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I want to be in 'Funny Girl.' And I want Ryan Murphy to direct it.
Lea Michele

Funny, Girl, Murphy

Every dollar of SNAP benefits generates $1.84 in the economy in terms of economic activity. If people are able to buy a little more in the grocery store, someone has to stock it, package it, shelve it, process it, ship it. All of those are jobs. It's the most direct stimulus you can get in the economy during these tough times.
Tom Vilsack

Someone, Tough, Able

I just always knew that I lived in two worlds. There was the world of my house and community, but to make my way in that white world I had to modify the way I spoke and acted. I had to sometimes not make direct eye contact.
Samuel L. Jackson

Two, Sometimes, Knew

I think of myself as a guy who tries to write screenplays and now has tried to direct one. Anything more than that is meaningless and it gets in the way of being a real human being.
Charlie Kaufman

Human, Real, Write

I aim to direct as much as I act at some point in time.
Ian Somerhalder

Time, Point, Act

Those who appreciate the ways of simple tribes, where every activity is direct and immediately understandable, are able to live among them.
Ella Maillart

Live, Simple, Able

I'm not sitting around saying, 'Man, I'd really love to direct a western.' That's just not something I'm probably going to do, mostly because I'm allergic to horses.
Josh Radnor

Love, Saying, Around

I never direct myself, because I don't like working with me. I would punch me in the mouth if I had to take my direction.
Ron Perlman

Working, Direction, Mouth

I'm attracted to things that are in direct opposition to something that I've just done. It's not like I'm trying to make the right chess move. It's more just that personal thing where you get connected to something for so long and then you want to do something that's in opposition to that.
Anna Kendrick

Long, Done, Trying

Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.
Robert M. Pirsig

Experience, Quality, Prior

Avon invented the concept of direct marketing and direct selling beauty. And that's still very valid to us. We'll have a firm that will be around for another 114 years as strongly as it was the first 114.
Andrea Jung

Beauty, Around, Another

You begin a film more with questions than with direct intentions. It's more of an exploration and discovery.
Alexander Payne

Film, Questions, Intentions

There's so much hate that we direct externally that we forget we have our own psychos. But that's the role of the satirist - you have to examine your own country and say, 'look!'
Carl Hiaasen

Hate, Forget, Country

Very seldom do we receive any support for trusting ourselves, listening to our own sense of inner truth, and expressing ourselves in a direct and honest way.
Shakti Gawain

Truth, Sense, Honest

Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word 'census,' and people fall asleep.
Aaron Sorkin

Said, Last, Word

In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.
Charles Eames

Design, Idea, Route

It's totally thrilling to direct.
Kathryn Bigelow

Thrilling, Totally

Curiosity is the direct incontinency of the spirit.
Jeremy Taylor

Spirit, Curiosity

I don't direct movies for a living.
Tommy Lee Jones

I always wanted to be a film-maker when I was younger, not an actor. I was an eight-year-old who dreamed of being a writer on 'The Simpsons,' which was a weird dream to have. But I started taking acting classes as a way to learn how to direct actors and I sort of fell in love with it.
Jonah Hill

Love, Acting, Learn

Steven Spielberg seems to have wanted to be a director from 13. He put his dog in a certain position and made him eat at four o'clock. He liked to direct it. But, to me, directing is tedious. Especially if you're acting in it. And I'm inherently lazy.
Albert Brooks

Lazy, Him, Made

All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.
James Lane Allen

Thoughts, Result, Achieve

What we call barbecuing in this country is actually direct grilling. In many countries, it also means cooking in an enclosed box with a heat source, ideally wood, all year round.
Jamie Oliver

Country, Means, Year

It's not easy to strap yourself down to a desk and bash on a keyboard when you know you can direct lots of films, because directing films is fun and interactive and gregarious. Writing isn't.
Guy Ritchie

Fun, Yourself, Writing

I'm talking to you and it's basically a direct communication, whereas if I'm writing a letter to you and you read the letter, there are like 12 extra deconstruction and reconstruction steps in the communication.
Kevin J. Anderson

Writing, Read, Talking

None of us whether Men or Women but have so good an Opinion of our own Conduct as to believe we are fit, if not to direct others, at least to govern our selves.
Mary Astell

Good, Women, Men

Now the proposal is yet again another $150 billion before we start to think about a freeze. But $150 billion spent on more government programs; monies being created to direct and what kind of jobs that Washington thinks ought to be created. Come on. I mean there is a government that can help, and the government can also hurt.
Eric Cantor

Government, Hurt, Help

An enormous amount of direct advertising from pharmaceutical companies are offering a kind of instantaneous solution to problems.
Leon Kass

Problems, Solution, Offering

I've been writing and wanting to direct for a long time.
Andy Serkis

Time, Long, Writing

Hunger is almost like something the West does. It's almost like the direct result of the way the West performs.
Bill Nighy

Almost, Result, Hunger

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