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“I wanted to be some kind of captain of industry. Then I wanted to be in advertising, and then I wanted to be a newspaper reporter.”

Kind Wanted Industry Newspapers Advertising Reporters Captains Newspaper Reporters Captains Of Industry

Author:Ken Follett

“I wanted to be somewhere else ... Someplace where the sight of me sobbing would tie me to no one and no one to me.”

Wanted Sight Ties Somewhere Else Sobbing

Author:Sarah Dessen

Source: How to Deal

“I wanted to be Stan Laurel, then I wanted to be Fred Astaire and then Captain Kangaroo. I actually started out as a radio announcer when I was 17 and never left the business so that's literally 70 years.”

Years Wanted Left Radio Captains Laurels Announcers Kangaroos

Author:Dick Van Dyke

“I wanted to be strong when I went back to Persuasion. Strong and beautiful and totally together. I dreamed of the day I’d get to rub all your faces in my sheer awesomeness.”

Wanted Together Beautiful Faces Strong Your Face Sheer Persuasion Awesomeness

Author:Susan Donovan

“I wanted to be successful, not famous.”

Wanted Successful Fame Being Successful

Author:George Harrison

“I wanted to be supportive of parents rather than to scold them. The book set out very deliberately to counteract some of the rigidities of pediatric tradition, particularly in infant feeding. It emphasized the importance of great differences between individual babies, of the need for flexibility and of the lack of necessity to worry constantly about spoiling.”

Needs Book Wanted Individual Parent Differences Worry Baby Tradition Importance Feeding Supportive Flexibility Infant Rigidity

Author:Benjamin Spock

“I wanted to be taken out of myself.”

Wanted Taken

Author:Garry Disher

Source: The Divine Wind

“I wanted to be that open with others. Be able to express myself without fear. Spare emotions fester in a landscape where the only way capitalism has made sense of the American West is to fence it in. Break it into 160-acre parcels. Frack, mine, dam, and cut it to a stubble.”

Capitalism Fracking American West

Author:Taylor Brorby

Source: Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land

“I wanted to be that quirky girl who writes funny songs that still have meaning.”

Writing Stills Wanted Song Girl Quirky Funny Song

Author:Katy Perry

“I wanted to be that, The one which was vast, The one which laughed, The one which surpassed, Yes, which also collapsed. True, it was abstract. I wanted to be that. I still, want to be that!”

Life Inspirational Motivational Destiny Dreams Strength Identity Imperfection

Author:Jasleen Kaur Gumber

“I wanted to be the best actor possible. I worked very hard at the craft of it.”

Hard Wanted Actors Crafts Being The Best

Author:Jack Nicholson

“I wanted to be the best in the world and at 12 years-old I won my first big amateur contest called The Gold Cup Series Contest at Marina Del Ray Skatepark. That's when I really started to believe I could turn pro, though it wasn't until two years later when I was 14 that I actually did with Sims.”

World Years Firsts Believe Two Bigs Wanted Turns Gold Series Cups Being The Best Two Years Rays Contests Sims

Author:Christian Hosoi

“I wanted to be the best in the world.”

World Wanted Being The Best

Author:Emerson Fittipaldi

“I wanted to be the conduit for somebody else's experiences, filtered through me, and passed on to other people. Which is the job description, really.”

People Wanted Jobs Description

Author:Juliet Stevenson

“I wanted to be the exception to the other kids, but in the right way. We have a lot of suffering in our part of the world, but that suffering is, in a way, a blessing. Obviously, I could not afford to go to school without a scholarship, so that meant I had to excel in order to get one.”

World Way Inspirational Kids Wanted School Pain Suffering Order Challenges Blessing Ambition Exception Right Way Scholarship

Author:Talal Abu-Ghazaleh

“I wanted to be the fifth Beatle.”

Wanted Fifth

Author:Ozzy Osbourne

“I wanted to be the first to win three Oscars, but Miss Hepburn has done it. Actually it hasn't been done. Miss Hepburn only won half an Oscar. If they'd given me half an Oscar I would have thrown it back in their faces. You see, I'm an Aries. I never lose.”

Ifs Firsts Done Wanted Faces Three Winning Given Loses Half Missing Thrown Oscars Hepburn Aries

Author:Bette Davis

“I wanted to be the greatest woman guitarist alive. I had fantasies about being a female Jimi Hendrix.”

Wanted Fantasy Alive Female Guitarist Hendrix

Author:Phoebe Snow

“I wanted to be the kind of woman who would attract a certain kind of man that I could respect. That was my thinking. It had to do with the kind of couple I would be a part of.”

Thinking Men Kind Would Be Wanted Certain Couple Firefighter Be The Kind Of Woman

Author:Lisa Kudrow

“I wanted to be the moron of the family, because morons seemed to have more fun, more freedom and more personality.”

Wanted Fun Personality Moron

Author:Alice Sebold

“I wanted to be the next Dana Carvey. This was my ultimate goal. If I ever cut into a birthday cake and made a wish, I would wish to be on 'Saturday Night Live.' If I threw a coin into a fountain, I would wish to be on 'Saturday Night Live.' If I saw a shooting star, I would wish to be on 'Saturday Night Live.'”

“I wanted to be the perfect artist. I'd do three hours of media interviews a day, going to every radio station I could squeeze in. I'd sign autographs after the show until everybody left.”

Shows Wanted Artist Three Left Hours Perfect Media Radio Interviews Stations Autographs Radio Stations

Author:Clint Black

“I wanted to be the photographer of happiness.”

Wanted Photographer

Author:Malick Sidibe

“I wanted to be the reasonable voice of revenge for what I'd seen [my father] life come to.”

Wanted Father Voice Revenge Reasonable

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“I wanted to be the standard he set for himself.”

Relationship Standard

Author:Fae Quin

Source: Cloudy With a Chance of Bad Decisions

“I wanted to be the strong woman who could walk away from him tomorrow, keeping our tryst a secret between us and never mentioning it again. After all, I was the one who had made him promise that tonight was purely an experiment and nothing more.”

Redemption Happily Ever After Workplace Romance Medical Romance Age Gap Strong Heroine Grumpy Sunshine Romance Strong Female Character Hea Strong Fmc

Author:Evie James

Source: Night Shift

“I wanted to be the type of person that walked with their back straight, the dirt under their fingernails pure. I didn't want to be a chain saw, I wanted to be a plastic baggie. No shredding, just holding.”

Longing Chainsaw Holding Baggie

Author:Jean Kyoung Frazier

Source: Pizza Girl

“I wanted to be the writer in the room setting depth charges of feeling out the world with my language.You know, I had a very romantic idea about that.But I grew into being a performer.”

Knows World Ideas Feelings Wanted Language Rooms Grew Depth Setting Settings Performers Very Romantic

Author:Rosanne Cash

“I wanted to be true to whatever inner logic there was in myself. I didn’t want to be true to any one group of people in the world. I wanted to be true to my own anger. I’ve always been afraid of belonging to groups. I don’t want to be a Democrat or a Republican or a Communist or a Fascist, or—just an all-American. I wanted to be, as far as I can be, myself, and find out what I think, and get it out in the open and then intellectualize about it. And see what I think.”

Thinking Self Groups Anger Thought Being Yourself Belonging Pondering Intellectualizing

Author:Ray Bradbury

Source: Fahrenheit 451

“I wanted to be wanted and he was very beautiful, kissed with his eyes closed, and only felt good while moving. You could drown in those eyes, I said, so it’s summer, so it’s suicide, so we’re helpless in sleep and struggling at the bottom of the pool.”

Said Eye Wanted Beautiful Moving Felt Sleep Struggle Summer Suicide Bottom His Eyes Pool Helpless Very Beautiful

Author:Richard Siken

“I wanted to be what my high-school civics and history teacher thought of as a good American. That automatically involved taking an interest in government.”

Government Wanted School Interest Teacher Involved High School Civics History Teacher

Author:Olivia de Havilland

“I wanted to be where I could think, and not just anyone could look at me. I wanted to sleep in a bed that was just big enough for me and my own salvation. I wanted to choose constraint and be freed by it, after constraint was all that had ever been offered to me.”

Religion Womanhood Feminsim

Author:Patricia Lockwood

Source: Priestdaddy

“I wanted to be where nobody I knew could ever come.”

Wanted Bell Jar

Author:Sylvia Plath

Source: the bell jar

“I wanted to be with the kind of people I'd grown up with, but you can't go back to them and be one of them again, no matter how hard you try.”

People Inspirational Trying Kind Matter Hard Wanted Teenager Try Again Firefighter

Author:Ethel Waters

“I wanted to be with the men I admired rather than the Scottish Arts Council crowd, so I spent a lot of time in graveyards. You get less trouble from the dead.”

Men Art Wanted Trouble He Man Masters Crowds Council Scottish Graveyard

Author:Alexander Stoddart

“I wanted to be worthy of it, the way Wick shone so bright, for me.”

Love Light Relationships Self Worth Aspiration Admiration Worthiness

Author:Jeff VanderMeer

Source: Borne

“I wanted to be, you know, just no different than anybody else.”

Knows Different Wanted Be You

Author:Carrie Fisher

“I wanted to beat the heck out of the JV guys for that, except I wouldn't know what to do in a fistfight without a manual.”

Funny Fighting Football Nerd Manual

Author:Carrie Harris

Source: Bad Taste in Boys

“I wanted to become a better Snoop Dogg, full of water, proteins and stuff to keep me alive . . . lollipops and Big Macs.”

Bigs Wanted Stuff Water Alive Protein Macs Lollipop Big Mac

Author:Snoop Dogg

“I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.”

Firsts Ideas Wanted Artist Portraits Cartoon Illustrators

Author:Karl Lagerfeld

“I wanted to become a champ - I was surrounded by champs in my family and in my neighborhood - and because of this stupid accident, I lost my opportunity.”

Wanted Opportunity Lost Stupid My Family Accidents Neighborhood

Author:Olivier Martinez

“I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother.”

Wanted Mother Teacher Kindergarten Kindergarten Teacher

Author:Zhang Ziyi

“I wanted to become a mathematician, physicist or astronomer.”

Wanted Mathematician Physicist Astronomers

Author:Philip Emeagwali

“I wanted to become a model and an actress.”

Wanted Models Actresses

Author:Anna Nicole Smith

“I wanted to become a painter for a while. I think it was because I was lazy.”

Thinking Wanted Painter Lazy

Author:Javier Bardem

“I wanted to become a person who didn’t envy others. After all, life wasn’t a competition, it was a personal journey”

Life Prayer Living Jealousy

Author:Judith McCoy Miller

Source: The Carousel Painter

“I wanted to become a writer. I enjoyed reading as a child.”

Children Wanted Reading Enjoyed Comeback

Author:Goh Chok Tong

“I wanted to become an actor and I knew that if I was really going to do it, I needed the training. I was not one of those people that was like, "I got it." I was like, "No, I don't have it yet. I need work. I need help fixing myself."”

People Ifs Needs Helping Wanted Actors Needed Training Fixing Need Help

Author:Condola Rashad

“I wanted to become an actor. I went to Guildhall School of Music and Drama, which is one of the main drama schools in London where you go when you are older. But I was doing the junior one when I was a kid. And some friends there had agents. I was fourteen and I was like, "I want an agent! It sounds awesome!" I had no idea what that was. I thought those guys looked like men in black. They were hanging around in suits all the time. So I luckily got a very good agent in London and started auditioning. And then when I was 16, I got my first film and I've been working ever since.”

Men Want Firsts Ideas Kids Wanted School Film Guy Actors Sound Black Drama Very Good London Suits Agents No Idea Juniors Fourteen Hanging Around

Author:Douglas Booth

“I wanted to become an artist because it meant endless possibilities. Art was a way of reinventing myself.”

Way Art Wanted Artist Possibility Endless Reinventing Endless Possibilities

Author:Sam Taylor-Wood

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