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You don't want the world destroyed, because, you know, that's where your shoes are.
Patrick Rothfuss
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I always write the pieces I want to write.
Harrison Birtwistle
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I didn't want to get pregnant while commanding an assault helicopter company and, before I knew it, I was deployed and missed out on many of my childbearing years.
Tammy Duckworth
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Anytime I audition for something, it's always a question of whether or not the people I'm auditioning for understand I'm an improviser and I like to do that, and if they like that or if they just want someone who's going to do what's written.
Adam Pally
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I'm not exactly in a position where I get to be super-picky about the roles I get. But I would also never want to be a part of something that I think is poor in taste or doesn't align with what I believe in.
Tavi Gevinson
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I like being the center of attention. I want to be in the limelight, basically.
Nash Grier
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What I want all of you to know is that we are going to bring those who killed our fellow Americans to justice.
Barack Obama
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I'm not one of these people who want to tear down our heroes and that kind of thing.
Nathaniel Philbrick
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I do not want to be a robot, a cog in society who answers 'yes' because 'yes' is considered the appropriate answer. Neither do I want to be a protestor. I just want to seek out what lies underneath the veils of politeness and programming that I've been given as a person in this society.
Damien Rice
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There are evil people, and I don't even want to hear those guys speak.
Zinedine Zidane
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Writing is sacred, other activities are profane, and I don't want them to corrupt my writing.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Oh my God, I would love to go on stage so much. I'm undignified with how badly I want it.
Ophelia Lovibond
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I don't believe there will be anyone who will use violence or who will want to provoke violence that will tarnish the irreproachable image of the Catalan independence movement as pacifist.
Carles Puigdemont
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I think selfishly, as an actor, we always want to do more.
Mahershala Ali
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Our D.V.R.s make up the schedule of the shows that we're passionate about. You want Jon Stewart? You've got it. Your D.V.R. will give that to you, as opposed to making the destination and the choice to spend that evening with a network.
Warren Littlefield
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People never know what they want, though everyone says they do. If they did, nobody would ever be surprised.
J. J. Abrams
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I want to eliminate the basis of problems and basis of crime, and basis of terrorism.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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I don't want to be someone in my sixties holding on to a group that I created when I was in my twenties.
Zainab Salbi
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I'm never going to be a size zero and, to be honest I don't want to be.
Hannah Tointon
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I've always been very shy of doing television. I've always said 'no.' Not to be disrespectful to anyone - I didn't want to say 'yes' and then let people down.
Naomi Campbell
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Sometimes change is good. Although I didn't want to leave.
Latrell Sprewell
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We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave.
Mahmoud Abbas
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I don't want to talk too much about the nitty-gritty of writing. It's rather like a pressure cooker with a certain amount of pressure in it - the more you let out, the less you cook.
Vikram Seth
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When we have a favorite writer, it's always the places where they grew up, lived, worked, and that they recreated on the page that we most want to visit and commune with. Faulkner's Mississippi, Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles, etc. The mind of the reader longs to be somewhere, not just anywhere, and certainly not nowhere.
Walter Kirn