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• The audience will teach you how to act and the audience will teach you how to write and to direct. The classroom will teach you how to obey, and obedience in the theatre will get you nowhere. It’s a soothing falsity.

  David Mamet

  Writing, Theatre, Classroom

  David Mamet (2011). “True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor”, p.19, Vintage

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• Moreover, as America becomes an increasingly multi-cultural society, it may find it more difficult to fashion a consensus on foreign policy issues, except in the circumstance of a truly massive and widely perceived direct external threat.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Fashion, America, Issues

  Zbigniew Brzezinski (1998). “The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives”, p.211, Basic Books

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• Democracy is direct self-government over all the people, for all the people, by all the people.

  Theodore Parker

  Self, Government, People

  Sermon at Music Hall, Boston, Mass., 4 July 1858 See Lincoln 42; Theodore Parker 1; Daniel Webster 5

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• This is an exciting opportunity to positively impact the lives of Canadian children with a disability by providing a more direct route to help them reach their full potential.

  Milos Raonic

  Children, Opportunity, Impact

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• I appreciate my role as an actor much more after I direct because it's just easier.

  Bryan Cranston

  Appreciate, Roles, Actors

  "Q&A – Bryan Cranston (Director)". AMC Interview, www.amc.com. March 2009.

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• That opinion, which supposes personal sanctification to be unnecessary to final glorification, stands in direct opposition to every dictate of reason, to every declaration of scripture.

  Augustus Toplady

  Finals, Holiness, Scripture

  "The works of Augustus M. Toplady".

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• I believe inter -racial marriages show the world that the color of a person's skin is of no consequence. The more such marriages there are, the more people will come into direct contact with such couples. This benefits peace in the world where so much conflict and hatred is based on racial and religious differences

  Robert S. Jepson, Jr.

  Religious, Couple, Believe

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• If science is an unfinished project, the next stage will be about reconnecting and integrating the rigor of scientific method with the richness of direct experience to produce a science that will serve to connect us to one another, ourselves and the world.

  Betty Sue Flowers

  Science, Next, World

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• Biography, especially of the great and good, who have risen by their own exertions to eminence and usefulness, is an inspiring and ennobling study. Its direct tendency is to reproduce the excellence it records.

  Horace Mann

  Excellence, Records, Biographies

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.105

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• Yoga is not a means to get SOMEWHERE as if you were not SOMEWHERE already. It is your direct and intimate participation with Life.

  Mark Whitwell

  Yoga, Mean, Intimate

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• If Turkey is prepared to acknowledge the Armenian Genocide, then its leaders can proceed immediately to direct dialogue with its counterparts in Armenia to define a common vision for the future.

  Mark Foley

  Common Vision, Turkeys, Leader

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• My goal was, and still is, to write first, direct my own stuff whenever possible and control my own creative destiny.

  Jeff Probst

  Writing, Fate, Destiny

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• For the last eight years, American policy toward Iraq has been based on the direct threat Saddam poses to international security. That threat is clear. Saddam's history of aggression leaves little doubt that he would resume his drive for regional domination and his quest for weapons of mass destruction if he had the chance.

  Sandy Berger

  Iraq, Eight, Mass Destruction

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• Laws which legitimize the direct killing of innocent human beings through abortion or euthanasia are in complete opposition to the inviolable right to life proper to every individual; they thus deny the equality of everyone before the law.

  Pope John Paul II

  Law, Abortion, Killing

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• When we are working at a difficult task and strive after a good thing, we are fighting a righteous battle, the direct reward of which is that we are kept from much evil.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Fighting, Evil, Battle

  Vincent van Gogh, Mark Roskill (1997). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh”, p.104, Simon and Schuster

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• I may say that here, as in most cases where the operations of nature interfere with the designs of man, it is not by a direct intervention on our part that we may remedy the difficulties, but rather by a precise knowledge of their causes, which may enable us, if not to check, at least to avoid the evil consequences.

  Louis Agassiz

  Ocean, Men, Evil

  Louis Agassiz (1882). “Report on the Florida Reefs”

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• If, on the other hand, we wish to describe a particular phenomenon without repressing our direct experience, then we cannot avoid speaking of the phenomenon as an active, animate entity with which we find ourselves engaged. To the sensing body, no thing presents itself as utterly passive or inert. Only by affirming the animateness of perceived things do we allow our words to emerge directly from the depths of our ongoing reciprocity with the world.

  David Abram

  Hands, Experience, Wish

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• Pure love is who you are! When you express pure love, you give yourself the direct experience of who you are. It is the greatest gift! It looks as if your giving a gift to others, and you are giving it to yourself, that is because there is no one else in the room, it only looks as if there is.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Love You, Love Is, Giving

  Neale Donald Walsch (2002). “Friendship with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.134, Penguin

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• The decisions we make in Washington have a direct impact on the people in our country, obviously.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Impact, Decisions We Make

  George W. Bush (1982). “Public paper of the presidents of the United States”, p.1464, Government Printing Office

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• For a lot of my childhood, I didn't want to direct movies because I didn't really know what directing was.

  Peter Jackson

  Childhood, Want, Knows

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• With the sense of sight, the idea communicates the emotion, whereas, with sound, the emotion communicates the idea, which is more direct and therefore more powerful.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Powerful, Sight, Ideas

  Alfred North Whitehead, Lucien Price (2001). “Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead”, p.228, David R. Godine Publisher

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• If the right thing came along, I would absolutely direct something I did not write because I love the process so much, but we'll see. I'm taking it day by day.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Writing, Process, Ifs

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

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• Human nature was all about shifting blame...and responsibility. How else could you explain concentration camps and genocide and all the awful things people did to each other every day? They just carried on life and pretended like the evil didn't exist, as long as it was happening out of their direct view.

  Rachel Caine

  Responsibility, Views, Long

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• If we had to go live action, I'd hold out for Tim Burton to direct.

  Phil Foglio

  Action, Ifs

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• Pride works _from within_; it is the direct appreciation of oneself. Vanity is the desire to arrive at this appreciation indirectly, from without.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Appreciation, Pride, Vanity

  "Parerga and Paralipomena". Book by Arthur Schopenhauer. Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life, Vol. 1, Ch. 4, § 2, 1851.

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