Wannabes Quotes - Page 2

• I got my first job as a card-carrying actor in New York in 1967. Before that, I was a very desperate wannabe.

  Morgan Freeman

  Jobs, New York, Cards

  "Actor Morgan Freeman, Part 2". The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. June 20, 2012.

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• Unlike so many Dylan-writer-wannabes and phony 'encyclopedia' compilers, Sean Wilentz makes me feel he was in the room when he chronicles events that I participated in. Finally a breath of fresh words founded in hardcore, intelligent research.

  Al Kooper

  Intelligent, Research, Rooms

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• Protected by a no-fly zone, surrounded by protesters, Trump Tower is buzzing with intensity. The president-elect's family, loyalist advisers and wannabes all jockeying for position.

  George Stephanopoulos

  President, Loyalists, Towers

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• With any "new" form of music, the originators are usually good bands that have good music and good ideas, like Nirvana. But then you get all the followers and wannabes, bands like Silverchair, etc...and that really sucks.

  John Gallagher, Jr.

  Ideas, Band, Followers

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• Hi I'm B-Rok of the Backstreet Boys, Jim Carrey wannabe.

  Brian Littrell

  Boys, Backstreet Boys, Backstreet

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• Your characters get angry at you if you speak about them and stop you from giving birth to them on the page in revenge. Real writers sit down and write. Wannabe writers sit around and talk.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Revenge, Real, Writing

  Joe Eszterhas (2013). “The Devil's Guide to Hollywood: The Screenwriter as God!”, p.124, St. Martin's Press

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• When I received my first paycheck from my now known day job, I spent it on a period Craftsman chair and a Frank Lloyd Wright-wannabe lamp. With my second paycheck, I bought a stereo.

  Brad Pitt

  Jobs, Firsts, Lamps

  "Brad Pitt Discusses His Furniture Collection in an Exclusive Interview". Interview with Stephen Wallis, www.architecturaldigest.com. November 30, 2012.

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