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“I didn't want to be the girl in the group that couldn't do as much as the boys. I'm very competitive like that.”

“I didn't want to be the girl who posed in 'Playboy' and then - by the way - made some music.”

“I didn't want to be the monster! I didn't want to kill this room full of harmless children! I didn't want to lose everything I'd gained in a lifetime of sacrifice and denial!”

Want Children Loses Rooms Sacrifice Lifetime Monsters Denial

Author:Stephenie Meyer

“I didn't want to be the rebel who was bottom of the class, so I worked hard. They wanted me to stay on for A-Levels, but football came calling - that was my real love.”

Want Real Hard Wanted Levels Class Football Calling Bottom Soccer Rebel Inspirational Love Real Love Inspirational Soccer

Author:Frank Lampard

“I didn't want to be the sissy figure skater, you know.”

Knows Want Sports Figures Figure Skating Skater Sissy

Author:Scott Hamilton

“I didn't want to be the typical teen idol. I didn't want to be Leif Garrett. I didn't want to be Shaun Cassidy, David Cassidy or Parker Stevenson. I wanted to do my own thing.”

Want Wanted My Own Idols Typical

Author:Willie Aames

“I didn't want to be thirtysomething and not know what I was going to do. I was quite afraid of that, there were quite a lot of aimless kids around, in that 'other' side of my life, who didn't really know what to do because they always had a bank balance to fall back on and they were quite lost.”

Knows Want Kids Fall Lost Sides Balance Fall Back Aimless Life

Author:Stella McCartney

“I didn't want to be told what to do. I don't want to water down my music to fit into their formats. I know what rock and roll is to me, but everything's turning into one big commercial.”

Knows Want Bigs Water Rocks Fit Rock And Roll Format

Author:Chris Robinson

“I didn't want to be treated like a 'star.' I fought it constantly, and I think I was rude.”

Thinking Want Stars Treated Rude

Author:Barry Manilow

“I didn't want to become a personality, I wanted to be a musician, but because I didn't have an album to stand by yet it was hard for people to see that. But now, two albums in, I'm happy with things.”

People Want Two Hard Wanted Personality Musician Albums

Author:Florence Welch

“I didn't want to become a professor or get tenure or teach or anything. All I wanted to do was get a degree because Louis Leakey said I needed one, which was right, and once I succeeded I could get back to the field.”

Want Said Wanted Teach Fields Needed Degrees Get Back Professors Tenure

Author:Jane Goodall

“I didn't want to become a pure mathematician, as a matter of fact, my uncle was one, so I knew what the pure mathematician was and I did not want to be a pure - I wanted to do something different.”

Want Different Matter Facts Wanted Pure Mathematician Uncles Matter Of Fact

Author:Benoit Mandelbrot

“I didn't want to become a reserve player, or a bench player, and it was time to move on and take on another challenge.”

Want Motivational Moving Challenges Player Basketball Reserves Benches Time To Move On

Author:Julius Erving

“I didn't want to become an actress because the competition with my mother would have been to much to live up to.”

Want Has Beens Mother Competition Actresses

Author:Isabella Rossellini

“I didn't want to become some embittered old hack getting his revenge for the rest of my life. And I didn't want to become some scared creature cowering in a corner. I remember telling myself not to carry the hatred around, although I know where it is. I have it in a trunk in storage.”

Knows Want Remember Creatures Hatred Scared Corners Revenge Trunks Hacks Storage

Author:Salman Rushdie

“I didn't want to become this stiffened - and that was just a personal choice, at that time. And, the idea was also to go to film first, get enough notoriety in film that I could interpret some of the opera stuff the way I would want to interpret it.”

Way Want Firsts Ideas Enough Film Choices Stuff Opera Notoriety Personal Choice

Author:Robert Davi

“I didn't want to believe that killing was deep inside of me. I didn't want to think about the part of me that took a dark joy in gathering all the power it could and using it as I saw fit, everything else be damned. There was power to be had in hatred, too, in anger and in lust, in selfishness and in pride. And I knew that there was some dark corner of me that would enjoy using magic for killing—and then long for more. That was black magic, and it was easy to use. Easy and fun. Like Legos.”

Thinking Want Believe Long Use Joy Fun Easy Enjoy Black Dark Saws Magic Pride Fit Hatred Killing Corners Lust Selfishness Gathering Deep Inside Dresden Harry Dresden Black Magic Legos

Author:Jim Butcher

Source: The Dresden Files Collection 1-6

“I didn't want to break with my family. I wasn't about to make waves. But I had this feeling I wanted to do something that I liked to do. Acting's what I liked to do most. There must have been a moment when I felt, 'Oh, my God, I like this and what am I going to do about it?”

Want Has Beens Moments Feelings Wanted Felt Acting Break My Family Wave

Author:Charles Kimbrough

“I didn't want to call and schedule shows or call and make people listen to my music. Luckily, my friends and family really stayed on me and made me put myself out there.”

People Want Made Shows My Friends Schedules Family And Friends

Author:Colbie Caillat

“I didn't want to change my personality onstage, but I still had to build some kind of ego to be able to go up there. If not, there's no point.”

Ifs Want Kind Stills Able Personality Ego No Point

Author:Charlotte Gainsbourg

“I didn't want to change the name on the towels.”

Want Names Golf Towels

Author:Lee Trevino

“I didn't want to chase movies. It's too hard. You've got to work at it - opening nights, photo shoots, publicity people, managers. I never wanted to do that. I'm too lazy.”

People Want Hard Wanted Night Opening Managers Lazy Publicity Photo Shoots Opening Night

Author:Robert Sean Leonard

“I didn't want to choose one world. I wanted to be part of both. I didn't want to see only one side of the sky. I wanted to see it all.”

World Want Wanted Sides Sky

Author:Kami Garcia

“I didn't want to come in the movie every so often, every 20 minutes saying, 'Dinner is served, would you like coffee?'”

Want Minutes Dinner Coffee

Author:Michael Caine

“I didn't want to come up with some generic Johnny Bravo type name. I'm not that cool, so I might as well stick with my birth name.”

Want Wells Might Names Type Birth Sticks Come Up Generic Bravo

Author:Colin Hanks

“I didn't want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months.”

Want Deals Months

Author:Tom Wesselmann

“I didn't want to die - not before I'd finished reading The Return of the Native anyhow.”

Want Dies Reading Return Finished Native Wanting To Die

Author:Siegfried Sassoon

Source: The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston

“I didn't want to do 'Casino Royale' when they told me to audition. I said no. Then they sent me the script, and I thought it was actually very interesting - and I had no other work at the time.”

Want Said Interesting Scripts Auditions Very Interesting Casinos Casino Royale

Author:Eva Green

“I didn't want to do a book just to do a book. I wanted to do a book that, if you should read it, you might take one thing from it. Until that was clear in my mind, I wasn't going to do one.”

Ifs Want Should Mind Book Might Wanted Clear One Thing

Author:Bobby Orr

“I didn't want to do a costume drama. It's a great thing to do, but I've done them, and I didn't want to do the same thing again. Of course, costume dramas can be from all different eras, but at the time, I just felt very sure that I didn't want to be boxed in as an English actress. I wanted to be an actress, rather than an English actress.”

Want Different Done Wanted Courses Felt Drama Actresses Great Things Eras Things To Do Costumes Different Eras

Author:Carey Mulligan

“I didn't want to do a double album. I just felt like the last two records I made were like that, and a lot of records I was buying were like that, and it started to feel like it was too much music to digest at once.”

Want Feels Made Two Lasts Felt Records Too Much Albums Buying

Author:Phil Elvrum

“I didn't want to do a throwaway, mindless movie with fart jokes just to make 6-year-olds laugh. I want to provide my children with some substance.”

Want Years Children Actors Laughing Jokes Substance My Children Movie Mindless Fart

Author:Fred Durst

“I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.”

Want Trying Shows Wanted Study Illness Mental Illness Zoos

Author:Daniel Craig

“I didn't want to do an electro-class album or complex rap album. I wanted to do something that was kind of like a political statement, but also club jams. I wanted it to be dancy, but intelligent at the same time.”

Want Kind Wanted Political Class Intelligent Complexes Albums Clubs Rap Statements Jam

Author:Le1f

“I didn't want to do anything my mother wanted me to do so surely I wasn't going to sing for her.”

Want Wanted Mother Firefighter

Author:Linda Lavin

“I didn't want to do casting in a way that you find yourself in a situation where there's this perfect girl for a part and you just can't cast her because the family says no.”

Way Want Girl Perfect Situation Casts Finding Yourself Casting Perfect Girl

Author:Deniz Gamze Erguven

“I didn't want to do eight seasons of How To Build A Fire. The intention was to make something fun and dynamic and about self rescue, not about whittling.”

Want Self Fun Fire Seasons Intention Eight Rescue Whittling Build A Fire

Author:Bear Grylls

“I didn't want to do film or commercials or television. That was cheap. That was selling out. I was the classic liberal, left-wing, 'Theater is going to change the world' kind of person. You know, very, very boring.”

Knows World Want Kind Persons Film Left Television Theater Wings Boring Selling Classic Changing The World Left Wing Selling Out

Author:Stephen Moyer

“I didn't want to do just another set of recipes. I think that's useless.”

Thinking Want Useless Recipes

Author:Paul Prudhomme

“I didn't want to do something that was easy for me.”

Want Easy

Author:Christina Aguilera

“I didn't want to do something typical.”

Want Typical

Author:Beck

“I didn't want to do television at all. I really didn't want to do it. I really thought I was just going to be doing theater and doing movies.”

Want Television Theater

Author:David Morse

“I didn't want to do the obvious role that you see in Hollywood most of the time, which is the heartbroken girl who's waiting to be rescued by the guy, blah, blah, blah. I wanted to do something different.”

Want Heart Different Wanted Guy Girl Waiting Roles Hollywood Obvious Heartbroken Blah

Author:Gal Gadot

“I didn't want to do the sitcom thing, but I didn't know what else to do.”

Knows Want Sitcom Minstrels

Author:William Shatner

“I didn't want to do the whole, get the hottest person thing. I wanted to make sure every record felt right.”

Want Persons Whole Wanted Felt Records Hottest

Author:Pras Michel

“I didn't want to dress anyone in the beginning, no celebrities. Then, very slowly I started with one, two, like that. There are some celebrities whom we dress because they are part of the family. They are women I admire. I don't care how famous she is, if she is at the movies or in a concert.”

Care Admire

Author:Riccardo Tisci

“I didn't want to engage in a campaign where I was defending myself on those issues at every turn, so I just decided that I'd switch and run as a Republican”

Want Running Turns Issues Republican Decided Campaigns Engagement

Author:Rodney Alexander

“I didn't want to even stand next to any high rise building as long as I lived... I didn't even want to go over a bridge.”

Want Long Next Building Bridges

Author:Stephen King

“I didn't want to fall back. But I realized it was more important to make it to the end under my own power than to run flat out in the lead or in second and then run out of fuel with a lap to go.”

Want Important Ends Running Fall My Own Athlete I Realized Fuel Flats Lap Fall Back

Author:Danica Patrick

“I didn't want to fall into the trap of competing with all these other great guitar players. I just want to sidestep the whole thing and get out of the race.”

Want Whole Fall Race Player Guitar Traps Competing Guitar Player

Author:Kirk Hammett

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