Wanted Quotes - Page 40

• I never had any plans to become a producer when I was a kid. I wanted to be a DJ, like most other kids at the time. Then my mum bought me a Casio keyboard and I started to sample sounds that I liked.

  Timbaland

  Kids, Sound, Keyboards

  "Soundtrack of my life: Timbaland" by Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2007.

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• I wanted to portray very, very dark subject matter and a deceptively complex story in the brightest colours and simplest lines possible to leave the readers reeling.

  Mark Millar

  Dark, Stories, Lines

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• My wife is Dutch and very independent. She never wanted or needed to be married.

  Julio Iglesias

  Independent, Wife, Dutch

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

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• All I ever wanted to do was play the drums; I felt good about myself when I played the drums. So I worked anywhere and everywhere I could lug my drums in.

  Max Weinberg

  Play, Felt

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• I always tried to hide the fact that I was an athlete. I just wanted to be normal.

  Lindsay Davenport

  Athlete, Facts, Normal

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• Conway Twitty was always our local hero while I was growing up. He had a series of good bands. I wanted to sit in, if Conway would let me. And he did a couple of times.

  Levon Helm

  Growing Up, Couple, Hero

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• My parents wanted me to be smart and be a scholar, and the best I could do was graduate high school.

  Levon Helm

  Smart, School, Parent

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• Michael Jordan didn’t become a great basketball player because he wanted to do product endorsements. Van Gogh didn’t become a great painter because he dreamed that one day his paintings would sell for $50 million.

  Jack D. Schwager

  Basketball, Player, One Day

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• When I was at school, I wanted to be a lawyer.

  Frank Lampard

  School, Lawyer

  "'If you could choose a super power what would it be?'". Interview With Freddie Greenan, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2009.

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• I've always wanted to be a professional golfer. So what if you always wanted to be an entrepreneur?

  Guy Kawasaki

  Entrepreneur, What If, Golfers

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• I'm an avid animal lover. When I was 16, I wanted to be a vet or a zookeeper. I grew up with animals. At one time we had between five and eight dogs in the house, with four cats. We're menagerie people.

  Misty May-Treanor

  Dog, Cat, Animal

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• Music that boldly and aggressively laid out what the singer wanted, loved, hated — as good rock ’n’ roll did — challenged me to do the same, and so, even when the content was antiwoman, antisexual, in a sense anti­human, the form encouraged my struggle for liberation.

  Ellen Willis

  Struggle, Rocks, Singers

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• Everything, I just wanted to be like my father. And, as I grew within the music, I kind of became myself which was even more like my father, only without me trying though.

  Ziggy Marley

  Father, Trying, Kind

  "Ziggy and Robbie Marley Talk About the Documentary MARLEY, Memories of Their Dad, and His Legacy". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. April 20, 2012.

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• Sometimes I have wished my insults were slaps or lashes; I've wanted to hit people in the face and make them see, if only for a day, what I see each day I help people.

  Evita Peron

  People, Each Day, Faces

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• I've got to where I've always wanted to be. I just feel more myself, and I've learned not to care what other people think. It's happened slowly, very slowly. But I did it.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Thinking, People, Care

  "Marianne Faithfull: rocking 60s style" by Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. February 16, 2013.

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• I thought I wanted to go to drama school or university, and that would have been a completely different life. But what got me was the sound, and hearing it. Hearing everything so loud, I loved that back in the studio. I loved that from the very beginning.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Drama, School, Sound

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. July 28, 2011.

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• When I found out my mother wanted me to marry a rich man, I instantly didn't want any rich man.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Mother, Men, Want

  "Marianne Faithfull: rocking 60s style" by Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. February 16, 2013.

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• Honestly, the essence of publishing hasn't changed. Since the days of the cave man carving stuff on the cave walls, people have wanted stories, and storytellers have wanted an audience. That is still the case. The changes are really a matter of format.

  Susan Wiggs

  Wall, Men, Essence

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• I've always wanted to land a 1080, it's been a beast of a burden for me.

  Shaun White

  Land, Beast, Burden

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• I wanted to show the world, and myself too, what I can do. I came up in the world of Philadelphia soul, but I'm fluent in a lot of languages musically and I like working with different people from different generations.

  Daryl Hall

  Philadelphia, People, Soul

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• I was kosher until I had my Bar Mitzvah, and I parlayed officially becoming a man into telling my father I wanted to eat cheeseburgers.

  Zach Braff

  Father, Men, Mitzvah

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

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• I wanted to be a war reporter - scrabbling around, exposing things. I didn't want to go to university, I wanted to get a job, but Auntie Beryl said I should go to Oxford.

  Nina Bawden

  Jobs, War, Oxford

  "Nina's wars" by Susanna Rustin, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2003.

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• I never lost a friend I wanted to keep.

  Walter Winchell

  Lost Friend, Lost

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• My cousins and I used to play Beatle wives. We all wanted to be married to Paul, but John was O.K. too. None of us wanted Ringo. Or even worse, George.

  Ann Hood

  Cousin, Play, Wife

  Ann Hood (2009). “Comfort: A Journey Through Grief”, p.66, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I wanted to make a point of basing myself at home, being close to my family. I'll never be able to repay Mum and Dad for what they did, but at least they know they'll never have to work another day. I'll do whatever it takes to look after them.

  Rory McIlroy

  Dad, Home, Looks

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