#direct

This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society. ↗

— David Hume

#alone #avidity #destructive #directly #friends

I think I have more of a director's brain than an actor's brain, in a way. ↗

— Helen Hunt

#brain #director #i #i think #more

But everyone gets burnt, don't they? Certain things are outside of your control. I suppose the only thing you can learn as a director is to not put yourself into situations where it can get outside of your control. And that's what happened. ↗

— Neil Jordan

#certain #certain things #control #director #everyone

The direction of the mind is more important than its progress. ↗

— Joseph Joubert

#important #mind #more #progress #than

The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world. A picture is made. You put a frame around it and move on. And one day you die. That is all there is to it. ↗

— John Huston

#coming #controlling #day #die #directing

Usually you talk about directors in terms of the way they choose camera lenses or a kind of light to create a certain effect. But to me the most valuable commodity for a movie to create is a feeling of life, and that's what A Hard Day's Night has in spades. ↗

— Michael Patrick Jann

#camera #certain #choose #commodity #create

The problem was with Bill Clinton, the scandals and rumored scandals, the incubating ones and the dying ones never ended. Whatever moral compass the president was consulting was leading him in the wrong direction. His closets were full of skeletons just waiting to burst out. ↗

— Louis Freeh

#bill clinton #burst #clinton #closets #compass

Sadism is all right in its place, but it should be directed to proper ends. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#ends #place #proper #right #sadism

While it was a very interesting period in my life, I was happy to get back to more direct contact with students in the classroom and in my research projects. ↗

— Jerome Isaac Friedman

#classroom #contact #direct #direct contact #get

We have been trying to play a lot of different kinds of music, and probably the next album will go back more towards the direction where you couldn't classify each song as a certain kind of music. This album you can. ↗

— Mike Gordon

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