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One of my favorite guys when I was young ... I've always loved Bill Cosby. I've always wanted to direct him in something.
— Faizon Love
I was keen to direct an action film, and when Reliance approached me for the remake of 'Singham,' I saw an opportunity to return to my first love.
— Rohit Shetty
All Things are in constant relationship, and shamanic journey is the choice to put one's self in direct contact and concert with that relationship.
— S. Kelley Harrell
I did have an offer to direct one of the Alien movies but I wasn't too excited about all the effects work.
— Walter Hill
It is wise to direct your anger towards problems
not people; to focus your energies on answers
not excuses. — William Arthur Ward
not people; to focus your energies on answers
not excuses. — William Arthur Ward
Leon Uris is a storyteller, in a direct line from those men who sat around fires in the days before history and made the tribe more human.
— Pete Hamill
Education without direction is a one-sided social value. Direct action without education is a meaningless expression of pure energy.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
If you decide to direct a film, it's because you have something to say, something to show to the audience.
— Gaspard Ulliel
I'd like to direct more operas.
— Simon Callow
The greatest disorder of the mind is to let will direct it.
— Louis Pasteur
There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we become at the prospect of having to think about it.
— Alain De Botton
My day job is acting - I wouldn't direct something if I didn't feel passionate about it.
— Jake M. Johnson
Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
Each child belongs to all of us and they will bring us a tomorrow in direct relation to the responsibility we have shown to them.
— Maya Angelou
I want to write, act, and direct!
— Megyn Price
Try to achieve the impossible and direct your people to ways of achieving it.
— Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum
When you produce and direct, your movies are different to you. They're not just something you act in.
— Campbell Scott
Our success is a direct result of knowing how to market a brand and having the right people representing the brand.
— Greg Norman
Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.
— George Bernard Shaw
I don't think I'd ever write anything that I don't also direct just because it's so hard and painful to write as it is.
— Cary Fukunaga
How soon will you realize that the only thing you don't have is the direct experience that there's nothing you need that you don't have?
— Ken Keyes Jr.
To be direct and honest is not safe.
— William Shakespeare
Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes.
— Douglas Horton
War is simple, direct, and ruthless.
— George S. Patton
I'd rather direct than produce. Any day. And twice on Sunday.
— Steven Spielberg
We should never go to war unless we have been attacked or are under direct, immediate threat of attack. Never. And never again.
— Joe Klein
Every action today leads to murder, direct or indirect.
— Albert Camus
Cutting into color reminds me of the sculptor's direct carving.
— Henri Matisse
My family is American, and has been for generations, in all its branches, direct and collateral
— Ulysses S. Grant
A snowball is simple, direct and familiar to most of us. I use this simplicity as a container for feelings and ideas that function on many levels.
— Andy Goldsworthy
The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.
— David M. Friedman
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.
— Bryan Kest
Democracy is direct self-government over all the people, for all the people, by all the people.
— Theodore Parker
We are story animals. And we need to tell our stories in as direct, as unmediated, and as emotionally resonant a way as possible.
— Stephen Apkon
I was ambitious and desperate to direct my first film, so I capitulated and blew it. Never again. Never fucking again.
— Craig Ferguson
Competition is easier to accept if you realize it is not an act of oppression or abrasion-I've worked with my best friends in direct competition.
— Diane Sawyer
All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.
— James Lane Allen
Eating is perhaps the most direct way we acknowledge or deny the sacredness of the earth.
— Gary Paul Nabhan
If not for the direct action of a John Brown and his comrades, America would still trade in the flesh of the black man.
— Emma Goldman
Ask the Creator to direct your path.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Voting is easy and marginally useful, but it is a poor substitute for democracy, which requires direct action by concerned citizens.
— Howard Zinn
People who labor all their lives but have no purpose to direct every thought and impulse toward are wasting their time - even when hard at work.
— Marcus Aurelius
I am, sir. It is my way - it always was my way, by instinct - ever to meet the brief with brevity, the direct with plainness.
— Charlotte Bronte
I've always been a direct guy.
— Kool Keith
Direct your attention to people; love, help and care for them
— Sunday Adelaja
I actually wanted to first direct and produce, but then I got this very cool opportunity to be in front of the camera once.
— Manish Dayal
The aphorism "If you want something done, ask a busy woman" is in direct acknowledgment of the efficiency boot camp parenthood puts you through.
— Caitlin Moran
Vince Gilligan and AMC are really wonderful people to direct and produce for because they don't put the demands of any conventionalism on you.
— Michelle MacLaren
I want to act and direct like Jodie Foster. I admire her because she went to college and she is still doing the same thing.
— Lindsay Lohan
Hello, boys," he said, reaching for the parazonium strapped to the small of his back. "You look a little lost. Let me direct you back to hell.
— Elisabeth Naughton
I always wanted to direct movies. That's what I set out to do. When I was a little kid I just dreamed of making movies, and I went to film school.
— Zach Braff
I have a stack of scripts that I've read - I'm in the lucky position where I get offered things - but I haven't wanted to direct many of them.
— Nicole Holofcener
Probabilities direct the conduct of the wise man.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
To Alderaan we fly on course direct, And to this feast of death I'll not object. [Exit Darth Vader.
— Ian Doescher
For many years, we have repeated that the direct-to-consumer channel is growing and capturing a larger share of our customers' wallet.
— Richard Hayne
I really like acting but, just now, the more I read a script I find myself thinking I'd like to direct rather than act.
— Billy Boyd
The degree of our spiritual strength will be in direct proportion to the time we spend in God's Word.
— Elizabeth George
caring is not abstract. The circle of ecological compassion we feel is enlarged by direct experience of the living world, and shrunken by its lack.
— Robin Wall Kimmerer
May the Lord direct your life's journey.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The most direct and practical method of self-development is to achieve yourself by your own effort.
— Hua Ching Ni
The overly-verbal artist is led by his understanding of things
rather than by direct observation of things as they are. — Robert Genn
rather than by direct observation of things as they are. — Robert Genn
It's not good to be in a situation where people don't want to direct you or don't want to question something.
— Glenn Close
I avoid Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter, and if I need to communicate with someone, I email direct.
— Martin Parr
The act of putting into your mouth what the earth has grown is perhaps your most direct interaction with the earth.
— Frances Moore Lappe
In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere.
— William Dean Howells
Mothers tend to be more direct. Fathers talk to other fathers about their kids more metaphorically. It's a different way of communication.
— Richard Louv
If you want to direct, you've got to work.
— John Goodman
Clear, direct and vibrant instructions will inject energy into the class, and create a feeling of safety for the students.
— Gudjon Bergmann
Women are complex and subtle. Men are simple and direct.
— Brian Tracy
When I direct and have to look at filmed scenes of myself, I suck.
— William Shatner
A person's way of doing things is a direct result of the way he thinks about things.
— Wallace D. Wattles
Patriotism and religion are the only two motives in the world which can permanently direct the whole of a body politic to one end.
— Alexis De Tocqueville
Values are the deeply held beliefs that drive and direct your behavior.
— Glenn C. Stewart
Christianity does not direct us to focus on finding the right person; it calls us to become the right person. Our
— Gary L. Thomas
A direct relationship exists between the caliber of the writing you read and the caliber of the writing you make.
— Robert Benson
I'm very direct. I don't have tantrums. I don't yell or shout. I do expect an awful lot from my staff, but no more than I expect of myself.
— Tom Ford
Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism ... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
I can't do pieces I only admire technically. I have to feel some direct contact with them.
— Michael Tilson Thomas
Direct action is, ultimately, the defiant insistence on acting as if one is already free.
— David Graeber
I can direct breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I take pride in my kitchen, but I'm not going to direct a movie.
— Julia Roberts
If you can't be direct, why be?
— Lily Tomlin
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