Direct Quotes - Page 13

• I appreciate my role as an actor much more after I direct because it's just easier.

  Bryan Cranston

  Appreciate, Roles, Actors

  "Q&A – Bryan Cranston (Director)". AMC Interview, www.amc.com. March 2009.

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• Eventually one day I want to direct, but as of right now my next cap that I'm looking for is the producer cap.

  Laz Alonso

  One Day, Want, Next

  Biography/Person Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• That opinion, which supposes personal sanctification to be unnecessary to final glorification, stands in direct opposition to every dictate of reason, to every declaration of scripture.

  Augustus Toplady

  Finals, Holiness, Scripture

  "The works of Augustus M. Toplady".

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• I believe inter -racial marriages show the world that the color of a person's skin is of no consequence. The more such marriages there are, the more people will come into direct contact with such couples. This benefits peace in the world where so much conflict and hatred is based on racial and religious differences

  Robert S. Jepson, Jr.

  Religious, Couple, Believe

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• There is a direct parallel in the way that we speak, with natural variations of pitch and volume that give full meaning to our words. This is what is missing in the words on the page of a book, and the notes on the score.

  Howard Snell

  Book, Giving, Missing

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• I'm addicted to the Internet. I admit it. It has transformed the way I work as a senator, communicate with my children, and keep tabs on news and cultural developments.... The Internet is a more direct communications link between legislators and their constituents....I constantly work at fusing my Senate work into my office home page to make it as useful, timely, and user-friendly as possible for Vermonters and others who may visit.....I look at my Web site, as my 24-hour virtual office, where visitors can send me an e-mail or search for the information they need anytime, day or night.

  Patrick Leahy

  Children, Communication, Home

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• If science is an unfinished project, the next stage will be about reconnecting and integrating the rigor of scientific method with the richness of direct experience to produce a science that will serve to connect us to one another, ourselves and the world.

  Betty Sue Flowers

  Science, Next, World

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• Be direct, simple, brief, vigorous, and lucid.

  Henry Watson Fowler

  Writing, Simple, Editing

  Henry Watson Fowler, Francis George Fowler (1931). “The King's English”, Oxford University Press

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• Biography, especially of the great and good, who have risen by their own exertions to eminence and usefulness, is an inspiring and ennobling study. Its direct tendency is to reproduce the excellence it records.

  Horace Mann

  Excellence, Records, Biographies

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.105

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• Yoga is not a means to get SOMEWHERE as if you were not SOMEWHERE already. It is your direct and intimate participation with Life.

  Mark Whitwell

  Yoga, Mean, Intimate

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• Yoga is your direct intimacy with the nurturing power of Life. It is the practical means adapted to personal needs, age, health and all cultures.

  Mark Whitwell

  Yoga, Mean, Age

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• All gifts from God are intended to direct our attention to God and create fresh affection for God.

  C. J. Mahaney

  Attention, Affection, Gift From God

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• This is the copywriters task: not to create mass desire — but to channel and direct it.

  Eugene Schwartz

  Desire, Tasks, Mass

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• I'm talking to you and it's basically a direct communication, whereas if I'm writing a letter to you and you read the letter, there are like 12 extra deconstruction and reconstruction steps in the communication.

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Communication, Writing, Talking

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• The leading and characteristic features of the morbid state to which I would direct your attention are, anaemia, general languor and debility, remarkable feebleness of the heart's action, irritability of the stomach, and a peculiar change of the colour in the skin, occurring in connection with a diseased condition of the suprarenal capsules.

  Thomas Addison

  Change, Heart, Skins

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• If Turkey is prepared to acknowledge the Armenian Genocide, then its leaders can proceed immediately to direct dialogue with its counterparts in Armenia to define a common vision for the future.

  Mark Foley

  Common Vision, Turkeys, Leader

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• My goal was, and still is, to write first, direct my own stuff whenever possible and control my own creative destiny.

  Jeff Probst

  Writing, Fate, Destiny

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• The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.

  Gustave Courbet

  Artist, Expression, Ratios

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• For the last eight years, American policy toward Iraq has been based on the direct threat Saddam poses to international security. That threat is clear. Saddam's history of aggression leaves little doubt that he would resume his drive for regional domination and his quest for weapons of mass destruction if he had the chance.

  Sandy Berger

  Iraq, Eight, Mass Destruction

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• The constitution has broken down. We have no enemies except the ones we select and direct towards the nearest nuclear bombs. They need an enemy to provoke, a diversion. This is the mentality of tenth-rate people who are in politics because corporate America likes them. They are malleable. They give them contracts to build missile shields that will never work. It's deeply corrupt.

  Gore Vidal

  Government, America, Broken

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• Nothing is plainer than that, if the principles of the church of Rome prevail here, our Constitution would fall. The two cannot exist together. They are in open and direct antagonism with the fundamental theory of our government and of all popular government everywhere.

  Richard Thompson

  Fall, Government, Rome

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• Laws which legitimize the direct killing of innocent human beings through abortion or euthanasia are in complete opposition to the inviolable right to life proper to every individual; they thus deny the equality of everyone before the law.

  Pope John Paul II

  Law, Abortion, Killing

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• I do beseech you to direct your efforts more to preparing youth for the path and less to preparing the path for the youth.

  Ben Lindsey

  Effort, Path, Youth

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• When we are working at a difficult task and strive after a good thing, we are fighting a righteous battle, the direct reward of which is that we are kept from much evil.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Fighting, Evil, Battle

  Vincent van Gogh, Mark Roskill (1997). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh”, p.104, Simon and Schuster

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• I may say that here, as in most cases where the operations of nature interfere with the designs of man, it is not by a direct intervention on our part that we may remedy the difficulties, but rather by a precise knowledge of their causes, which may enable us, if not to check, at least to avoid the evil consequences.

  Louis Agassiz

  Ocean, Men, Evil

  Louis Agassiz (1882). “Report on the Florida Reefs”

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