#dictated

Television is so dictated by time constraints that you have to make quick decisions and go with them. ↗

— Ted Shackelford

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We genuinely believe to this day that it was an honest genuine mistake and we never imagined the punishment would be eight months. The precedent dictated that it was unlikely to be that. We don't regret he played for that period. ↗

— David Gill

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All I want is for people to listen to it with unbiased ears, and decide for themselves. I just don't want them to be dictated to by the media, or have preconceptions about it. If you like it, great. If you don't, fair enough. ↗

— Melanie Chisholm

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I am not going to be dictated to by fans, certainly. I am dictated enough to by my record company to last me a million years. ↗

— Marvin Gaye

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The technology of the time dictated the way things looked. ↗

— Douglas Trumbull

#looked #technology #things #time #way

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

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

— Dario Argento

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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

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I'm not allowing my perspective to be dictated by the dominant culture. ↗

— Holly Near

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I think when people hear about a celebrity writing a book of any kind, the assumption is that it was dictated to a ghostwriter. ↗

— Molly Ringwald

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