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I'm manipulating the audience. I'm making sure people sympathize.
Manipulating shadows and tonality is like writing music or a poem.
The media has a tendency of manipulating things to show in their favor.
When I'm angry on TV, I'm actually not. I'm manipulating you as an owner.
For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.
I have never had and will never have anything to do with manipulating match results.
Online, you show how brilliant you are by manipulating the language of the Internet.
If people think the boss is manipulating them to get them to work harder, it backfires.
I've never been very good at manipulating my career, but fortunately I haven't needed to.
There was something about me even at an early age that enjoyed charming and manipulating.
Scarlett O'Hara didn't think she was manipulating. That's just the way she got what she wanted.
Magic's about understanding - and then manipulating - how viewers digest the sensory information.
I never want to be the all-knowing god of the story, manipulating what's to happen or the action.
Leaders cling to power in a socialist state like Venezuela by buying votes and manipulating elections.
I'm intrigued by people who are super adept at manipulating their own image. We all do it to a certain extent.
Human beings have been manipulating the biological world for thousands of years without understanding how DNA codes function.
I'm an astrophysicist and a professor, so my day job involves manipulating intractable numbers that characterize our universe.
Blending tracks and weaving and manipulating prerecorded music to create this mood, some people do it much better than others.
People have been manipulating food ever since they realized cooking a whole animal was difficult. Cows don't come in hot dog form.
Mum had regular mental tests with her specialist, but because of her academic background, she became brilliant at manipulating them.
Children need to be exploring their physical world. They need to be learning the fundamental laws of physics by manipulating objects.
The IMF and other multilateral institutions do not appear to have prevented nations from manipulating the value of their own currencies.
Manipulating people is what's so fun about poker. I love that you can just look into someone's eyes and lie - and it's perfectly acceptable.
Juggling is very, very straightforward; very, very black and white; you're manipulating objects, not people. And that's always appealed to me.
If you've ever had somebody try to sell you something - people who can sell, they really are not manipulating you. They are selling themselves.
When I look around the world, I don't see too many damsels in distress. If they're a damsel in distress, they're manipulating some guy to help them.
We owe our big brains less to inventiveness than to conflicts of interest among social minds engaged in an arms race to be the best at manipulating others.
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.
If I had spent a quarter of the time that I spent manipulating my sexuality in front of a piano instead, I would be the most gifted piano player of my lifetime.
In Britain, the big supermarkets dominate our food chain. British supermarkets are some of the best in the world at controlling, manipulating and delivering cheap food.
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.
I genre-hop quite a lot. I love manipulating genre and deconstructing it and making it irrelevant. Genreless music is great because it means you get to write in any genre that you like.
I don't think of my music in terms of a career. I just want to get it out there and do it. I'm not manipulating my sound to be like anybody or trying to write to sound like anybody else.
We fill the woods with invasive primates camouflaged to look like piles of leaves who sneak around, sprinkling estrus doe urine and manipulating gadgets that sound like antlers clashing.
A sociopath doesn't warm up their environment, doesn't make it cozy. They don't have to; when they're not performing, when they're not manipulating, when they're all alone, there's nothing.
I'm sure in a lot of publishing houses that there is a frustration that people feel, that they're not in control, that they are puppets and the corporate bosses are manipulating the strings.
I got to read some writings by serial killers, and they got inside my head. They were quite disturbing. I read disturbing stuff about that very detached way of manipulating people to do things.
In much of the world, there is a sense of an ultra-powerful CIA manipulating everything that happens, such as running the Arab Spring, running the Pakistani Taliban, etc. That is just nonsense.
Attention spans are so limited and ticket prices so high. We're anyway in a business of manipulating emotions. But each film needs to be positioned truthfully so that people don't feel cheated.
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.
I think it's important that we learn how to draw and to make something and to do it directly. To understand the properties you're working with by manipulating them and transforming them yourself.
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.
For seven years, I made films in the cinema verite tradition - photographing what was happening without manipulating it. Then I realised I wanted to make things happen for myself, through feature films.
My job as an editor is to gently prod the attention of the audience to look at various parts of the frame. And that - I do that by manipulating how and where I cut and what succession of images I work with.
We urge the Department of Justice to carefully investigate and aggressively prosecute all senior bank officials who participated in manipulating the London interbank offered rate throughout the financial crisis.
When Russia's intelligence agencies obtained some of the National Security Agency's secrets about its own cyberweapons, it appeared to do so by manipulating a virus protection program sold by Kaspersky, a Russian firm.
Foreign intelligence services rely on manipulating vulnerabilities over time - like greed, or fear of exposure of a secret - to puppeteer those under their influence into acting in their interests without saying a word.
Recently, a friend sent me the online musings of a televangelist who advised his thousands of followers that the Federal Reserve achieved satanic ends by manipulating the world's money supply. Paranoia has replaced piety.
I wouldn't put a big trust in what people in Silicon Valley say. They may be good at manipulating ones and zeroes and writing software, but beyond that, their contribution to human progress has been pretty dismal. I'm not impressed.
I really ought to try and make a film that's a bit more cynical. But I don't think I'd know how to do it. I think what it is, is that if you're a film director, you're basically there because you enjoy manipulating people's emotions.