#dictated

But my happiness in this world - my level of peace - is never going to be dictated by acting. ↗

— Chris Evans

#dictated #going #happiness #level #never

Once you feel like you're being dictated by other people's expectations, it usually backfires. ↗

— Rob Zombie

#dictated #expectations #feel #like #once

I loved doing all those costume dramas. I didn't think, 'Ooh I've got to avoid being typecast' - you can't ever be dictated to by what other people think. I just do things because I fancy the parts and the directors. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#because #being #costume #dictated #directors

Political reporters no longer get to decide what's news. The days when a minister gave briefings to a dozen lobby correspondents, and thereby dictated the next day's headlines, are over. Now, a thousand bloggers decide for themselves what is interesting. If enough of them are tickled then, bingo, you're news. ↗

— Daniel Hannan

#bloggers #briefings #correspondents #day #days

I love that Viking era, but also they're a fatalistic people and that dictated their fearlessness in battle and approach to life. ↗

— Chris Hemsworth

#approach #battle #dictated #era #fearlessness

Our driver policy was partly dictated by who was available because of other contracts. ↗

— John Surtees

#because #contracts #dictated #driver #other

I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. ↗

— Dario Argento

#dictated #i #want

I'm really interested in fashion but at the same time I find it quite competitive. Second-hand stuff leaves you more open to whatever your own personal style is rather than feeling dictated to by shops. ↗

— Sophie Ellis Bextor

#dictated #fashion #feeling #find #i

I'm not an historian and I'm not wanting to write about how I perceive the social change over the century as a historian, but as somebody who's walked through it and whose life has been dictated by it too, as all our lives are. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#been #century #change #dictated #historian

In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons. ↗

— Mary McCarthy

#dictated #ethical #even #honorable #military