I think William Trevor is as good as it gets. Whenever I want a book to do exactly what it says it will, I read him.
I remember when Tony Blair came into office, and there was a sense I was thinking, ‘Well, what on Earth am I going to do now?’ until I realized that’s exactly what he was thinking.
Sometimes with the Palins, it’s exactly what it looks like.
I don’t really know exactly what the plan is… I’m not a person that’s just pursuing acting or just pursuing singing or just pursuing dancing. You know, I would love to do reality television, I would like to go back to Broadway.
This is very intriguing to think we should audit the Fed, but I discovered that probably if they audited the Fed, it would get a clean bill because it’s undoubtedly doing exactly what it’s supposed to do according to the law.
Sometimes if the point of a piece of music is to open a conversation with other people, it’s really hard to open that conversation if you’re telling people exactly what to do or feel or think.
I was a player who was vying to do exactly what everyone else was doing, and I happened to be black.
We’re doing exactly what the Republicans don’t want: getting more people involved in our democracy. Giving more Americans a voice in their future.
The world gets better as soon as people start doing exactly what they’re great at.
I’m going to be the first rapper to win the Nobel Peace Prize. I don’t know exactly what it would be for, specifically, but I want it to be a change I make in the world with my music.
When Governor Romney asked me to join the ticket, I said, ‘Let’s get this done’ – and that is exactly, what we’re going to do.
With ‘Tron,’ we had so many crew members around and a stage full of special effects people that know exactly what has to be done in the situations. You’re on a stage in sets the whole time.
This is a government program run amok, and we owe it to the taxpayers to find out exactly what happened before Eagle-Net wastes any more money.
I was always an outsider, always standing outside, observing and trying to figure things out. Which is exactly what you need to do as a writer, I suppose.
Our manifesto to the British people promised to finish the job of police reform. And that is exactly what I intend to do.
I remember when I was 6 years old and my brother used to go seek out guys that were 13 to come over and play football against me while he was the ‘permanent quarterback.’ I didn’t know exactly what the age difference was, but I was already playing against older guys.
The most important thing is to help the team to come in front of the goal with one-two passes, I drop down, or I give them space, because for defenders, it’s always difficult to have a false nine because they don’t have a direct player against them, so they don’t know exactly what to do.
The Internet is neither good nor bad. It’s neutral – it becomes for each of us exactly what we bring to it.
I would define the new aspects of fatherhood like this: It is 75 percent amazing and 25 percent demoralizing. I think any new parent can understand exactly what I’m talking about.
I denounce Donald Trump for not denouncing the kind of vitriol, the kind of violence that he has perpetrated with his angry rhetoric, and he knows exactly what he is doing.
I remember when we were called ‘colored,’ and Dr. King would always tell young people not to get upset at what people called you. He said if it is not the name your mother gave you, then smile, keep walking, and that’s exactly what we did.
Finding out exactly what went wrong is key toward preventing future debacles.
George Clooney is exactly what you would expect. He’s annoyingly good looking, insanely funny, and super smart. So you just feel really inferior around him all the time. You end up feeling really bad about yourself, but you walk away feeling really great about George Clooney.
I know exactly what I’m doing on the ice, and I’m in my element.
I’ll tell you, being on set on ‘Harry Potter’ was nerve-wracking. It was surreal to be in a room with those three kids, all of whom know exactly what they’re doing.
I can say exactly what I feel about any issue, and I’m going to do that.
I always get everyone prepared so there aren’t so many arguments on set. I have a policy that the first thing I do in the morning is go over to the trailers and discuss exactly what we’re shooting that day. It’s time-consuming, but it reduces the chances of ‘misunderstandings’ on set.
I mean, journalism is very detailed… you try to get down in the weeds and sort out exactly what happened. And I don’t think that a feature film is really a place where that happens.
If you want to become a great chef, you have to work with great chefs. And that’s exactly what I did.
My heroes were people like Jim Jarmusch. Scorsese was my god. Spike Lee was exciting, doing exactly what we thought we were going to do: personal movies based in, and about, New York. My heroes were all participating in an economic model that was collapsing as I was finishing film school.
The moment is everything. Don’t think about tomorrow; don’t think about yesterday: think about exactly what you’re doing right now and live it and dance it and breath it and be it.
Most of us would never consider getting our car repaired without first receiving an estimate of the charges, but this is exactly what we do when we need to go to a hospital for treatment.
The coolest thing about the series is that we stay very true to the books; it would be silly for us not to, because the books are exactly what the fans want to see. There’s an action side to it, which I love, and there are werewolves now. There aren’t just vampires. There’s a wolf pack.
Peter Pan is kind of this metaphor for someone or something that makes you feel at home, that brings you out of loneliness, that makes you free. And that’s exactly what music does for me.
I am honored to have heard from so many voters, supporters, and local elected officials who have been pleased with the work I have done on their behalf. They want and deserve a leader who will aggressively pursue strong conservative policies and get results. That’s exactly what I have done.
My teenage years were exactly what they were supposed to be. Everybody has their own path. It’s laid out for you. It’s just up to you to walk it.
It seems like studios and networks only greenlight stuff that has familiarity to them. If you can be like, ‘Oh, it’s ‘Workaholics,’ but it’s Asian girls,’ they’re like, ‘Yeah, we’ve got it. We know exactly what the show is. It’s greenlit.’
I like to say that at some point, you’ll say in the history of wrestling there’s nobody better than The Undisputed ERA. We’re going to do exactly what we said we’re going to do, and that’s become champions.
For a long time I was trying to be poppier and younger. I didn’t want to be on public radio or do any of that stuff for older people. Then I realized that that is exactly what I listen to.
If you’re about to get a tat, make sure you’re 110% sure it’s what you want. If you’re getting it in a different language make sure it is exactly what you want it to be because there is no going back.
I used to follow trends and try to do exactly what I saw in the magazines, but I’m not a Victoria’s Secret model who can wear anything.
By having a blog, you can make yourself very accessible to your target audience. You can leave comments open on your blog so you can learn exactly what your audience likes about what you’re doing with your business and about what they think you should change.
I started school because I felt like, as a songwriter, I was operating solely on instinct, and I was having a hard time deciding exactly what words I wanted to use. I felt like I wanted to be a writer, and being a curious person, school felt like a way to solve the problems I was having with my own work.
What I feel I am doing now is giving to the people exactly what they paid for but never actually heard before.
The people who voted for President Obama are just beginning to wake up to exactly what they brought in. The ‘change’ they envisioned is not the ‘change’ they have gotten.
Unlike a goldfish, a computer can’t really do anything without you telling it exactly what you want it to do.
What fiction offers us is an intimacy shorn of the messy contingencies of human existence – gender, race, class or age. Those moments of transcendence when we exclaim ‘You know exactly what I mean!’ depend for much of their force on the anonymous character of the intimacy between writer and reader.
I’ve always looked for ways to inspire people, especially young people, to play guitar. When I first saw Fretlight, I immediately connected with the vision. Today’s kids expect technology to help them on their journey, and that’s exactly what Fretlight does.
I learned to respect the coach and to do everything within my power to show that I should be the one playing. That’s exactly what I did during my three years under Mourinho.
I’m in my own little world. I don’t get invited into galas; I don’t meet other people that I don’t find interesting. I hang with my friends all the time, and we do exactly what we like.
I think the composer and production staff of an opera have a real responsibility to use visual elements of all kinds to make clear to the American audience, at any rate, exactly what is going on.
I didn’t ever want to make a rap album. I considered it too limiting. Now that’s exactly what I’ve gone and done.
