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“I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.”

Art Wanted School Magic Tiny Tape Art School Recorders

Author:Brian Eno

“I had wanted for so many years to feel that writing really was at the center of my life, not something I did in my spare time. So the writing and teaching feel in some way to be one thing - the personal engagement and the social engagement good partners.”

Way Feels Writing Years Wanted Social One Thing Teaching Partners Engagement Spares Spare Time

Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming

“I had wanted life not to bother me too much, and had succeeded - and how pitiful that was.”

Wanted Too Much Bother Pitiful

Author:Julian Barnes

“I had wanted more, and I had not wanted more. A familiar old tale, from the lives of girls.”

Women Girls

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

Source: City of Girls

“I had wanted simply to convey to the reader by way of concrete example that life holds a potential meaning under any conditions, even the most miserable ones. And I thought that if the point were demonstrated in a situation as extreme as that in a concentration camp, my book might gain a hearing. I therefore felt responsible for writing down what I had gone through, for I thought it might be helpful to people who are prone to despair.”

Source: Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition

“I had wanted to be a dancer when I was younger. But at some point I figured out I was a better singer.”

Wanted Singers Dancer

Author:Katy B

“I had wanted to be a fish farmer, to be honest with you. I wanted to be an agriculturist. I wanted to have my own fish farm. I was also contemplating surfboard building.”

Wanted My Own Honest Building Fishes Being Honest Farms Farmers Contemplating

Author:Dustin Clare

“I had wanted to be a regular character on a series for a while. 'The Brady Bunch' was an answer to a prayer.”

Character Wanted Prayer Answers Series Bunch Brady Brady Bunch

Author:Susan Olsen

“I had wanted to come back to Greenwich Village ever since I had left Waverly Place, and since moving to West Eleventh Street, I have never lived anyplace else. I do not want to. That is not because of what the Village is but because of what I have made it, and what I have made it depends on who I am at the time.”

Want Made Wanted Happiness Moving Left Streets Depends West Who I Am Made It Village Greenwich Greenwich Village

Author:Mary Cantwell

Source: Manhattan, when I was Young

“I had wanted to disappear, if only so the cancer could disappear with me. But the stars whispered that there was no such thing. You don’t ever disappear. You just change. You leave. You move on. But you never disappear. Even when you think you want to.”

Death Despair Self Awareness Suicide Afterlife

Author:Amy Harmon

Source: The Song of David

“I had wanted to do a comedy.”

Wanted Comedy

Author:Gus Van Sant

“I had wanted to kiss him because he was him, not because he was there.”

Love Affection Devotion Sincerity

Author:Sara Hashem

“I had wanted to know what it would be like to be human. I knew it now. It made me want to die.”

Death Humanity

Author:Anton Hur

Source: Toward Eternity

“I had wanted to live forever as a gypsy girl; I had wanted to live forever as a child, tumbling down a rabbit hole. I had been granted both wishes, only to find immortality was not what it had promised to be; instead of a passport to the future, it was a yoke that bound me to the past.”

Children Wanted Past Girl Wish Forever Bounds Holes Granted Immortality Rabbits Live Forever Gypsy Passports Yoke Tumbling Rabbit Holes Tumbling Down

Author:Melanie Benjamin

“I had wanted to make a film about World War II for some time, but I didn't really want to do something that was set in the trenches, so to speak.”

World Want War Wanted Film Speak War Of The Worlds World War Ii World War I Trenches

Author:Michael Apted

“I had wanted to make this film [Suffragette] for over a decade. There has never been a cinematic rendition of this story. I had not been taught any of the history of the movement at school, and the version I had gleaned had been the Mary Poppins story of women in large hats, petitioning. There was another version.”

Stories Wanted School Film Movement Taught Decades Versions Hats Mary Cinematic Suffragettes

Author:Sarah Gavron

“I had wanted to play drums since the age of 9 when I saw a drum set in the window of a music store for the first time. We took lessons at a local music school and began playing together after about 6-9 months of lessons.”

Firsts Play Age Wanted School Together Saws Months Lessons First Time Window Stores Locals Playing Together Playing Drums

Author:Jack Irons

“I had wanted to say that my song was far too painful to sing.”

Wanted Pain Song Painful

Author:Anne Rice

Source: New Tales of the Vampires: includes Pandora and Vittorio the Vampire

“I had wanted to write Ghost Country for a long time, but it wouldn't work.”

Writing Long Country Wanted Long Time Ghost

Author:Sara Paretsky

“I had wanted you and then I got you, and it’s hard to say who really chased who. Want like ours was two cats and no mice. Want like ours manifested paradise. You ran for me and I ran away… until I ran toward you and you did the same. And it happened so fast. We collided so fast. You became mine so fast.”

Love Healing Heartbreak

Author:B.A. Perry

“I had watched 'Alfie,' but I didn't consider it a prerequisite. Michael Caine was just extremely fabulous. He's one of the most professional actors I've ever worked with. I guess after a lifetime of doing it, you know what you're doing. He's incredibly uncomplaining, undemanding.”

Knows Actors Lifetime Fabulous Prerequisites Alfie

Author:Emily Mortimer

“I had watched an episode of Black Mirror almost exactly a year prior to when I started shooting my episode. I was by myself in New Zealand, and my husband was like, "You have to see this show. It's so incredible."”

Years Shows Black Like You Husband Mirrors Incredibles Shooting My Husband Episodes New Zealand

Author:Bryce Dallas Howard

“I had watched Dad climb into the biggest arena and succeed. I wanted to find out if I had what it took to join him.”

Ifs Wanted Father Dad Succeed Climbs Arena Fathers Day

Author:George W. Bush

Source: Decision Points

“I had watched for many years and seen how a few rich families held much of Argentina's wealth and power in their hands. So Peron and the government brought in an eight hour working day , sickness pay and fair wages to give poor workers a fair go .”

Giving Years Hands Government Hours Wealth Poor Pay Rich Fairs Workers Eight Sickness Wages Argentina Rich Family

Author:Evita Peron

“I had watched the sun blaze and in the blink of an eye slip away; the happiness I felt in that moment was a heartbeat from tipping to sadness at the knowledge that I couldn't hold it forever. My old familiar push-pull, my trademark yearning for and resisting joy.”

Happiness Sadness Nostalgia Sunset

Author:Sarah Combs

Source: Breakfast Served Anytime

“I had weird dreams full of barnyard animals. Most of them wanted to kill me. The rest wanted food.”

Dream Wanted Animal Kill Me Weird Dream

Author:Rick Riordan

Source: The lightning thief

“I had whale tartare when I was in Japan, but I probably wouldn't have it again.”

Japan Whales

Author:Sasha Cohen

“I had what can only be described as the worst voice in the history of music.”

Voice Worst History Of Music

Author:Jimmy Pardo

“I had what I would consider a normal upbringing and, which to me, a normal American up - upbringing for an American male child almost gears you towards going into the military.”

Children Military Normal Males Upbringing Gears

Author:Peter P. Mahoney

“I had what might truly be called an object in life: to be a reformer of the world … This did very well for several years, during which the general improvement going on in the world and the idea of myself as engaged with others in struggling to promote it, seemed enough to fill up an interesting and animated existence. But the time came when I awakened from this as from a dream … In this frame of mind it occurred to me to put the question directly to myself: ‘Suppose that all your objects in life were realised; that all the changes in institutions and opinions that you are looking forward to, could be completely effected at this very instant; would this be a great joy and happiness to you?’ And an irrepressible self-consciousness distinctly answered: ‘No!’ At this my heart sank within me; the whole foundation on which my life was constructed fell down. All my happiness was to have been found in the continual pursuit of this end. The end had ceased to charm, and how could there ever again be any interest in the means? I seemed to have nothing left to live for.”

Purpose Doubt Despair

Author:John Stuart Mill

Source: Autobiography

“I had whooping cough when I was very young, which left me with bronchial problems, and I would always pick up colds. I was very thin and nervous so my father and mother took me out of school and had me tutored at home.”

Problem Home School Young Mother Father Left Health Picks Nervous Whooping Cough

Author:Andrew Wyeth

“I had wished to find in philosophy and religion a remedy for my disgrace; I searched out an asylum to secure me from love... duty, reason and decency, which upon other occasions have some power over me, are here useless. The Gospel is a language I do not understand when it opposes my passion... but when love has once been sincere how difficult it is to determine to love no more! 'Tis a thousand times more easy to renounce the world than love. I hate this deceitful, faithless world; I think no more of it.”

“I had wished upon them as a child and had wished upon them as an adult. It was upon these stars that I had rested my hopes and dreams, my anger and frustrations. I wished because as a child, that's what you're supposed to do. You don't know any better. I wished because as an adult, sometimes you don't know what else to do. You know better, but you don't care.”

Stars Wishing Sam Of Wilds

Author:T.J. Klune

Source: The Lightning-Struck Heart

“I had withdrawn from humanity because I had, in fact, lost my humanity. I had believed that without my humanity, there was little to no purpose to my continuing to exist. However, in the past few minutes, I have begun to believe that perhaps... Just perhaps... There is some small aspect of human feeling left to me." "Why?" "Because I find that you three annoy the hell out of me. I feel the urge to smack you... Particularly Impulse. For that, I am indebted. Thank you." "You're uh... You're welcome... I guess.”

Humanity Impulse Dc Comics Robin Tim Drake Young Justice Red Tornado Bart Allen Conner Kent Superboy

Author:Peter David

Source: Young Justice, Book One

“I had woken after a fitful few hours, struggling to shake off the tangled dreams that had woven themselves through my sleep, and stumbled down the corridor on automatic pilot, a caffeine-seeking zombie.”

Jojo Moyes Still Me

Author:Jojo Moyes

Source: Still Me

“I had woken into a metal world. The smooth unflawed slopes of snow on the mountain across the valley were iron. The deeper moonshadows had a tinge of steel blue to them. Otherwise, there was no true colour. Everything was greys, black, sharp silver-white. Inclined sheets of ice gleamed like tin. The hailstones lay about like shot, millions of them, grouped up against each rock and clustered in snow hollows. The air smelt of minerals and frost.”

Nature Snow Wilderness Hiking Mountains Night Vision Night Walking

Author:Robert Macfarlane

Source: The Wild Places

“I had won a hundred of enemies in my life but nothing made me so happy than losing to my loved ones.”

Life Philosophy Life Lessons Quotes Loved Ones Drpsjagadeeshkumar Happy Quotes Enemies Quotes Loved Ones Quotes

Author:P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“I had wondered for a long time why God had preferences and why all souls did not receive an equal amount of grace [...] Jesus saw fit to enlighten me about this mystery. He set the book of nature before me and I saw that all the flowers He has created are lovely. The splendor of the rose and whiteness of the lily do not rob the little violet of its scent nor the daisy of its simple charm. I realized that if every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness and there would be no wild flowers to make the meadows gay.”

“I had worked at Disney since they bought the company that I had worked for, ABC in the mid-90s.”

Company

Author:Bob Iger

“I had worked at Mauna Kea from the age of 31 to 36. By the time I left, I had developed a wide range of health issues. At the age of 45 my biological systems had collapsed so much that I became disabled by mental and physical illness.”

Safety Astronomy Thirty Osha Mauna Kea Tmt Telescope Disabled Meter

Author:Steven Magee

“I had worked in fiction a lot before I started making documentaries, but when I was around 32 or 33-years-old I suddenly got so fed up with the world of fiction, which is so money-centered.”

World Years Fiction Feds Documentaries Fed Up

Author:Pirjo Honkasalo

“I had worked in this New York theatre company for my first eight or nine years out of college, acting and directing there, and I'd begun to write a little bit.”

Writing Years Firsts Littles Bits Acting Company New York College Little Bit Eight Theatre Nine Nine Years

Author:Clark Gregg

“I had worked my whole life. Until I became a mother, that's the only way I measured my value.”

Way Whole Mother Values Whole Life

Author:Demi Moore

“I had worked on dogs for a couple of years developing a renal transplant operation. We had dogs running around with kidneys we had transplanted back into themselves.”

Years Running Dog Couple Developing Operations Kidneys Transplants

Author:Joe Murray

“I had worked so hard for so long that I developed a speech impediment. It happens when I get tired.”

Long Hard Happens Speech Tired Impediments Speech Impediment

Author:Tobe Hooper

“I had worked so hard; that was my opportunity. And my mom was just able to turn it around for me. She helped me to be able to see the other side of things and that this is not the end for me.”

Ends Hard Able Turns Opportunity Sides Mom My Mom

Author:Allyson Felix

“I had woven a tapestry of obscenity that as far as I know is still hanging in space over Lake Michigan.”

Knows Stills Space Lakes Woven Michigan Tapestry Obscenity

Author:Jean Shepherd

Source: In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash

“I had writers block for months afterwards because I was just so taken aback by all of the sounds I was hearing. It's almost like hearing the most beautiful music you've ever heard, so you're like, "What's the point of me making anything?" It was this living sonic organism so the idea of recording something just seemed like taking this living thing and mummifying it.”

Ideas Beautiful Sound Taken Heard Months Hearing Block Organisms Living Things Writer's Block Beautiful Music

Author:Taraka Larson

“I had written a book called "Boston Boy" some years ago, and that took me from the time I could speak, I guess, in Boston through the time when I finally left to come to New York. One was understanding and coping with anti-Semitism. Boston, at the time, was the most anti-Semitic city in the country. And I found out when I was an adolescent that you have to be crazy to go out after dark all by yourself; you'd get your head bashed in.”

Years Book Country Found Left Speak Understanding Dark Cities Boys Written Crazy New York Years Ago Boston Coping Being Crazy Anti Semitism Anti Semitic

Author:Nat Hentoff

“I had written a book called "Boston Boy" some years ago, and that took me from the time I could speak, I guess, in Boston through the time when I finally left to come to New York. That book had a number of sort of rites of passage for me.”

Years Book Left Speak Numbers Boys Written New York Years Ago Passages Boston Rite Rite Of Passage

Author:Nat Hentoff

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