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“I never wanted to be a public figure. I feel that I always have to dampen down people's expectations. They expect me to be an oracle, wave a magic wand, sprinkle some slow, sparkly dust on them, to make everything all right.”

People Feels Wanted Magic Figures Expectations Wave Dust Wands Oracles Public Figures Sprinkles Magic Wands

Author:Carl Honore

“I never wanted to be a public speaker.”

Wanted Speakers

Author:Simon Sinek

“I never wanted to be a pundit.”

Wanted Pundits

Author:Robert MacNeil

“I never wanted to be a star, I just wanted to get work.”

Wanted Stars

Author:Gregory Hines

“I never wanted to be a star, I never wanted to travel far / I only wanted a little bit of love so I could put a little love in my heart / I never wanted to be la-de-da, go to parties ‘avec le bourgeois’ / I only wanted to sing my song well so I could ring a small bell in your heart”

Wells Heart Littles Wanted Song Stars Bits Party My Heart Little Bit Rings Bells Bourgeois Little Love

Author:Cat Stevens

“I never wanted to be a statistic. I never wanted to be that cat who tried and never made it.”

Made Wanted Cat Made It

Author:Young Jeezy

“I never wanted to be a wild kid. I respected my parents and I had great friends. I was lucky. We did a lot of church activities. There were the bad kids in school who partied all the time, but none of my close friends did.”

Kids Wanted School Parent Church Activity Lucky Close Friends Great Friend

Author:Carrie Underwood

“I never wanted to be a writer; I just had stories I needed to tell.”

Stories Wanted Needed

Author:Sefi Atta

“I never wanted to be a writer; I just had stories I wanted to share so I learnt how to write and kept going. If I could sing or paint, I would.”

Ifs Writing Stories Wanted Share Paint If I Could

Author:Sefi Atta

“I never wanted to be aligned to a mature group because they go off and become politicians and stuff.”

Wanted Stuff Groups Politician Mature

Author:Richard O'Brien

“I never wanted to be alone, but I always opted for loneliness. I am an emotional, sensitive and expressive creature. I cannot detach my feelings, never could I control. I fall in love and I can be easily broken.”

Love Feelings Loneliness Emotional Alone Sensitive Control Never Expressive Creature Detach

Author:M.F. Moonzajer

“I never wanted to be an actor and to this day I don`t. I can`t get a handle on it. An actor wants to become someone else. I am a song-and-dance man and I enjoy being myself, which is all I can do.”

Men Want I Can Wanted Song Actors Enjoy Can Do Handle This Day Being Myself Song And Dance

Author:Dick Van Dyke

“I never wanted to be an actor as a kid. I wanted to play hockey, like every other kid in Canada. I had a pretty good shot at it until I was 15 and badly injured myself.”

Play Kids Wanted Actors Shots Canada Hockey Injured

Author:Matt Frewer

“I never wanted to be an actor.”

Wanted Actors

Author:Moon Bloodgood

“I never wanted to be an actor. I never want to be an actor. I want to be a movie star. The whole idea of having to act is too gruesome. It's too ambitious for me.”

Want Ideas Whole Wanted Actors Stars Ambitious Movie Star

Author:Vincent Gallo

“I never wanted to be an actor. My dad was an actor, and he never brought joy home, so I didn't view it as something that I would want to do.”

Want Home Wanted Joy Actors Views Dad My Dad

Author:Jennifer Lawrence

“I never wanted to be an actor. My dad was an actor, and he never brought joy home, so I didn't view it as something that I would want to do. But I got fired as a secretary, and then I started studying, I started doing it just to earn money. And it took me a long time to learn to love it. And what I loved was telling a story. I tried to avoid making plays or films that weren't telling a story that I felt was important. I discovered in the process that it makes you more empathic because you have to enter someone else's reality and learn to see through many other people's eyes.”

People Want Long Important Play Stories Home Reality Eye Wanted Film Joy Actors Felt Process Views Study Dad Long Time My Dad Secretary

Author:Jane Fonda

“I never wanted to be an anchor for 25 years, and suddenly I wanted to be one.”

Years Wanted Anchors

Author:John Stossel

“I never wanted to be an author or thought I could be.”

Wanted

Author:James Van Praagh

“I never wanted to be an editor. I never wanted to be a boss. I just wanted to write, and it didn't make any difference whether it was fiction or nonfiction or short stories or whatever. I just - that's what I was destined to do.”

Writing Stories Wanted Differences Fiction Boss Editors Short Story Nonfiction Destined

Author:Frank Deford

“I never wanted to be away from the family. Intuitively, I knew how easily distances could harden and become permanent.”

Wanted Distance Permanent

Author:Junot Diaz

Source: Drown

“I never wanted to be called an artist. I wanted to be called a photographer.”

Wanted Artist Photographer

Author:Richard Avedon

“I never wanted to be commissioned to paint portraits. I like to choose my own subject and make a character study from it.”

Character Wanted My Own Study Subjects Paint Portraits Portraiture

Author:William Dobell

“I never wanted to be famous and the only part I like is that it means people are reading my books and listening to me on TV and radio.”

People Mean Book Wanted Reading Tvs Listening Radio Mean People

Author:Ann Coulter

“I never wanted to be famous or get any sort of recognition for my person or my personality; it has always been for my work. There's something that bothers me intrinsically about social media, but it's just expected of you now. It's almost part of your contract. But that's not what I'm selling. I don't want to sell anything.”

Personality Social Media Selling Recognition Bother

Author:Francois Arnaud

“I never wanted to be famous.”

Wanted

Author:Dave Attell

“I never wanted to be famous. I always wanted to take famous photographs.”

Wanted Photograph

Author:David LaChapelle

“I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great.”

Wanted Music Fame Bad Ass Badass Being Famous

Author:Ray Charles

“I never wanted to be famous. It was amusing at first, but now I hate it. I just wanted to be respected by people I respect. And I wanted to be rich. It's best to get rich, then you can do what you want.”

People Want Firsts Wanted Hate Can Do Rich I Hate What You Want Amusing Get Rich

Author:Caitlin Moran

“I never wanted to be feared. If I regret one thing, it is the fear I have caused. Fear is the tool of tyrants. Unfortunately, when the fate of the world is in question, you use whatever tools are available.”

Ifs World Use Wanted Fate One Thing Regret Tools Available Tyrants I Regret

Author:Brandon Sanderson

Source: Mistborn Trilogy

“I never wanted to be home-schooled. I didn't like the idea of being home-schooled. It would only separate myself even further from the real world, and that's never what I wanted.”

World Ideas Real Home Wanted Real World Schooled

Author:Asa Butterfield

“I never wanted to be in a band because I love music too much to mess it up.”

Wanted Too Much Band Mess Music Love I Love Music

Author:Elijah Wood

“I never wanted to be in movies. In a sense, I'm still a failure because I wanted to be a star on the stage.”

Stills Wanted Stars Stage

Author:Kirk Douglas

“I never wanted to be known as a local rapper. Not downing anybody, but you know Gucci, that's cool to me, but I want to be massive. I want to be Kanye. I want to be Eminem.”

Knows Want Wanted Known Locals Massive Rapper Gucci Downing

Author:Cyhi the Prynce

“I never wanted to be mainstream as a writer, but look at what's happened.”

Looks Wanted Happened Mainstream

Author:Anne Enright

“I never wanted to be Marilyn - it just happened. Marilyn's like a veil I wear over Norma Jeane.”

Wanted Inspiring Happened Veils

Author:Marilyn Monroe

“I never wanted to be on any billionaires list. I never define myself by net worth. I always try to define myself by my values.”

Trying Wanted Values Lists Billionaire Net Worth

Author:Howard Schultz

“I never wanted to be one of those actors with a political agenda.”

Wanted Political Actors Agendas Political Agendas

Author:Ian Somerhalder

“I never wanted to be prominent enough to have enemies.”

Fame Enemies

Author:Rabih Alameddine

“I never wanted to be rich or successful or famous. I just wanted to be happy and have fun.”

Wanted Fun Successful Rich Having Fun

Author:Donna Leon

“I never wanted to be run of the mill.”

Running Wanted Mills

Author:Barbara Jordan

“I never wanted to be saved, just loved in ways that would make the Gods jealous.”

Love Poetry Love Quotes Writer Love Poems Latina Boricua Coming Undone

Author:Nancy Arroyo Ruffin

Source: Coming Undone

“I never wanted to be that person who leaves 'SNL' and nothing happens.”

Persons Happens Wanted Things Happen Snl

Author:Rachel Dratch

“I never wanted to be the annoying kid on set.”

Kids Wanted Annoying

Author:Thomas Brodie-Sangster

“I never wanted to be the great guy or the colorful guy or the interesting guy. I wanted to be the guy who won titles.”

Wanted Success Guy Interesting Titles Tennis Colorful Great Guy

Author:Pete Sampras

“I never wanted to be the guy people looked at. I felt I could only be myself when I was alone, that I turned into some kind of novelty. The only way I could get through that time was to drink. I poisoned myself with alcohol for years but I've never been into drugs in the way it was sometimes made out.”

People Way Years Kind Made Sometimes Wanted Guy Felt Drink Drug Alcohol Novelty

Author:Johnny Depp

“I never wanted to be the lead on a TV drama. It just robs you of your life, really.”

Wanted Tvs Drama

Author:Chris Noth

“I never wanted to be the most famous, the most beautiful, the most extravagant.”

Wanted Beautiful Extravagant

Author:Manolo Blahnik

“I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.”

Firsts Wanted Next Martial Arts Jackie

Author:Jackie Chan

“I never wanted to be the person that waited for a stranger to come to town - I wanted to be the stranger!”

Persons Wanted Towns Stranger

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

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