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There was a time when I kept track of it all; when my mind worked like a giant lint brush being swept over the fuzzy surface of popular culture. But these days, pop culture seems to have gotten fuzzier and fuzzier; notoriety comes and goes in the snap of a finger.
Susan Orlean

Time, Mind, Days

So my idea of neurotic is spending too much time trying to correct a wrong. When I feel that I'm doing that, then I snap out of it.
Gene Wilder

Time, Trying, Wrong

If we could only snap the fetters of the body that bind the feet of the soul, we shall experience a great joy. Then we shall not be miserable because of the body's sufferings. We shall become free.
Vinoba Bhave

Great, Experience, Joy

With a stretch belt, anything can be a dress - a dinner napkin, a tablecloth, even a towel. Just wrap and snap, and away you go in an incredible outfit. Another plus is that the belt will pull all eyes to your lovely curves, and they even look good around a coat or a jacket.
Beth Ditto

Good, Eyes, Away

I think that the days when newspaper barons could basically click their fingers and governments would snap to attention have gone.
Nick Clegg

Attention, Days, Gone

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 think it's easiest to teach by example. My dad didn't tell us to work hard; we just saw how hard he worked. I know I have shortcomings - like a short fuse - but I've learned you can't come home from a long day of work and snap at the kids.
Chris O'Donnell

Work, Home, Dad

I'm sorry that I can't snap my fingers and undo 50 years of bad American foreign policy.
Harry Browne

Sorry, Bad, American

The one thing about Billie is he will snap and rip your head off if you point anything out at all other than how beautiful he is and how nice he looks today.
Tre Cool

Beautiful, Nice, Today

To snap my fingers and let it go away. Even if it takes the 3,000th hit with it, just let it all go away.
Rafael Palmeiro

Away, Takes, Hit

Jerusalem Syndrome is actually a rare psychological condition that occurs to some visitors to the Middle East. They get to Israel and just snap.
Marc Maron

Actually, Israel, Middle

Good roles are hard to come by, and whether they're a few lines or a lead, you snap 'em up when they come along.
Charlie Hunnam

Good, Hard, Few

I'm obsessed with broccoli, carrots, celery, string beans, snap peas, black kale, brussels sprouts, cabbage - I could go on! They used to call me 'rabbit' when I was a kid. I hate mushrooms, though. I apologize to fungi lovers, but this way, there's more for you!
Lisa Edelstein

Hate, Black, Used

I like to pretend that I'm a tough guy. It's kind of an admission of defeat if I have to ask for help - or even kindness. But if it doesn't come, at some point I snap and demand it.
Mary-Louise Parker

Kindness, Help, Tough

Of course I realize that photography is not the technical facility as much as it is the eye, and this decision that one makes for the moment at which you are going to snap, you know.
Ben Shahn

Decision, Moment, Makes

The second we see somebody on the street or meet someone, we make snap judgments about them, about who they are and why we wouldn't necessarily sit with them or why we would or what's cool or not cool.
Max Cannon

Cool, Someone, Why

And the nice thing about writing a novel is you take your time, you sit with the character sometimes nine years, you look very deeply at a situation, unlike in real life when we just kind of snap something out.
Sandra Cisneros

Life, Time, Nice

People make snap judgments about me that are frequently misguided.
Bebe Neuwirth

Judgments, Misguided, Frequently

In the middle of a play, I go crazy and don't realize what I'm doing. I'll snap back to reality and I realize, 'Hey, I just ripped that boy's helmet off,' or, 'I'm over here twisting this guy's knee.
Brian Bosworth

Crazy, Reality, Play

If you have a very good concept of your character, you can snap into it.
Sean Bean

Good, Character, Concept

The quality of American patents has been deteriorating for years; they are increasingly issued for products and processes that are not truly innovative - things like the queuing system for Netflix, which was patented in 2003. Yes, it makes renting movies a snap, but was it really a breakthrough deserving patent protection?
Robert Pozen

Movies, American, Makes

Number two, we're going to play with a lot of effort. Our guys are going to be in such good shape that fatigue is not going to be a problem. We're going to play with full effort from snap to whistle on every play the entire game.
Steve Spurrier

Good, Game, Two

You think once you've shown what you can do, and your movies have been successful, that snap, you work. So to discover the difference between guys' roles and girls' roles made me plain mad. It's unjust.
Connie Nielsen

Work, Movies, Successful

For any writer, the ability to look at a sentence and see what's superfluous, what can be altered, revised, expanded, and, especially, cut, is essential. It's satisfying to see that sentence shrink, snap into place, and ultimately emerge in a more polished form: clear, economical, sharp.
Francine Prose

Place, Writer, Ability

I couldn't believe verse was supposed to be hard. It was a snap for me. I loved Shakespeare.
Ted Lange

Hard, Loved, Verse

These days I can really get the strings to snap if I want.
Steve Hackett

I want a car that will last 10 years or longer because I totally hate the process of researching, shopping for a new car, and then haggling for the price. I wish I could just snap my fingers and my car is there.
Kiran Ahluwalia

Car, Hate, Wish

Producers don't really have any authority because you are paid by the artist, and if they choose to ignore you, they can. Your power only hangs by the tiniest thread. If you pull it too hard it will snap.
Trevor Horn

Power, Hard, Ignore

I really think that it's better to retire, in Uncle Earl's terms, when you still have some snap left in your garters.
Russell B. Long

Left, Uncle, Retire

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