Direct Quotes - Page 39

• If the case be such indeed, that all mankind are by nature in a state of total ruin, then, doubtless,the great salvation by Christ stands in direct relation to this ruin, as the remedy to the disease.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Disease, Ruins, Christ

  Jonathan Edwards, Sereno Edwards Dwight (1829). “Inquiry into the freedom of the will. The great Christian doctrine of original sin defended”, p.307

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• Even if it doesn't work, there is something healthy and invigorating about direct action

  Henry Miller

  Funny, Humor, Direct Action

  Henry Miller (1952). “Remember to Remember”

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• I like to let each thing happen - direct it a little consciously, maybe - but just kind of follow the vibrations I get in each particular circumstance. We don't plan theatrics. We hardly ever know which set we'll play.

  Jim Morrison

  Play, Littles, Vibrations

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• You must watch the pictures that you paint with your imagination. Your environment and the conditions of your life at any given time are the direct result of your own inner expectations. If you imagine dire circumstances, ill health or desperate loneliness, these will be 'automatically' materialized, for these thoughts themselves bring about the conditions that will give them a reality in physical terms. If you would have good health then you must imagine this as vividly as you fearfully imagine ill health.

  Seth

  Loneliness, Health, Reality

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• Everyone eventually winds up writing about themselves - the problem is finding the best way to go about it. To write about oneself literally, in the first person, presumes a more interesting personal life and philosophy than most rock lyricists possess. John Lennon was good for one great album based on musical direct address, 'Plastic Ono Band.

  Jon Landau

  Philosophy, Writing, Rocks

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• There are almost too many possibilities. Photography is in direct proportion with our time: multiple, faster, instant. Because it is so easy, it will be more difficult.

  Ernst Haas

  Photography, Photographer, Easy

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• Beware of direct inspiration. It leads too quickly to repetitions of what inspired you.

  Ernst Haas

  Inspiration, Inspired, Repetition

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• When Jesus sent forth his servants formerly he sent them to preach this Gospel. When the Father and the Son and Moroni and others came to Joseph Smith, he had a priesthood conferred upon him which he conferred upon others for the purpose of manifesting the laws of life, the Gospel of the Son of God, by direct authority, that light and truth might be spread forth among all nations.

  John Taylor

  Jesus, Father, Son

  "Journal of Discourses" by John Taylor, Volume 20, March 2, 1879.

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• Mental or spiritual health, which is rationality, makes for progress, and the future demands greater and greater mental or spiritual health, greater and greater rationality. The brain must dominate and direct both the individual and society in the time to come, not the belly and the heart.

  Jack London

  Spiritual, Heart, Brain

  Jack London (2014). “The Kempton-Wase Letters”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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• I look upon prayer-meetings as the most profitable exercises (excepting the public preaching) in which Christians can engage. They have a direct tendency to kill a worldly, trifling spirit, and to draw down a Divine blessing upon all our concerns, compose differences, and enkindle (at least maintain) the flames of Divine love amongst brethren.

  John Newton

  Christian, Prayer, Exercise

  John Newton, Richard Cecil (1824). “The Works of the Rev. J. Newton ...: With the Memoirs of the Author and General Remarks on His Life, Connections, and Character”, p.77

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• Direct interference in a person's life does not enter our scope of activity, nor, on the other, tralatitiously speaking, hand, is his destiny a chain of predeterminate links: some 'future' events may be linked to others, O.K., but all are chimeric, and every cause-and-effect sequence is always a hit-and-miss affair, even if the lunette has actually closed around your neck, and the cretinous crowd holds its breath.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Destiny, Hands, Missing

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1972). “Transparent things: a novel”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• All jobs are created in direct proportion to the amount of capital employed.

  Adam Smith

  Jobs, Investing, Proportion

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• I can direct things but I can't write. My memory is going, so I struggle for words.

  Terry Jones

  Memories, Struggle, Writing

  Source: deadline.com

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• He [God] made us free, and He respects that. It is two different spheres of causality. Interdependent, though. It is not two boxes looking at one another without any kind of direct connections. There are very direct connections. That's why the question of "how are we free if God is omnipotent?" is a real, constant question. Ultimately, God is all powerful, and yet we are free.

  Francis George

  Powerful, Real, Two

  Source: www.realclearreligion.org

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• The difference between directing film and directing television is so stark simply because TV is a living breathing organism already when you direct an episode.

  Jon Hamm

  Breathing, Differences, Television

  "Jon Hamm Gets By With Help From His 'Friends'". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. July 17, 2012.

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• I worked with John Maybury on The Jacket and I think he's an extraordinary film-maker. I read the first drafts of this piece when I was working on The Jacket, and we'd so fallen in love with him that we thought he was the only person that should direct this! We wrote poems for him, we sent him champagne and cakes. Four years later he finally read it.

  Keira Knightley

  Thinking, Years, Cake

  "The Edge of Love - Keira Knightley interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• It's hard to get yourself into a position where someone will trust you to direct a film anyway, whatever sex you are. Certainly in England, the film set is a very male preserve. There's a lot of very rough looking men pushing equipment around that don't want the gaffer to be a girl.

  Colin Firth

  Girl, Sex, Men

  "Then She Found Me - Colin Firth interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• [Directing first film:] I was terrified, it was really very scary because there is a lot of responsibility. I think I was terrified because I wanted it to work so much. A lot of actors direct movies but I thought the stakes were kind of higher for me because I really, really cared. [...] I just worked as hard as I possibly could on every single thing, every single day. I said that if this failed it would not be because I didn't work as hard as I possibly could...every day.

  Ben Affleck

  Responsibility, Thinking, Scary

  "Gone Baby Gone - Ben Affleck interview" by Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• But actually my dad is a very talented director and not just his use of shots and camera, but he's very good with actors and he knows acting well. It's great to see him do that and be really good at it and he's been doing it for a while and he certainly knows how to make movies, and little movies I guess for a television show, and he's going to come back in November to direct a second episode, which I'm really excited about.

  Emily Deschanel

  Dad, Acting, Actors

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I think in a post-9/11 world, with the images coming back from Iraq, everybody knows more and more people who are going over there... the images on the YouTube phenomenon where the violence is so immediate. Direct people need something stronger to respond to. I think that there's definitely a wave of directors - who are labelled the splat pack - who really, really care about making great scary movies.

  Eli Roth

  Thinking, Iraq, People

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I'm very interested in starting to produce, and direct, and have an umbrella over an entire project in the future. I'd like to have control over what the characters do. I think as an actor, you get a little too caught up in the moment-to-moment, beat-to-beat stuff to have perspective.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Character, Thinking, Perspective

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, tv.avclub.com. September 16, 2008.

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• I feel like with actors wanting to direct, you really only have a shot or two. You can't just make a bunch of little independent movies, and then finally one gets noticed. You have to make a really good one right away.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Independent, Two, Actors

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, tv.avclub.com. September 16, 2008.

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• Complicated things for me tend not to be interesting. Simple things, like when it's really direct eye contact, or when you see a really beautiful shape, like when it's clean or well balanced in the frame.

  Russell James

  Beautiful, Eye, Simple

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A movie is a creative process from its conception, through its writing, to its execution, to the editing. I think with the best films there is some kind of contribution from one person all the way through that. The best films are made by people who write, direct, and edit, so there's continuity.

  Simon Pegg

  Writing, Thinking, Editing

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. October 2, 2008.

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• When I'm writing a song, things are always popping into my head, it's not so direct. It feels more like I'm in a room and there's this whole big jumble of clothes on the floor and it's like choosing what to wear. There are a lot of different things in there and you kind of pull something out and think, "No, that's not right," or you're like, "Yes I'll put this on with this."

  Julia Stone

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  "Angus and Julia Stone Synch Up". Interview with Olivia Fleming, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 31, 2014.

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