There’s this sense of excitement because you invent and control the characters. You decide whether they live or die. I find this type of creative process tremendously stimulating. – Sidney Sheldon
All directors are control freaks and very obsessive. I get the feeling that directors as kids, they all have had a childhood with not too much contact with other kids. They constructed their own reality and they continue to do it. It’s a funny breed, directors. – Stellan Skarsgard
The amount of control you have over somebody if you can monitor internet activity is amazing. – Tim Berners-Lee
Well it is certainly the case that the poems – which were in fact published during Shakespeare’s lifetime – are weird if they began or originated in this form, as I think they did, because the poems get out of control. – Stephen Greenblatt
I love eating. Unfortunately, I have to be really determined and control my foodie temptations. That is the only thing I don’t like about being an actress; the constant need to check my weight. Otherwise, I love my job! – Sonam Kapoor
They told me that they are starting a classic label, and wanted me to be the first artist. So I signed, and am producing myself, and writing my own music, but I’m their first artist on their classic label. And I have creative control. – Teena Marie
I don’t feel that I have to control every aspect of things that I appear in. You learn a lot performing someone else’s writing. – Steve Carell
I’m fairly in control and I don’t like to flirt particularly. I mean, obviously if I meet someone who I think is hot, of course I’ll want to flirt with him, But in general I don’t use it in day-to-day life. – Shirley Manson
Understand that the time in the audition is your time. Really own it and take control of it. And do what you prepared. Focus on really executing what it is that you intended to do. – Tamara Tunie
The first thing I did on my diet was take the batteries out of the remote control and make myself get up and change the channel. That’s probably the hardest exercise I did. – Stephen Furst
In a peer network, no one is officially in charge. It doesn’t have a command hierarchy. It doesn’t have a boss. So, all the decisions are somehow made collectively. The control of the system is in the hands of everyone who is a part of it. – Steven Johnson
If you ask most trainers who have ridden which pressure is greater – watching your horse or riding it – they will tell you it is harder watching it because you have no control over what happens. – Tony McCoy
Pretty much all the programming on our CDs is done by me personally, so I’ve kind of been able to have complete control of what sounds I’m looking for to complete a song. – Tyler Joseph
Over and over, nature shows that it’s a really tough adversary. That’s why it’s important that we invest in laboratories, disease detectives, research, mosquito control, the public health system around the world to find, stop, track, prevent health threats. – Tom Frieden
I think some things are just meant to happen; you can’t change your fate. Maybe we have a small amount of control. – Sarah Snook
After I arrived in Basel, I initially attempted to continue the project of my days in Dulbecco’s laboratory, namely, the transcriptional control of the simian virus 40 genes. – Susumu Tonegawa
When I was in pre-production for Trees Lounge, I was hearing the cinematographer talking with the production designer about colours and this and that, and feeling like I was losing control. – Steve Buscemi
While the TV show ‘Rizzoli & Isles’ may have been inspired by my books, show runner Janet Tamaro has total control over where the TV characters go from there. As Janet once put it, I’m the birth mother, but she’s the mother who adopted them, and now that Jane and Maura are living in her house, they have to do what she tells them to do. – Tess Gerritsen
I surrender the idea of having some kind of control over the arc of my career a lot of the time because you never know what tomorrow’s going to bring. – Wentworth Miller
Advertising, music, atmospheres, subliminal messages and films can have an impact on our emotional life, and we cannot control it because we are not even conscious of it. – Tariq Ramadan
‘The Magus,’ usually described as a book for the young, is about learning that the world is a mysterious and limitless place, beyond our control, and all the more exciting – and daunting – because of it. – Sharon Bolton
They say it’s not the snoring itself but those anxiety-packed moments in between snorts. It’s the waiting for the nasal passages of the person lying beside you to strike again. And strike it always does. In the dark, almost against your will, you produce that special glare reserved for people who cannot control their own behaviour. – Sloane Crosley
I’m more attracted to the bad guys. Why? Because in real life, I don’t know any good guys. I know okay guys. I know polite guys. I know people who can control themselves. – Vincent Cassel
We must seize the moment and permanently delay the entire law. Congress can do this. We control the purse strings and can protect taxpayers from funding Obamacare. – Tom Graves
I’ve done a few interviews where I realized that 9/11 was the ultimate home invasion, not to be glib about it. You know, where the place that you think is safe and the people that you think are safe and far from evil are suddenly just slaughtered by it, and you have no control over it. – Wes Craven
The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert. – Vince Lombardi
I can’t control what’s going to happen in the future. I can’t control what’s going to happen in five hours. So I’m not really worried about it. I’m just focused on doing what I can at this moment. – Sam Bradford