Any point of view is interesting that is a direct impression of life. You each have an impression colored by your individual… — Henry James Copy Share Image
I've consciously taken on material that's a bit too much for me but not an overreach. The first movie, just about performances.… — Ben Affleck Copy Share Image
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What most of us must be involved in--whether we teach or write, make films, write films, direct films, play music, act, whatever… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
People often ask me if I feel discriminated against as a black female director. I don't. I'm actually offered a ton of… — Gina Prince-Bythewood Copy Share Image
When everybody owns something, nobody owns it, and nobody has a direct interest in maintaining or improving its condition. That is why… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Hence it demands the emptiness of all the faculties. And when the faculties are empty, then the whole being listens. There is… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
We're still at a point where women [directors] aren't allowed to be mad visionaries. We have to prove beyond a shadow of… — Sarah Polley Copy Share Image
There is but one power which heals—that is God. The state or condition through which the healing takes place is the confidence… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a director first to protect my writing. I'm a playwright and you don't need to protect your writing… — Kenneth Lonergan Copy Share Image
You know, some of the action stuff, I tend to have a pretty good sense of humor about it. Even when I… — Dolph Lundgren Copy Share Image
To live more simply is to unburden our lives - to live more lightly, cleanly, aerodynamically. It is to establish a more… — Duane Elgin Copy Share Image
Sometimes I have a notion that what might improve the situation is to have women take over the occupations of government and… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
And now here he was in my kitchen. Smelling like apple pies and looking at me with a direct seriousness that made… — Lilith Saintcrow Copy Share Image
In a dispassionate comparison of the relative values of human and robotic spaceflight, the only surviving motivation for continuing human spaceflight is… — James Van Allen Copy Share Image
The poet wants to ‘say’ something. Why, then, doesn’t he say it directly and fortrightly? Why is he willing to say it… — Cleanth Brooks Copy Share Image
Poetry is a second translation of the soul's feeling; it must be rendered into thought, and thought must change its nebulous robe… — Frances Ridley Havergal Copy Share Image
I don't think I ever wrote a song. I can write a lot of jokes, but when I try to write lyrics… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
A ground frequently taken by Christian theologians is that the progress and civilization of the world are due to Christianity; and the… — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
I say unto you with all the soberness I can, that we stand in danger of losing our liberties, and that once… — J. Reuben Clark Copy Share Image
With these Funny or Die videos, I do everything for them. I write them, act in them, and co-direct them with my… — Dave Franco Copy Share Image
My father had to flee from what is today Pakistan when he was a child, and he became a manager at IBM,… — Tino Sehgal Copy Share Image
Prayer changes from entreaty to thanksgiving, and meditation on the divine truths of faith fills the heart with a sense of jubilation… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
The sentiment that is very inappropriately named equality is fresh, strong, alert, precisely because it is not, in fact, a sentiment of… — Vilfredo Pareto Copy Share Image
The danger of silent accumulations & encroachments by Ecclesiastical Bodies have not sufficiently engaged attention in the U.S. [...] Besides the danger… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Feelings are you inner guidance system-your emotional compass. When you allow this compass to direct your actions you build self-trust. When you… — Cheryl Richardson Copy Share Image
Consequences flow from a justice's interpretation in a direct and immediate way. A judicial decision respecting the incompatibility of Jim Crow with… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
We stand in the shadow of the Bible today as opposed to in the pages of the Bible. I think that the… — Hank Hanegraaff Copy Share Image
Men and women ... do you not realize that the State is the worst enemy you have? It is a machine that… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
You see, Donald Trump is Adolf Hitler. And a lot of people know it but they don't want to get involved. So… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The Latin American Left, the criollos, direct descendents of Spaniards, they don't want to accept that they are the whites of Latin… — Bocafloja Copy Share Image
I direct my attention to the individual, to make him strong, to teach him that he himself is divine, and I call… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The great social justice changes in our country have happened when people came together, organized, and took direct action. It is this… — Dolores Huerta Copy Share Image
It's easier to direct. If you direct something poorly and re-shoot it the next day, stage it better, make it work better,… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I like the drawings. And as a photography fan myself, I would look at Helmut Newton or Irving Penn and like to… — Miles Aldridge Copy Share Image
There's a difference between ad-libbing and improvising. And there's a difference between not knowing what to do and just saying something. Or… — John Cassavetes Copy Share Image
When someone at the State Department proclaims Facebook to be the most organic tool for promoting democracy the world has ever seen… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
I have always had a special affinity for libraries and librarians, for the most obvious reasons. I love books. (One of my… — John Jakes Copy Share Image
The course of a great statesman resembles that of navigable rivers, avoiding immovable obstacles with noble bends of concession, seeking the broad… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
When we practice paying attention, moving with ease of body and mind, and being efficient, our body becomes very capable and strong,… — Tara Stiles Copy Share Image
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