I used to be a fan of proportional representation, but I am not at all now I have seen it in action.
Examine our every action through the lens of how we would feel if it were to become front page news.
Most of the time, tough, combative, adversarial dialogue is much more exciting than physical action.
The one who acts is always without conscience; nobody has a conscience but the contemplative person.
Vice: Whatever was passion in the contemplation of man, being brought forth by his will into action.
Steinway is the finest piano ever made. Its tone is magnificent and its well-balanced action superb.
As for action movies, I did Tarzan, and I'm also about to shoot Meltdown, which John Carpenter wrote
Right action is better than knowledge; but in order to do what is right, we must know what is right.
I find the constraints of drama actually freeing: It brings everything down to character and action.
Do not be obsessed by egotism, imagining that you are the cause of action, everything is due to God.
True courage scorns to vent her prowess in a storm of words; and to the valiant action speaks alone.
The sinner sins against himself; the wrongdoer wrongs himself, becoming the worse by his own action.
We can't see ahead of time what actions are going to be the ones that move history in dramatic ways.