#requests

CORNELIA: -Sit down. Don't leave the table. GRACE: -Is that an order? CORNELIA: -I don't give orders to you, I make requests. GRACE: -Sometimes the requests of an employer are hard to distinguish from orders. [She sits down] ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#orders #requests #solitude #love

Well, I've maybe gotten 200 requests for interviews about Marilyn, and I just decided I'm gonna do my own. ↗

— Eli Wallach

#decided #gonna #gotten #i #interviews

For the fifth year in a row, the Bush budget cuts city core services to pay for wealthy tax breaks. And once again, the mayor's requests were not funded. ↗

— Anthony Weiner

#breaks #budget #budget cuts #bush #city

I do get a lot of requests for specific things. ↗

— Michael Winslow

#i #i do #lot #requests #specific

Jim, I'm not aware of any formal requests from the Senate Judiciary Committee for these kinds of documents. ↗

— Alberto Gonzales

#aware #committee #documents #formal #i

My 2005 calendar we actually did a shoot in Lake Las Vegas. Since I had requests do some swimwear and athletic shots we tried them and they came out good so we inserted them into the new calendar. ↗

— Natalie Gulbis

#athletic #calendar #came #did #good

A few years ago, there were requests to me, Can we make this? I said that I have no rights. Contact the Hitchcock estate, which won't release it for a remake. ↗

— Patricia Highsmith

#contact #estate #few #hitchcock #i

Actors are accustomed to doing exactly what the director or writer requests us to do, and rarely get involved in that part of the process. ↗

— Catherine McCormack

#director #doing #exactly #get #involved

It doesn't work the same way everywhere. The Americans are the most gullible, because they don't like to deny co-workers' requests. People in the former Soviet bloc countries are less trusting, perhaps because of their previous experiences with their countries' secret services. ↗

— Kevin Mitnick

#bloc #co-workers #countries #deny #everywhere

Italy has piled up huge public debt because the successive governments were too close to the life of ordinary citizens, too willing to please the requests of everybody, thereby acting against the interests of future generations. ↗

— Mario Monti

#against #because #citizens #close #debt