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The fact that “other directors weren’t exactly dying to direct” his screenplay, Russell says, coupled with his producers’ encouragement, convinced him to get behind the camera.

Although we’re all dying to know, we may never get any closure on Nate and his grilled cheese.

“They are dying to see white kids tortured,” Carter cracked when I asked him why the saga fascinates the public.

Fans had been dying to see a feud between WWE and WCW, and Nash and Hall, under the guidance of booker Eric Bischoff, were hinting that that was happening.

He said that foreign leaders were “dying to make a deal.”