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Directing is a unique endeavor where you are in charge of so many people. As a writer, it is sort of the opposite.
Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.
I enjoy the risk of bungee-jumping. I used to pay money to do it. Now, it's the opposite. I get paid to do action.
I don't go to regular music festivals because I tend to run in the opposite direction wherever there's big crowds.
There's a lot more responsibility at home, so a tour is like the opposite for me. It's like a breath of fresh air.
In many countries, women aren't jubilant when they learn they are pregnant. Quite the opposite - they're terrified.
The course of nationalism, once it's attached to a cause opposite yours, is still the strongest force in the world.
One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.
I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.
Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.
I was always kind of serious. It's nice to be able to play a complete bad boy who's the polar opposite to who I am.
While discipline and freedom seem like they sit on opposite sides of the spectrum, they are actually very connected.
The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
I don't compose, actually. I just record. I'm the opposite of a composer in my way of working. I'm more instinctive.
Those who stand on our side in the fight against terrorism are our friend. Those on the opposite side are our enemy.
Most of the time when you're around the opposite sex, you kinda have to put on a show and not completely be yourself.
I'm the opposite of a gearhead. I like simplicity. I use what works, and the only time I change it is when I have to.
I've had a life where things have worked out for me beyond my wildest dreams, and my brother's had just the opposite.
My paintings are very strange - large and empty, like walls. Just the opposite of my writing, which is rich and juicy.
Growing up, I was so shy, but it was weird because I was the complete opposite on stage. I was just free to be myself.
The anger and the brutality against everything can readily from one hour to the next be transformed into its opposite.
Stadium rock and commercial rock are the opposite of what poetry needs. An audience of around 200 is ideal for poetry.
It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.
What's it like being opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger? For me? Are you kidding? Maybe if I'm lucky, come up to his navel!
I read an interview where someone said, 'It's a shame that anyone can make a movie now,' and I feel the exact opposite.
What I do is the opposite of building walls. I build bridges. A bridge is something that connects instead of separating.
America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true.
The thrill of acting is making a character real. Modeling is the opposite of real. It's being fake in front of the camera.
People think New York is this big city where no one knows each other, but when you live in the Village, it's the opposite.
I can be very difficult if people are not professional, or lazy - or the opposite, which is take themselves too seriously.
The media chooses to portray the most extreme and violent aspects of a place. I do the opposite and portray the normality.
Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.
I'm always looking for a chance to play somebody who's completely opposite of me, just because I find it more interesting.
If everybody is doing it one way, there's a good chance you can find your niche by going exactly in the opposite direction.
The more vulnerable and the more confused the song is, the equal and opposite effect is how I feel after having written it.
Christianity has not conquered nationalism; the opposite has been the case nationalism has made Christianity its footstool.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
I'm not persuaded that the opposite of poverty is wealth - I've come to believe... that the opposite of poverty is justice.
I actually prefer getting into roles that are the polar opposite of me; that's why I've done so many dark and dreary things.
In some respects, South African apartheid was more vicious than Israeli practices, and in some respects the opposite is true.
If someone gives you so-called good advice, do the opposite; you can be sure it will be the right thing nine out of 10 times.
The Secret Intelligence Service I knew occupied dusky suites of little rooms opposite St James's Park Tube station in London.
A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.
Marriage is like the romantic ideal, and yet the trappings around it and the culture about it are really the opposite of that.
I tend to write out the first iteration of a lyric here and then go over here and make variations on it, on the page opposite.
My dream would be to play the villain in a James Bond movie, or opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger. I like everything exaggerated.
Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
It is very important to have deep friendships of the opposite sex to learn so much about yourself and what you need as a human.
When people are entering a high-stress period, they don't sleep and don't exercise, but in fact, it should be just the opposite.
Americans don't like puns and plays on words, which is totally opposite in the comedy world to France or even Italy and Germany.