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My playing is fairly straightforward, really, and everything's pretty much standard no frills or special effects.
— Mark Knopfler
All those who are not straightforward (frank and forthright) in this world are full of deception.
— Dada Bhagwan
Life is a straight drink - straight pleasure, straight pain, straightforward, one hundred percent.
— Chogyam Trungpa
I began to appreciate that the job of an amateur sleuth was not quite so straightforward as they make out in the whodunits.
— Bruce Beckham
Naturally men are drowned in a storm, but it is a perfectly straightforward affair, and the depths of the sea are only water after all.
— Virginia Woolf
My parents were both very intellectually honest, straightforward, and for them, faith meant that you were fully engaged.
— Rob Bell
Men are gentle, honest and straightforward. Women are convoluted, deceptive and dangerous.
— Erin Pizzey
No dream symbol can be separated from the individual who dreams it, and there is no definite or straightforward interpretation of any dream.
— Carl Jung
Life is not straightforward: relationships bifurcate; there is nothing more complicated, more confounding, than love.
— Sarah Hall
I've got a 1990 Porsche 911. It's just a Carrera, a very simple, straightforward little thing that goes like stink. I love it.
— P. J. O'Rourke
The Law-of-Destination is straightforward and simple: It is not possible to arrive where we never take the time to go.
— Heather K. O'Hara
I write in a pretty straightforward way. I kind of sit down at page one and start writing.
— Zack Snyder
Life is never straightforward or emotionally black and white.
— Christopher Meloni
I'm not mean, I'm honest. Nobody is ever straightforward. But sometimes people need to hear the truth.
— Jessica Warman
For every subtle and complicated question, there is a perfectly simple and straightforward answer, which is wrong. -
— David Graeber
The immortal photographers will be straightforward photographers, those who do not rely on tricks or special techniques.
— Philippe Halsman
The development agenda is not a straightforward one; it's a process with serious hurdles, but it's a path we've chosen to go down.
— Augustin Matata Ponyo
I appreciate a straightforward apology the way a tone-deaf person enjoys a fine piece of music.
— Gillian Flynn
I like to play characters that are convincing, that aren't just straightforward and nice.
— Clive Owen
Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.
— Charles Caleb Colton
I believe in grey ... Some things aren't straightforward. Not everything is true or false, real or imaginary, black or white. It's not that simple.
— Em Bailey
In real life, strategy is actually very straightforward. You pick a general direction and implement like hell.
— Jack Welch
The easiest, most straightforward way to create a great product or service is to make something you want to use.
— Jason Fried
For actors in Hollywood, it's very straightforward. We're well-paid animals in a zoo.
— Robin Wright
I am a straightforward man.
— Lajos Kossuth
There's lots of different feminist groups. It's not as straightforward as just looking like a plumber.
— Jo Brand
The best business plans are straightforward documents that spell out the who, what, where, why, and how much ...
— Paula Nelson
Creativity is as much about order against freedom; control versus rebellion; organisation against disorder as it is about straightforward imagination.
— Carla H. Krueger
I do everything in a straightforward manner.
— Harmon Killebrew
That's my idea of what a portrait ought to be, anonymous and documentary and a straightforward picture of mankind.
— Walker Evans
Healing can be a long and winding road or a straightforward march to the finish line.
— Alice McCall
And what he meant was that maths wasn't like life because in life there are no straightforward answers in the end
— Mark Haddon
A straightforward answer to a straightforward question will move you that much more forward in this world, that much faster.
— Loren Weisman
The idea is a straightforward one. We provide an account for every newborn in America, a $500 account.
— Harold Ford Jr.
I'm a straightforward person. I like to be direct with people.
— Henry Paulson
Ronnie Barker was a straightforward man who had this extraordinary ability to make the nation laugh
— Michael Palin
I'm a young correspondent, so sometimes I'm just young. Sometimes I'm just straightforward.
— Jessica Williams
Most anthropologists are doing straightforward ethnography, and should.
— Clifford Geertz
Get in my way again, boy, and you're going to learn that Velkan isn't the only one in this family who has fangs. Retta to Viktor
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
If you're honest and straightforward and mean well, it should show in your eyes. It should be unmistakable.
— Marcus Aurelius
What you're doing is acting with yourself. Well, I'm my favourite actor, so in a way it's quite straightforward for me.
— Peter Capaldi
I'm a very straightforward person. But that's fine for a comedian. Because a lot of times you're talking about everyone else.
— John Mulaney
'Celebrity Apprentice' has more integrity and is the most straightforward show I've ever seen.
— Penn Jillette
When I talk to other young people, I try to be as straightforward as possible. I'm a kid. I love getting outdoors. You should get outside, too!
— Nolan Gould
Money's supposed to fix problems, not give you more, but I guess life ain't that straightforward.
— Erin Bowman
When you deal with irrational animals, with things and circumstances, be generous and straightforward. You are rational; they are not.
— Marcus Aurelius
On the contrary Deepika feels inferior to other people I was surprised when I realised it. She is straightforward & very giving
— Imtiaz Ali
I hate how it's so much easier to be open and straightforward to a computer screen than to an actual person.
— Daria Snadowsky
Rugged and straightforward as he was, there was something in his nature that was purely feminine in its tenderness
— Oscar Wilde
We need to become sidha (straightforward); there is no need to become a sadhu (ascetic).
— Dada Bhagwan
From my dad I learned to be good to people, to always be honest and straightforward. I learned hard work and perseverance.
— Luke Bryan
Even the most straightforward of paths could turn out to be more complicated than it seemd at first.
— Cameron Dokey
In conflict, straightforward actions generally lead to engagement, surprising actions generally lead to victory.
— Sun Tzu
I think money is pretty straightforward. Get some money in; pay off what you owe, the rest is yours.
— Lemar
God's definition of what matters is pretty straightforward. He measures our lives by how we love.
— Francis Chan
In a very straightforward way, I am a terrible reporter. I'm not someone who can go into a story and not get involved.
— Janine Di Giovanni
I love guys and the way they think; they're so straightforward - and women can learn from that.
— Rashida Jones
I think if you show up and you work hard and you're straightforward, you can always create your own opportunities. I hope I'm right.
— Cory Monteith
It is a distinguishing feature of natural therapies that they are straightforward and reliable enough to safely do on your own, at home.
— Andrew Saul
was so straightforward and obvious that it sounds almost ridiculous to talk about it.
— James C. Collins
Sometimes songs need extra time and space to really play themselves out, and some songs it's like, this is all you need, a straightforward thing.
— Doug Martsch
I'm not insane. This is very simple, very straightforward. Provided he doesn't kill me, it's foolproof.
— Josh Lanyon
Often times, if a character is pretty straightforward, he or she is not as interesting to portray.
— Jonathan Jackson
Money can purchase the symbols but not the causes of serenity and buoyancy. In a straightforward way we must agree that money cannot buy happiness.
— John Armstrong
But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story.
— Laura Hillenbrand
The Bible for me is holy writ. It's a very straightforward thing, although I am not a literalist.
— Marilynne Robinson
Midway upon the journey of our life, I found myself within a forest dark, for the straightforward pathway had been lost.
— Dante Alighieri
Straightforwardness intimidates people. They prefer the veneer, despite what they claim.
— Donna Lynn Hope
There are moments when we resort to senseless formulations and advance absurd claims to hide straightforward feelings.
— Elena Ferrante
People are straightforward enough, on the whole, till one starts to look for crooked motives, and then, oh boy, how crooked can they be!
— Mary Stewart
The Pakistanis are straightforward and sometimes extremely stupid. The Indians are more devious, sometimes so smart that we fall for their line.
— Richard M. Nixon
Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man's enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The easiest way to be inscrutable is to be completely straightforward and honest. Then no one will be able to figure out what you're up to.
— George Hammond
A planetary shield being a fairly straightforward thing, there was hardly ever a problem with the system.
— Alan Dean Foster
It's like night and day ... to do business, in Europe, there is no bull, they are pretty straightforward.
— Caprice Bourret
So you see, people are rarely the straightforward things we think they are. Even the villains in a story can turn round and surprise us.
— Rachel Joyce
What NPR did, I'm very proud of, and what NPR stood for is non-racist, non-bigoted, straightforward telling of the news.
— Ron Schiller
It is a much more straightforward thing to be a dog, and a dog's love, once given, is not reconsidered.
— Robin McKinley
When somebody asks me a question, I try to be as straightforward about it as possible. I try not to overthink what I'm going to say in an interview.
— Shirley Manson
Some people say I'm too blunt and I'm too direct, too straightforward. I think we could use some of that in Washington, D.C.
— Lindsey Graham
The films that I love are very straightforward stories, like really old-fashioned stuff.
— Paul Thomas Anderson