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“I wanted to be a writer for a while. I was an excellent child writer. I won multiple poetry contests. I was published at age three - I think that was more about novelty than my immense talent.”

Thinking Children Age Wanted Three Talent Excellent Immense Multiple Contests Novelty

Author:Aya Cash

“I wanted to be a writer from my early teenage years, but I never told anyone. Writers, in my opinion, were god-like creatures, and to say I was striving to be a writer would be incredibly arrogant.”

Years Would Be Wanted Opinion Creatures Strive Arrogant Teenage Teenage Years

Author:Tim Cahill

“I wanted to be a writer since I was in high school, but I never thought it was possible.”

Wanted School High School

Author:Ellen Bass

“I wanted to be a writer, so I became one. How? I wrote things down.”

Writing

Author:Ariel Gore

“I wanted to be a writer that had an impact. I wanted, and still I say the same thing, I want to write books that change people's lives, change how we think and live and read and write. I wanna write books that are read in 50 or 100 years.”

People Thinking Want Writing Years Stills Book Wanted Impact Life Changing

Author:James Frey

“I wanted to be a writer when I was a little kid. Then I wanted to be Pete Townshend - the songwriting guitarist who occasionally sang.”

Littles Kids Wanted Songwriting Little Kid Guitarist

Author:Travis Morrison

“I wanted to be a writer, but the idea of writing novels or movies seemed really intimidating. I never got more than a few pages into one.”

Writing Ideas Wanted Novel Pages Intimidating

Author:Kurt Busiek

“I wanted to be a writer. I still want to be a prose writer. I feel I am more temperamentally suited to that kind of life, although there are things I still want to do with music.”

Kind Prose

Author:Juliana Hatfield

“I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to say something about home.”

Home Wanted

Author:Ernest Gaines

“I wanted to be able to go shopping without people looking to see if I really was one of the world's 10 most beautiful women. I longed to be myself.”

People Ifs World Able Wanted Beautiful Shopping Beautiful Women

Author:Linda Evans

“I wanted to be able to play guitar. I wanted to be able to make music hurt.”

Play Able Wanted Hurt Guitar

Author:Alexis Korner

“I wanted to be able to talk with people who have trade jobs and make records with them. I want to do more records with carpenters, electricians, people who specialize in even more bizarre trades that are off the beaten path.”

People Want Able Wanted Jobs Path Records Trade Beaten Bizarre Carpenter Electrician Beaten Path Off The Beaten Path

Author:Jack White

“I wanted to be able to tell my grandkids one day, "Hey, your grandpa ran into a burning building and survived."”

Able Wanted Building One Day Hey Burning Ran Survived Grandpa Hey You Grandkids Burning Buildings

Author:Channing Tatum

“I wanted to be able to write in the voice that I talk to my friends and assume that everybody would know what I was talking about.”

Knows Writing Able Wanted Voice Talking My Friends Assuming

Author:Ernest Cline

“I wanted to be acknowledged as an artist, not just some kiddie-book artist.”

Book Wanted Artist

Author:Maurice Sendak

“I wanted to be alone my whole life but I lied to myself, I wanted to be in love my while life but I lied to myself then again.”

Love Relationship Loneliness Lovers Thoughts Feeling Just The Way I Feel

Author:Pushpa Rana

Source: Just the Way I Feel

“I wanted to be alone, to live unwitnessed and without having to think about anyone else.”

Solitude

Author:Hisham Matar

Source: My Friends

“I wanted to be an abstract painter, but I was rotten at it.”

Wanted Painter Abstract Rotten

Author:Jenny Holzer

“I wanted to be an actor and I wanted to be a performer. Like Hugh [Grant] said earlier, we might all have this weird gene. Hopefully I will continue to have the talent to allow that gene to play itself out for as long as it can.”

Long Said Play Might Wanted Actors Talent Hopefully Grants Performers Genes

Author:Mandy Moore

“I wanted to be an actor because I wanted to be onstage. I wanted to do musical theater, and from that I realized I was interested in plays. I never imagined myself on television. I was so lucky to be onstage my whole life.”

Play Whole Wanted Actors Television Lucky Theater Musical I Realized Whole Life So Lucky Musical Theater

Author:Jesse Tyler Ferguson

“I wanted to be an actor because it gave me the opportunity to express myself in ways I wasn't comfortable expressing myself, as a kid growing up in St. Louis.”

Way Kids Wanted Actors Opportunity Growing Up Growing Comfortable Kids Growing Up

Author:Scott Bakula

“I wanted to be an actor ever since I got on stage for the first time, aged 13. Before that, I thought I might follow in the medical footsteps of my parents: my father was a doctor, my mother a pharmacist.”

Firsts Might Wanted Mother Actors Father Parent Stage First Time Doctors Medical Footsteps Pharmacist

Author:Chiwetel Ejiofor

“I wanted to be an actor ever since I was five. My grandparents - my mom's parents in New York - were stage actors. I think indirectly I wanted to do it because of them. My grandfather would tell me stories about Tennessee Williams and actors he worked with in New York. He had such a respect for acting and such a love for storytelling about that world. I grew up hearing him tell tales of it.They were never encouraging me or discouraging me to take part. They were always feeding me with theater.”

Thinking World Parent Acting Storytelling Grandfather Grandparent My Grandfather Discouraging

Author:Lydia Wilson

“I wanted to be an actor from a young age, but actually becoming one and seen the ugly side of the world does feel different and sometimes unwelcome. There are shallow, vapid, untalented people zombieing the streets of Hollywood, adding decadence and immorality to an already extravagant business.”

“I wanted to be an actor my whole young life. My dad was an actor, obviously - he won an Academy Award, but I had no idea what was involved. I had all the wrong ideas about acting.”

Ideas Whole Wanted Young Actors Acting Dad Involved My Dad No Idea Awards Academy Academy Awards Wrong Ideas Young Life

Author:Ed Begley, Jr.

“I wanted to be an actor since I was nine years old.”

Years Wanted Actors Nine Nine Years

Author:Ewan McGregor

“I wanted to be an actor to act, and now, being an actor, you have to dress up, you have to be nice, you have to be smart, you have to be sexy, you have to be ready.”

Wanted Actors Nice Ready Smart Dresses Sexy Being Nice Being Smart

Author:Vincent Cassel

“I wanted to be an actor when I was a kid.”

Kids Wanted Actors

Author:Stanley Tucci

“I wanted to be an actor, an astrologer, an astronaut; a lot of different things were going through my mind. But I also wanted to play guitar. I mentioned to my parents that I wanted an electric guitar for Christmas. They got me one! I sat there all Christmas morning making a lot of loud horrible noise.”

Mind Different Play Wanted Actors Parent Morning Guitar Horrible Noise Loud Sat Different Things Electric Astronaut Electric Guitar Christmas Morning

Author:Joan Jett

“I wanted to be an actor, and when that day happened that was sort of like the end. Now let it take me.”

Ends Wanted Actors Happened Take Me

Author:Bryan Brown

“I wanted to be an actor. I decided when I was very young, when I first saw movies, that I wanted to be an actor.”

Firsts Wanted Young Actors Saws Decided Saw Movie

Author:Dennis Hopper

“I wanted to be an actor. Maybe a comic actor, but an actor. That's what got me into acting was putting on an act, because in life, I wasn't funny and I felt on stage or in the movies, I could do whatever I wanted to. I was free.”

Wanted Actors Felt Acting Stage Comic

Author:Gene Wilder

“I wanted to be an actor. My parents were not too keen on that.”

Wanted Actors Parent

Author:Jeffrey Eugenides

“I wanted to be an actor. That was my real goal. But I wasn't any good at it, so I wrote my own material and acted through that. That's my idea of fun. I get to be all these things in the songs.”

Ideas Real Wanted Song Actors Fun Goal My Own Materials

Author:Lou Reed

“I wanted to be an actress, and I wanted to be a model.”

Wanted Models Actresses

Author:Delta Burke

“I wanted to be an actress. I think it had a lot to do with being a kid and watching how every time my dad would stand up to talk people would applaud... that was pretty cool.”

People Thinking Kids Wanted Dad My Dad Actresses Being A Kid

Author:Eleanor Mondale

“I wanted to be an actress. In college I was a serious feminist and very political. I was determined to get one thing out of my career and that was respect. I didn't want money. I didn't care about fame.”

Want Care Wanted Political Careers One Thing College Serious Fame Feminist Determined Actresses

Author:Christine Lahti

“I wanted to be an archaeologist. But in school you have to take a tremendous amount of statistics for that, and I am not good at statistics. So I hit a real wall with archaeology. It's probably like wanting to be an architect - you think it's all fun and games, and then you have to get out a calculator and you're done.”

Thinking Real Done Wanted School Games Fun Wall Amount Statistics Architect Archaeology Archaeologists Calculators

Author:Sloane Crosley

“I wanted to be an architect. I used to draw houses and buildings and construct buildings on my own.”

Wanted Used House My Own Building Draws Architect Constructs

Author:Boyd Holbrook

“I wanted to be an artist after all, and my teachers told me these were the best authors the 20th century had to offer. But these books sucked. They were so boring and sloppy and plotless. And Bob Dylan's lyrics seemed nonsensical to me - almost like he had just gotten high and written down whatever random thoughts occurred to him.”

Book Wanted Artist Teacher Written Century Offers Boring Bob 20th Century Dylan Sloppy Nonsensical So Boring Random Thoughts

Author:Simon Rich

“I wanted to be an artist, because it's a much better scam than being an architect.”

Artist Architect

Author:Peter Marino

“I wanted to be an artist, but at age 11, somehow all this musical knowledge and information and love for music that I had came out, and then suddenly it was very clear that I wanted to be a musician of some sort.”

Age Wanted Artist Clear Information Musician And Love Musical Knowledge And Information

Author:Gunther Schuller

“I wanted to be an artist, even at the age of 15, and people used to laugh at me. It was the late '90s, the time of pop stars and navel-dancing, where you were showing your midriff. I wanted to be a real singer.”

People Real Age Wanted Used Artist Stars Laughing Late Dancing Pops Singers Pop Stars Navel

Author:Duffy

“I wanted to be an artist. I was studying art. I wanted to be a great painter. When I went into the Navy, there wasn't much to draw at sea. So I began writing, and I began reading a lot.”

Writing Art Wanted Artist Reading Study Sea Draws Painter Navy Studying Art

Author:Ed McBain

“I wanted to be an astronaut and wanted to go to space camp, but then I found out that I was too short to become an astronaut. My mom really made me believe that if I worked hard enough and if I really wanted to do it, I could do it.”

Ifs Believe Made Hard Enough Wanted Found Space Mom My Mom Camps Too Short Astronaut

Author:Soleil Moon Frye

“I wanted to be an astronaut when I was a kid. I grew up in Houston. Gordo Cooper was my favorite astronaut.”

Kids Wanted Grew Grew Up My Favorite Astronaut Houston

Author:Dennis Quaid

“I wanted to be an author as far back as I can remember, mixed with occasional bouts of wanting to be a werewolf when I grew up. But mostly, when I daydreamed, it was about being an author.”

I Can Wanted Remember Grew Grew Up Occasional Werewolf

Author:Neil Gaiman

“I wanted to be an editor or a journalist, I wasn't really interested in being an entrepreneur, but I soon found I had to become an entrepreneur in order to keep my magazine going.”

Writing Wanted Success Order Found Business Entrepreneur Magazines Entrepreneurship Journalist Editors Entrepreneurial

Author:Richard Branson

“I wanted to be an elementary school teacher my whole life.”

Whole Wanted School Teacher Whole Life Elementary School School Teachers

Author:Steve Wozniak

“I wanted to be an empowered woman, and I became an empowered woman. And now I want to empower every woman. And I do it through my clothes, I do it through my words, I do it through my money, I do it through everything.”

Want Wanted Clothes Empowering Empowered Empowered Women

Author:Diane von Furstenberg

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