Direct Quotes
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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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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.
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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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When I direct and have to look at filmed scenes of myself, I suck.
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I think that as you learn more about writing you learn to be direct.
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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.
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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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For we direct, perform and witness performances every night – theatre cannot die before the last dream has been dreamt.
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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.
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They've said I want to direct pictures. I couldn't direct traffic.
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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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The same person is coming through in a different medium.... My art is simple, direct and definite.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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in certain crises direct expression of sympathy is the least possible to those who most feel sympathy.
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The most drastic and usually the most effective remedy for fear is direct action.
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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.
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One of the most important factors, not only in military matters but in life as a whole, is ... the ability to direct one's whole energies towards the fulfillment of a particular task.
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Artistic form is congruent with the dynamic forms of our direct sensuous, mental, and emotional life; works of art are projections of "felt life", as Henry James called it, into spatial, temporal, and poetic structures.
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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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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.
