I Quotes
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“I wanted to do something new. The world is becoming a global village and we have to understand these different cultures. There is a Danish culture, an Israeli culture and so on. So if you want to go to Denmark, then read the book.”
“I wanted to do something nobody ever did. This goes hand in hand with my goal of changing swimming.”
“I wanted to do something not just commercial but also covetable.”
“I wanted to do something really visual and photogenic.”
“I wanted to do something that dealt with more of paranormal techniques that wasn't a horror movie. It is an action movie that deals with a special operations group. But if a Tier One team went in to take out Bin Laden today, if you had those kind of abilities, of course you would use that kind of group. And it was more going into that arena. And I wanted to make it feel more like, grounded, as if we had this ability.”
“I wanted to do something that small towns would enjoy.”
“I wanted to do something that was entertaining - but with a catch.”
“I wanted to do the comic strip. I tried to get it syndicated, and I sent some examples to a syndication company, and they sent me a rejection letter! I wasn't smart enough at the time to realize you shouldn't let rejection letters stop you. I thought that rejection letter meant I was not allowed to be a cartoonist in this world, so I put the rejection letter down and said, well, I'll be a stand-up comedian.”
“I wanted to do things that had never been seen before so a lot of research went into it. Oh, even though I like Justin, but during Strong Baby I did more research on Craig David Daniel Craig for reference.”
“I wanted to do things to Richard that would make the sun grow cold with horror.”
“I wanted to do two things when I was growing up, about your age. I wanted to play in the NBA, and I wanted to be a businessman after my basketball career was over, and that is what I am doing now.”
“I wanted to do what Marilyn Monroe did (during the Korean War), when she went and just set up a stage and did a concert for the troops all by herself. It's so amazing seeing that one woman just going somewhere, this beautiful sex kitten, who's basically a pinup, which is what I've always aspired to be.”
“I wanted to do with Antarctica was say let's hit the reset button on that and see what happens to your creative process. Let's go to the most remote place that you can imagine, set up a studio and see what music comes out of it.”
“I wanted to drag Shakespeare from obscurity. I've been a fan my whole life.”
“I wanted to drag them all out, flay us all, destroy all the artificial separations of history. You'd merely done what I had, after all--split from two cells into four then eight then sixteen until you've accumulated all your arms and legs and organs and pushed yourself into the world--so fucking what? You honkey, nigger, spic, dyke, cunt. If I cry out, who will hear me?”
Source: Eating Fire: My Life as a Lesbian Avenger
“I wanted to drag us all down into some common pool of feeling, I wanted to stop this conventional machine of awful insincere politeness.”
Source: The Sea, The Sea
“I wanted to dress the woman who lives and works, not the woman in a painting.”
“I wanted to drop the emotional hammer on Steph and tell her my thought: that I would very much like for her to try to find her birth mother before I die, so that I might meet her and say, "Your brought to life an exceptional human being who God divined my sister. And it was indeed divine. Thank you.”
Source: Until I Say Goodbye: A Book about Living
“I wanted to drown inside a woman in the feeling and drooling of the love I could give her. I wanted her pulse to crush me with its intensity. That's what I wanted. That's what I wanted myself to be.”
Source: Getting The Girl
“I wanted to drown myself in her. Drown myself in her sounds, her breath, her body—her blood.”
Source: The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King
“I wanted to eat her pain, take it into me and make it my own.”
“I wanted to eat of the fruit of all the trees in the garden of the world… And so, indeed, I went out, and so I lived. My only mistake was that I confined myself so exclusively to the trees of what seemed to me the sun-lit side of the garden, and shunned the other side for its shadow and its gloom.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays
“I wanted to educate myself about the world and I wanted to know what was happening to people in other countries. I feel now I have only just begun.”
“I wanted to emphasize the fact that I'd matured. I wanted to break away from the image of being the youngest member of Big Bang, as well as the image I gave off on variety shows.”
“I wanted to emulate Bob Flanagan, the high voice in the 'Four Freshmen.' I wanted to sing high like he did.”
“I wanted to emulate my father. I wanted to be as tough as he was. I wanted to do the things that he did. I watched him.”
“I wanted to end it now, like a bad TV show turned off in the middle.”
Source: Back Roads
“I wanted to end the world but,I'll settle for ending yours.”
“I wanted to enjoy the process. I wanted to enjoy just being on stage and giving back and the feedback.”
“I wanted to entertain so badly that I kept at it until I was good. I just browbeat my way into show business.”
“I wanted to escape from love, but didn't know how.”
“I wanted to escape so badly. But of course I knew I couldn't just give up and leave school. It was only when I heard my mom's voice that I came out of my hiding place.”
“I wanted to escape the unrest, to shut out the voices around me and within me, so I write.”
“I wanted to experience both. I wanted worldly enjoyment and divine transcendence. I wanted what the Greeks called kalos kai agathos, the singular balance of the good and the beautiful. I'd been missing both during these last hard years, because both pleasure and devotion require a stress-free space in which to flourish and I'd been living in a giant trash compactor of nonstop anxiety. As for how to balance the urge for pleasure against the longing for devotion...well, surely there was a way to learn that trick.”
“I wanted to experience New York, to look up and see buildings.”
“I wanted to explain myself to myself in an understandable way. I gave shape to my fears and made excuses. I varied my velocities, watched myselves sleep. Something's not right about what I'm doing but I'm still doing it-- living in the worst parts, ruining myself. My inner life is a sheet of black glass. If I fell through the floor I would keep falling.
The enormity of my desire disgusts me.”
Source: War of the Foxes
“I wanted to explain that Chanel’s social life was healthy and well populated, but it was lonely being Emily Doe, my world much smaller, a shrunken circle of confidants. I wondered how it happened that I was now spending more time with my rapist than my friends.”
Source: Know My Name
“I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race - that rarely do I even simply estimate it. I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant...I AM HAUNTED BY HUMANS.”
Source: The Book Thief
“I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race—that rarely do I ever simply estimate it. I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant.”
Source: The Book Thief
“I wanted to explain that trusting is harder than being trusted.”
Source: The Secret Lives of People in Love
“I wanted to explore black culture, and I wanted that culture to be a revelation.”
“I wanted to explore cancer not just biologically, but metaphorically. The idea that tuberculosis in the 19th century possessed the same kind of frightening and decaying quality was very interesting to me, and it seemed that one could explore the idea that every age defined its own illness.”
“I wanted to explore sound, rather than composition and form.”
“I wanted to explore the values that are at work, underpinning my life.”
“I wanted to express myself. I wanted to be creative and I didn't want to worry about someone bossing me around in the process. You have to struggle no matter where you are to get to where you're going, so I'm like, working it honey!”
“I wanted to fall; good thing you pushed me.”
Source: Scrisoare de dragoste
“I wanted to fall in love, real love, and have a husband who loved me back some day, who didn't want me for some crown or ambition—And now you have trapped me here.
- Alice”
Source: Alice in the Land of Clovers
“I wanted to fathom her secrets; I wanted her to come to me and say: "I love you," and if not that, if that was senseless insanity, then...well, what was there to care about? Did I know what I wanted? I was like one demented: all I wanted was to be near her, in the halo of her glory, in her radiance, always, for ever, all my life. I knew nothing more!”
Source: The Gambler
“I wanted to feel good about the way I looked. I didn't understand why style had to be sacrificed for sports technology. I found when going to the gym women were wearing their own tees, without the technology. I started to think, does it make you run faster if you wear that terrible color or sweat less if you wear that horrible fabric? And I challenged it, and the answers were not there to why we were being given poor design work. It was something I wanted to bring to women's wardrobes.”
“I wanted to feel like an artist for once in my life. I wanted to use other producers for respect, to let them know that I listen to other people's music and that I'm just not out here on my own page.”