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James Dean Actor
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"When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that. So the director's task is just that – to direct, to point the way. Then the actor takes over. And he must be allowed the space, the freedom to express himself in the role. Without that space, an actor is no more than an unthinking robot with a chest-full of push-buttons."

Play Order Following Instructions
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Frank Smith Author
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"Thoughts are created in the act of writing. [It is a myth that] you must have something to say in order to write. Reality: You often need to write in order to have anything to say. Thought comes with writing, and writing may never come if it is postponed until we are satisfied that we have something to say...The assertion of write first, see what you had to say later applies to all manifestations of written language, to letters...as well as to diaries and journals"

Writing Reality Order
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Mark Twain Writer, Humorist
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"Many of the cemeteries are beautiful, and are kept in perfect order. When one goes from the levee or the business streets [of New Orleans] to it, to a cemetery, he observes to himself that if those people down there would live as neatly while they are alive as they do after they are dead, they would find many advantages in it; and besides, their quarter would be the wonder and admiration of the business world."

Beautiful Order New Orleans
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Jay-Z Rapper, Businessman
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"Everyone who makes music is a good collaborator at their foundation because in order to make music, you have to connect to it in a way that other people can't."

People Order Foundation
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Jerry Garcia Musician
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"I think that America is in danger of losing its adventurous spirit in the cause of some kind of illusion of safety, or substitute of law and order there."

Thinking Law Order
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Johannes Kepler Astronomer, Mathematician
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"When things are in order, if the cause of the orderliness cannot be deduced from the motion of the elements or from the composition of matter, it is quite possibly a cause possessing a mind."

Mind Order Elements
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John Stuart Mill Philosopher, Political Economist
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"A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life."

Life Order Party
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Martin Luther Theologian
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"In human affairs we accomplish everything through prayer. What has been properly arranged we keep in order, what has gone amiss we change and improve, what cannot be changed and improved we bear, overcoming all the trouble and sustaining all the good by prayer. Against force there is no help but prayer alone."

Christian Order Prayer
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Maya Angelou Poet, Memoirist
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"In order to be a mentor, and an effective one, one must care. You must care. You don't have to know how many square miles are in Idaho, you don't need to know what is the chemical makeup of chemistry, or of blood or water. Know what you know and care about the person, care about what you know and care about the person you're sharing with."

Order Blood Makeup
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Lou Reed Musician, Songwriter
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"I'm tearing down Route 80 East, the sun's on my right side. I'm drunk, but my vision's good."

Law Order Drunk
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Plato Philosopher
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"Harmony sinks deep into the recesses of the soul and takes its strongest hold there, bringing grace also to the body & mind as well. Music is a moral law. It gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, and life to everything. It is the essence of order."

Order Inspiration Sadness
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Edward Said Literary Theorist, Critic, and Author
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"All the words that George Bush used in public during the early stages of the crisis - "wanted, dead or alive," "a crusade," etc. - suggest not so much an orderly and considered progress towards bringing the man to justice according to international norms, but rather something apocalyptic, something of the order of the criminal atrocity itself. That will make matters a lot, lot worse, because there are always consequences."

Men Order Justice
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Emma Stone Actress
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"You have to play the character in the best way you know how and do what you need to do in order to bring that character to life and not worry about the millions of people that you may be disappointing!"

Character Play Order
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