Wanted Quotes
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I wanted to do a weird book and reestablish my independent, small-press roots.
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The way I like to think about it is, even though I started music early - I started in classical music - it wasn't until I discovered jazz that I really fell in love with music and realized this was what I wanted to do for a living.
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I've always been a Batman fan, and I've always wanted to draw and write the sort of stories that I've always loved about Batman.
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So this had been all I wanted, a boy who understood how I felt. Now, though, I sometimes wished for more.
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I had so many offers after 'True Blood' for things that were someone in the same vein, but nowhere near Alan Ball's vision. Or something that was over-the-top and fantastical. And I've always wanted to play the regular, working-class mom, and I've never really had the chance to do that.
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I never wanted to be commissioned to paint portraits. I like to choose my own subject and make a character study from it.
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A lot of my sketches came from thoughts, and I always just wanted to act them out.
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I'm using the grid as formation. I wanted a relationship between the paintings and videos so that way when you are looking at the videos there's a direct relationship to the paintings.
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But the gray and the cold are haunted by a beauty akin to pain, by a sense of a something wanted that never will come again.
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I wanted fame, but I thought it would be incremental, and I became afraid of the overnight-sensation thing.
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Fame never interested me. I could have exhibited more of my own works in the 1970s, but I didn't want to. It's sort of like being a child. When you're finished with school, you have only one thing on your mind: to get out and experience life. Did I want to spend all my time working on a painting? No, I wanted to have fun, travel, meet women and live life.
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I once bought a $150,000 car just because my friends told me to. Not because I wanted it. Because they told me to.
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There was no telling what people might find out once they felt free to ask whatever questions they wanted to.
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With the 'Hazelwood High' trilogy, I wasn't sure I was writing a trilogy. I would just write one book, then another, and then another, because the young adults who wrote me told me that they wanted to read more.
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Dolgan: ’Tis a wise thing to know what is wanted, and wiser still to know when ‘tis achieved. Rhuagh: True. And still wiser to know when it is unachievable, for then striving is folly.
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Netflix and Amazon know when you stop and start a program, whether you wanted the whole thing, all of that.
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My business was born out of my frustration with other cashback schemes. I wanted a more curated service than the other sites offer.
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Sometime in their lives, everybody wanted to go home.
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My father cried when I said I wanted to be a chef.
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I wanted to build something that was a system - that was mechanical and would propagate itself like a virus. I needed a way for it spread from person to person, and the best way to do that was trying to get someone to get their friends to sign up.
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I knew I wanted to be a writer and I knew if I had a wife and family, I would neglect something, and I was afraid it wouldn't be the writing.
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I've always wanted to record a jazz record. I did one in the '70s with Barbara Carroll. It's been a journey.
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I always knew I wanted to be an actor. I was talented in college but not the most talented. But I knew I wanted to do it, and that intention got me there and kept me there.
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If I could have anything I wanted, I would choose story without end, and it seems I have lots of company in that.
