I Quotes
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“I wanted to feel like I could extend someone else's joy and not crush it, and that is the giant paradox nowadays of being a powerful woman: you want to live in a space of compassion and helpfulness and joy and expression, and the world is standing there, pointing the finger at you and telling you that you're greedy and domineering and attention-grabbing, and all you can do is shrug and just say, "Hopefully, someone out there understands and isn't misinterpreting."”
“I wanted to feel like I could open my mouth and fill it with Pepper's flesh, close my teeth on her skin and tear it away, making blood pump like a fountain over everything - rug, clothes, hair, face - both Violet and I stopped in midair. Pepper's eyes had flooded with tears. It was too easy, she was enjoying this. Her body softened like a sponge waiting to soak up my punches. Her lips smiled the same way Valerie's did. It was as if I had discovered maggots in her flesh. I recoiled from her where she lay on the bed like a piece of rotting meat.”
Source: Swimming Underground: My Years in the Warhol Factory
“I wanted to feel morose and romantic; I wanted to do penance at the altar of greatness.”
Source: The Final Revival of Opal & Nev
“I wanted to feel my life while I was living it. I did not want to get to the end of my life not loving what I was meant to love.”
“I wanted to feel the blood running back into my veins, even at the cost of annihilation. I wanted to shake the stone and light out of my system. I wanted the dark fecundity of nature, the deep well of the womb, silence, or else the lapping of the black waters of death. I wanted to be that night which the remorseless eye illuminated, a night diapered with stars and trailing comets. To be of night so frighteningly silent, so utterly incomprehensible and eloquent at the same time. Never more to speak or to listen or to think.”
Source: Tropic of Capricorn
“I wanted to fight to get into the front. I was just hungry to do it.”
“I wanted to figure out how long to cook things. I did some experiments and then wrote a program using Mathematica to model how heat is transferred through food.”
“I wanted to figure out why I was so busy, but I couldn't find the time to do it.”
“I wanted to fill it with the hurt I felt. It's a very lively song, but the lyrics are really sad.
Yesterday's you
Now I see it all
So many thorns on a sprouting rose
I want to give you a hug”
Source: Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS
“I wanted to finally feel better about understanding. I painted my wife because I wanted to understand her. I can talk to her, but I didn't understand why I was so compelled.”
“I wanted to find a cave and hang out there for the rest of my life and be a cave painter and eat dirt.”
“I wanted to find a nice quiet spot, go to sleep, and dream about kittens.”
Source: Dark Light of Mine
“I wanted to find a place to hide from all of it, where the nightmares and the rivers and reality couldn't find me. For me, that place was always inside a book.”
“I wanted to find a way to speak for people. It was important for me, because so many people spoke for me when I was a kid and made me feel less invisible, and I wanted kids or whoever is listening to my music not to feel so voiceless.”
“I wanted to find a workplace where I could fit in and just be myself. I wanted work that was meaningful and to receive credit for the work I did. I wanted a family.”
“I wanted to find my limitations so I decided to do Shylock. And if I fail? I've never been afraid of that. I have other fears - doing bad work knowingly is the worst fear.”
“I wanted to find out if we went to the NFL and really took care of guys, really cared about each and every individual, what would happen?”
“I wanted to find out why I wasn't getting off on what I was doing and try and make some sense out of the evolution of it.”
“I wanted to find ways for colleges and universities to become involved with public schools to help young people prepare for college.”
“I wanted to finish my career as a Steeler. I felt I just fit the mold as far as a blue-collar guy. I may not be the flashiest, most flamboyant wide receiver out there. But I get the job done for my team.”
“I wanted to finish on a stronger note. Fighting through that routine, you know what I was like, 'I'm just fighting through.'”
“I wanted to fly into the sky and grab onto an airplane and fade away into the distance.”
Source: Radio Silence
“I wanted to fly when I was little. I still want to fly.”
“I wanted to focus on songs that I was inspired by growing up. I love so many of them from the last 100 years, but I really wanted, for my first step forward, to choose material that has inspired me and got me into the world of musical theater.”
“I wanted to follow the path of music and feel that power, and I couldn't turn back.”
“I wanted to forget the past, but it refused to forget me; it waited for sleep, then cornered me.”
Source: Lady Oracle
“I wanted to forgive my mom and my dad so badly for the deep hurt they caused, the fear their broken marriage invoked in me, but I also didn’t want to pretend anymore. Pretending is exhausting.”
Source: This Undeserved Life: Uncovering The Gifts of Grief and The Fullness of Life
“I wanted to further my education, so I went on to get a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and came back and served about ten years in the Canadian Navy as what we call a combat systems engineer.”
“I wanted to get a guitar [when I was 13] so I could play punk songs because kid taught me power chords at summer camp. He was like, "You could play all punk songs if you just learn this chord and just move it around on the guitar".”
“I wanted to get a job as a gynecologist, but I couldn't find an opening.”
Source: 3 x Carlin: An Orgy of George including Brain Droppings, Napalm and Silly Putty, and When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?
“I wanted to get a tape recorder, but I got a parrot instead. I think I did that joke backwards.”
“I wanted to get an angel wings tatooed on my back, as a guardian thing.”
“I wanted to get away from having a minister who pretends to be a certain type of role model. I don't want my life to serve as an example for anyone.”
“I wanted to get away from my past and everything connected with it.”
“I wanted to get away from the Mexican vernacular and do more 'nuevo Latino.' Americans are starting to understand regionality in Mexican food. It is very regional in terms of ingredients.”
“I wanted to get away,' said she; 'everybody wants to plague and worry me about nothing. They'll be all right tomorrow. What's worrying them?'
'They are sacrificing to our Canadian God,' said Solly. 'We all believe that if we fret and abuse ourselves sufficiently, Providence will take pity and smile upon anything we attempt. A light heart, or a consciousness of desert, attracts ill luck. You have been away from your native land too long. You have forgotten our folkways. Listen to that gang over there; they are scanning the heavens and hoping aloud that it won't rain tomorrow. That is to placate the Mean Old Man in the Sky, and persuade him to be kind to us.”
Source: Tempest-tost
“I wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and fantasy themes.”
“I wanted to get clean. I knew that my highest potential, the place that I was most spiritual, the place that I was the most rich in terms of my life, and my livelihood, and my art and my creativity, was when I was sober.”
“I wanted to get everything right. I was super nerdy and academic. I got so much satisfaction out of getting good grades.”
“I wanted to get far away from those who believed in cruelty, so then I went to France, a land of true freedom, democracy, equality and fraternity.”
“I wanted to get free. (129)”
Source: Fresh Off the Boat
“I wanted to get from 4th street to 8th... Then I remembered Einstein postulating that parallel lines eventually meet. They're dredging my car from Lake Michigan as we speak.”
“I wanted to get in the ring and be like Muhammad Ali.”
“I wanted to get it all down on paper; a record of what happened----just in case something did happen to me---- and to try and convince myself that I was not living in a state of permanent delusion. But why should you accept this story as given? It’s just a story----my story. And like all stories, it isn’t, in the pure sense of the word, true. It’s just my version of the truth. Which means it is----and isn’t----true at all.”
Source: The Woman in the Fifth
“I wanted to get it all down, maybe out of my system. I wanted to be able to say, Everything's possible-if you believe and can get excited.”
Source: Andrew Wyeth: Autobiography
“I wanted to get lost to find myself.”
“I wanted to get more serialized. I had this idea for an event that would click onto everybody's mortality. I said, "I want somebody to die." Fortunately for me, when I was toying with that idea, John Landgraf, who's the head of FX but also a very smart executive, came up with the idea of the ashes in the maracas. He called me up and said, "Listen, what about this, they get the ashes in a box and when they get them, they shake them and they sound like maracas." And I was like, "Okay, now I've got my throughline."”
“I wanted to get my movie noticed WITHOUT spending any ad money. So I made a bit of a spectacle. I recorded lots of podcasts. I bickered with hate groups. I criticized critics. I banged pots together. I did everything I could to raise awareness without raising any money to do so.”
“I wanted to get my recording and become a musician again, work; with other people, do that kind of thing because I kind of got away from that for a while once we started happening, you know, selling records, sold out concerts.”
“I wanted to get out of Mississippi in the worst way. Go back? What I want to go back for?”