#dire

The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be... The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

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We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#alive #already #bring #creators #direct

Directors who turn into big babies and shut out criticism stop learning. ↗

— Richard King

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Also, I plan to screw something up on every movie I do so that I can learn from my mistakes and become a better director with each project. ↗

— Richard King

#become #better #director #each #every

In cinema, the leading player is the director. ↗

— Ben Kingsley

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Solidarity was the movement that turned the direction of history, I think. ↗

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

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What I mean by photographing as a participant rather than observer is that I'm not only involved directly with some of the activities that I photograph, such as mountain climbing, but even when I'm not I have the philosophy that my mind and body are part of the natural world. ↗

— Galen Rowell

#body #climbing #directly #even #i

I think that cognitive scientists would support the view that our visual system does not directly represent what is out there in the world and that our brain constructs a lot of the imagery that we believe we are seeing. ↗

— Galen Rowell

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Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

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I'm really keen to go back and do some theatre, but I can't afford to at the moment because we're getting married in September. And then I'm hoping to direct a film at the end of this year, and that means a year of your life without pay. ↗

— Richard Roxburgh

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