The very act of voting is a political act.

Architecture is definitely a political act.

I often say that buying 'Heavy Rain' is a political act.

Every film is a political act; it's how you see the world.

To be clear, impeachment is above all else a political act.

Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.

The revision of any kind of established model is always a political act.

Being born, especially being born a person of color, is a political act in itself.

When I started crediting myself as writer and director, I saw that as a political act.

As far as making people feel less depressed, that, in and of itself, is a political act.

For me, choosing to perform in drag, because of all the things I enjoy about it, is a political act.

I love Canada. It's a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land.

Acting is a business and a political act and a craft, but I also feel like it's a service - specifically, for a military audience.

Art is inherently political. Even trying to make a film that has nothing to do with politics is, in and of itself, a political act.

Acting, to me, has been many things: It's a business, and it's a craft, and it's a political act - it's whatever adjective is most applicable.

War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.

In this new world where art is willfully misinterpreted to score points and to distract, simply doing the work of an artist has become a political act.

We've got ourselves into a situation where government service is somehow seen to be a political act rather than an act of civic duty or of public service.

I feel that man-hating is an honorable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them.

I cannot imagine a context that would some day, in some manner, make the monstrous crime of September 11 an understandable or comprehensible political act.

Lesbian humor isn't trying to sell anything, it doesn't have to sell out. Coming out as a lesbian onstage is still a very political act; if it weren't, more women would do it.

I define my work as a feminist act and a political act because I'm black and a woman. You don't necessarily have to claim that, but the act of making art itself is a political and feminist act when you're a woman.

When a man wrote a political screed against the IRS and flew into its building, he was deemed mentally ill, even though it was clearly a political act. There's a double standard, which is: If his name is Muhammad, it's automatically terrorism.

The political lives of tyrants play out human affairs with a special intensity: the death of a democratic leader long after his retirement is a private matter, but the death of a tyrant is always a political act that reflects the character of his power.

What I do know is that writing is the thing I am best at, and I don't have the stomach, the ability, the strength or the courage to enter the political arena. And I think writing can be a political act, if only to let those people accountable know they are being watched. Literature can be a conscience.

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