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• One gets wrapped up in reacting to ones own reputation, which can be a kind of trap.

  Rirkrit Tiravanija

  Reputation, Kind, Traps

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• When I started out in independent films in the early 70s, we did everything for the love of art. It wasn't about money and stardom. That was what we were reacting against. You'd die before you'd be bought.

  Sissy Spacek

  Art, Independent, Film

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Too often we elevate the inconsequential into the influential... by reacting without reflecting.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Influential, Contemplating, Reflecting

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• The first time I remember women reacting to me was when we were filming Hud in Texas. Women were literally trying to climb through the transoms at the motel where I stayed. At first, it's flattering to the ego. At first. Then you realize that they're mixing me up with the roles I play - characters created by writers who have nothing to do with who I am.

  Paul Newman

  Character, Texas, Who I Am

  "Paul and Joanne: A Biography of Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward". Book by Joe Morella and Edward Z. Epstein, 1988.

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• Day by day, morning by morning, begin your walk with Him in the calm trust that God is at work in everything....It is your personal business, as a discipline of your heart, to learn to be peaceful and safe in God in every situation....Remember, friend, where your real living is going on. In your thinking, in your reacting, in your heart of hearts - here is where your walk with God begins and continues. So when you start to move into trusting Him, stay there. Don't wander out again into worry and doubt!

  Anne Ortlund

  Christian, Morning, Real

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• To be motivated to sit at home and study, instead of going out and playing, children need a sense of themselves over time--they need to be able to picture themselves in the future.... If they can't, then they're simply reacting to daily events, responding to the needs of the moment--for pleasure, for affiliation, for acceptance.

  Stanley Greenspan

  Children, Home, Acceptance

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• There is a magnificent intensity in life that comes when we are not in control but are only reacting, living, surviving. I am not a religious man per se...but for me, to go to sea is to get a glimpse of the face of God. At sea I am reminded of my insignificance-of all men's insignificance. It is a wonderful feeling to be so humbled.

  Steven Callahan

  Religious, Men, Sea

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• To fly, we have to have resistance. It's all about turbulence. Reacting to images of wave patterns in fluid motion.

  Maya Lin

  Patterns, Resistance, Flight

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• No matter what someone else has done, it still matters how we treat people. It matters to our humanity that we treat offenders according to standards that we recognize as just. Justice is not revenge - it's deciding for a solution that is oriented towards peace, peace being the harder but more human way of reacting to injury. That is the very basis of the idea of rights.

  Judith Butler

  Revenge, Rights, Ideas

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• The trick to being a good actor is getting so involved in your character that the camera disappears, the 50 bored guys eating doughnuts disappear, friends disappear. To get to that point when you don't have to think about it, you're just acting and reacting in those circumstances.

  Val Kilmer

  Character, Thinking, Bored

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The murder of a dozen innocent people is unquestionably a human tragedy. But that is no excuse for reacting blindly by preventing hundreds of thousands of other people from defending themselves against meeting the same fate.

  Thomas Sowell

  Fate, People, Tragedy

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• I remember classes in college where the professor was espousing certain theories about how blacks were inherently less intelligent. But I learned a long time ago to give people the benefit of the doubt, not to assume that somebody was reacting to you because of race.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Intelligent, College, Race

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• The antidote to hatred in the heart, the source of violence, is tolerance. Tolerance is an important virtue of bodhisattvas [enlightened heroes and heroines] - it enables you to refrain from reacting angrily to the harm inflicted on you by others. You could call this practice "inner disarmament," in that a well-developed tolerance makes you free from the compulsion to counterattack. For the same reason, we also call tolerance the "best armor," since it protects you from being conquered by hatred itself.

  Dalai Lama

  Hero, Heart, Practice

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Acting is about listening and reacting. John Wayne was right: Acting is just reacting. You don't have to do much - as long as you stay out of the way of others. That's why it works.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Long, Listening, Acting

  "OSCARS Q&A: Anthony Hopkins". Interview with David Mermelstein, deadline.com. December 30, 2012.

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• To work in the world lovingly means that we are defining what we will be for, rather than reacting to what we are against.

  Christina Baldwin

  Spiritual, Work, Mean

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• There's this freshness that happens within the first few takes of the actors actually listening to each other and actually really reacting.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Listening, Firsts, Actors

  "Jennifer Lawrence Talks THE HUNGER GAMES, THE SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK, Her Tabloid “Feud” with Kristen Stewart, and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. March 21, 2012.

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• Movie actors earn their living and learn their craft through listening and reacting.

  Michael Caine

  Listening, Actors, Crafts

  Michael Caine (2000). “Acting in Film: An Actor's Take on Movie Making”, p.69, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• Suffering is our best teacher because it
  hangs onto us and keeps us in its grip
  until we have learnt that particular
  lesson. Only then does suffering let go. If
  we haven’t learnt our lesson, we can be
  quite sure that the same lesson is going
  to come again, because life is nothing but
  an adult education class, If we don’t pass
  in any of the subjects, we just have to sit
  the examination again. Whatever lesson
  we have missed, we will get it again. That
  is why we find ourselves reacting to
  similar situations in similar ways many
  times.

  Ayya Khema

  Letting Go, Teacher, Class

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• For your information, I am NOT overreacting. I'm REACTING. That's different. It's important to react when you're pissed off.

  Cherie Currie

  Important, Information, Pissed Off

  Cherie Currie, Tony O'Neill (2010). “Neon Angel: A Memoir of a Runaway”, p.23, Harper Collins

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• Onions make me sad, a lot of people don't realize that. When I'm cutting onions, I'm sad. Because the plight of onions, it's sad. But people don't realize I'm actually crying - they think I'm just reacting.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Cutting, Thinking, People

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• I am a big fan of horror movies but I had never thought that I had wanted to act in one because I don't think that actors get to do much in them. They're usually just reacting.

  Julia Stiles

  Thinking, Actors, Fans

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The American Negro never can be blamed for his racial animosities - he is only reacting to four hundred years of the conscious racism of the American whites.

  Malcolm X

  Years, Racism, Mecca

  Malcolm X's letter written following his Hajj, 1964.

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• I think it's critical in any character you play that it really is about reacting instead of acting. You can always tell when a person is acting.

  Malin Akerman

  Character, Thinking, Play

  "Watchmen Interview: Malin Akerman as Silk Spectre II". Interview with Cole Haddon, www.mtv.com. March 03, 2009.

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• Independent will is our capacity to act. It gives us the power to transcend our paradigms, to swim upstream, to rewrite our scripts, to act based on principle rather than reacting based on emotion or circumstance.

  Stephen Covey

  Freedom, Independent, Giving

  Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill (1995). “First Things First”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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• I was a little excited but mostly blorft. "Blorft" is an adjective I just made up that means 'Completely overwhelmed but proceeding as if everything is fine and reacting to the stress with the torpor of a possum.' I have been blorft every day for the past seven years.

  Tina Fey

  Witty, Stress, Mean

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