Dictates Quotes

The style is determined by each movie and even more so by every individual scene that dictates how you shoot it. When you have something dramatic, something exciting, that`s when you start moving the camera. Otherwise, I say, "Leave it alone." But look, the last thing I want to do is to repeat myself.

The Cold War has been the most irritating thing to me personally. Throughout my life we`ve been in the grip of militarism and military budgets and a mindset that dictates a war on Communism, and that`s a drain on the national energy. The real enemy is nationalism and patriotism.

(talking about her son Kai Dugan): We`ve already done plays together. Very short plays. He dictates them to me. Sometimes he casts me, sometimes he doesn`t. And when I`m in the play, he`ll sometimes say to me, "No Mom, you didn`t say that right!"

"I don`t want my reputation to take me over, I just want to be judged on my songs. I want people to come and see me because they want to, not because fashion dictates it. I don`t belong in magazines, I belong on stage, in front of the audience, one-to-one. There`s something that happens there. The rest is just crap."

I always have a rule that acting is acting and truth is truth and you just go out there and you do it. But what happens in each medium is that you have other responsibilities. The acting remains the same, but each medium dictates assuming other halves to make the acting work. When I`m working on a film, I just play the absolute purity of the moments. I don`t worry about the pacing, because the pacing is going to be dictated by the director and the editor. On the stage I have to give pacing to the play. As an actor, you, in fact, become the editor of the piece, in terms of the timing. You are required to engineer the pace yourself. In television, everything is in so close, that you realize that most of what you do has to register in your thought process.

It`s the way that Randy dictates what defenses can and can`t do that puts him over the top, ... I`ve played with him. I know.

What looks absolutely fabulous in rehearsal can fall flat in front of an audience. The audience dictates what you do or don`t change.

So many of these plays are set plays, where it`s five guys running their specific route and the quarterback throws the ball to whoever the defense dictates is going to get the ball. Whereas in the past, it was each receiver would do certain things to adjust his route to try to get open.

Logic dictates contractors can`t be self-employed and employees simultaneously. It might only be a matter of time before we see truly joined up government, whereby claims by contractors for employment rights automatically trigger tax investigations.

Our position dictates toughness. It`s an honor to be a Carson linebacker.

It is not merely an office building in Metairie, Louisiana, that dictates who and what Ruth`s Chris Steak House is,

Defining the terms of the debate generally dictates who`s gonna` win it.

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it.

Betting on sports is actually a lot more like playing the stock market than it is the other games at the casino. Because in the end, what dictates whether you win at sports is skill.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.

It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form.

Here Fashion is a despot, and no one dreams of evading its dictates.

The answer dictates what the policy should be in our relationships with every country in the world.

Today the South is faced with fresh assaults upon its regime and its order of values. All the while it has known that what grudging respect it has obtained from the North has come because the South has maintained the standards of white civilization. It knows that if it were to accept without reservation the dictates of the Supreme Court, it might be turned into something like those `mixed sections` found in large Northern cities.

We do our best to do away with ceremonial Christianity and do just what the Bible says. We`re Bible believers only. Nothing else dictates what we practice and believe.

More of it`s the mental approach, because the mental approach dictates your mechanics,