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“I wanted to develop a guitar style where phrases and lines get there just in the nick of time, like with Curtis Mayfield and Steve Cropper. Subtleties mean so much, and there is a stunning beauty in them.”

Mean Wanted Lines Style Guitar Phrases Subtlety Stunning

Author:Robbie Robertson

“I wanted to devour this woman's dignity. Congratulations for what exactly? For having a family who made it through genocide? For being part of the slim population of surviving Native Americans post-colonization? An anger simmered in my throat, begging to be let loose on this stupid woman who was there to simply enjoy her vacation. How dare she remain blissfully unaware of the modern existence of Native Americans when all she had seen were movies making us look like history? As mad as I was, I knew it wasn't her fault and I couldn't muster up the energy to boil my anger into a response.”

Native Genocide Native American Indigenous Us History Arizona Colonization European History European Biological Warfare

Author:Leah Myers

Source: Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity

“I wanted to die of shame but everyone insisted on keeping me alive. I had to live.”

Live Life Shame Quotes Shamed

Author:Deborah Levy

Source: The Man Who Saw Everything

“I wanted to die, then. I wanted to destroy the body I was trapped in, become what she was, no matter what it took. No matter how much mutilation or pain. But he looked away, at me. He pulled my face down and pressed my lips against his like he was almost trying to suffocate us both.”

Trying Matter Body Wanted Pain Faces Dies Sad Down And No Matter What Suicide Lips Trapped Self Injury Mutilation Wanted To Die

Author:Francesca Lia Block

“I wanted to die. I had a panic attack.”

Wanted Dies Divorce Panic Panic Attacks Wanted To Die

Author:Shania Twain

“I wanted to direct when I was very young. I had no idea of cinema, of who's doing what. That was my first instinct: "Okay, I want to be the boss."”

Want Firsts Ideas Wanted Young Direct Okay Instinct No Idea Cinema Boss

Author:Thomas Bidegain

“I wanted to disappear, to be the night, the asphalt, the woods; anything but me. I didn’t want to have to break up with him, and I didn’t want to be the target of his massive, uncontrollable anger. But I was me, and I had found with time that there is no cure for that.”

Teenage Love Breakups Teen Romance

Author:Gaia B. Amman

Source: Sex-O-S: The Tragicomic Adventure of an Italian Surviving the First Time

“I wanted to disconnect from contemporary architecture”

Wanted Architecture Contemporary

Author:Rem Koolhaas

“I wanted to discuss the suffering of humanity in general, but perhaps we'd better confine ourselves to the sufferings of children.”

Children Wanted Suffering Humanity

Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky

“I wanted to dismantle the bollocks that there's a military structure to a gang, with a leader, second leader, the good looking one, first babe, second babe. It's far more arbitrary than that and their values shouldn't be romanticised. They aren't something you want to sign up to.”

Want Firsts Wanted Values Leader Military Structure Looking Good Arbitrary Gang Babe

Author:Peter Mullan

“I wanted to dissolve into the floor, mixing myself with the hard stone. A stone had a single purpose: to be. No complicated promises, no worries and no feelings.”

Hard Feelings Wanted Purpose Worry Promise Stones Complicated Mixing No Worries

Author:Maria V. Snyder

Source: Magic Study

“I wanted to dissolve the boundary between the outside world and the world of the relationships. Those events, with exception of the Mt. Saint Helens explosion, were happening in the real time of the book, as I was writing.”

World Writing Book Real Wanted Events Happenings Saint Boundaries Exception Explosions Outside World

Author:Paul Lisicky

“I wanted to distance myself from those pasty faced corpses in suits I saw in airline magazine ads. If I was going to become a businessman, I was going to do it on my own terms.”

Ifs Wanted Term My Own Saws Distance Magazines Suits Ads Businessman Corpses Airline Distance Myself Pasties

Author:Yvon Chouinard

“I wanted to do - there was this film called 'Magic' that Anthony Hopkins did. And the director wanted me. The writer wanted me. Joe Levine said no, I don't want any comedians in this.”

Want Said Wanted Film Magic Directors Comedian Hopkins

Author:Gene Wilder

“I wanted to do a collection where the narrator is constant throughout, so that there's a little unity.”

Littles Wanted Constant Unity Collections Narrators

Author:Arthur Bradford

“I wanted to do a movie about being really good at something, yet being socially awkward and not as advanced in your personal life as you are in your creative life.”

Wanted Creative Being Real Awkward Personal Life Creative Life Socially Awkward Social Awkwardness

Author:Alicia Witt

“I wanted to do a naval film and I flirted with different ideas, most of which ended up being too intense. So when the idea of 'Battleship' was first suggested, I was instantly drawn to the challenge - could I invent a movie around the idea of five ships fighting five ships?”

Firsts Ideas Different Wanted Film Fighting Challenges Five Intense Ships Naval Different Ideas

Author:Peter Berg

“I wanted to do a period piece. I wanted to be on a show that people would actually watch, that was of quality.”

People Shows Wanted Quality Watches Pieces Periods

Author:Timothy Omundson

“I wanted to do a political film that is as nonpartisan as can be, because I wanted to do a story that was American. I wanted to tell an American tragedy.”

Stories Wanted Film Political Tragedy

Author:Paul Haggis

“I wanted to do a set of love songs for Valentine's Day so I went through my old material. I found myself scraping around the edges of good taste.”

Wanted Song Found Materials Taste Edges Performing Valentine Valentine's Day Good Taste Scraping

Author:Tom Rush

“I wanted to do a summary of my life and career. There’s been so many different looks, and so many types of songs that have become iconic, so it was just kind of fun to look back on everything”

Looks Kind Different Wanted Song Fun Careers Type Iconic Summary Different Looks

Author:Shania Twain

“I wanted to do a war movie, a western and an alien movie. In reality, there are a lot of ugly things happening in the world.”

World War Reality Wanted Happenings Western Ugly Things Happen Aliens Ugly Things War Movie Aliens Movie

Author:Aaron Eckhart

“I wanted to do a weird book and reestablish my independent, small-press roots.”

Book Wanted Roots Independent Presses

Author:Sherman Alexie

“I wanted to do an acting role in a movie that had nothing to do with the music business or in which I would play a singer or a songwriter. When I act, I don't even want to be thought of as Ne-Yo.”

Want Play Wanted Acting Roles Singers Songwriters Music Business

Author:Ne-Yo

“I wanted to do an action-y thing, purely because I'm the least fit, healthy person in the world. I wanted to prove to myself that I could actually run and not get out of breath and collapse. I wanted to push myself, in that way.”

World Way Persons Running Action Wanted Fit Healthy Prove Breaths Collapse Healthy Person

Author:Kaya Scodelario

“I wanted to do an album that was very simple and very minimal in the context of instrumentation and stuff. I wanted to use as few means as possible to create a very powerful and interesting sound that would breathe.”

Mean Use Wanted Stuff Sound Simple Interesting Powerful Albums Breathe Very Powerful Instrumentation

Author:Sune Rose Wagner

“I wanted to do an episode about Chuck having a gambling problem. I wanted to portray my addiction on the show. But I think it's a little edgy for Saturday night.”

Thinking Littles Shows Problem Wanted Night Addiction Gambling Episodes Saturday Saturday Night Gamer Chuck Edgy Edginess

Author:Fisher Stevens

“I wanted to do an hour-long show, and I wanted to something that was dramatic and sometimes funny and humorous, as well. I'm just delighted to have this opportunity to be a part of this project.”

Wells Long Sometimes Shows Wanted Opportunity Hours Projects Humorous Dramatic Delighted

Author:Ron Glass

“I wanted to do another movie that could make us laugh and cry and feel good about the world. I wanted to do something else that could make us smile. This is a time when we need to smile more and Hollywood movies are supposed to do that for people in difficult times.”

People World Needs Feels Wanted Difficult Laughing Cry Hollywood Smile Feel Good Movie Difficult Times Hollywood Movies Smile More

Author:Steven Spielberg

“I wanted to do Buddy Faro as a small budget movie. They said no. So I wanted to do it as a series of recurring TV movies, and they said no. So I agreed to do it as a series.”

Said Wanted Tvs Series Budgets They Said Buddy Recurring

Author:Dennis Farina

“I wanted to do comic books... as a comic book artist, as an illustrator. But I'm not very good so I thought I should do something else! So I went to a film school when I was seventeen and came out when I was nineteen.”

Should Book Wanted School Film Artist Very Good Comic Comic Book Seventeen Nineteen Film School Illustrators

Author:Gaspar Noe

“I wanted to do dance with the same seriousness as art was done and acknowledged, not with the entertainment factor that is always connected to theater and film.”

Art Done Wanted Film Theater Entertainment Connected Factors Seriousness

Author:Tino Sehgal

“I wanted to do different movies. I wanted to do deeper movies. More human movies based on human feelings.”

Humans Different Feelings Wanted Deeper

Author:Christopher Lambert

“I wanted to do everything once and for all and be through with it.”

Wanted

Author:Sylvia Plath

Source: the bell jar

“I wanted to do everything. I wanted to be a pilot. I wanted to be a secret agent. I wanted to be a fireman and a doctor, all that. So I related that through movies and stuff.”

Wanted Stuff Secret Doctors Agents Related Pilots Firefighter Fireman Secret Agent

Author:Josh Holloway

“I wanted to do for you what you did for me...” “What an answer to prayer!”

God Fiction Learning Encouragement Problem Solving Happy Endings Colorful Troubles Life Struggles Kids Reading

Author:Sophia R. Tyler

Source: The Friendly Mouse

“I wanted to do gigs where you've just got mirrors on the stage, and then you light the crowd so they look at the stage and all they can see is themselves. It's just like, "There you go, it's you, you cunts."”

Looks Light Wanted Stage Mirrors Crowds Gigs

Author:Aphex Twin

“I wanted to do is kind of invoke that and then dive into that kind of repetition as a DJ thing because DJing you hear beats, like "boom, boom, boom, bap, bap." You know hip hop, house, techno. So how do you translate between those electronic motifs and the motifs of the landscape itself? That is what I wanted to go for.”

Knows Kind Wanted House Beats Hip Hop Hips Landscape Hops Translate Repetition Djs Invoke Techno Motifs

Author:DJ Spooky

“I wanted to do justice to texts that are in verse in their original, so I tried to invest my version with a comparable poetic power; hence even more literary fireworks there.”

Wanted Justice Originals Versions Poetic Verses Fireworks

Author:Hal Duncan

“I wanted to do London Boulevard because I saw the potential of a story about two people who need each other desperately, who love at first sight, as one does, and above all a story in which no one is what they appear to be.”

People Needs Firsts Doe Two Stories Wanted Saws Sight London Love At First Sight Boulevard

Author:William Monahan

“I wanted to do my artistic work, and in Iran you have censorship. It was difficult for me to do the work I wanted to do.”

Wanted Difficult Artistic Iran Censorship

Author:Marjane Satrapi

“I wanted to do my part to help preserve that golden age of travel... I step aboard The Patron Tequila Express railcar, and I go back in time to the days when a long journey was something fun and very special.”

Long Helping Age Wanted Fun Steps Journey Special Golden Preserves Golden Age Patron Back In Time Long Journey Go Back In Time Tequila Golden Days

Author:John Paul DeJoria

“I wanted to do new things with dance, adapt it to the motion picture medium.”

Wanted Mediums New Things Motion Pictures

Author:Gene Kelly

“I wanted to do Playboy to get across the same ideas I'm singing and writing about these days. It's all about proving that a woman can defy stereotypes.”

Writing Ideas Wanted Prove Singing These Days Stereotype Playboy

Author:Jody Watley

“I wanted to do pretty much a purely boy story, yes. The girls are kind of the bad guys in 'Marble Season', although that wasn't my intention. It's also a world without adults.”

World Kind Stories Wanted Guy Girl Boys Adults Seasons Intention Bad Guys Marble

Author:Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero

“I wanted to do serious movies. I had a certain idea of what good acting was. That's since changed, and I love doing comedies now. I don't like a lot of those movies now, but I thought those were movies that I could do real, serious performances in.”

Real Acting Comedy Changed Serious

Author:James Franco

“I wanted to do something creatively, having been a beached whale for many months and nursing my daughter.”

Wanted Months Daughter My Daughter Nursing Whales

Author:Tori Amos

“I wanted to do something different. Therefore, the first person I thought would have been too exclusionary. It would have said me, me, me, me, me. I, I, I, I, I. As if I were pushing away my experiences from the experiences of others. Because basically what I was trying to do was show our commonality. I mean to say, in the very ordinariness of what I recount I think perhaps the reader will find resonances with his or her own life.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Firsts Mean Persons Has Beens Said Different Shows Wanted Reader Pushing First Person Resonance Commonality Ordinariness Pushing Away

Author:Paul Auster

“I wanted to do something far from my intellectual and physical home, so I went to live in Beijing for eight months and took Mandarin Chinese.”

Home Wanted Months Intellectual Eight Chinese Beijing

Author:Mira Sorvino

“I wanted to do something for the minority Muslims living in the West, especially in the UK, to bring up their morale a bit. They need to be proud of their religion”

Needs Wanted Bits Proud West Minorities Be Proud Morale

Author:Sami Yusuf

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