Control Quotes
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I like writing. It's partly control freak, and partly I really like what I do for a living. I have the luckiest job in the world. I can get up every day and do what I love for a living.
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As an actor on a film, you have no control over the final product - your job is to make a director's vision come true. So, you need to have total faith in them and add your own creativity and opinions and energy, but you have to really give over responsibility, and sometimes that can feel terrifying.
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I can't control what people think. They know who I am.
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Most of my family is severely overweight. It's been taxing to keep my weight under control.
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For me, saying 'I'm bossy' is a cute, tongue-in-cheek way of saying that I'm in control of my life.
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For me, masculinity is about control, and femininity is more of an embrace, the art of listening. It's very inspiring to explore the shadows of masculinity and femininity, and the tensions between both, and the place of women in the world right now.
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Weather is uncontrollable. Only the Lord above can control the weather. Whatever we get, we have to work with.
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For me, there's nothing more masculine than when I'm completely in control of my body and can call upon my body to do whatever I want it to do.
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Film is a temporal medium as much as it is a visual medium: you're playing with time, and you don't have that ability where someone can pause at home. That's such a fundamental part of what makes filmmaking exciting to me. I don't really have as much interest in any other medium. I just like the control.
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An audience is in many respects no more than a mob under loose control.
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I do not support legislation that would ban birth control.
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The Fifties and Sixties were years of unreal optimism about weather forecasting. Newspapers and magazines were filled with hope for weather science, not just for prediction but for modification and control. Two technologies were maturing together: the digital computer and the space satellite.
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I think it's important for us as a society to remember that the youth within juvenile justice systems are, most of the time, youths who simply haven't had the right mentors and supporters around them - because of circumstances beyond their control.
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I realised that music controls me more than I control music. I had to write songs that were convincing me that things would get better.
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You have to have fine motor control to make putts when you need them the most. That's why golf is such a challenge - you go from extreme power to slowing down and making putts when you need them.
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Most people are embarrassed to admit there's another human being that's in control of them, that your heart beats three times as fast because you've given yourself to someone else.
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Work done illegally outdoors or without permission feels like pure freedom to me. I understand how it can upset many in our society, but in the bigger picture, it is ultimately about freedom. We are living in a time where public space has become a commodity for corporations to control and dictate what is seen and heard.
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We thought the bomb was detonated by remote control, but now it appears to be a suicide attack.
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Men still control the news, both on and off camera.
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It's possible for people to gain control of every facet of your life.
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I'm glad I don't have to make a living farming. Too much hard work. Too many variables you don't have control over, like, is it going to rain? All I can say is, god bless the real farmers out there.
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I always say I want creative control. A lot of people don't think about that. And that's what every artist should think of - being creative and not just a puppet.
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I don't think I was constructed to be monogamous. I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed.
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As an independent artist, you control the means of production, which is the ultimate form of empowerment.
