Direct Quotes
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Actions seems to follow feeling, but really actions and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not. Thus the sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there.
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I can direct breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I take pride in my kitchen, but I'm not going to direct a movie.
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Being no bigot myself, I am disposed to indulge the professors of Christianity in the church that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct, plainest, easiest and least liable to exception.
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It is fascinating to watch politicians come up with 'solutions' to problems that are a direct result of their previous solutions. In many cases, the most efficient thing to do would be to repeal their previous solution and stop being so gung-ho for creating new solutions in the future. But, politically, that is the last thing they will do.
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Carl Rinsch has a good balance between the visual and the drama and action, so I thought if he's going to direct, we can make a new, epic film. My fear was gone when I met him.
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I love actors who are wonderful - like John Cusack and Russell Crowe, and wouldn't it be a treat to eventually direct them one day.
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Once a citizen receives a direct payment from the state, the state has purchased their complicity
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I would always direct my own stuff in Mexico.
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When the governing representatives of the people legalize the shedding of innocent blood (as a for-profit business, nonetheless) then they have placed themselves, and those they represent, in the direct line of God's judgment.
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For we direct, perform and witness performances every night – theatre cannot die before the last dream has been dreamt.
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There are almost too many possibilities. Photography is in direct proportion with our time: multiple, faster, instant. Because it is so easy, it will be more difficult.
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It was always my intention to direct. I went to film school. And then I wanted to know how to work with actors, so I went to acting school. And then by the end of that, I caught the bug.
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Her gaze was direct, full of a sadness so raw and crystallized that I could see the shape of it.
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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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I've written a lot of scripts that someone else directed, and it's absolutely vital that, if I'm gonna act in it, then I have to take off the writer hat and let the director direct.
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Eventually, everyone said, Why don't you direct? It would save time. And that's how it started.
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You become uneasy with people in direct proportion to how many lies you have to keep track of in their presence.
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It's not easy to direct in another language, especially comedy.
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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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Notwithstanding the work of all kinds done by steam-engines... their theory is very little understood, and the attempts to improve them are still directed almost by chance.
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I thought it would be quite a challenge to direct a mystery thriller. I hadn't really done something like that.
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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.
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A man should first direct himself in the way he should go. Only then should he instruct others.
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If [domain seizure] isn't direct censorship, I don't know what is.
