probably all acts will do the same thing in their degree, down to a stone stepped over in a path or a breath caught at the sight of a pretty girl or a finger nail nicked in the garden soil.

East of Eden

...hoping that he might peek through a gap in the fance and see that Patch was really a big softy, all bark and no bite, or, as they sometimes say in England, "All mouth and no trousers"!

Ever By My Side: A Memoir in Eight [Acts] Pets

The doing of something productive regardless of the outcome is an act of faith. The doing of a small something when a large something is too much for us is perhaps especially an act of faith. Faith means going forward by whatever means we can.

Finding Water: The Art of Perseverance

Part of being of a true existentialist is wanting to be what we make ourselves be by the way we choose to act, as opposed to making excuses for the way we act and regretting it.

How to Be an Existentialist: or How to Get Real, Get a Grip and Stop Making Excuses

I want to break into the acting industry. It's something I have a great deal of respect for; it's a passion of mine. It's so amazing, the differences between acting and being an athlete, but the one commonality is they both evoke emotion in the viewe...

Apolo Ohno

I think the only reason I wanted to do modeling, really, was because I knew I wasn't ready to act; I knew I didn't have enough life experience, and I knew that doing photo shoots was a way of acting. Playing a character each shoot and being able to j...

Dree Hemingway

Where I teach students in drama school, there's a course called Dramatics. In this course, all students must put on a play. However, acting majors are not supposed to act. They can write the play, for example, and the writers may work on stage art. L...

Kim Young-ha

Jazz music and, more specifically, jazz musicians, are my artistic heroes. I want to be the Thelonious Monk of acting. He had no concern for how well he was received. He played whatever he wanted whenever he wanted. He just wasn't interested in achie...

Trevor St. John

Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory.

The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights

Ahab is for ever Ahab, man. This whole act's immutably decreed. 'Twas rehearsed by thee and me a billion years before this ocean rolled. Fool! I am the Fates' lieutenant, I act under orders.

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

Romantic Egoist Nozomi: You've got an idea in your head... how you should act, but you can't act like, so you stifle yourself and don't even try.

Ouran High School Host Club, Vol. 2