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And I always had this idea for making a movie about a femme fatale, because I like these characters. They're a lot of fun, they're sexy, they're manipulative, they're dangerous.

Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture.

With me, personal relationships are like my religion. I care that deeply about them. I am the complete opposite of a manipulative smoothie.

Engineering is a predictive science, not a manipulative art.

Fear isn’t only a guide to keep us safe; it’s also a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life … the great stories go to those who don’t give in to fear.

If you're sincere, praise is effective. If you're insincere, it's manipulative.

Everybody has the ability to be manipulative, to be hateful and deceitful.

I'm never really conscious of saying, "I'm going to take on a specific role to combat a certain image in the public eye." I think that's pretty manipulative and transparent to the public anyway.

I'm buying things for people I don't even know. I'm like Willy Wonka, but more manipulative. Imagine if Willy Wonka had a devious goal.

A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is manipulative, uses other people to get her own way, and works within whatever system she is in.

I'm very manipulative towards directors. My theory is that everyone on the set is directing the film, we're all receiving art messages from the universe on how we should do the film.

Any time you're trying to do a movie with a happy ending, it's very difficult because it's been done before and you don't want to be manipulative.

All those months of taking it for granted that Peeta thought I was wonderful are over. Finally, he can see me for who I really am. Violent. Distrustful. Manipulative. Deadly. And I hate him for it.

It's intrusive for grandparents to think they're in charge. It's manipulative. Also, it's self-destructive, since if the parents have to resist you, you won't get your mitts on the kid as often.

Punk, I see you as a hypocritical, manipulative waste of skin.

The greatest stories go to those who don’t give in to fear.

I mean you really can target your answers to get the instant response and I think that is a very manipulative type of polling. I really have no time for that worm at all.

It's not socially acceptable to be a complete and utter manipulative cow.

My uncles were all funny. My dad wasn't funny, but my uncles were all funny. Now I go back and I like him better than them, they were manipulative funny.

Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people?

I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginations.

I don't like movies that are too manipulative. A lot of movies thrive on really pushing your buttons and making you hate the villain.

New techniques - often spinning out of technology and lack of privacy has resulted in new manipulative communication formats.

Everyone faces challenges from the fierce competition as well as the manipulative crooks that are rampant throughout the music business.

To my credit, I think I'm a gentle control freak. Maybe even a little manipulative.

My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable.

The thing with Disney songs is they're very manipulative, very sentimental, but they do get you, you know - there's a kind of sadness to them and that kind of music doesn't really exist any more.

I was thinking about the legacy of ghosts in fiction, and specifically the moral power of those Dickensian ghosts. Because a ghost can be a very powerful but also manipulative element.

Most of the books and films I love walk a knife edge between romance and cynicism, and I wanted 'One Day' to stay on that line. I wanted it to be moving, but without being manipulative.

I've seen people who stink, but the film editor shows them just where they didn't stink. But if you're empty and manipulative on stage, it's clear.

We should all reevaluate advertising that contradicts what we know to be the truth; especially when the ads are harmfully manipulative.

Horror I appreciate is one of the few genres that can wind the audience up and make them pay attention. I kind of like that. It's one of the few genres that can be very manipulative.

I'm not naturally manipulative.

Whenever you keep score in love, you lose.

The only people you have to look out for in life are the people that don't care about anything or anyone. These are the people that end up teaching your children.

The seemingly most hateful, those on the front lines of despair, are mere instruments of sinister forces, which pull the manipulative strings of manufactured supremacy.

The need for control always comes from someone that has lost it.