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You offer things up, I suppose, and he probably gently maybe changes it a little bit one way or another, but you don`t feel directive as it were.

- Albert Finney

Despite our directive to the National Journal to replace the ad, it was not replaced as requested, which resulted in its publication this week.

- Michael Cox

I don`t think you work with Godard, you experience... Doing a movie with Godard - I have done two, which means I have spent almost two years with him - it`s more like doing an incomparable experience. Just watching Godard - it`s a gift for an actress to make films with him. When I say you don`t work with Godard I mean that you don`t go through any classical path where you build a character. With Godard it`s degree zero - you don`t do anything, it`s a very strange feeling. And yet it is acting - it`s very highly stylised and he`s very directive. The reason is always very precise, there is never any improvisation. I think, finally, he manages to get everybody to talk like him. It`s true! He always wants to close the sense at the end of a line. He closes the sense. It`s very strange. You can`t say, "I`m doing a Godard and I`m playing a prostitute," because Godard is so far away from any assembly of images you may have about that character. That`s why he`s a great director - more than a great director, a great thinker of cinema.

- Isabelle Huppert

The directive really makes it a lot easier for governments and companies in Europe to learn about who is doing what on the Internet. The problem with the requirement to store online data is that it can easily be misused.

- Ian Brown

You`re alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

- Barbara Hall

We want the services directive scrapped. It`s creating huge fears for working class Ireland.

- John Douglas

Personally, I think that for example the chemical directive in its present form does too much damage to the chemical industry - especially the medium sized businesses - and will hurt our worldwide competitiveness.

- Angela Merkel

And I gave this directive to them, that if they free our assets in the United States, that would be a sign of goodwill. I have the same idea this time.

- Ahmed Mukhlef

That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it, is a principle too obvious to require investigation.

- Alan Curry

Indeed, it was July 3, 1979 that President Carter signed the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul.

- Andrew Stuckey

The central hope I have for this case in terms of separation of powers is that the Supreme Court will restore the constitutional directive that no one branch of government has the power to accuse, appoint the prosecutor, designate the judges, and render judgment.

- Angus MacMillan

(The directive) will impact all companies who do business in the E.U..

- Ann Barney