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• Ive spent over 25 years in the television industry, the direct response industry. I met a lot of people and certainly learned the power of commercials and their brand building potential.

  Kevin Harrington

  Years, People, Television

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• Our conduct has a direct influence on how people think about the gospel. The world doesn't judge us by our theology; the world judges us by our behavior. People don't necessarily want to know what we believe about the Bible. They want to see if what we believe makes a difference in our lives. Our actions either bring glory to God or misrepresent His truth.

  Carolyn Mahaney

  Believe, Thinking, Differences

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• For all filmmakers: True originality is the key, only direct your own unique movie scripts, be a megalomaniac and not give a damn.

  Tom Six

  Unique, Keys, Giving

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Bear in mind that parts of the score may be devoid of direct musical relevance.

  Cornelius Cardew

  Musical, Mind, May

  Cornelius Cardew, Richard Barrett (2006). “Cornelius Cardew: A Reader”

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• Copy is a direct conversation with the consumer.

  Shirley Polykoff

  Copywriting, Conversation, Copies

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• When people direct insults at me, I can take it.

  Eli Roth

  People, Insult, I Can

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• There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we become at the prospect of having to think about it.

  Alain de Botton

  Thinking, Ideas, Nervous

  Alain de Botton (2012). “Religion for Atheists: A non-believer's guide to the uses of religion”, p.188, Penguin UK

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• I gained direct knowledge of the life of the poor in big towns: I have lived the narrowing mechanism of its conditioning and feared it.

  Ella Maillart

  Literature, Towns, Poor

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• And so my militant philosophy is this: to make with a brush on canvas is a simple direct delight-to make with the movie is the same.

  Norman McLaren

  Philosophy, Simple, Delight

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• Direct, forceful, energetic. Loves power, eats up publicity and flattery... Can turn on charm at will and knows it.

  Joseph Stilwell

  Publicity, Flattery, Power Of Love

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• A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Flower, Feelings, Letters

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.34

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• Peace is not achievable as a direct object of purposeful behaviour.

  Colin S. Gray

  Peace, War, Behaviour

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• The Soviet Union was brought down by a strange global coalition of Western European conservatives, Eastern European nationalists, Russian liberals, Chinese communists, and Afghan Islamic reactionaries, to name only a few. Many of these discordant groups disliked the United States intensely. But Americans were able to mobilize them to direct their ire at the Soviet Union first.

  David Frum

  War, Islamic, Names

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• Eating is perhaps the most direct way we acknowledge or deny the sacredness of the earth.

  Gary Paul Nabhan

  Earth, Way, Eating

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• Truth is a matter of direct apprehension-you can't climb a ladder of mental concepts to it.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Truth, Ladders, Matter

  Lawrence Durrell (2012). “The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea”, p.285, Faber & Faber

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• As Christians we are here to affirm the supreme value of direct sharing, of immediate encounter -not machine to machine, but person to person, face to face.

  Kallistos Ware

  Christian, Encounters, Machines

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• I think directors should at least take acting lessons to see what's going on. And I think all actors should direct to see what a director has to go through.

  Penny Marshall

  Thinking, Inspire, Acting

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• Before I go off and direct a movie, I always look at four films. They tend to be The Seven Samurai, Lawrence Of Arabia, It's A Wonderful Life and The Searchers.

  Steven Spielberg

  Directors, Arabia, Looks

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• Your body is an absolute mirror of your mind. As you worry, your body shows it. As you love, your body shows it. As you are overwhelmed, your body shows it. As you are angry your body shows it. Every cell of your body is being allowed or resisted by the way you feel. 'My physical state is a direct reflection of how I feel', instead of 'How I feel is a direct reflection of my physical state'.

  Esther Hicks

  Philosophy, Love You, Reflection

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• Absolutely. I can produce. I can write. I can direct.

  Frank Langella

  Writing, Produce, I Can

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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

  Jobs, Hypocrite, Duplicity

  Campaign Launch Speech in Melbourne, pmtranscripts.pmc.gov.au. February 14, 1996.

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• The Christian must abstain from sin. It is as simple and direct as that. You have no right to say, 'I am weak, I cannot, and temptation is very powerful.' The answer of the New Testament is, Stop doing it!

  Martyn

  Christian, Powerful, Simple

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• The most direct path to achievement whether you're an entrepreneur, a company executive, or a pro soccer player is to be a great performer and a great team member. This is also the secret to a meaningful career and self-fulfillment.

  Maynard Webb

  Soccer, Meaningful, Team

  "Meritocracy: World Cup Fever" by Maynard Webb, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 27, 2010.

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• God waits for you to communicate with Him. You have instant, direct access to God. God loves mankind so much, and in a very special sense His children, that He has made Himself available to you at all times.

  Wesley L Duewel

  Prayer, Children, Waiting

  Wesley L. Duewel (1986). “Touch the World Through Prayer”, p.21, Zondervan

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• The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart.

  Sam Rayburn

  Real, Heart, Acting

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