#dire

Social democracy seeks and finds the ways, and particular slogans, of the workers' struggle only in the course of the development of this struggle, and gains directions for the way forward through this struggle alone. ↗

— Rosa Luxemburg

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In a collaborative environment directors hire actors because they want their input, not just their bodies. ↗

— Kelly Lynch

#bodies #collaborative #directors #environment #hire

Directors work 10 times harder than anyone else. Get paid a quarter. ↗

— William H. Macy

#directors #else #get #harder #paid

My tendency as an actor was to correct people, was to say, 'What if we tried it this way, what about if we tried that way?' That's terrible habit for an actor, but that's a good habit for director. So I became a director. ↗

— David Mamet

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I write and direct the Duke University Children's Hospital Benefit every year. ↗

— David Friedman

#children #direct #duke #every #hospital

Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem. ↗

— John Galsworthy

#direct proportion #distance #idealism #increases #problem

One day, we were doing a serious scene and fast talking like we do and we could not stop laughing and the director had to stop the production. We had to go to our trailer and calm down and do it all again. ↗

— Victor Garber

#calm #calm down #could #day #director

Being a movie star, and this applies to all of them, means being looked at from every possible direction. You are never left at peace, you're just fair game. ↗

— Greta Garbo

#being #direction #every #fair #fair game

People don't realize what a brilliant politician Lincoln was. Looking back, we want to ascribe a level of providence to his every decision but he was a cunning and calculating politician; from the cultivation of his image as a hayseed from Illinois, to his ability to keep this country together under dire circumstances. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#ascribe #back #brilliant #calculating #circumstances

If you are successful, it is because somewhere, sometime, someone gave you a life or an idea that started you in the right direction. Remember also that you are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped. ↗

— Melinda Gates

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