Direct Quotes

During my time as England captain I have always been both helpful and direct in my communications with the ECB.

I think people get mad because I make more direct records.

A lot of critics think I'm stupid because my sentences are so simple and my method is so direct: they think these are defects. No. The point is to write as much as you know as quickly as possible.

I don't want to say I'm never going to direct again, but directing's hard work.

When we have the Spirit to direct us, we are capable of teaching with great power.

Dialogue is the place that books are most alive and forge the most direct connection with readers. It is also where we as writers discover our characters and allow them to become real.

I feel very lucky that when I'm burnt out of acting I take to the pen and I write something I want to direct.

For me, Twitter has given me a direct line to the world - it gave me an opportunity to be like, "This is my voice.

They say there is no light without dark, no good without evil, no male without female, no right without wrong. That nothing can exist if it's direct opposite does not also exist.

I don't see the direct correlation between my personal life and the novel I'm writing until I'm at the end of the novel or very close to it.

Eventually one day I want to direct, but as of right now my next cap that I'm looking for is the producer cap.

I want to be in 'Funny Girl.' And I want Ryan Murphy to direct it.

You can learn to direct yourself to be peaceful inside regardless of what is happening with your body.

If you watch my movie, you understand I am perverse and weird and angry and not looking to direct a film that ends with a bunch of teenagers exploding into glitter.

I was now prepared to accept any faith so long as it did not demand a direct denial of reason, which would have been a deceit.

It should not be harder for our daughters to direct than our sons. It should be an equal playing field.

Stand-up is the only thing in which you actually write it, act it and direct it simultaneously, so it's actually a great theater exercise.

There is a direct line between the communications work I did to protest tuition increases at my school and what I do today. Plus it had one other benefit...it got me kicked out of college!

I direct in the same way that I act, which is thinking about what the scene needs.

If you can't be direct, why be?

For a while, I thought, maybe I should direct, until I got to New York and saw the stupidity of that idea. If it's hard to get into acting, what is it like for a woman to become a director?

Sometimes stories are inherently important whether or not they have a direct relation to your life.

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.

You will find that reason, which always ought to direct mankind, seldom does; but that passions and weaknesses commonly usurp itsseat, and rule in its stead.

You can't direct without a good crew.

The original plan was that James Wan would direct the pilot [of MacGyver ] but it didn't work out, and then it did, which is great. I'm a huge fan.

I'd always wanted to work in television once I found out that they started to hire independent filmmakers to direct.

I've been asked to direct pilots for a lot of shows.

There is no direct evidence that [Alex] Haley sat down with the F.B.I.

Direct navigation traffic is by far the most highly targeted form of web traffic available.

It's really hard to find just a simple character-driven drama, outside of a genre, that was available to direct, except for on TV.

Direct thy attention to what is said. Let thy understanding enter into the things that are doing and the things which do them.

Problems come about when we try to direct the flow of the universe rather than allow it to reveal its own design. Inherent in that design is a love for all living things.

My advice for anyone wanting to direct is that nobody is going to hand you an opportunity. You have to create your own opportunities and not take no for an answer.

They've said I want to direct pictures. I couldn't direct traffic.

Some people say it's scarier to direct the people you work with; not me, I'm a team guy.

With empathy we don't direct, we follow. Don't just do something, be there.

The end goal of all of this striving is to live joyfully, and that there are often more direct ways of achieving this than conforming to rigid standards set by social custom.

We had no alternative except that of preparing for direct action, whereby we would present our very bodies as a means of laying our case before the conscience of the local and national community.

Education without direction is a one-sided social value. Direct action without education is a meaningless expression of pure energy.

I do want to direct, eventually. I don't know if it will be a short film or a music video or a feature, but I know that I want to at least try it and see.

It is clearly absurd that it should be possible for a woman to qualify as a saint with direct access to the Almighty, while she may not qualify as a curate.

To lead means to direct and to exact, and no man dares do either - he might be unpopular. What authority we are given now is a trinity: the grin, the generality, and God (the Word).

In our long and obsessive passion for youth, we have - more than any other modern society - avoided direct approach to age and to dying by denying them in word, in fact, and - above all - in worth.

I'm just glad that on a budget like this I don't have to make any of those hard decisions because I feel it must be a real job to direct this, as there's so much going on.

Every minute, every second, the pattern of genes being expressed in your brain changes, often in direct or indirect response to events outside the body. Genes are the mechanisms of experience.

If I could act in theater, my whole life, and never act in film or television again, and just direct the rest of my life, I would gladly do that.

Every type of purely direct concrete description bears the mark of artistic portrayal.

I want to write, act, and direct!

In my own experience of male and female directors, people have a much, much harder time taking a direct command from a woman. It's somehow very difficult for people.