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Every director knows it is his job to be manipulative. When you make an edit, you are trying to manipulate.
True faith does not so much attempt to manipulate God to do our will as it does to position us to do his will.
Jury selection is strictly an emotional process. They're looking for people they can manipulate. Both sides are.
I won't make shorthand films, because I don't want to manipulate audiences into assuming quick, manufactured truths.
Bishops and judges are some of the best politicians in the world. They know how to manipulate the political process.
Your job as a superstar is to manipulate the audience and try to tell your story. I like the dynamic of the audience.
I don't want to be in the newspapers or to feel like I have to manipulate things to make my life seem a way it's not.
We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them.
I learned more complex ways to manipulate the manipulators, to bring attention to issues about which I felt passionate.
When you're an actress, you become this thing in people's hands that people are trying to manipulate. I cannot stand it.
Sudhir Mishra is one the finest directors; he knows how to manipulate an actor's emotion, sensibilities and expressions.
The computer is a tool, just like pencil or charcoal, allowing illustrators to manipulate images from their sketchbooks.
Until you appreciate something crucial - It is incredibly easy to manipulate us as to who counts as an Us, who as a Them.
I do believe that Russia did and will continue to try and manipulate Americans' perspective on a whole variety of issues.
The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing.
To me, it's not all about how much weight you can lift in the weight room. It's how you can manipulate weight in the ring.
We're never trying to manipulate and mess with... When you finish the movie, you hope you did a good job but you never know.
I've never been one to have to manipulate women. I always want it to be like a mutual thing, like everybody loves everybody.
I tried to manipulate and control people, and I harbored resentment. I wanted to be forgiven, but I wouldn't forgive others.
I like to think of sales as the ability to gracefully persuade, not manipulate, a person or persons into a win-win situation.
For 'Barnyard,' I did the voice of a 'chick,' which was really a blast because I had to manipulate my voice to another pitch.
There are absolutely ways to manipulate behavior, because our behavior is endlessly being manipulated by the world around us.
I am a workaholic, and I sometimes wish that there were 48 hours in a day. But I know how to manipulate my time beneficially.
Once we know that people are human and have some Homer Simpson in them, then there's a lot that can be done to manipulate them.
We're making progress, but getting machines to replicate our ability to perceive and manipulate the world remains incredibly hard.
To manipulate the immune system, you need to find the key bottlenecks that govern the system. The T-cell is an absolute bottleneck.
Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes.
I want to throw my voice more, I want to manipulate melody more... I want to be less deliberate and mechanical... I want less melody.
I'm trying to make the readers feel as if he or she is right there in the conversation, and so I don't try to manipulate it too much.
When you're recording to tape, you usually just settle for what you have. There's not a lot of options to manipulate the performance.
A person who is emotionally free has no desire to convince, cajole, insist, beg, seduce, manipulate or control. He/she is free to love
I always say it's worth doing what you want to do, not letting people manipulate you. It's worth holding out. It's worth having pride.
Self-centered leaders manipulate when they move people for personal benefit. Mature leaders motivate by moving people for mutual benefit.
Everything we're doing online is being not just monitored, but that information is being packaged up and sold and resold to manipulate us.
My goal is to always try to make you feel something, whether that's humor or sadness or excitement, and to try to manipulate screen space.
In fiction, you are not limited by real facts. You can manipulate reality; you can invent without being disloyal to the essence of history.
When you're recording to analog tape, it captures performance and you can't necessarily manipulate that in different ways. It is what it is.
Scott Skiles was a master tactician - they're all masters, but he is elite. He knew how to manipulate his team from an X's-and-O's standpoint.
The fact you can manipulate people because you can hack them and learn everything about their personal lives - that's an immense amount of power.
Well, I love having kids. But I have the advantage of having a lot of help, a real hands-on husband and small children whom I can easily manipulate.
Most states, for all their rhetoric in favour of free trade, are adept at trying to manipulate markets to protect and advantage their own producers.
Terrorism is a psychological warfare. Terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear, uncertainty, and division in society.
It's almost going to sound like a jerk thing to say, but it's so easy to manipulate the fans to love us or hate us. It's fun. It makes it really fun.
I have spent too long being able to manipulate the answers I want from market research to rely upon its findings any more than I do weather forecasts.
So many things happen for every event, and if you try to manipulate it, it means you are struggling against the whole universe, and that's just silly.
I'm a writer of fiction. I try to write about my time, but it's dangerous if I'm seen as an investigative writer. I manipulate and change and control.
If I'm not going to make the pitch, then so be it. I'm not going to try to manipulate the ball or muscle the ball over the plate where I want it to go.
A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power.
Buy the best you can find or afford and don't over manipulate it. If I cook a scallop, the best praise you can give me is that it tastes like a scallop.
The difference between the student and the born composer is he really hears the thing, and they have to stage it and manipulate it by technical equipment.