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• When I began to direct, I began to understand and realise that everything that I'd learnt, both in music and dance and in the theatre, seemed to come together as a director, and I began to enjoy it. And slowly I let the acting go.

  George Ogilvie

  Theatre, Acting, Together

  "Epiphanies: George Ogilvie, Director and Pilgrim". "The Spirit of Things", www.abc.net.au. December 3, 2006.

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• I would hate to say as a non-African-American person that it would be wrong for a black person to direct white people in a movie. Wouldn't that be awful of me to say that? The only sympathizing thing I might say for people that want to [grumble] is that a filmmaker should have an understanding for the place where the people you're portraying are coming from.

  Mick Jagger

  Hate, Should Have, White

  "Mick Jagger & Chadwick Boseman Talk 'Get On Up,' James Brown and a Rolling Stones Biopic". Interview with Tatiana Siegel, www.billboard.com. July 25, 2014.

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• I don't support direct democracy because I want a life, and that means I want to select people who work for me who do that sort of work for me.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Mean, People, Support

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• I'm all for experimenting with sortition - randomly selected representative bodies of citizens. But I don't favor direct democracy. We're busy. We have lives. There is reddit. Who has time to work out the right answer to the thousand policy choices a gov't must make all the time?

  Lawrence Lessig

  Work Out, Choices, Democracy

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• When I write something, I want the best director to direct it. And that's not going to be me.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Writing, Directors, Want

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• A leader can`t move a country that`s not ready. You can`t make the waves, but when you see them coming, you can help direct them.

  Barney Frank

  Country, Moving, Leader

  "Hardball with Chris Matthews". www.nbcnews.com. June 29, 2015.

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• I'm always trying to make movies. It's what I love to do more than anything. I love to write and direct.

  Frank Whaley

  Writing, Always Trying, Trying

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I've been in situations where I've been sent scripts to direct, and I always end up becoming very controlling and wanting to rewrite it to fit what I think it should say, and it just usually doesn't work.

  Frank Whaley

  Thinking, Scripts, Becoming

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I would love to be able to direct episodic television, because it's a great way to make a living, and it's something where I think I could utilize my talents as well as my ability to work fast.

  Frank Whaley

  Thinking, Television, Able

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There's the caveman in us. The caveman in you says, "I want direct contact. I don't want a picture." The caveman in our body says once in a while, we have to go outside. We have to meet real people, talk to real people, and do real things.

  Michio Kaku

  Real, People, Body

  "US Futurologist Michio Kaku: 'Eternal Life Does Not Violate the Laws of Physics'". SPIEGEL Interview, www.spiegel.de. September 28, 2012.

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• I think people direct good films when they feel personal to them, not because it's a famous book or something. It has to something move over that and somehow become personal to the director.

  Salman Rushdie

  Moving, Book, Thinking

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The only reason I'm acting in films I direct is to get the money to make them, quite frankly, it's not what I'm interested in doing.

  Denzel Washington

  Acting, Film, Reason

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• There's more substance in my prose and my poetry than in all my films together. Writing is a more direct way of expressing yourself because, in cinema, you always have finances, organization, actors, technical apparatus and all that stuff coming in between.

  Werner Herzog

  Writing, Organization, Together

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• When I direct my own scripts, it's much easier as it's been in my head for a year already... What I love about this is having an idea and seeing it come to fruition on screen. I would like to direct someone else's script one day, but I might not get round to it before I die - you can't legislate for being hit by a bus!

  Ricky Gervais

  Years, Ideas, One Day

  "The Award-Wining Comedy Drama Returns". Interview with James Rampton, www.rickygervais.com. April 15, 2014.

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• To me, a poem is almost like someone whispering to another person, or you hear the whispering in your head. I hope with my own poems that the reader feels a connection, soul to soul, that'll help us all feel a little less alone on the planet. And it does have the power to direct change. A writer can make the word 'dark' be something positive. You can relieve a word like 'hysterical' of its misogynistic implications. You can make the language your own. That's what poetry is about.

  Rita Dove

  Dark, Soul, Littles

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• there is a law of retribution in all things, direct or indirect, visible or invisible.

  Miles Franklin

  Law, Invisible, Indirect

  Miles Franklin (2014). “Some Everyday Folk and Dawn”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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• Oh! welcome to the wearied Earth
  The Sabbath resting comes,
  Gathering the sons of toil and care
  Back to their peaceful homes;
  And, like a portal to the skies,
  Opens the House of God,
  Where all who seek may come and learn
  The way the Saviour trod.
  But holier to the wanderer seems
  The Sabbath on the deep,
  When on, and on, in ceaseless course,
  The toiling bark must keep,
  And not a trace of man appears
  Amid the wilderness
  Of waters--then it comes like dove
  Direct from heaven to bless.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Home, Son, Men

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• Though you be sprung in direct line from Hercules, if you show a lowborn meanness, that long succession of ancestors whom you disgrace are so many witnesses against you; and this grand display of their tarnished glory but serves to make your ignominy more evident.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Long, Lines, Ancestry

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• Reality, like God and History, tends to direct people to wherever they want to go.

  Pauline Kael

  Reality, People, Want

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• Children have almost an intuitive discernment between the maxims you bring forward for their use, and those by which you direct your own conduct.

  Anna Letitia Barbauld

  Children, Example, Use

  Anna Letitia Barbauld, Lucy Aikin (1825). “The works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: in two volumes”, p.312

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• Do I want to pray or only to think about my human problems? Do I want to pray or simply kneel there contemplating my sorrow? Do I want to direct my prayer toward God or let it direct itself towards me?

  Hubert Van Zeller

  Prayer, Thinking, Sorrow

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• However constant the visitations of sickness and bereavement, the fall of the year is most thickly strewn with the fall of human life. Everywhere the spirit of some sad power seems to direct the time; it hides from us the blue heavens, it makes the green wave turbid; it walks through the fields, and lays the damp ungathered harvest low; it cries out in the night wind and the shrill hail; it steals the summer bloom from the infant cheek; it makes old age shiver to the heart; it goes to the churchyard, and chooses many a grave.

  James Martineau

  Summer, Fall, Heart

  James Martineau (1858). “Endeavors after the Christian life: discourses”, p.227

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• A direct statement about yourself is considered objective only if it is negative. If it's positive, it is considered subjective. And 'objective' means it is accurate, and 'subjective' means it is conceited self-delusion.

  Barbara Sher

  Mean, Conceited, Self

  Barbara Sher (1979). “Wishcraft: How to Get what You Really Want”

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• It stands to reason that if we direct all our efforts towards reaching a goal, we stand in grave danger of losing everything on which we have based our daily activities. For when a goal is superimposed on an activity instead of evolving out of it, we often feel cheated when we reach it.

  Viola Spolin

  Losing Everything, Daily Activities, Goal

  Viola Spolin (1999). “Improvisation for the Theater: A Handbook of Teaching and Directing Techniques”, p.12, Northwestern University Press

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• The thinker requires exactly the same light as the painter, clear, without direct sunshine, or blinding reflection, and, where possible, from above.

  August Wilhelm von Schlegel

  Sunshine, Reflection, Light

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