Wanted Quotes - Page 19

• As a kid, I wanted to be a boy because I equated that with strength. There's a problem with that. It's only growing into my own womanhood that I realize how warped that is that I was attributing strength to male qualities.

  Tatiana Maslany

  Kids, Boys, Quality

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• I never set out to be rich and famous. I wanted to follow my own path.

  Matthew Modine

  Vaccines, Path, Rich

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• The wide multitude wanted to seem contrarian. It meant that this type of nonconformism had to be mass-produced.

  Andy Warhol

  Type, Mass, Multitudes

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• I was in analysis and I told my analyst I wanted to be the best sculptor in the world and he said, 'Richard, calm down.'

  Richard Serra

  Analysis, World, Calm

  Interview with Charlie Rose, November 14, 2001.

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• I was going to have an opening statement, but I decided that what I was going to say I wanted to get a lot of attention, so I'm going to wait and leak it.

  Ronald Reagan

  Waiting, Attention, Leaks

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• The looks, the stares, the giggles . . . I wanted to show everybody that I could do better and also that I could read.

  Magic Johnson

  Looks, Dyslexia, Staring

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• No, I have never wanted to be a man. I have often wanted to be more effective as a woman, but I have never felt that trousers would do the trick!

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Men, Tricks, Trousers

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1946). “If You Ask Me”

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• Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer. All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer. Science-fiction allowed me to go places that were otherwise inaccessible, which is why I started reading it.

  Alan Dean Foster

  Travel, Growing Up, Reading

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• No, I've never wanted kids. But I do read about parenting a lot.

  Fiona Apple

  Kids, Parenting

  Interview with Matt Diehl, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 4, 2012.

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• I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother.

  Zhang Ziyi

  Mother, Teacher, Kindergarten

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• Don't think your dreams don't come true, because they do. You'd better be careful what you wish for. And I truly and honestly - one day I am doing the 'Beaver' show and I said, 'This is the show I have always wanted to do.'

  Barbara Billingsley

  Dream, Thinking, Wish

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I always wanted children, but not until they were actually part of my life did I realize that I could love that fiercely, or get that angry.

  Cokie Roberts

  Children, Motherhood, Realizing

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• I just wanted a style of music all my own.

  Bill Monroe

  Music, Style, My Own

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• I wanted to use some kind of name so people would know where I was from. So I took the name "bluegrass." There is not a prettier name in the whole world.

  Bill Monroe

  Music, Names, People

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• All talk of method and style seemed suddenly trivial; I became interested in meaning. I wanted to say something musically about life and living.

  Ellen Taaffe Zwilich

  Music, Style, Method

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• I feel that what I do is always contemporary with the society I'm living in... If I wanted to explain myself, that's how I'd explain myself: that I'm a diarist.

  David Bowie

  Feels, Contemporary, Ifs

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• He just explained that he just wanted to help people and that was his way of helping people of, you know, being someone that he wasn't and trying to connect with somebody on a different level too and help 'em out.

  Manti Te'o

  People, Trying, Different

  "Dr. Phil: Manti Te'o hoaxer 'fell deeply, romantically in love' with Notre Dame player", www.foxnews.com. January 30, 2013.

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• If I wanted to play the violin, I had to work. Because anything that one wants to do really, and one loves doing, one must do everyday. It should be as easy to the artist and as natural as flying is to a bird. And you can’t imagine a bird saying well, I’m tired today, I’m not going to fly!

  Yehudi Menuhin

  Tired, Artist, Play

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• I will die Before My Time. Because I feel the shadow's Depth. So much I wanted to accomplish. before I reached my Death

  Tupac Shakur

  Shadow, Depth, Accomplish

  Song: In The Event of my Demise

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• When I started making films, I wanted to make Frank Capra pictures. But I`ve never been able to make anything but these crazy, tough pictures. You are what you are.

  John Cassavetes

  Crazy, Able, Tough

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I just always loved comedy and I really wanted to be good at it. And it was heartbreaking, 'cause I started and I wasn't good at it. I was only 17-years-old, so I had a lot to learn about life in general. But I just kept on trying. I was young enough and stupid enough and I had no other choice. I had nothing else I was good at.

  Louis C. K.

  Stupid, Years, Choices

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've always wanted to be in the health and wellness business. I try to encourage people to live a healthy lifestyle.

  Mark Wahlberg

  People, Healthy, Trying

  "Mark Wahlberg, Mila Kunis & Seth MacFarlane Talk TED, Music, “Offensive Humor,” GHOSTBUSTERS Comparisons, Creepy CGI and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 24, 2012.

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• The dragons I would write about would not be the rather generalized, big, green things that I had read about in storybooks. What I wanted to create was a multiplicity of different dragon species, of all shapes and sizes, adapted to their environment and habitats in the same way as birds or other animals we see today.

  Cressida Cowell

  Writing, Animal, Dragons

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• The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.

  Anais Nin

  Secret, Breathe, Breaths

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• I don't know what its like for most actors, but really clearly for myself acting has always been the fulfillment of personal fantasies. It isn't just art, its about being a person I've always wanted to be, or being in a situation, or being a hero.

  Richard Dreyfuss

  Art, Hero, Acting

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