It's difficult working with very rich actors, because inevitably they become a little spoilt, and the managers and agents tend to control things more than is healthy.
~By Mike Figgis ~
Admittedly, the body of scientists, as a whole, does uphold the authority of science over the lay public. It controls thereby also the process by which young men are trained to become members of the scientific profession.
~By Michael Polanyi ~
We can't control what the ratings will be. It's like, if you're going to go skiing, do you hope you'll have a good day of skiing? Yes. Do you hope you won't break your leg? Yes.
~By David Hyde Pierce ~
Because I actually find the next take after they've controlled it a little bit and repressed the laughter is actually a really interesting take, because that's still going on underneath the surface. That struggle to maintain composure becomes part of the joy of the scene.
~By Jay Roach ~
It is time that we take control and find a way to curtail the explosive costs of health care. Small businesses deserve a chance to channel these funds toward other needs, such as expanding and creating more jobs for the economy.
~By Christopher Bond ~
And if thought and emotion can persist in this way so long after the brain that sent them forth has crumpled into dust, how vitally important it must be to control their very birth in the heart, and guard them with the keenest possible restraint.
~By Algernon H. Blackwood ~
Control over the use of one's ideas really constitutes control over other people's lives; and it is usually used to make their lives more difficult.
~By Richard Stallman ~
Organisations are now confronted with two sources of change: the traditional type that is initiated and managed; and external changes over which no one has control.
~By Margaret J. Wheatley ~
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.
~By Tony Robbins ~
We are now preparing for the reform of the yuan's exchange rate system. For such reforms to take place, we need good economic conditions... and we need to do it under tight control.
~By Wu Yi ~
Among the many important provisions in the energy bill are the creation of an estimated half million new jobs, increased oil production, blackout protection, controlling fertilizer costs by stabilizing natural gas prices and enacting new efficiency benchmarks.
~By Paul Gillmor ~
As a writer, you have control of the words you put on the page. But once that manuscript leaves your hand, you give control to the reader. As a director, you are limited by everything: weather, budget, and egos.
~By Nicholas Meyer ~
I will defend anyone as long as the client gives me total control of the case and pays up front.
~By Edward Bennett Williams ~
You must strive to multiply bread so that it suffices for the tables of mankind, and not rather favor an artificial control of birth, which would be irrational, in order to diminish the number of guests at the banquet of life.
~By Pope Paul VI ~
For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.
~By Susan Sontag ~
You know, this is - one can imagine how life would be different if one body of Congress was controlled by the other party, there would be subpoena power and there would be all - mechanisms to get to the bottom of all sorts of issues of controversy.
~By Michael Isikoff ~
The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.
~By Jimmy Carter ~
A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.
~By Brian Eno ~
When I'm on stage, it's a little world I've created where I'm sort of the thing, so I have total control over everything that happens. When we're improvising, I'm with someone I totally trust. I know things are going to work out. I don't have those guarantees in life. There are no consequences on stage.
~By Colin Mochrie ~
We're really in control; that's the difference. We were out of control then.
~By Peter Criss ~
One man with a gun can control 100 without one.
~By Vladimir Lenin ~
Since Europe is dependent on imports of energy and most of its raw materials, it can be subdued, if not quite conquered, without all those nuclear weapons the Soviets have aimed at it simply through the shipping routes and raw materials they control.
~By Barbara Amiel ~
Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.
~By Lactantius ~
What is the first thing we did when we took control of Iraq? Protect the oil fields. Remember the administration quote about how the oil would pay for the war.
~By Peter Schuyler ~
I prefer playing in the studio because you have much more control over things.
~By Michael Schenker ~
To say that you now trust the Russian military command and control system because some Russian general told you from the bottom of his heart that's the case, strikes me as most unrealistic.
~By William Odom ~
The ballet makes us look at those bodies, it makes us listen to that music, it makes us wonder at the geometry, of the way they come together. The way that extraordinary space is controlled and given such emotional force.
~By John Guare ~
Why did the Clinton Administration continue to liberalize export controls on sensitive technologies even after it learned that China had stolen designs?
~By Charles Foster Bass ~
I am in support of the NRA position on gun control.
~By William J. Clinton ~
The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control.
~By Friedrich Durrenmatt ~
It's still a bottom-line business. You can be out of control, and if they want you, they'll pick you. And you can be a mensch, and if you're not the product they want, you won't get it.
~By Judd Nelson ~
There's no leader of this band, and there never will be. That's the key. You can't control how the public perceives you-people see rock'n'roll bands as the guitar player and the singer.
~By Shannon Hoon ~
If they took all the drugs, nicotine, alcohol and caffeine off the market for six days, they'd have to bring out the tanks to control you.
~By Dick Gregory ~
I posed nude to show my parents they couldn't dictate to me any more - that I control my life.
~By LaToya Jackson ~
I'm the first to admit this whole salary thing is getting out of control. In the final analysis, it's still about the work.
~By Jim Carrey ~
Secondly, the Government of Sudan should commit to the disarmament and control of the Janjaweed militia and ensure that the targeting of civilians ceases immediately.
~By Jan Egeland ~
Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.
~By Blaise Pascal ~
The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.
~By Philip K. Dick ~
Control success before it controls you.
~By Dwight Yoakam ~
I am a control freak. I am very hands on and pay attention to details.
~By Victoria Beckham ~
In recognising the global problem posed by osteoporosis, WHO sees the need for a global strategy for prevention and control of osteoporosis, focusing on three major functions: prevention, management and surveillance.
~By Gro Harlem Brundtland ~
Beneath all of these addictions is this disease, this control disease which is the mark of our society.
~By Keith Miller ~
I think people want very much to simplify their lives enough so that they can control the things that make it possible to sleep at night.
~By Twyla Tharp ~
I live in a kind of controlled awareness. I wouldn't call it fear, but it's an awareness. I know I have a responsibility to behave in a certain way. I'm able to do that.
~By Mary Tyler Moore ~
Politics is the art of controlling your environment.
~By Hunter S. Thompson ~
To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master.
~By Milton Glaser ~
Bad directors will tell you they absolutely know how to do it, and how it has to happen; there's this insecurity that leads them to feeling like they have to control everything.
~By Molly Parker ~
Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.
~By Norman Douglas ~
A man should control his life. Mine is controlling me.
~By Rudolph Valentino ~
There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense.
~By Jeanette Rankin ~
The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.
~By Aristotle ~
I personally take cues directly from the script, then I like to surprise the other actors. But you must maintain control on a level and see how far you can go up, down or out emotionally. You have to balance the craft with spontaneity.
~By Lusia Strus ~
In the studio the director controls the actor's every move, every inflection, every expression.
~By Bela Lugosi ~
I think we are bound to, and by, nature. We may want to deny this connection and try to believe we control the external world, but every time there's a snowstorm or drought, we know our fate is tied to the world around us.
~By Alice Hoffman ~
When we, through our educational culture, through the media, through the entertainment culture, give our children the impression that human beings cannot control their passions, we are telling them, in effect, that human beings cannot be trusted with freedom.
~By Alan Keyes ~
Girlfriend and 100 Percent Fun were my two peeks, around '92 and '96. The reality is that the times I had the most media success, sold lots of records and played bigger shows, I had the least control of my own life.
~By Matthew Sweet ~
The jet stream is the controlling influence over the world's weather systems.
~By Michael Fish ~
There can be no intelligent control of the lead danger in industry unless it is based on the principle of keeping the air clear from dust and fumes.
~By Alice Hamilton ~
Professional sports are something they can't control.
~By Troy Vincent ~
In working class districts, you had several families living together in the one house, and it was very difficult to get a house, because the politicians who controlled housing were doing so in a very discriminatory fashion.
~By John Hume ~
Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple.
~By Bill Shankly ~
I feel, having the choices I had, I felt I had more control over my own medium than I did over photography.
~By Ben Shahn ~
The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.
~By Malcom X ~
This means that to entrust to science - or to deliberate control according to scientific principles - more than scientific method can achieve may have deplorable effects.
~By Friedrich August von Hayek ~
This does not mean that every copyright must prove its value initially. That would be a far too cumbersome system of control. But it does mean that every system or category of copyright or patent should prove its worth.
~By Lawrence Lessig ~
25, 30 years ago, that meant something, they were making some money. And they were doing all sorts of comedy, screaming at the audience, basically crowd control. And then there was the whole urban comedy scene.
~By Bob Saget ~
George Pal had total control, and he was there on the set every day. You never met a more charming man in your entire lifetime - what a lovely gentleman.
~By Ann Robinson ~
In being strict, you were able to control.
~By Joseph Jackson ~
It's very dependent on your state of mind. And your emotional state as well. And a lot of it comes pouring out, you don't really have that much control with it.
~By Eric Clapton ~
Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.
~By David Seabury ~
I believe in having each device secured and monitoring each device, rather than just monitoring holistically on the network, and then responding in short enough time for damage control.
~By Kevin Mitnick ~
For governments at war, the media is an instrument of war or an element in war that is to be controlled.
~By Bruce Jackson ~
If you're an addict, it controls your life and your life becomes uncontrollable. It's boring and painful, filling your system with something that makes you stare at your shoes for six hours.
~By James Taylor ~
You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands - your own.
~By Mark Victor Hansen ~
To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
~By Virginia Woolf ~
Kinda when I stopped eating was on our second album, just as it felt like everything was so out of control.
~By Daniel Johns ~
The course of the flight up and down was exceedingly erratic, partly due to the irregularity of the air, and partly to lack of experience in handling this machine. The control of the front rudder was difficult on account of its being balanced too near the center.
~By Orville Wright ~
To me the biggest breakthrough was when we did Terminator 2 that just opened the door for Jurassic and all of the others and that was as big as when we did motion control on Star Wars. But I don't see another big thing coming.
~By Dennis Muren ~
One thing is that I wasn't getting booked that well, and they had control over who got the awards, they had control over who sold. And they really did not want Willie or me, either one, to have a hit record. They wanted the money, but they didn't want us to be the ones.
~By Waylon Jennings ~
I've just become more conscious about how much I do drink and how often I want to have a drink and things like that. I think being conscious of it will help me to control the urges.
~By Payne Stewart ~
And so in terms of territorial control, in terms of economic preeminence, the western share of the gross world product is declining as Asian societies in particular develop economically.
~By Samuel P. Huntington ~
Cage's Music of Changes was a further indication that the arts in general were beginning to consciously deal with the "given" material and, to varying degrees, liberating them from the inherited, functional concepts of control.
~By Earle Brown ~
In America the schools have become too permissive, the kids now are controlling the schools, the tail is wagging the dog. We've got to make a change there and get it back to where the teachers have control of the classrooms.
~By Chuck Norris ~
The Internet provides the access to resources, so it's incumbent upon the people who control those resources to make sure that the economic engine stays intact.
~By Michael Nesmith ~
The budget should be balanced, the treasury should be refilled, the public debt should be reduced and the arrogance of public officials should be controlled.
~By Ross Perot ~
My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.
~By Sam Donaldson ~
Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.
~By Denis Diderot ~
I have no control over a film. I don't know what will be left on the cutting floor.
~By Judi Dench ~
The 9/11 Commission strongly recommends that the National Intelligence Director be fully in control of the budget, from developing it to implementing it, to ensuring that the National Intelligence Director has the clout to make decisions.
~By Leonard Boswell ~
I still have highs and lows, just like any other person. What's missing is the lack of control over the super highs, which became destructive, and the super lows, which are immediately destructive.
~By Patty Duke ~
So, this war is against the Islam that the West does not control.
~By Louis Farrakhan ~
The only way the Internet will continue to remain the thriving medium it has become today is to keep it under the control of the United States.
~By John Doolittle ~
My career has been different from most people, but I knew what I was not going to do. I knew I was not going to be controlled. I knew there was a price for this, but I did not know there was as large a price as it turned out to be.
~By Bill Dixon ~
Every one with this writ may be a tyrant; if this commission be legal, a tyrant in a legal manner, also, may control, imprison, or murder any one within the realm.
~By James Otis ~
Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.
~By Aldous Huxley ~
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
~By George Orwell ~
But, what we need to get out of the first EVA is to have the arm completely unfolded and powered so that they can keep the temperature under control. That will really the call of the first EVA.
~By Umberto Guidoni ~
Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.
~By Don Marquis ~
We get more dangerous as we accumulate knowledge, and that's both a sadness and something to control, try to learn to live with, make terms with.
~By Lou Harrison ~
Be yourself, take control of your life.
~By Emma Bunton ~
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