Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jessie Mueller

Directors didn't know what to do with me in college. I didn't really sound like a belter. I didn't look like a soprano. But in New York, I was in the right place at the right time, where my unusualness fit the bill.

Direct mail is usually your bottom-rung method for fund raising. But it's the least expensive way to reach the largest segment of your audience.

Abraham Foxman

directly at odds with the American ideal and should be rejected.

Neil Simon

Directing is too strong a word for what you do with Nathan, though. He's a joy to work with. And Matthew is a friend.

Jeff Garlin

Directing is really my favorite thing to do, but if I never directed again, I'd be okay if all the work I did was good.

Danielle Harris

Directing is a very long process, and I have to be in love with it if I want to give up two years of my life and live with it from beginning to end!

Direct donations through our walk 4 warmth in February may be affected.

Contemplation gives direction to our knowledge and leads to realization.

Couldn't you have poked her with the gun or point the gun in her direction or fire a warning shot? ... Couldn't you have shot her in the leg?

Doorknob: Read the directions and directly you will be directed in the right direction.

Don't worry about the intensity and direction of the putt -- until you get on the green!

Patti Smith

As I go through life, I can see why my mother directed me that way, or why my father counseled me in that way. But some things you're open to when you're young, and some things you need to find out for yourself. I think that that's pretty universal.

Jack Jones

This could be the first one we have direct knowledge of,

This is an all-around good thing. I suspect that Michigan, with the two largest universities signing on, will move in the direction perhaps more quickly than other states.

This is a direct reflection of the growth of the community, and the maturity of the people in the surrounding area.

This innovative publication strategy takes the e-book from the realm of novelty and directly into the very mainstream of today's culture. And it reaffirms the publisher-author relationship at a moment when it is fashionable to predict its demise.

They've called and they need us. They are getting help from a lot of states, but they are in dire need of law-enforcement officers who can operate and work from boats. We anticipated they would need our services and have been preparing for days.

They told us they had never had direct input from an MS patient before. I think it had tremendous impact.

Arthur Penn

A lot of directors in television have come up through the technical ranks. They have all the technical skills in the world. They're not all that familiar with actors.

Sean Penn

A lot of critics sometimes get into analyzing the way actors direct versus non-actors directing. And they really always miss it. It's one of those things where, by not being practitioners, they just came up with something that made sense to them.

Mike Mills

A lot of people think they can't help directly with the Hurricane Katrina, but if you come out to 'Burgers at the Beach' Thursday night, you can.

A lot of them are easy, because the directors have engendered such good will,

Al Reynolds

A lot of rural property owners are finding a lot of offers right now. Agriculture is in dire straits right now, particularly in southern Florida.

Kamerion Wimbley

A lot of people had an influence on me when I was growing up, pointing me in the right direction and teaching me to make good decisions.

Atal Vajpayee

A meeting ground will have to be found. Our efforts will be directed towards that,

Angela Jones

They need this stuff very, very badly. It's dire 80 percent of the police officers working there are homeless. The only uniforms they have are the ones they're wearing, and there's no place to wash their socks, t-shirts or underwear. They need to get this stuff and they need it now.

You want the harness to face the opposite direction we face,

You walk outside that week and it sounds like a beehive. You can hear those things in every direction.

J. C. Watts

You're in a situation where you're stuck, because no government wants to go out there and say, 'we're in dire fiscal straits, we've got to increase taxes',

Colin Trevorrow

You really get to direct the movie three times when it comes to the action sequences and the set pieces.

This is a wonderful urban stream that is in dire need of a lot of work. It is, to all intents and purposes, dead.

This is a welcome step in the right direction, but we have a long way to go to make up the deficits.

Bill Smith

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