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• I make some movies for myself. I do that sometimes when the subject matter is very sensitive and very personal and I really can't imagine that I'm an audience member. I would lose myself too much if I thought of myself as the audience. There are other types of genre films that I need to be able to direct from the audience, to be right next to you watching the picture being made.

  Steven Spielberg

  Needs, Matter, Able

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• I understand the formula that producers hire directors and directors are hired to direct and actors are hired to act. I don't have any conflict with any directors because I know they're the boss.

  Danny Trejo

  Boss, Directors, Actors

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• I enjoy working with writers and their scripts. It's very exciting to me. Eventually I would like to produce, direct and act onstage, but it's not a heavy pressure. When I do it, I want to do it well. I'm just educating myself with writers and scripts, because I didn't read a lot of books when I was growing up.

  Tom Cruise

  Growing Up, Book, Want

  "New Again: Tom Cruise And Cameron Crowe". Interview with Jeff Oloizia, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 15, 2011.

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• We don't read people's wishes. The wishes are suppose to be direct communication to the Universe. Your interception will weaken the power of the wish.

  Yoko Ono

  Communication, People, Wish

  Source: www.yashawallin.com

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• Between Malraux, Balzac, and Montaigne, I choose Montaigne. Montaigne will survive all the others, because the essay, meaning direct communication between the writer and his reader, will outlast the novel, by at least a thousand years.

  Gore Vidal

  Communication, Years, Balzac

  "The End of Gore Vidal". Interview with Lila Azam Zanganeh, www.guernicamag.com. August 15, 2012.

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• Look, therefore, which way we will, whether at the direct Scriptural statements of death as the penalty of sin, or at the agony of the cross as a means of rescue, or at the joy of the angels of God over a rescue; we see from either that it must be a work of infinite and eternal consequence--the work of redemption.

  Herrick Johnson

  Angel, Mean, Agony

  Herrick Johnson (1881). “Christianity's Challenge and Some Phases of Christianity Submitted for Candid Consideration”

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• There is an appalling amount of mechanical work in the artist's life ... Talent is mysterious, but the qualities that guard, foster, and direct it are not unlike those of a good quartermaster.

  Anne Truitt

  Art, Quality, Mysterious

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• Angels are endowed with the noblest created Attributes. They are endowed with wonderful Power. This perfection of Angels is forcibly indicated by the fact that the name Power, or Might, is in several places given to them in the Gospel. No stronger testimony of their high possession of this attribute can be conveyed by a single word; for it is a direct declaration that their nature is power itself.

  Timothy Dwight V

  Angel, Names, Perfection

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• As the antagonism between those who possess, and those who do not, is becoming more acute day after day, we can already foresee a moment when it will bring about ("entraînera", Fr.) severe (big, high, intense, - "grands", Fr.) disasters, if we do turn (direct, aim, - "dirige", Fr.) life in time the social life in new directions (or ways, - "dans des voies nouvelles", Fr.)

  African Spir

  Way, Becoming, Moments

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 46), 1937.

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• To reform society, and with it humanity, there is only one mean; to transform the mentality of men, to direct them ("les orienter", Fr.) in a new spirit.

  African Spir

  Mean, Men, Humanity

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 60), 1937.

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• I rarely use the internet for research, as I find the process cumbersome and detestable. The information gained is often untrustworthy and couched in execrable prose. It is unpleasant to sit in front of a twitching screen suffering assault by virus, power outage, sluggish searches, system crashes and the lack of direct human discourse.

  Annie Proulx

  Atmosphere, Suffering, Hustle

  "Close Range: Wyoming Stories". Book by Annie Proulx, www.theguardian.com. May 10, 1999.

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• I think we all live dichotomies. I'm a father of three boys and a loyal homebody sort of husband and father. And yet I act in movies and write and direct movies.

  Tim Blake Nelson

  Husband, Father, Writing

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. March 31, 2010.

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• I became an actress because my mom wanted me to become an actress. It took me until my mid-30s to realize I actually didn’t. I actually wanted to write and direct and be more involved in politics and humanitarian issues.

  Angelina Jolie

  Mom, Writing, Issues

  "Career Watch: Has ‘Maleficent’ Restored Angelina Jolie’s Box Office Mojo?" by Susan Wloszczyna, www.indiewire.com. June 2, 2014.

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• Eventually I'd love to be able to direct.

  Graham Phillips

  Able

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• When you direct a movie, you're basically looking at a story, the way you want to look at it. You bring that director's vision, and I'm totally open for that.

  Donnie Yen

  Vision, Stories, Want

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• I regard reduction in Federal spending as one of the most important issues in this campaign. In my opinion it is the most direct and effective contribution that Government can make to business.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Issues, Government, Important

  Franklin D. Roosevelt's campaign address on the Federal Budget in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (October 19, 1932), as quoted in "The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1928-1932" (p. 809), 1938.

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• I'm impossible to direct. I couldn't get myself to do anything.

  Tony Shalhoub

  Impossible

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Past success is no guarantee of future success, so I have learned to be an entrepreneur. I began to produce and direct my own projects.

  Ian Ziering

  Past, Entrepreneur, Guarantees

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• I definitely want to record an album, direct a film and start my own religion.

  Robert Pattinson

  Albums, Records, Want

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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

  Bills, Way, Frank

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• You have to be insane to direct.

  Morris Chestnut

  Insane

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have turned away from the thought of writing fiction in the past through what I suppose is, actually, fear. The direct, raw invitation for the reader to come in and explore my imagination is fairly scary for me so I have busied myself with so much else.

  Dawn French

  Writing, Past, Imagination

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• I want to write, act, and direct!

  Megyn Price

  Writing, Want

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• I truly believe that God has given us few brain cells, and you have to direct them to the right things that make you happy.

  Ranbir Kapoor

  Believe, Cells, Brain

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• I've been writing and wanting to direct for a long time.

  Andy Serkis

  Writing, Long, Long Time

  "Hobbit Week: A Conversation With Andy Serkis, Creator Of Gollum". Interview with Ethan Gilsdorf, www.wired.com. December 10, 2012.

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