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• I've never understood the female capacity to avoid a direct answer to any question.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Female, Answers, Mr Spock

  "Star Trek: This Side of Paradise". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 1967.

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• Usually I don't like to act in movies that I direct because it's kind of confusing.

  Rob Reiner

  Confusing, Kind

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• My intention was always to direct and writing things just became convenient and happened.

  Jeff Baena

  Writing, Intention, Convenient

  "Why Dane DeHaan and Aubrey Plaza’s ‘Life After Beth’ Make Out Could Have Been Awkward". Interview with Jordan Zakarin, www.thewrap.com. August 7, 2014.

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• I understand the formula that producers hire directors and directors are hired to direct and actors are hired to act. I don't have any conflict with any directors because I know they're the boss.

  Danny Trejo

  Boss, Directors, Actors

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• I enjoy working with writers and their scripts. It's very exciting to me. Eventually I would like to produce, direct and act onstage, but it's not a heavy pressure. When I do it, I want to do it well. I'm just educating myself with writers and scripts, because I didn't read a lot of books when I was growing up.

  Tom Cruise

  Growing Up, Book, Want

  "New Again: Tom Cruise And Cameron Crowe". Interview with Jeff Oloizia, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 15, 2011.

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• Look, therefore, which way we will, whether at the direct Scriptural statements of death as the penalty of sin, or at the agony of the cross as a means of rescue, or at the joy of the angels of God over a rescue; we see from either that it must be a work of infinite and eternal consequence--the work of redemption.

  Herrick Johnson

  Angel, Mean, Agony

  Herrick Johnson (1881). “Christianity's Challenge and Some Phases of Christianity Submitted for Candid Consideration”

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• There is an appalling amount of mechanical work in the artist's life ... Talent is mysterious, but the qualities that guard, foster, and direct it are not unlike those of a good quartermaster.

  Anne Truitt

  Art, Quality, Mysterious

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• As the antagonism between those who possess, and those who do not, is becoming more acute day after day, we can already foresee a moment when it will bring about ("entraînera", Fr.) severe (big, high, intense, - "grands", Fr.) disasters, if we do turn (direct, aim, - "dirige", Fr.) life in time the social life in new directions (or ways, - "dans des voies nouvelles", Fr.)

  African Spir

  Way, Becoming, Moments

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 46), 1937.

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• To reform society, and with it humanity, there is only one mean; to transform the mentality of men, to direct them ("les orienter", Fr.) in a new spirit.

  African Spir

  Mean, Men, Humanity

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 60), 1937.

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• I became an actress because my mom wanted me to become an actress. It took me until my mid-30s to realize I actually didn’t. I actually wanted to write and direct and be more involved in politics and humanitarian issues.

  Angelina Jolie

  Mom, Writing, Issues

  "Career Watch: Has ‘Maleficent’ Restored Angelina Jolie’s Box Office Mojo?" by Susan Wloszczyna, www.indiewire.com. June 2, 2014.

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• Eventually I'd love to be able to direct.

  Graham Phillips

  Able

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• I regard reduction in Federal spending as one of the most important issues in this campaign. In my opinion it is the most direct and effective contribution that Government can make to business.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Issues, Government, Important

  Franklin D. Roosevelt's campaign address on the Federal Budget in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (October 19, 1932), as quoted in "The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1928-1932" (p. 809), 1938.

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• I'm impossible to direct. I couldn't get myself to do anything.

  Tony Shalhoub

  Impossible

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

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• I definitely want to record an album, direct a film and start my own religion.

  Robert Pattinson

  Albums, Records, Want

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• I guess I would model myself after the Bill Condons, the Frank Darabonts and the David Nutters if I were to direct a feature, which I would love to do, by the way.

  William Sadler

  Bills, Way, Frank

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• You have to be insane to direct.

  Morris Chestnut

  Insane

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

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• I want to write, act, and direct!

  Megyn Price

  Writing, Want

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• I truly believe that God has given us few brain cells, and you have to direct them to the right things that make you happy.

  Ranbir Kapoor

  Believe, Cells, Brain

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• Americans are so direct. They'd ask me, 'What's your five-year plan? Do you have a five-year plan?' I don't know what I'm having for my tea tonight let alone a five-year plan.

  Ashley Jensen

  Years, Tea, Tonight

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• The pain we feel When someone leaves our life is in direct proportion to the joy they bring while a part of our life for a few moments. In my life you made me feel as if I truly meant something to someone

  Javan

  Pain, Joy, Life Is

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• I promise that as a president elected in a direct popular vote, I will try to be the voice of all citizens.

  Milos Zeman

  Popular Vote, Voice, Promise

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• In no way have we contemplated the intervention of the army in tasks that belong to police at the different levels of government. What is contemplated .. is support from the army in these tasks but not in direct actions that correspond to municipal, state and federal police.

  Ruben Aguilar

  Army, Direct Action, Government

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• Schinkel's aesthetic was not a crudely materialistic "truth to material" affair... but rather an attempt to inform iron and other industrial materials with an appropriate beauty through the direct collaboration of the artist in the manufacturing process.

  Karl Friedrich Schinkel

  Artist, Iron, Collaboration

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• The requirements of health, and the style of female attire which custom enjoins, are in direct antagonism to each other.

  Abba Louisa Goold Woolson

  Health, Style, Female

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• Climate change poses a direct threat to the infrastructure of America that we need to stay competitive in this 21st-century economy.

  Barack Obama

  America, Politics, Climate

  Remarks by the President at Task Force on Climate Preparedness and Resilience Meeting, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. July 16, 2014.

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