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“If Wes Anderson has a very strong cast, he can direct the minutia of that story and still manage to have something that lives and breathes.”

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Author:Susan Sarandon

“I would love to direct videos and that's what it keeps moving towards, but I have to stop being scared in order to do that.”

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Author:Keke Palmer

“Tommy [ Lee Jones] doesn't suffer fools easily. I think everybody knows that, but I have great respect for someone that's very direct and very honest. I don't have thin skin so I'm okay with that.”

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Author:Charlize Theron

“I don't direct movies for a living.”

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Author:Tommy Lee Jones

“Nothing exceptional [would happen to the world under a Hillary Clinton's presidency] - things would stay the same: sponsorship of "Color" or "Umbrella" or whatever "revolutions", some more coups, "regime changes", direct invasions, bombing, propaganda warfare against China, Russia, Iran, South Africa and what is left of the Latin American revolutions. There would be plenty of torture in "secret centers", but it would not be as advertised and glorified as it would be if [Donald] Trump were elected.”

“There is absolutely no solidarity in the West towards its own victims, and the recent 'refugee crises' is direct proof of it.”

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Author:Andre Vltchek

“What I am trying to say is that it is not without any value. The value of copies is that they can direct us towards the original. I was recently at the Louvre Museum and I was filming people who were viewing the Mona Lisa. I noticed the number of ordinary people, astonished, mouths agape, standing still for long stretches looking at the work, and I wondered, "Where does this come from? Are these people all art connoisseurs?" They are like me; through the years, we've seen this work in our schoolbooks or art history books, but when we stand before the original, we hold our breath.”

“In this type of cinema, whether working with actors or non-actors, as much as you do direct them, if you allow yourself to be directed by them, then the end result will be much more pleasing. The real and individual strengths of the actors is allowed to be expressed and is something that does affect the audience very deeply.”

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Author:Abbas Kiarostami

“Children are very strong and independent characters and can come up with more interesting things than Marlon Brando, and it's sometimes very difficult to direct or order them to do something.”

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Author:Abbas Kiarostami

“When I met Akira Kurosawa in Japan, one question he asked me was, "How did you actually make the children act the way they do? I do have children in my films but I find that I reduce and reduce their presence until I have to get rid of them because there's no way that I can direct them." My own thought is that one is very grand, like an emperor on a horse, and it's very hard for a child to relate to that. In order to be able to cooperate with a child, you have to come down to below their level in order to communicate with them.”

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Author:Abbas Kiarostami

“I wanted to direct when I was very young. I had no idea of cinema, of who's doing what. That was my first instinct: "Okay, I want to be the boss."”

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Author:Thomas Bidegain

“When I found yoga, I realized that I can direct my own mind through my yoga practice and meditation. I can actually create my own mood. That was a huge awakening for me.”

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Author:MC Yogi

“That's the real endeavor: to try to create that direct conduit from the pure consciousness of your creative voice to the person who's a craftsman who can go into the world and consistently deliver new things worth paying attention to.”

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Author:Billy Corgan

“It is true that every being is enjoying life or suffering as a direct result of his or her own past actions. The animals in the factory farms may have been meat-eating human beings in a previous birth; we don't know, and it is not our place to judge.”

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Author:Sharon Gannon

“There's always darkness around, and if you focus on the darkness, you don't know where to go. But if you direct yourself at the light - there it is! It's right there.”

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Author:Annie Lennox

“When we practice paying attention, moving with ease of body and mind, and being efficient, our body becomes very capable and strong, and the mind is able to be calm and travel further inward, where we have direct access to your unique creativity, intuition, and feelings of connectivity.”

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Author:Tara Stiles

“If confirmed, Judge [Samuel] Alito could serve on the court for generation or more. And the decisions he will make as justice will have a direct impact on the lives and liberties of our children, our grandchildren, and even our great-grandchildren.”

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Author:Edward Kennedy

“I had a real come-to-Jesus a couple of years ago when I started to see the direct line between feminism and everything else - feminism and climate change, feminism and poverty, feminism and hunger - and it was almost like I was born again and started walking down the street and was like, "Oh, my God, there are women everywhere! They're just everywhere you look. There's women all over the place!"”

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Author:Amanda Palmer

“I cannot accept concepts such as Gülenism or Gülenist. I was only a writer and an official preacher among people. I can have no direct influence on any person or activity. It is inconceivable that I can exert pressure on anybody.”

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Author:Fethullah Gulen

“Donald Trump foreign policy speech got good reviews, and it says we're going to defeat the people who are direct threats to us, but we're going to be a lot more cautious about getting involved in long-term, Wilsonian adventures.”

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Author:Jeff Sessions

“My mother worked all of her life, she was a dance teacher and I also noticed, to be honest, that most of the male directors wanted to blow things up so there was like an open area for somebody who wanted to direct women movies, chick flicks, whatever you... I don't call them chick flicks.”

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Author:Garry Marshall

“Being vegan or vegetarian isn't just about compassion for animals. Most of the destruction of the planet is the result of all the clear-cutting, groundwater contamination, grain production, fuel consumption, greenhouse gas, viral proliferation - the direct result of livestock production.”

“I wanted to lose 30 pounds healthfully and still be able to enjoy my college experience. Having succeeded in doing just that, I wanted to share my experiences with others who could benefit from my direct knowledge of the difficulty of trying to balance college life with being healthy. It became a journey about healthy lifestyle choices, including tips and tricks for creating a new relationship with food where I was in control and could learn to love food healthfully again.”

“We did not find direct evidence that Secretary Clinton’s personal e-mail domain, in its various configurations since 2009, was successfully hacked. But, given the nature of the system and of the actors potentially involved, we assess that we would be unlikely to see such direct evidence.”

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Author:James Comey

“Meditation is one of the most direct and powerful ways to awaken to who we really are and to experience happiness as a state of consciousness that already exists within us.”

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Author:Deepak Chopra

“As a matter of fact, wherever I get to is a direct result of where I'm at now which makes where I'm at now equally important.”

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Author:Bryan Kest

“The degradation of our environment is undeniably a direct result of our lack of regard, lack of accountability, and lack of responsibility.”

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Author:Nikki Reed

“When Jim Carrey signed on to star in [The Cable Guy], and then they asked me to produce it, I made a very brief plea to direct - which was rejected really as quickly as anything can be.”

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Author:Judd Apatow

“I very rarely made any move to direct anything. I didn't have any faith in myself.”

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Author:Judd Apatow

“Most people in the world of comedy at least are multi-hyphenates, so people who direct are also writers.”

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Author:Judd Apatow

“I hear, more than ever, people actively searching for women to direct, actively wanting to finance women's films, which is not to say it is easy, but I think it's been a great instance of how journalism has put pressure on business to be more fair between genders.”

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Author:Natalie Portman

“Adrienne [ Shelly] had 100 per cent control over this movie [ Waitress] as a director. She didn't just write it, direct it and act in it, she was the creative force behind everything, from the jokes down to the expressions.”

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Author:Keri Russell

“One thing is a fairly simple and straightforward thing. I don't long to direct. I really want to get some good parts.”

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Author:Geena Davis

“Now I write often. I decided that I need to write for myself - I can't really direct other people's material.”

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Author:Brady Corbet

“You will find a way to make your message fresher. You'll find a way to make your connections in a way that will continue to inspire and direct and motivate. That's what I'm banking on.”

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Author:Pete Carroll

“Actors are embracing a new aesthetic, which is leaning more toward truthful and simple and direct, as opposed to what we would normally call sitcom acting.”

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Author:William H. Macy

“I will say what I aspire to is a consistency in making films, to direct something every couple of years.”

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Author:Mike Birbiglia

“I don't know anything but writing practice, and so what I really do is direct that energy as if it were flowing down a river.”

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Author:Natalie Goldberg

“I came out with a book called The True Secret of Writing: Connecting Life with Language. It's a book that describes how writing is a practice and how my teaching is part of that practice. I direct the writing and create books but underneath, there's always the river of practice happening. No good, no bad. Just do it.”

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Author:Natalie Goldberg

“Islamic State is mainly a direct result of the failure in Syria. That's where IS has grown. That's where IS spread from.”

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Author:Paul Wolfowitz

“I was doing a Broadway play, and I was really new to this business. The Broadway play was my first job, literally. The play next door was a musical called Falsettos. The director got hired to direct this Michael J. Fox movie and was looking for a kid who could play brash and salty and mean [in Life With Mikey].”

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Author:David Krumholtz

“There's no man alive who has any answers. We all know that. It's like the guru trip. All a guru can do is direct you to something that you probably already know about yourself, something you might want to followup on. Apply the same thing to music and records. You might get something from a particular record that hits a nerve and something inside you. But that's your vision of it.”

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Author:Van Morrison

“I think what you expect of every candidate and ultimately of a president is to listen to the facts and to deal with things in a way that's smart and direct. I'm confident that's exactly what President [Donald] Trump will do.”

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Author:Chris Christie

“As formal teaching and training grow in extent, there is the danger of creating an undesirable split between the experience gained in more direct associations and what is acquired in school. This danger was never greater than at the present time, on account of the rapid growth in the last few centuries of knowledge and technical modes of skill.”

Source: Democracy and Education - An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education

“Those engaged in directing the actions of others are always in danger of overlooking the importance of the sequential development of those they direct.”

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Book:Democracy and Education - An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education

Source: Democracy and Education - An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education

“There is not, in fact, any such thing as the direct influence of one human being on another apart from use of the physical environment as an intermediary. A smile, a frown, a rebuke, a word of warning or encouragement, all involve some physical change. Otherwise, the attitude of one would not get over to alter the attitude of another.”

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Book:Democracy And Education

Source: Democracy And Education

“Some countries have a parliamentary republic, some are presidential republics and some are still monarchies, but no one sees them as not being democratic. In some countries regional leaders are appointed from the centre and in others they are elected. In Russia, the president is elected through direct secret ballot, and in the United States, the president is elected through a system of electoral colleges.”

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Author:Vladimir Putin

“I don't know if I'll ever direct, but producing is dipping my toe into my behind-the-scenes world.”

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Author:Aya Cash

“All directors should have to act and all actors should have to direct, so that they can understand all these key things that come into play with whether you can meet your day.”

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Author:Tom Hanks

“The soul has come to the physical realm to have a direct experience of itself as an "individuation of divinity."”

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Author:Neale Donald Walsch

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