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Straight back from America I went to a psychiatrist, hypnotist and all this other kind of stuff to try and get me sorted out.

Quote by Andy Partridge about country

Straight-away the ideas flow in upon me, directly from God, and not only do I see distinct themes in my mind's eye, but they are clothed in the right forms, harmonies, and orchestration.

Quote by Johannes Brahms about music, mind, rightness, god

I've dropped myself into straightforward character pieces in order to explore that form and reap its values. But you are sort of restricted visually when your first requirement is to tell a fairly straightforward story

Quote by Brian De Palma about character, order

What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.

Quote by Tennessee Williams about opinion, heart, human imperfections

A straight line is so right as far as the Earth. For this reason, unless you want to go straight into space, you have to respect the proportions Earth and accept compromise with the reality in which we live.

Quote by Marius Torok about rightness, earth, univers, reality, reason, respect

It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line.

Quote by Ibrahim Babangida about nature

The other inmates stand in a long straight line, flanked by guards, and I am dragged past them. I do not respect them, because they will not run - will not try to escape.

Quote by Jack Henry Abbott about past, respect

But the development of human society does not go straight forward; and the epic process will therefore be a recurring process, the series a recurring series - though not in exact repetition.

Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie about evolution, society, human imperfections

I really try at least to come back and answer the question as to whether that was really the best way to do that and was I really thinking straight and how did my opponents behave and how did the judges behave was needed.

Quote by Floyd Abrams about judges, question, thinking

Everybody's got bills to pay. Sometimes you see people just go straight for the money, and that's disappointing.

Quote by Kevin Bacon about money, people

Oh, yeah, I see the world differently now. Actually, when I first had the baby, I was breast-feeding him for two years straight. So we were together for two years of his life, every single day, all hours of the day. So I was two people, and I...

Quote by Erykah Badu about day, world, life, people

You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.

Quote by Aristophanes about wisdom

I was always able to understand my friend who decided to quit smoking and who, through an effort of will, succeeded in doing so. One morning, he opened the newspaper, read that the first H- bomb had exploded, found out about the bomb's admirable...

Quote by Albert Camus about humor

I do see it as forming a continuum with the earlier books. It shares some of the same themes, in particular that of the friendship between a gay man and a straight man.

Quote by Michael Chabon about friendship, books, man

Then I was at Darmstadt from 1954 onwards, and it was great. My first pieces were played straightaway. It was there that I met everybody who made up that generation that redefined post-War music.

Quote by Luc Ferrari about war, music

It's the quality of the ordinary, the straight, the square, that accounts for the great stability and success of our nation. It's a quality to be proud of. But it's a quality that many people seem to have neglected.

Quote by Gerald R. Ford about quality, proudness, nation, people

I wanted to use what I was, to be what I was born to be not to have a 'career', but to be that straightforward obvious unmistakable animal, a writer.

Quote by Cynthia Ozick about opinion, writers, career, use

I guess what's most surprised me in most of the reviews is that they don't seem to get the noir story in the dream sequence, so they analyze it like a straight noir movie.

Quote by Brian De Palma about love, dream

I hadn't done just a straight-out comedy in a long time, just letting an ensemble do really good character acting, having them carry the movie as in my earlier pictures.

Quote by Brian De Palma about time, comedy, character, good, good luck

Sure, but you learn, if you're going to shoot a straightforward story, that you're going to be shooting a lot of close-ups.

Quote by Brian De Palma about teaching