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“I wanted to be an English teacher. I wanted to do it for the corduroy jackets with patches on the side. When I got to college, as I was walking across campus one day, I ripped off a little flyer for this sketch-comedy group. It ended up being one of the greatest things I've ever done.”

Littles Done Wanted Sides Comedy Teacher Groups College Walking One Day Patches Jackets Campus Ripped English Teacher Flyers Sketch Comedy Corduroy

Author:John Krasinski

“I wanted to be an explorer, but gradually found the world had been explored and that there was nowhere left, really. Once they climbed Everest in 1953, when I was 10 years old, I thought, 'Well, that's pretty much it now.' But the idea of travelling and exploring and adventure was very strong.”

World Years Wells Ideas Wanted Found Left Strong Adventure Very Strong Exploring Explorers Everest

Author:Michael Palin

“I wanted to be an honest writer and show my ugliness as much as I showed my hopes or goodness. And that really sculpted the type of artist I've become.”

Shows Wanted Artist Honest Type Goodness Ugliness

Author:Jewel

“I wanted to be an independent woman, a woman who could pay for her bills, a woman who could run her own life - and I became that woman.”

Running Wanted Pay Independent Bills Badass Independent Women Being Independent Woman

Author:Diane von Furstenberg

“I wanted to be an industrial designer, so I went to business school for that, and I then went on to marketing at Interpublic Group of Companies, which was one of the first organizations to actually think about brand marketing. I worked on Coca Cola's account, and then I was recruited by Pepsi, and I ended up being Pepsi's first MBA. I was called the High Wire Act because I was in my 20s and I was given jobs of increasing responsibility that I was totally unqualified for.”

Thinking School Responsibility Marketing Designer Wire Coca Cola

Author:John Sculley

“I wanted to be an inventor, whatever I thought that meant then. I guess I was thinking of Edison or maybe James Watt. Or maybe even Newton.”

Thinking Wanted Inventor Newton James Watt

Author:David Antin

“I wanted to be an oceanographer, actually. It's a way of going underwater. I've always been interested in how deep it was, you know.”

Knows Way Wanted Underwater

Author:Joan Didion

“I wanted to be an Olympic swimmer when I was growing up.”

Wanted Growing Up Growing Swimmer

Author:Grace Gummer

“I wanted to be an outstanding player, that was my ambition.”

Wanted Player Ambition Outstanding My Ambition

Author:Imran Khan

“I wanted to be an up-to-date king. But I didn't have much time.”

Wanted Kings Up To Date

Author:King Edward VIII

“I wanted to be Anthony Hopkins and ended up being neither a film star nor having a career on the stage.”

Wanted Film Stars Careers Stage Hopkins Film Stars

Author:Dirk Benedict

“I wanted to be as authentic as possible because, first of all, Jean Shrimpton is still alive. And, she's interesting enough to be played accurately. I didn't need to add things.”

Needs Firsts Stills Enough Wanted Interesting Alive Add

Author:Karen Gillan

“I wanted to be as close as I could to the Really Real, and I'll capitalize both of those R's, because God is a word that means different things to different people, but we might all agree it's what is most real.”

People Mean Different Real Might Wanted Agree Different Things Different Peoples

Author:Barbara Brown Taylor

“I wanted to be as comfortable in that environment as she was. I moved around those areas in character.”

Character Wanted Environment Comfortable Areas Moved Environmental

Author:Debbie Reynolds

“I wanted to be at my sister's funeral, but my family has always had a complicated dynamic.”

Wanted My Family Complicated Funeral My Sister

Author:Nick Carter

“I wanted to be Beetlejuice. I watched nonstop 'Beetlejuice' and 'The Princess Bride' growing up.”

Wanted Growing Up Growing Princess Brides Princess Bride

Author:Mackenzie Davis

“I wanted to be born at the farthest limit of the world. I'll explore it, I said to myself, biting big chunks from it. And when I want, I'll go straight to the core. This is the way of the world I thought in my innocence, round and around the layers of peel until the taste becomes certain.”

World Way Want Said Bigs Wanted Certain Born Taste Limits Experience Rounds Core Innocence Layers Chunks Biting

Author:Abba Kovner

“I wanted to be braver—wanted to reach for her, close the space between us the way guys in movies did, like it was all instinct and rhythm. But my body didn’t move fast enough, and maybe that was the point.”

Sex First Time Making Love

Author:Alex Diaz-Granados

Source: Comings and Goings - The Art of Being Seen : A Jim Garraty Story

“I wanted to be calm, like a mound with all its cities destroyed, and tranquil, like a full cemetery.”

Wanted Cities Calm Destroyed Cemetery Tranquil

Author:Yehuda Amichai

“I wanted to be complete, because I figured that, visually, there was an avenue to explore with painted stuff”

Wanted Artist Stuff Avenues

Author:Bill Sienkiewicz

“I wanted to be considered a good craftsman. I wanted my dresses to be constructed like buildings, molded to the curves of the female form, stylizing its shape.”

Wanted Form Building Shapes Female Dresses Curves Craftsman Female Form

Author:Christian Dior

“I wanted to be consistent with my exercise, so I committed to working out for 30 days in a row, no matter what.”

Matter Wanted Exercise No Matter What Committed Work Out Consistent

Author:Molly Sims

“I wanted to be cute. That's the terrible thing. I should have had more sense.”

Should Wanted Terrible Should Have Cute Terrible Things

Author:Dorothy Parker

Source: Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words

“I wanted to be different and original but still have it be something my fans could get into. There also are some big, beautiful ballads. I told my producers that I wanted tracks that are going to blow up in the clubs, but I also wanted songs that were very melodic and with a lot of instrumentation.”

Stills Different Bigs Wanted Beautiful Song Music Fans Originals Track Blow Clubs Producers Ballads Instrumentation

Author:Aaliyah

“I wanted to be famous for my music and my talent, and I always wished I could cut it out when I left the stage.”

Wanted Left Cutting Stage Talent

Author:Beyonce Knowles

“I wanted to be famous, I wanted everybody to love me. I wanted to be a star. I worked really hard, and my dream came true.”

Hard Dream Wanted Stars Dreams Came True

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“I wanted to be famous. I wanted people to talk about me.”

People Wanted

Author:Haile Gebrselassie

“I wanted to be Feinberg's student, but I didn't know how to go about it. Since it was premature for formal arrangements and since I was naturally reticent and shy, I simply began to greet him very politely whenever our paths crossed. Graduate school was a small community. In corridors and elevators and on campus, I was soon running into Feinberg several times a day, always giving him a polite hello and a nice smile. He would reciprocate similarly with a sort of nervous curling of the lips. As time passed, this limbo of flirtatious foreplay continued unabated. I could never find the courage to broach the question of being his student; I supposed I must have hoped it would just happen wordlessly. Every time I saw him I smiled; every time I smiled he bared his lips back at me with greater awkwardness. Our facial manipulations bore increasingly less resemblance to anything like a real smile; each of our reciprocated gestures was a caricature, a Greek theatrical mask signaling friendliness. One day, on about the fifth intersection of our paths on that particular day, I could stand it no longer. I saw him heading towards me down one of the long dark, old-fashioned Pupin corridors, and immediately turned towards the nearest stairwell and went up one floor to avoid him. Having succeeded at this once, I was compelled to do it repeatedly. Soon I was moving upstairs or downstairs to another floor as soon as I saw him approaching, like the protagonist in some ghastly version of the video game Lode Runner.”

Geek Shyness Columbia University Social Phobia

Author:Emanuel Derman

Source: My Life as a Quant: Reflections on Physics and Finance

“I wanted to be free to write the way I wanted to write, and my impression of Christian publishing, at least in fiction, was that there wasn't room for what I wanted to write.”

Way Writing Wanted Christian Rooms Fiction Impression Publishing

Author:Sara Zarr

“I wanted to be fucked so hard I couldn’t walk tomorrow. I craved to know that my kitty so bewitched a man that he tossed me about the room if only to get a little deeper, to start a session on the bed and end on the floor, such was our passion.”

Passion Sex Bed Fuck Kitty Bewitch

Author:Valentine Glass

Source: Jarring Sex

“I wanted to be funny for people who didn't care about fashion at all, to just to kind of exist as a silly character.”

People Kind Character Care Wanted Funny Fashion Silly

Author:Ben Stiller

“I wanted to be funny. And I'm always acknowledged for my pranks and jokes nowadays.”

Wanted Jokes Pranks

Author:Steve Wozniak

“I wanted to be Gene Kelly. Well really, I just wanted to dance with Cyd Charisse.”

Wells Wanted Athlete Genes

Author:Robin Cousins

“I wanted to be generous towards him, to give him something, even if all I had to give was the announcement of my undivided devotion.”

Love Emotions Attraction Devotion Generosity Feelings And Emotions Screaming Into Pillows

Author:Tali Sara

Source: Screaming into Pillows

“I wanted to be good but I wasn't sure if I was prepared”

Ifs Wanted Prepared Be Good

Author:Leila Aboulela

Source: Minaret

“I wanted to be good so badly that I became bad. I didn't forgive, and I didn't forget, I didn't get over it either.”

Life And Living

Author:Avina St. Graves

Source: Fiery Little Thing

“I wanted to be great. And I loved Nashville, so that made it easy. I loved the music business. It made it easy for me to stay and make a life here.”

Made Wanted Easy Made It Music Business Nashville

Author:Brandy Clark

“I wanted to be heard myself, which is hard in a household of people who were very showy. It forced me to find myself and define a personality and a way of being different, and that's a thing that's going to help me to survive in a world of many people playing the guitar.”

People World Way Different Hard Helping Wanted Heard Personality Guitar Help Me Household Being Different Showy

Author:Martha Wainwright

“I wanted to be his dear, his darling.”

Wanted Dear Darling

Author:Kiera Cass

Source: The Elite

“I wanted to be his life preserver, the thing that would keep him afloat. Instead, he became my anchor. And I’m tired of drowning.”

Love Romance Hurt Ya Teen

Author:Amanda Grace

Source: But I Love Him

“I wanted to be in a band that gave bang for the buck. I wanted to be in the band who didn't look like a bunch of guys who, you know, should be in a library studying for their finals.”

Knows Should Looks Wanted Guy Study Progress Band Finals Library Bunch Bangs Bucks Who You Know

Author:Gene Simmons

“I wanted to be in a band that shared ideas and were in it together.”

Ideas Wanted Together Band

Author:Roger Daltrey

“I wanted to be in a Baz Luhrmann film. It's just extraordinary. He's so amazing at what he does. He makes the most incredible films.”

Doe Wanted Film Extraordinary Incredibles

Author:Carey Mulligan

“I wanted to be in a punk band before I had even heard any punk music.”

Wanted Heard Band Punk Punk Music

Author:Kurt Cobain

“I wanted to be in an anti-gravity machine so bad! Maybe a different time, a different place.”

Different Wanted Machines Gravity Different Place Different Times

Author:Gabriel Mann

“I wanted to be in film. I wanted to be a film student, possibly be a director or cinematographer, not an actor. That was my goal. I didn't believe I had the physical beauty that I'd seen projected and advertised in movies, in theater. It just wasn't for me.”

Believe Wanted Film Actors Goal Students Directors Theater Physical Beauty Cinematographers Film Students

Author:Pam Grier

“I wanted to be in Jim Carrey comedy movies before I met him. I wanted to be a comedian on Stage 19, yukking it up.”

Wanted Comedy Stage Mets Comedian Comedy Movie

Author:Jenny McCarthy

“I wanted to be in my daughter's life, and I decided I didn't want to do music anymore because I was compromising myself too much and I wasn't loving what I was doing.”

Want Wanted Too Much Daughter Decided Compromise My Daughter

Author:Tweet

“I wanted to be in Rolling Stone number two with a tomorrow feel to it, like an experimental Rolling Stones with Jagger singing.”

Feels Two Wanted Numbers Tomorrow Singing Stones Rolling Rolling Stones Jagger

Author:Jeff Beck

“I wanted to be in The Emerald Forest. I chased that one for six months before it all came about. I wanted to work with John Boorman!”

Wanted Months Six Forests Six Months Emeralds

Author:Powers Boothe

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