Emily St. John Mandel Quotes
First we only want to be seen, but once we’re seen, that’s not enough anymore. After that, we want to be remembered.Emily St. John Mandel
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When readers close the covers on 'Running the Rift,' I want them to understand that it is not a genocide novel but rather a story of hope and rebirth.
Naomi Benaron -
I don't want to be a grown-up anymore; it's hard!
Maddie Hasson -
My favorite animal is a polar bear. They're going extinct, and I really don't want that to happen.
Quvenzhane Wallis -
I'm not trying to be Mr. Universe, but I want to stay in shape.
Calvin Klein -
If you were to ask me what I want to do – I don't want to be a celebrity, I want to make a difference.
Lady Gaga -
When we want to have our own style of living, it is nobody's business but ours. What we do in private is our private business.
Eartha Kitt
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I want to describe the psychological state of the people in a certain city.
Orhan Pamuk -
There are days when I still want to be able to do what I want when I want, but there's also something wonderful about being secure.
K. D. Lang -
I want to give my six hours of serious cricket on the ground and then take whatever the result.
Sachin Tendulkar -
After you do this for a while, you get used to things not working the way you want them to. There's a job you want, and you don't get it. There's a movie you'd like to get made, and it doesn't get made. You become inured to it.
D. B. Weiss -
My dad read the Bible ten times, and I want to do it in my lifetime. But it's definitely tough getting through.
Pamela Anderson -
All serial killers want to win. They choose victims they can kill successfully.
Pat Brown
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Being a woman in country is really empowering. It's a genre where you can truly say whatever you want to say as long as you're 100% behind your message and who you are.
Madison Marlow -
Chinese people themselves, they really want change.
Dalai Lama -
I don't want to be just an average guy. I want to do whatever possible to win a lot of games. I'm a competitor.
Felix Hernandez -
What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers?
Walter F. Mondale -
The fallback position in politics is if you don't know what you want to be about, and if you don't know what your vision is, go at somebody else.
Karl Rove -
Everybody always talks about how they can't wait until they turn 18, so they can go out on their own and get their own apartment, and I'm like, 'I want to be with Mom!' I have it good.
Carly Schroeder
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No one knows what women want!
Ian Somerhalder -
We live in a period of declining stars. Few celebrities these days (aside from the smoldering Angelina Jolie) seem to have complex psychic lives.
Camille Paglia -
To be bitter is to attribute intent and personality to the formless, infinite, unchanging and unchangeable void. We drift on a chartless, resistless sea. Let us sing when we can, and forget the rest.
H. P. Lovecraft -
Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason... I was alive, and Buddy and those boys were dead, and I didn't know how, but somehow I'd caused it.
Waylon Jennings -
First we only want to be seen, but once we’re seen, that’s not enough anymore. After that, we want to be remembered.
Emily St. John Mandel