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A. A. Milne
You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
A.W. Hare and J.C. Hare
Everybody has his own theatre, in which he is manager, actor, prompter, playwright, sceneshifter, boxkeepeer, doorkeeper, all in one, and audience into the bargain.
Abraham Lincoln
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
African Proverb
When deeds speak, words are nothing.
Al Bernstein
Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.
Alec Guinness
Acting is happy agony.
Alexander Pope
A long, exact, and serious comedy; In every scene some moral let it teach, And, if it can, at once both please and preach.
Alexander Pope
There still remains to mortify a wit The many-headed monster of the pit.
Alexander Pope
To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart; To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold-- For this the tragic Muse first trod the stage.
Alexander Pope
Your scene precariously subsists too long, On French translation and Italian song. Dare to have sense yourselves; assert the stage; Be justly warm'd with your own native rage.
Alfred Adler
Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.
Alfred North Whitehead
Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
Allen Tate
Men expect too much, do too little.
Amelia Earhart
The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.
Anatole France
To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream. Not only plan but also believe.
Anatole France
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
Andrew Carnegie
As I grow older I pay less attention to what men say.
Andrew Jackson
Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.
Anonymous
The best way out of a difficulty is through it.
Anonymous
The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
 
 
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