#manipulating

I'm manipulating the audience. I'm making sure people sympathize. ↗

— Melinda Clarke

#i #making #manipulating #people #sure

Scarlett O'Hara didn't think she was manipulating. That's just the way she got what she wanted. ↗

— Donna Mills

#hara #just #manipulating #scarlett #she

In examining the CIA's past and present use of the U.S. media, the Committee finds two reasons for concern. The first is the potential, inherent in covert media operations, for manipulating or incidentally misleading the American public. ↗

— Frank Church

#american public #cia #committee #concern #covert

The pleasure of writing fiction is that you are always spotting some new approach, an alternative way of telling a story and manipulating characters; the novel is such a wonderfully flexible form. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#always #approach #characters #fiction #flexible

For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time. ↗

— Brian Eno

#manipulating #time #world #you

I don't think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it. ↗

— Keith Haring

#celebrates #encourages #further #go #humanity

Manipulating shadows and tonality is like writing music or a poem. ↗

— Conrad Hall

#manipulating #music #poem #shadows #tonality

Even Hitchcock liked to think of himself as a puppeteer who was manipulating the strings of his audience and making them jump. He liked to think he had that kind of control. ↗

— David Cronenberg

#control #even #had #himself #his

We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free play of our subjectivity. ↗

— Raoul Vaneigem

#controlling #dreams #escape #free #into

Mitt - what I speak to Mitt Romney about is jobs. What I speak to Mitt Romney about is China, because he's got a great view on China and how they're trying to destroy our country by taking our jobs and making our product and manipulating their currency, so that it makes it almost impossible for our companies to compete. ↗

— Donald Trump

#almost #because #china #companies #compete