I Quotes
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“I just wanted to make a record that wasn't escapism. Like, I didn't want to write another record that was devoid of meaningful content.”
“I just wanted to make it clear that I was saying that the possibility is there and I would've been fine with it, the network would have been fine with it, but we ultimately didn't do that. I can make it official - Daryl Dixon is actually straight.”
“I just wanted to make more of a lifestyle record instead of anything else. I wasn't trying to do anything mainstream or nothing like that. I wanted to speak on this time period where I was fed up with a couple things and I had an idea of what I wanted to do.”
“I just wanted to make movies, but I never though about, "How am I being perceived because of my culture or my skin?"”
“I just wanted to make music, and grime wasn't exactly the path that I took naturally. It was something that was put on me as a label.”
“I just wanted to make something in the world and worry about the rest of it later and not get too caught up in rules.”
“I just wanted to make sure I had the music true to me and the life I'm living and to what I really want to say. That's super important to me.”
“I just wanted to make sure that God's hand was upon it, especially for a band that always stood for God's message; that was important.”
“I just wanted to make sure that what I write is what appears on screen, to not have some idiot change it on its way to the screen.”
“I just wanted to make sure that yes, that those horror - they worked as a genre. To me, I just wanted to be touched by the film in the way that I saw plausible. Which is the story about compassion - giving and receiving it in those desperate times of need.”
“I just wanted to make sure you were being honest with yourself. Because in the past, I have repeatedly compromised what I wanted and twisted what I needed to rationalize staying with someone even when, intuitively, I knew it wasn’t right. It’s self-inflicted gaslighting.”
Source: Let Love Rule
“I just wanted to make the police look stupid.”
“I just wanted to move out of Portland to do something.”
“I just wanted to paint her, especially her beautiful eyes. Her eyes, it's like they hold a whole world in them. Probably they hold my world.”
Source: The Unending Maze: Because Finding Your Way Out Has Never Been More Difficult
“I just wanted to perform, to sing, dance and act.”
“I just wanted to perform. I just wanted to perform in whatever capacity, whether it was acting, singing, dancing, comedy - whatever it was, I just loved it and felt at my absolute happiest when I was performing for people.”
“I just wanted to play a cowboy for a long time.”
“I just wanted to play tennis. I started because I wanted to pick up another sport and then as I was slowly getting better I wanted to see how far I can go but I always wanted to be myself. I wanted to be original. I didn't want to copy anybody's style.”
“I just wanted to quit running. My coach, Tracy Walters, took me aside and told me that I had an opportunity few people ever get. He said that I could inspire the whole team because I was so small and unathletic.”
“I just wanted to remember you like the guy who called me kid and saved my life.
— Arya Kashyap”
Source: That’ll Be Our Song
“I just wanted to say—” Alaric broke off. What did he want to say?
Talasyn blinked up at him. “Yes?”
I am sorry for everything.
I liked writing to you.
I won’t let my father hurt you.
I know we agreed that it’s simply physical attraction between us, but sometimes—sometimes I think—
Ever since we met, I have lived in a dream of what could be.
But he could never tell her any of this.”
Source: A Monsoon Rising
“I just wanted to say how much i loved last night… How much I liked last night… Just wanted to say last night was really fun… Hi. we made out last night and then I disappeared and then you disappeared and now I’m going home and I know you don’t want to be official girlfriends or anything, obviously, LOL, but I just want you to know I really liked it. More than liked it. Unless you disagree, in which case I liked it just enough that you should feel good about your kissing abilities, but not enough that you should feel any pressure, okay? And maybe you can respond with an emoji, or something, just to give me a clue where you stand.”
Source: Imogen, Obviously
“I just wanted to say one more thing: I also think that when you go to play music, you're there to play music.”
“I just wanted to say that you don't always have to be all right. I asked you to be my parabatai because I needed you, but you're allowed to need me, too. This" - he indicated his own parabatai rune - "means you are the better, other half of me, and I care about you more than I care about myself. Remember that. I'm sorry I didn't realize how much you were hurting. I didn't see it then, but I see it now.”
Source: City of Heavenly Fire
“I just wanted to say things that women wanted to say, but were afraid to.”
“I just wanted to see every single musical I could. The very first one I saw was 'Beauty and the Beast,' the only one I could get tickets for, and then 'Les Miserables' and then 'Chicago.”
“I just wanted to see how the shorts felt again.”
“I just wanted to see if... we were okay," she said, feeling relief. "Just to make sure we can be friends. I don't want it to be weird, you know?" Friends? Different parts of Birdie died as she said it. It was like stars exploding and burning one by one. She wondered if this was part of getting older. Parts of your heart exploded and died.”
Source: The Secrets of Peaches
“I just wanted to see my laughter in your eyes.”
Source: Waves
“I just wanted to see my people smile. Brazillian people suffer so much. I just wanted them to smile”
“I just wanted to set a good example. I wanted to do things that I hadn't done before. My whole thing was to just try to be professional. I think when you work hard, good things happen, so obviously, because we're going to the Finals.”
“I just wanted to shed everything and do the things I really wanted to do. All the things I was scared of, I just wanted to try. It was like a clearing.”
“I just wanted to show the migrants as complex humans with flaws and weakness, with good and bad things, and show that they're parents and family men. I wanted to show them with everything, as they are.”
“I just wanted to sing on TV.”
“I just wanted to sing, and I didn't want my music to be unique to the US. I wanted Africans to hear it and know that South African music was still alive.”
“I just wanted to sleep all the time. I had a plan.”
Source: My Year of Rest and Relaxation
“I just wanted to speak to you about something from the Internal Revenue Code. It is the last sentence of section 509A of the code and it reads: 'For purposes of paragraph 3, an organization described in paragraph 2 shall be deemed to include an organization described in section 501C-4, 5, or 6, which would be described in paragraph 2 if it were an organization described in section 501C-3.' And that's just one sentence out of those fifty-seven feet of books.”
Source: Ronald Reagan
“I just wanted to stay away from everyone as much as possible. Like a hedgehog rolling into a ball when it’s threatened. But sometimes I wished everything was different.”
Source: Lemon Twist
“I just wanted to stop and try to get some perspective. [ A Period of Transition] it was just a matter of wanting to review the whole thing...to try and get some relationship to what I was doing.”
“I just wanted to tell the story of a bunch of musicians who had never had their story told before. There's no preaching or theorizing.”
“I just wanted to tell you,' he said, 'when this is over, I'll take care of you, too. If you want me to.'
Effy closed her eyes, and even the blackness there behind them was bright with false stars. 'I do.”
Source: A Study in Drowning
“I just wanted to tell you, how beautiful you were; that day, that night, that life.”
“I just wanted to tell you that I understand if you go. It’s okay if you have to leave us. It’s okay if you want to stop fighting.”
Source: If I Stay
“I just wanted to thank you," he says, his voice low. "A group of scientists told you that my genes were damaged, that there was something wrong with me - they showed you test results that proved it. And I even started to believe it."
He touches my face, his thumb skimming my cheekbone, and his eyes on mine, intense and insistent.
"You never believed it," he says. "Not for a second. You always insisted that I was... I don't know, whole."
I cover his hand with my own. "Well, you are."
"No one has ever told me that before," he says softly.
"It's what you deserve to hear," I say firmly, my eyes going cloudy with tears. "That you're whole, that you're worth loving, that you're the best person I've ever known.”
Source: Allegiant
“I just wanted to thank you' he says, his voice low. 'A group of scientists told you that my genes were damaged, that there was something wrong with me - they showed you the test results that proved it. And even I started to believe it.' He touches my face, his thumb skimming my cheekbone, and his eyes are on mine, intense and insistent. 'You never believed it,' he says 'Not for a second. You always insisted I was... I don't know, whole.”
“I just wanted to write a story as pretty as she was... But the words came out rough and honest, like the way we lived and loved under the indifferent sun.”
Source: I Took a Plane to Die in Denver
“I just wanted to write to tell you that I have been happy during these months together, that I have never been so happy, and that I already know I will never be so happy again.”
Source: Lie With Me
“I just wanted what was outside to be different.”
“I just wanted you to confirm it for our friends here and the whatsit blokes? I think you mean the National Front. Thank you, Janine.’
Janine screwed her face up. ‘They’re a bunch of pricks, but I didn’t think it was professional to say so,’ she said as she disappeared again.
‘She’s quite a charmer, isn’t she?’ Vince said”
Source: Who's Got The Biscuits
“I just wanted you to feel something. Like really feel. So, I pushed for you to break and to feel inside how I'm feeling. But I get it now. How can you when you haven't been through what I'm going through?”
Source: The Surrogates