#controlled

I've always felt that what I have going for me is not my imagination, because everyone has an imagination. What I have is a relentlessly controlled imagination. What looks like wild invention is actually quite carefully calculated. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#always #because #calculated #carefully #controlled

We're all controlled neurotics. ↗

— Harry Reasoner

#neurotics

I'm a performer. I push the envelope, I work in a very uncontrolled manner onstage. I do a lot of free association, it's spontaneous, I go into character. ↗

— Michael Richards

#character #envelope #free #go #i

With my mask, I controlled all of the mouth movements with my own mouth. ↗

— Peter Mayhew

#i #mask #mouth #movements #my own

It is harder to lie in an interview. A good interview - and it can be polite - is not a one way street like a candidate controlled ad. An interview is not programmed by the candidate and so the candidate can't be exactly sure what will be asked. ↗

— Greta Van Susteren

#asked #candidate #controlled #exactly #good

Taste cannot be controlled by law. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#controlled #law #taste

I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them. ↗

— Ma Jian

#being #believe #chinese #chinese people #controlled

I don't want the chair of the government because it will be controlled by the U.S. and I don't want to be controlled by the U.S. ↗

— Muqtada al Sadr

#chair #controlled #government #i #want

Modern Armenia survived only because it was the single province controlled, and protected, by the Russian Empire. The rest of the territory within its historical borders is almost wholly devoid of ethnic Armenians. ↗

— John Shimkus

#armenia #armenians #because #borders #controlled

Songwriting is too mysterious and uncontrolled a process for me to direct it towards any one thing. ↗

— James Taylor

#direct #me #mysterious #one thing #process