Wanted Quotes
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I did not let people tell me what to do, and I never wanted to be a groupie.
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I certainly had a lot of fun during my career playing tennis, doing the thing I wanted to do and to do it well.
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A few years ago, I decided I wanted to be home with my family.
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I'd love to do a duet, always wanted to work with Madonna, but she never asked.
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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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I wanted to make noise, not study theory.
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I always wanted a little brother because I felt like the little brother had to do everything.
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A big part of why I wanted to go to college is to meet people and make friends.
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I always loved cooking, from an early age. I kind of wanted to be a chef.
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I went to the University of Washington as a physics and astronomy major. My other interest, of course, was aviation. I always wanted to be a pilot. And if you're going to fly airplanes, the best place to be is the Air Force.
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I've always wanted to be older, as I think it's all right to be a little bit odd when you're out of your 20s.
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I always wanted to work on films, and when I was starting in television in this country, in Great Britain, there really wasn't any film to be made.
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I had to see and feel and be with the thing that I wanted to write about.
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I did everything. I ran my life exactly as I wanted to, all the time. I never listened to anybody. I'm pig-headed.
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A lot of things that should not be written were written without checking with me, things that were not in good taste. That hurt me. That is why I stopped talking to the press. Because they didn't want to ask me. They just wanted to write what they felt like.
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When I took off from Providence, my only professional aspiration was what it had always been: I wanted to be a sportscaster. By the time I landed in the desert, I knew I would spend the rest of my life trying to be a writer.
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I just wanted to see my people smile. Brazillian people suffer so much. I just wanted them to smile
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I didn't finish high school - left home when I was 15. I moved away to Fresno and worked as a grocery clerk. I went to college part-time at California State Fresno, and then ended up finishing in two and a half years because I wanted to get on with things.
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I have had the occasion of coming into money and spending some recklessly, like on a purse. At this point, shopping and the spending of money on things like Botox gives me the rush I used to get copping drugs on the street. Or, making other people cop drugs for me on the street. I didn't like to do that. I wanted to protect my reputation.
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I suppose if I was to have to pick a few, Ursula LeGuin would have to top the list. It was while reading her work that I decided I wanted to be an author.
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I always wanted to write something illustrated, and the Details strip finally gave me the opportunity.
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I always wanted to be some kind of writer - I wrote plays and songs and "books" before I realized living and breathing people still wrote poems.
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I think every time I said, "I'm working with Nile [Rodgers]," the reaction was, "Oh, great. I love 'Let's Dance.' " I think that's pretty expected. I'm not sure Nile and I went in consciously not to make "Let's Dance." We just wanted to work together again.
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No one wanted to hire me. No newspaper, television station, television network that I worked for ever wanted to hire me.
