510 Quotes About Acts

  • Author Clare Balding
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    I have never understood the clamour for waif-like women whose flesh acts merely as a thin veil for their bones - much as I would love to be thinner, I would hate to take it so far that I had no actual shape at all.

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  • Author Douglas Carter Beane
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    I've seen nearly every Encores! show. I love the second acts so much because you just see desperation and inspiration in equal measure.

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  • Author Francis Bacon
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    Cato said the best way to keep good acts in memory was to refresh them with new.

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  • Author Gary Bongiovanni
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    Part of it is fate and just random, but it's also fueled by the fact that last year was such a bad year for the industry. This year, a lot of acts were reluctant to go out right away,

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  • Author Gary Bongiovanni
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    You don't normally see three huge acts like that out touring in the same year. McCartney and The Stones alone really helped drive up ticket prices.

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  • Author Gary Bongiovanni
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    Ten or 20 years ago, the acts that sold a lot of records were also the big concert ticket sellers. You don't see that correlation today.

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  • Author Gary Bongiovanni
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    These older acts are the gravy train, but someday that train is not going to run anymore, and no one really knows what to do when they're gone. Of the young acts, you have someone like Coldplay who does quite well, but where will it be in 10 years? That's hard to say.

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  • Author George Berkeley
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    Westward the course of empire takes its way; / The four first acts already past, / A fifth shall close the drama with the day: / Time's noblest offspring is the last.

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