“Singers actually used to begin singing at a much younger age than they do now. I would say for me, I started late. But it's not unusual. I discovered I had a voice. I wanted to be a pianist when I was seven, and circumstances didn't allow that I studied it.” AgeWantedUsedVoiceCircumstancesLateSingingSevenSingersUnusualPianist Author:Dolora Zajick
“I think I always knew that I wanted to adopt. It never meant that I didn't want to have my own children - I always felt that if I were in the right circumstances then I would totally have my own children.” IfsThinkingWantChildrenWantedFeltMy OwnCircumstances Author:Kristen Stewart
“It was a great circumstance when I received the script of [Chloe] and Atom [Egoyan] said he wanted me to do it. I was inclined to say 'yes' immediately.” SaidWantedCircumstancesScriptsAtomsChloe Author:Julianne Moore
“The sign, which says: "Do not, under any circumstances, open this door!" - Of course, I've read it. Why do you think I want it opened?.. To see why they wanted it shut, of course. This exchange contains almost all you need to know about human civilization. At least, those bits of it that are now under the sea, fenced off or still smoking.” ThinkingKnowsWantNeedsHumansStillsWantedCoursesBitsDoorsSeaCircumstancesCivilizationSmokingHuman CivilizationRidcully Author:Terry Pratchett
“I was hoping to do an impressionist painting, but I wanted a good likeness and I wanted to create a feeling of the lady as a person, as a human being rather than as a figurehead for the monarchy and a pomp-and-circumstance sort of formal portrait. I wanted more of a relaxed portrait.” HumansPersonsFeelingsWantedHuman BeingsPaintingCircumstancesFormalPortraitsRelaxedMonarchyImpressionists Author:Rolf Harris
“I was working on other things and I wanted to make a film, and I had some ideas brewing in my head. Brandy's [ Burre] circumstance was such that I didn't really know what was going to happen. That was obviously a surprise, but I knew she was in her mid-to-late thirties and she was starting to really think about her life in a way that really appealed to me, appealed to the women that I know in my life.” ThinkingKnowsWayIdeasHappensWantedFilmCircumstancesLateSurpriseStartingBrewingBrandy Author:Robert Greene
“I actually wanted to publish [ interview with Donald Trump about Citizen Kane] in the New York Times, but the circumstances under which I did that movie made me vulnerable to a lawsuit and at this point in my career, I don't want to go there. But it's amazing.” WantMadeWantedCareersNew YorkTrumpCitizensCircumstancesVulnerableInterviewsPublishNew York TimesLawsuitCitizen Kane Author:Errol Morris
“It's really interesting - I wanted to become an actress when I was young because I wanted to do romantic comedy. And I did a lot of comedies very early on, but then my career took kind of a left turn with Joss Whedon, and I discovered that doing genre work is actually more interesting as an actor, because the given circumstances are more extreme. And it really is creatively more challenging.” KindWantedYoungTurnsActorsLeftGivenChallengesInterestingCareersComedyCircumstancesExtremesActressesGenreReally Interesting Author:Julie Benz
“If a night-moth were to concentrate its will on flying to a star or some equally unattainable object, it wouldn't succeed. Only, it wouldn't even try in the first place. A moth confines its search to what has sense and value for it, what it needs, what is indispensable to its life... if I imagined that I wanted under all circumstances to get to the North Pole, then to achieve it I would have to desire it strongly enough that my whole being was ruled by it. But if I were to decide to will that the pastor should stop wearing his glasses, it would be useless. That would be making a game of it.” IfsNeedsShouldTryingFirstsEnoughWholeWould BeWantedDesireNightValuesGamesStarsAchieveObjectsCircumstancesSucceedGlassesFlyingUselessPastorIndispensableUnattainableMothsNorth Pole Author:Hermann Hesse
“The perfect life, the perfect lie, I realised after Christmas, is one which prevents you from doing that which you would ideally have done (painted, say, or written unpublishable poetry) but which, in fact, you have no wish to do. People need to feel that they have been thwarted by circumstances from pursuing the life which, had they led it, they would not have wanted; whereas the life they really want is precisely a compound of all those thwarting circumstances.” PeopleWantNeedsFeelsHas BeensDoneFactsWantedLyingWishPerfectWrittenCircumstancesRealisedCompoundsPerfect Life Book:Out of Sheer Rage: In the Shadow of D. H. Lawrence Source: Out of Sheer Rage: In the Shadow of D. H. Lawrence