Direct Quotes

• We're still at a point where women [directors] aren't allowed to be mad visionaries. We have to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that we're responsible, that we can handle it, that we've got all our ducks in a row . . . most women who direct always come in on budget, always come in on schedule, and if they were wild and irresponsible it would not be put down to brilliance, but to a general flakiness.

  

  Sarah Paulson
  • Shadow
  • Prove
  • Responsible

• I try to direct people in distress to the right resources, where they can get comprehensive help. I've heard from many people that simply putting down in a letter what is going on in their lives is therapeutic in and of itself.

  

  Emily Yoffe
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Helping

• I don't like to be told what to do at all. That's unfortunate because a lot of people come up with good ideas and can direct you.

  

  Grace Slick Starship
  • People
  • Told
  • Good Ideas

• For me, the hardest part is getting up and writing, that's the hard part. I always felt like I could teach someone to direct if I really had to. I feel like it's a skill that's passable, but writing... writing is the worst. That's what I'm doing right now, it's just the hardest thing that you'll ever do.

  

  Ben Younger
  • Writing
  • Teach
  • Skill

• The wind, as a direct motive power, is wholly inapplicable to a system of machine labour, for during a calm season the whole business of the country would be thrown out of gear. Before the era of steam-engines, windmills were tried for draining mines; but though they were powerful machines, they were very irregular, so that in a long tract of calm weather the mines were drowned, and all the workmen thrown idle.

  

  William Stanley Jevons
  • Long
  • Country
  • Powerful

• I am no more proud of my career as an athlete than I am of the fact that I am a direct descendant of that noble warrior [Chief Black Hawk].

  

  Jim Thorpe
  • Black
  • Proud
  • Athlete

• We need a direct repudiation of Barack Obama and everything for which he stands.

  

  Monica Crowley
  • Everything
  • Direct
  • Stands

• She was too intent upon her work, and too earnest in what she said, and too composed and quiet altogether, to be on the watch for any look he might direct towards her in reply; so the shaft of his ungrateful glance fell harmless, and did not wound her.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Work
  • Wound
  • Glance

• I had written the script a few years earlier for Paramount, then later got hired with Sam [Fuller] to write an entirely new script that he was going to direct. And that was one of the great thrills of my professional life.

  

  Curtis Hanson
  • Life
  • Great
  • Writing

• I don't act, I don't direct, I don't design.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Design
  • Direct

• In politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power. The unwise destroy themselves in resistance. The skillful accept events, take strong hold of them and direct them.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Politics
  • Destroy
  • Resistance

• I think I'll always want to write and direct. I'm interested in producing and helping other people tell stories. But I'm still in love with writing and directing.

  

  Shane Carruth
  • People
  • Writing
  • Stories

• There is no general doctrine which is not capable of eating out our morality if unchecked by the deep-seated habit of direct fellow-feeling with individual fellow-men.

  

  George Eliot
  • Habit
  • Morality
  • Doctrine

• Even if, as is generally the case, everything that the ad says about the product is scrupulously honest, or at any rate scrupulously avoids outright dishonesty, the implication of the direct address of most commercials - that the announcer speaks with the viewer's welfare at heart - is fraudulent.

  

  Michael Schudson
  • Honest
  • Products
  • Dishonesty

• The immiseration of the majority is an integral part of the Free World package for the Third World, the unsavory aspects of the package - the terror, the direct spoilation of people and resources, and western complicity - must be rationalized and, as far as possible, kept under the rug.

  

  Edward S. Herman
  • World
  • Terror
  • Aspect

• I do not think anyone should feel pressured into doing it but I am the sucker who will stop on the street and sign up to direct debits.

  

  Kate Thornton
  • Thinking
  • Should
  • Streets

• I definitely want to produce more because I have a bunch of projects that I've either written or half written and I want to continue developing them and if cant direct one right away cause I'm doing something else I will love to still see it get made.

  

  Robert Rodriguez Chingon
  • Made
  • Causes
  • Half

• Sincerity is that whereby self-completion is effected, and its way is that by which man must direct himself.

  

  Confucius
  • Direct
  • Sincerity
  • Effected

• I can direct breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I take pride in my kitchen, but I'm not going to direct a movie.

  

  Julia Roberts
  • Movie
  • Pride
  • Kitchen

• Power as is really divided, and as dangerously to all purposes, by sharing with another an Indirect Power, as a Direct one.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Power
  • Direct
  • Purposes

• Most people's lives are a direct reflection of their peer groups.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • People
  • Direct
  • Peers

• [Children] receive direct instruction from time to time about the appropriateness of various social comparisons.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • Time
  • Children
  • Instruction

• My energy is good; it is directed at training hard.

  

  Dillian Whyte
  • Energy
  • Training
  • Direct

• Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds.

  

  Plato
  • Children
  • Train
  • Direct

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