Direct Quotes
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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.
Benn Northover
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When I direct and have to look at filmed scenes of myself, I suck.
William Shatner
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The same person is coming through in a different medium.... My art is simple, direct and definite.
Grace Slick Starship
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I think that as you learn more about writing you learn to be direct.
Eudora Welty
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I guess I would model myself after the Bill Condons, the Frank Darabonts and the David Nutters if I were to direct a feature, which I would love to do, by the way.
William Sadler
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I think everybody's crazy, and if I'm the one being a little direct about it, that's fine by me.
Ezra Miller
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We will not adopt the fantastic hypocrisy of modern conservatism which preaches the values of families and communities, while conducting a direct assault on them through reduced wages and conditions and job security.
Paul Keating
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I would always direct my own stuff in Mexico.
Eugenio Derbez
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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.
Tony Evans
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I think there's a danger that some people look at the success of my first movie as a fluke. So I want to make sure that my second film is an even bigger success. Then if I direct my third movie and it's terrible, it'll be okay.
Paul Reubens
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There's no future without the past and anybody who doesn't really understand where jazz has come from has no right to try to direct where it's going.
Cannonball Adderley
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I am a direct person.
Susan Rice
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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.
George Mastras
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There's always darkness around, and if you focus on the darkness, you don't know where to go. But if you direct yourself at the light - there it is! It's right there.
Annie Lennox Eurythmics
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For we direct, perform and witness performances every night – theatre cannot die before the last dream has been dreamt.
Declan Donnellan
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It is even possible that desirable redistribution is more likely to occur through climate change policy than otherwise, or to be accomplished more effectively through climate policy than through direct foreign aid.
Cass Sunstein
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They've said I want to direct pictures. I couldn't direct traffic.
Marilyn Monroe
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She has learned that her body is precious and it mustn't be offered carelessly ever again, as it holds a direct connection to her heart.
Steve Martin
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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.
Alice Mattison
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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.
William James
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in certain crises direct expression of sympathy is the least possible to those who most feel sympathy.
George Eliot
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A weaver who has to direct and to interweave a great many little threads has no time to philosophize about it, but rather he is so absorbed in his work that he doesn't think but acts, and he feels how things must go more than he can explain it.
Vincent Van Gogh
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I'd love to direct commercials on Caribbean beacheswith luscious women rubbing on suntan lotion, but all I get arethese documentary-type things.
Michael Apted
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We have wandered into a state of prolonged neurosis because of the absence of a direct pipeline to the unconscious and we have then fallen victim to priestcraft of every conceivable sort.
Terence McKenna