Wanted Quotes - Page 35

• I guess I've always lived upside down when I want things I can't have. My wife actually thinks I have a syndrome called Reality Distortion Field. It's kind of like drugs, only you can't come back from it. Reality Distortion is almost a permanent condition. Things come in and they go out: Presto, chango! To a certain extent, I did that with myself. As a kid, I did want to be an old-timer, since they were the ones with the big stories and the cool clothes. I wanted to go there. Now, I guess I want to bring that with me and go back in time.

  Tom Waits

  Kids, Thinking, Reality

  "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 31, 2011.

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• I always wanted to be commander-in-chief of my one-woman army, But I can envision the mediocrity of my finest hour.

  Ani DiFranco

  Army, Mediocrity, Hours

  Song: Not So Soft

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• I worked in accounting for two and a half years, realized that wasn't what I wanted to do with the rest of my life, and decided I was just going to give comedy a try.

  Bob Newhart

  Years, Two, Giving

  "Bob Newhart talks about stand-up, sitcoms, and why he stays busy". Interview with Jesse Thorn, tv.avclub.com. May 16, 2012.

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• The Dead was cool, It's a great horror story. I went to the casting director of this movie and talked to him, then they called my agent and had me come in and read for it and they wanted to use me.

  Matthew McGrory

  Horror Stories, Directors, Use

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• They thought that I was a man with reasonable judgment, so I was never under pressure from my parents; I could do whatever I wanted. I never had a negative word from them, nothing whatsoever.

  Shimon Peres

  Men, Negative Words, Parent

  "Israel's Statesman of Peace". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. May 2, 2003.

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• We did not think that [Egyptian President] Nasser wanted war. The two divisions he sent to Sinai on May 14 would not have been sufficient to launch an offensive against Israel. He knew it and we knew it.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  War, Thinking, Israel

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• When our interests matched, the Americans have been good to us, and when the interests differed, they wanted us to mold ourselves to them, which we refused.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Mold, Interest, Has Beens

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• I had a consuming ambition to possess a miller's thumb. I believe I have never since wanted anything more desperately than I wanted my right thumb to be flattened as my father’s had become,
  during his earlier years of a miller’s life.

  Jane Addams

  Father, Believe, Ambition

  Jane Addams (2012). “Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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• George [Lucas] wanted to know whether we'd be interested. He did say that if we didn't want to do it, they wouldn't cast another actor in our parts - they would write us out.

  Mark Hamill

  Writing, Actors, Want

  "Mark Hamill Muses on New 'Star Wars': 'Go Retro'". ETonline interview, www.yahoo.com. February 20, 2013.

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• I wanted to combine science and photography in a sensible, unemotional way. Some people’s ideas of scientific photography is just arty design, something pretty. That was not the idea. The idea was to interpret science sensibly, with good proportion, good balance and good lighting, so we could understand it.

  Berenice Abbott

  Photography, Ideas, People

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• Other bands wanted to wreck hotel rooms; Roxy Music wanted to redecorate them.

  Bryan Ferry

  Band, Wrecks, Rooms

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• I wanted to be part of a high-class scene of musicians. It was half-inspired because I didn't have many friends, and I was hoping that I would meet people and fall in love and start a community around me, the way they used to do in the '60s.

  Lana Del Rey

  Falling In Love, Class, People

  "Lana Del Rey hoped music industry would make her more friends" by Leah Simpson, www.digitalspy.com. January 29, 2012.

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• I'm quite private. And I never wanted to be the biggest star in the world really. So in that sense I've got a good balance of doing great shows, of making an appearance every now and then and writing music, and I don't really have to do much else.

  Ellie Goulding

  Stars, Writing, Balance

  Interview with Jenn Selby, www.glamourmagazine.co.uk. May 25, 2011.

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• It didn't matter that I wore clothes from Sears; I was still different. I looked different. My name was different. I wanted to pull away from the things that marked my parents as being different.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Names, Clothes, Parent

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• I have always wanted a swimming pool and never had one.

  Joan Didion

  Swimming, Pool, Swimming Pool

  Joan Didion (2013). “The White Album”, p.41, Zola Books

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• Making my last record, Warrior, was a pretty miserable process, and it wore my spirit down. I was fighting like hell to keep my whole irreverent essence and everything raw and visceral that I stand for in it, but in the end I was promoting something that wasn't the animal I wanted it to be. I decided to face my problem head-on.

  Kesha

  Fighting, Warrior, Animal

  "Kesha Opens Up About Life Before Rehab" by Lily Karln, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 26, 2014.

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• No, actually 'The Host' was totally a palate-cleanser for me. I wanted to do something a little bit different than romantic love. Romantic love is in there, obviously, because I enjoy writing about that and living it a lot.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Romantic, Writing, Love Is

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• I wanted to stimulate thought instead of throwing things out or try to give a perspective. I just put stuff up and it's up for two or three weeks and I get tired of it, so I take it down and put something else up.

  Krist Novoselic

  Tired, Two, Giving

  Interview with Guitar.com, www.novoselic.com.

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• The stage is my comfort zone, and playing live is what I've always wanted to do. It's why I want to do two hundred dates a year. I wouldn't feel that way if I were nervous onstage.

  Hunter Hayes

  Years, Two, Comfort

  "Music and Style: Hunter Hayes". www.esquire.com. May 2013.

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• I wanted to prove I was the best fighter in the world.

  Lennox Lewis

  World, Fighter, Prove

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• After the enormous success of All About my Mother, all the awards and everything, I wanted to start a movie in exactly the same place that I used to be before. I wanted to show that all of the success had not changed my perception.

  Pedro Almodovar

  Mother, Awards, Perception

  Interview with Jose Arroyo, www.theguardian.com. July 31, 2002.

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• I just met someone who read Gone With the Wind 62 times for exactly that same reason. She couldn't bear that it wasn't real. She wanted to live in it.

  Alison Bechdel

  Real, Wind, Gone

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• I had the standard movie geek childhood, because for as long as I can remember, all I wanted to do was make movies.

  Paul Thomas Anderson

  Long, Childhood, Geek

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• I had always wanted to be a writer who confused genre boundaries and who was read in multiple contexts.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Confused, Boundaries, Genre

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• I'd always wanted to do these types of things - pieces of magic I could put out not as illusions, but really doing it.

  David Blaine

  Magic, Pieces, Illusion

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

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