Direct Quotes
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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.
Spider Robinson
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I am a direct person.
Susan Rice
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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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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'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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When I direct and have to look at filmed scenes of myself, I suck.
William Shatner
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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 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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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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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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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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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.
William Graham Sumner
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I would always direct my own stuff in Mexico.
Eugenio Derbez
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They've said I want to direct pictures. I couldn't direct traffic.
Marilyn Monroe
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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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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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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
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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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in certain crises direct expression of sympathy is the least possible to those who most feel sympathy.
George Eliot
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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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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.
Erwin Rommel
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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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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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The most drastic and usually the most effective remedy for fear is direct action.
William Burnham Woods