Direct Quotes
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Remember, this is back in the '40s, and the idea of a museum being a place where interested people could come in direct contact with works hadn't arrived on the scene yet. That, I think, I first ran into at the Freer Gallery in Washington, D.C., where a man named Marty Martin Amt decided that he really felt his job - part of his job, as an assistant to the director was to make the collection available to interested people.
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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 followed Shoji Hamada, because I guess Alix MacKenzie and I, we both saw the danger that lay in planning things out on paper and then simply executing them. And with Hamada there was a much more direct sense that the piece had happened in the process of making on the wheel, and that was what we wanted to do with our work. We weren't always able to do it, though.
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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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It would be hard to find a single instance of a direct assault by positive effort upon poverty, vice, and misery which has not either failed or, if it has not failed directly and entirely, has not entailed other evils greater than the one which it removed.
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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’m very interested in sublimation. I love the way Francis Bacon talked about the grin without the cat, the sensation without the boredom of its conveyance… I’ve always wanted to be able to convey figurative imagery in a kind of shorthand, to get it across in as direct a way as possible. I want there to be a human presence without having to depict it in full.
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If [domain seizure] isn't direct censorship, I don't know what is.
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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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My whole game plan was to direct movies. I knew if I made a reputation in theater, I would get offers.
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I'd like to direct more operas.
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I'm kind of an all-in person. If I'm going to direct I'm going to take the challenge on.
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They've said I want to direct pictures. I couldn't direct traffic.
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My writing and my paintings do not have a direct connection in my mind. But I am sure they influence each other in the measure that everything we do is linked to whatever we are, which includes whatever we have done or are doing.
Etel Adnan
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All of the things I've directed, I'm really emotionally close to. That's why I choose to direct them and spend years on them.
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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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If it is the greatest truth that you seek, the plants can direct you.
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When an editor first explained to me the difference between direct and indirect writing, I just thought it was a stylistic choice.
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We are all immersed in the atmosphere of our own thinking, which is the direct result of all we have ever said, thought or done. This decides what is to take place in our lives.
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In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray, Gone from the path direct.
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I didn't want to be a director for hire. It really just took me a long time to learn how to direct and to feel up to the job.
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I like writing for other people. I love it. It's great because you write it and then you hand it off to someone else. But in terms of directing, anything I direct will be something I've written or re-written. I'm in no crazy rush to direct.
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Not write, maybe develop. Direct, sure. As an actor, you work on so many films, you sort of start to see who directs well and who doesn't.
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The real actor - like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
