Direct Quotes
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When you are angry, you make bad decisions in direct proportion to the level of your anger.
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Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts.
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My cameraman and I devised a method, which we started using from my second film, which applies mainly to day scenes shot in the studio, where we used bounced light instead of direct light. We agreed with this thing of four or five shadows following the actors is dreadful.
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Direct and easy communications — freedom of speech in all forms and in its broadest sense — has become vital to the very survival of a civilized humanity.
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There is only one thing a writer can write about: what is in front of his senses at the moment of writing... I am a recording instrument... I do not presume to impose "story" "plot" "continuity"... Insofar as I succeed in Direct recording of certain areas of psychic process I may have limited function... I am not an entertainer.
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People have got to get used to making low carbon choices. If they have a direct incentive to do so they will think about it. Many times a day you have a choice between a low carbon option and a high carbon option, whether it is at home or at work.
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We should see better and more direct measurements of economic well being.
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Intuitive knowledge is an illumination of the soul, whereby it beholds in the light of God those things which it pleases Him to reveal to us by a direct impression of divine clearness.
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When the democratic deficit is so enormous, people are left with very little option but to take peaceful, non-violent direct action.
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Everything I do is a direct creation of my hands, whether it is made in wood, plaster or clay.
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There exists in nature a force which is immeasurably more powerful than steam, and by means of which a single man, who knows how to adapt and direct it, might upset and alter the face of the world.
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There are many forms of photography. I consider myself simply a recorder of that which I find of interest around me. I personally have no desire to create or stage direct ideas.
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I had the good fortune to direct my first professional production with one of my Dad's masterpieces, The Man Who Came To Dinner. What it taught me was how beautifully the Kaufman and Hart plays are constructed: with economy, and wit, and warmth, and a sensibility, and heart/Hart that appeals to every stripe of theatregoers. It was a gift that can't be underestimated.
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I like to let each thing happen - direct it a little consciously, maybe - but just kind of follow the vibrations I get in each particular circumstance. We don't plan theatrics. We hardly ever know which set we'll play.
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The direct consequence is that we have to fight with each other in order to survive.
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I kind of want to learn how to direct TV. It's interesting.
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You're in direct contact with the music by having the strings under your fingers. It's not mechanical like a piano.
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It's necessary for Israelis and Palestinians to make the compromises that are required to get the direct talks back on track.
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I think it's very hard to direct foreign language actors, but Carl Rinsch found a great way. A special super visional way.
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You have to be insane to direct.
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I thank the Prime Minister for his remarks about me. Debating with him at the Dispatch Box has been exciting, fascinating, fun, an enormous challenge and, from my point of view, wholly unproductive in every sense. I am told that in my time at the Dispatch Box I have asked the Prime Minister 1,118 direct questions, but no one has counted the direct answers-it may not take long.
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Be not over solicitous about education. It may be able to do much, but it does not do as much as expected from it. It may mould and direct the character, but it rarely alters it.
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If my style is too direct for some, maybe they should toughen up a bit.
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Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but its quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves.
