Direct Quotes

Many critics of the Palestinians, especially those in Congress, think the current calm is merely the eye of the storm. That's why the House of Representatives approved a foreign aid package last week that forbade the direct financial assistance to the Palestinian Authority .

Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose.

I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.

My goal was, and still is, to write first, direct my own stuff whenever possible and control my own creative destiny.

Your body is the direct result of what you eat as well as what you don't eat.

All I can really say is it's bloodier than hell. In this one I'm going to be much more direct and honest in my description of the actual killings and the crime scene.

Songwriting is too mysterious and uncontrolled a process for me to direct it towards any one thing.

In 1960 I published a book that attempted to direct attention to the possibility of a thermonuclear war, to ways of reducing the likelihood of such a war, and to methods for coping with the consequences should war occur despite our efforts to avoid it.

I think ever since I was preteen I wanted to direct movies and tell stories.

The main reason I wanted to be successful was to get out of the ghetto. My parents helped direct my path.

I have fun acting, and I want to do more of it, and I want to direct my own movie.

If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I'll do it. If I have to bend the rules, I will. If I have to break them, I will.

I only direct in self-defense.

I want to write, direct, produce, but in steps. I want to take steps. I don't want to just jump in because I sold a lot of records and just feel like I can jump into the movie world. Naw, I want to learn the movie world like I learned the music world.

I'll probably pursue doing more movies, but not horror or movies with killers in them. I'll try to stick to happy movies. I want to act and direct like Jodie Foster. I admire her because she went to college and she's still doing the same thing.