Direct Quotes · Page 31

I'd reached a point where there was a direct conflict between what I was trying to be and who I really was.

— Billy Corgan

Fathering is a major job, but I need both things in my life: my job to be a director, and my kids…

— Steven Spielberg

Direct pressure always tends to harden and consolidate the resistance of an opponent.

— B. H. Liddell Hart

A direct killing of the innocent child, 'Murder' by the mother herself

— Mother Teresa

It's easy to direct while acting; there's one less person to argue with.

— Roman Polanski

Often intuition will direct you. If it feels right, it's probably right.

— Oprah Winfrey

I'm just beginning to direct. For all intents and purposes, this is the first time for me

— Mark Harmon

Our success is a direct result of knowing how to market a brand and having the right people representing the brand.

— Greg Norman

We will not adopt the fantastic hypocrisy of modern conservatism which preaches the values of families and communities, while conducting a direct…

— Paul Keating

I think I was, like, maybe frustrated for many years because I didn't try to direct. And since I made my movie…

— Melanie Laurent

A nation or an individual, will do wisely to direct consumption chiefly to those articles, that are longest time in wearing out,…

— Jean-Baptiste Say

In 2009, Scott Rudin sent me August's [Wilson] original screenplay [Fences] and asked me what I wanted to do with it. He…

— Denzel Washington

I don't know anything but writing practice, and so what I really do is direct that energy as if it were flowing…

— Natalie Goldberg

Each child belongs to all of us and they will bring us a tomorrow in direct relation to the responsibility we have…

— Maya Angelou

Just as there is no substitute for original works of art, there is no substitute for the world of direct sensual experience.

— Paul Mellon

You can't lie when you dance. It's so direct. You do what is in you. It is impossible to dance out of…

— Shirley MacLaine

Parental trust is extremely important in the guidance of adolescent children as they get further and further away from the direct supervision…

— Benjamin Spock

I've always thought that each album would be my last one, and then I would be out of ideas and I would…

— Tim Hecker

Thank God, 50 years ago I learned that our entire business is all based on two things; a great song and a…

— Quincy Jones

The basis of self-ownership is the fact that each person has direct control over the scarce resource of his body and therefore…

— Stephan Kinsella

As formal teaching and training grow in extent, there is the danger of creating an undesirable split between the experience gained in…

— John Dewey

There's always going to be a little bit of autobiographical content to everything. It's how you lend some authority to what you…

— Ian Anderson

I think every writer has got to direct. If you don't direct, you can't protect your work. The only way to ensure…

— Amy Sherman-Palladino

As long as the centuries continue to unfold, the number of books will grow continually, and one can predict that a time…

— Denis Diderot

Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.

— A. R. Ammons

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

— Cornelius Cardew

Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.

— Fanny Brice

When I write a screenplay, and when I direct, I always pull lines out.

— Stanley Tucci

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

— Mike Birbiglia

Black culture is very difficult to explain to people who don't have any direct contact with it.

— Jess Row

The travel ban that was imposed by the [Donald Trump] administration is a very direct reverberation of 9/11.

— Peter van Agtmael

I have a sort of long-term plan to direct. I'm pragmatic about it. I realize I don't need to rush it or…

— David Wenham

You know, I grew up in a place where people appreciate it when you're very direct.

— Lynne Ramsay

I am like a snake who has already bitten. I retreat from a direct battle while knowing the slow effect of the…

— Anais Nin

A place has almost a shyness of a person with strangers; its secret is not to be surprised by too direct interrogation.

— Arthur Symons

She didn't look at me and I didn't look at her. Some questions are so direct the only way to ask them…

— Deanna Raybourn

Let's put it this way: if I were to direct a feature film, I would not be in it.

— Paul Wesley

I always wanted to direct. I always saw myself as a director.

— Steve Antin

It was never in the plan for me to direct 'Episode IX,' so I don't know what's going to happen with it.

— Rian Johnson

God will direct your way even when you may think there is no way.

— Anurag Prakash Ray