“I knew from my youngest age I wanted to be a fashion designer. I was always draping fabric and working with color palettes.” AgeWantedFashionColorDesignerFabricFashion DesignerPalette Author:Catherine Malandrino
“I wanted a baby of color, to be honest, because I wasn't attached to the idea that I look like the biological mother. I liked the idea of the adoption being clear; it was and is not something I am interested in hiding.” LooksIdeasWantedMotherClearHonestColorBabyBeing HonestHidingAdoption Author:Jennifer Gilmore
“I wanted to start a menswear line of slim-fitting, luxury cashmere jumpers in a range of great colors. I know these jumpers will become season-less staples in my own wardrobe. Cashmere and silk printed scarves and hand-beaded T-shirts compliment the line and form a solid foundation for the collection to grow next season.” KnowsHandsWantedFormNextGrowsLinesMy OwnColorSeasonsFoundationLuxuryRangeShirtsCollectionsComplimentT ShirtPrintedFittingWardrobeSilkSlimStaplesScarvesSolid FoundationJumpersCashmere Author:Matthew Williamson
“I start a book and I want to make it perfect, want it to turn every color, want it to be the world. Ten pages in, I've already blown it, limited it, made it less, marred it. That's very discouraging. I hate the book at that point. After a while I arrive at an accommodation: Well, it's not the ideal, it's not the perfect object I wanted to make, but maybeif I go ahead and finish it anywayI can get it right next time. Maybe I can have another chance.” IfsWorldWantWellsMadeI CanBookWantedHateTurnsNextChancePerfectObjectsColorTenPagesIdealsI HateMade ItNext TimeDiscouragingAnother ChanceAccommodations Author:Joan Didion
“By the time I was 11, I wanted to be a comedian. So all those years later, I've managed to achieve my dream as a kid, and it wasn't easy. I'm on the [Hollywood] Walk of Fame and I'm one of the 25 most influential Hispanics in America, according to Time Magazine. I think my duty is to go back and tell kids, 'Whatever color you are, wherever you come from, anything and everything is possible.' And I'm living proof.” ThinkingYearsDreamKidsWantedAmericaEasyWalksAchieveColorDutyFameHollywoodProofMagazinesComedianInfluentialAnything And EverythingLiving ProofTime Magazine Author:George Lopez
“In the first two years of my career, there were a lot of restraints on what I could do. I couldn't wear certain colors of lipstick, like bright pink, dark pink or red; [my lips] had to be natural. Eventually, I stopped communicating with certain people at the label, and did exactly what I wanted to do. And that was to cut my hair, dye it black, change my clothes, change my sound. Really to just express myself.” PeopleYearsFirstsTwoWantedCertainSoundBlackNaturalDarkCareersCuttingColorHairClothesRedLipsCommunicateLabelsTwo YearsRestraintLipstickHair Dye Author:Rihanna
“Lyndon Johnson wanted to emancipate the whites as much as people of color, because he knew how, particularly in the South, but not only in the South, we were so restricted. And he wanted everybody to live up to the best that God gave them and use those tools of education and have good health care, to be able to do the things to make America great.” PeopleUseCareAbleWantedAmericaColorToolsSouthHealth CareJohnsonGood HealthGood Health Care Author:Lynda Bird Johnson Robb
“Any artist, in any field, wants to press deeper, to discover further. Image and sound play are among the strongest colors available to poetry's palette. For a long time, I've wanted to invite in more strangeness, more freedom of imagination. Yet music, seeing, and meaning are also cohering disciplines. They can be stretched, and that is part of poetry's helium pleasure. But not to the point of breaking.” WantLongPlayWantedArtistSoundImaginationPleasureSeeingFieldsColorDisciplineLong TimePressesAvailableDeeperStrongestInvitesStrangenessPaletteHelium Author:Jane Hirshfield
“Everything does come from nature. That's where you get new ideas. Just draw the landscape. I felt doing it with a bit of burnt wood was also good because I was drawing burnt wood with a piece of wood. I wanted to do black and white. After using color, I thought black and white would be good. You can have color in black and white. There is color in them, actually.” DoeIdeasWould BeWantedFeltBitsBlackWhitePiecesColorDrawsWoodsBe GoodDrawingLandscapeBlack And WhiteNew Ideas Author:David Hockney
“I'm a woman of color. I've lived in black neighborhoods all of my life, and most of the time I get hit on in my neighborhood - and mostly by black men. And so I wanted to have my specific experience and my perspective on street harassment out there.” MenWantedBlackStreetsColorPerspectiveNeighborhoodHarassmentStreet Harassment Author:Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
“I feel like this is a feminist issue and is going to be a part of a feminist conversation, and I wanted images of women of color in that conversation - feminism historically has left us out.” FeelsWantedLeftIssuesFeminismColorConversationFeminist Author:Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
“I feel like we're looked at as either completely nonsexual characters or overly sexual characters, and I feel like that affects how we're treated in the public space by men. I believe that women of color experience street harassment in a very hyper way. So I wanted to draw these women in their very normal, regular states and put those images out there in the public for people to see, instead of these other, very sexualized, images of women.” PeopleMenWayFeelsBelieveStatesCharacterWantedI BelieveSpaceStreetsColorNormalDrawsTreatedHarassmentHyperStreet Harassment Author:Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
“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.” IfsThinkingWayFeelsDoeRunningWantedFoundGivenSportsAnswersPoorTechnologyStyleDesignColorTerribleHorribleFeel GoodFasterWorking ItGymSweatFabricWardrobeTeesDesign Work Author:Stella McCartney
“I was actually hoping the Royals would pick me. It was the main team I wanted to go to. Their colors are Royal blue and that's my favorite color.?” WantedTeamColorPicksBlueMy FavoriteRoyalPick MeFavorite ColorRoyal Blue Author:Zack Greinke
“When I grew up I assembled my role models à la cart. I wanted to be an astrophysicist. If I tried to find a role model who grew up in the Bronx with my skin color who was an astrophysicist, I would never have become an astrophysicist.” IfsWantedRolesColorGrewGrew UpModelsSkinsRole ModelsCartsSkin ColorBronx Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“[ Blue is the Warmest Color ] was really a film about two people having to go through a relationship which everyone knew would lead to a breakup and the pain that that entails. Anybody can see that story, what leads to that, and identify with it. As a filmmaker, I wanted to construct this identification process with the characters so that you fully connect to their emotions and what their breakup [represents].” PeopleTwoCharacterStoriesWantedPainFilmProcessEmotionColorBlueFilmmakerBreakupConstructsIdentification Author:Abdellatif Kechiche
“I don't care what color your hair is, if you're pale or tan, if you have makeup on or just woke up all I care about is that when I look at you, you always look back and see me. You're beautiful inside and out and if you wanted to tattoo all that pretty white skin from head to toe I would be honored to put it there for you but if not I'll take you all smooth and milky white any chance I get.” IfsLooksWould BeCareWantedBeautifulChanceWhiteColorHairSkinsDon't CareI Don't CareMakeupPaleI CareSmoothTattooToesHonoredYou Re BeautifulBeautiful InsideWhite SkinBeautiful Inside And Author:Jay Crownover
“Whitney Houston came in. Someone dared me to do "the Gap act" on her. You know, the Gap act. So I went up to her like I didn't know who she was, and I said, 'Hi, I just wanted to let you know about our sale items and make sure to check out our new colors'. She looked at me like I was crazy.” KnowsSaidWantedCrazyColorChecksGapsItemsHoustonWhitney Author:Amy Adams
“I wanted to separate color from race. Distinguishing color - light, black, in-between - as the marker for race is really an error.” LightWantedBlackRaceColorErrorsMarkers Author:Toni Morrison
“The documentary we are working on is about my mother, Bev Umehara, for whom our film company, Bev's Girl Films, is named after. It is a passion project that I have wanted to make since her unexpected passing in 1999. The film is about my mother's calling which came late in life, at 47, when she made the sudden transformation from a humble hardworking secretary and mother of four, into a labor activist, a respected union leader, and a role model for rank-and-file workers, women of color, and for all Asian Pacific Americans.” MadeWantedFilmMotherGirlPassionCompanyLeaderRolesFourColorCallingProjectsLateModelsLaborTransformationUnionsWorkersHumblePassingPassingsUnexpectedActivistRole ModelsSecretaryDocumentariesAsianFilesPacificHardworking Author:Garth Kravits
“I get letters from kids from all over the country. I always try to answer them because there were people I looked up to in my youth and just wanted to be in contact with. It's also important to realize that you find your role models in a lot of different places. I've never believed that your role models have to look like you. You can find them in all sort of colors, shapes and sizes.” PeopleTryingLooksImportantDifferentCountryKidsWantedRealizingAnswersRolesYouthColorLike YouShapesModelsLettersSizeContactRole ModelsDifferent Place Author:Condoleezza Rice
“I've spoken about this completely independent of this movie prior to ever being attached to this film that as a kid the first movie that I remember seeing that resonated with me was the Wizard of Oz. I think just visually the color, the spectrum of it and how fantastical it was and how much you wanted to live in that world, for a nine-year old was so magical and so grand so I have the greatest, fondest memories of it.” ThinkingWorldYearsFirstsKidsWantedRememberFilmMemoriesSeeingColorIndependentNineWizardsSpectrumNine Years Author:Mila Kunis
“[Princess Margaret] was loud, an extrovert, an exhibitionist, loved fashion, loved color, loved music, loved drama, loved the theater, wanted to be a ballerina or actress, was always the little one putting on the school plays, and [princess] Elizabeth reluctantly did it and got stage fright.” LittlesPlayWantedSchoolStageFashionColorDramaTheaterActressesLoudPrincessFrightBallerinaExtrovertsStage FrightSchool PlaysExhibitionist Author:Vanessa Kirby
“I was going through a time where I was like man I wanted all of my clothes to be totally understated and I would do pop color with hats from a line called Ale et Ange out of New york City. They created all these hats and I just thought they were super fresh and the only way that I could really get them across...I was just like, 'Let me make everything mute and just put on the hat.'” MenWayWantedLinesCitiesNew YorkColorClothesLet MePopsHatsNew York CityMuteAleUnderstated Author:Pusha T
“Let's start with the black glove. We felt it necessary being the fact that the Olympic Games, for the first time ever [in 1968], had been televised worldwide. The second thing is the fact that it was in Technicolor. Never had the games been shown in color before.We wanted it to be understood that we were representing America, but we were representing Black America in particular, so that's why we put the black glove on.” FirstsFactsWantedAmericaGamesFeltBlackParticularColorUnderstoodFirst TimeRepresentingGlovesOlympic GamesBlack America Author:John Carlos
“The black socks [on me at Olympics in 1968] emphasized the fact that we had so many Blacks and people of color here in the United States, the greatest country in the world, that was running around in poverty every day, so we wanted to illustrate the fact that these individuals did not have shoes and they had to walk 20 miles to and from school every day with no shoes in the greatest country in the world.” PeopleWorldCountryStatesFactsRunningWantedSchoolIndividualBlackWalksUnitedPovertyUnited StatesColorShoesMilesOlympicsSock Author:John Carlos
“The type of acting that I'm interested in, that I aspire to, is where I try and drag a lot of myself into whatever character it is. They can be very different types of characters, but at the heart of it, I always wanted to be a very, very believable and rooted in reality. One of the ways of doing that is to root it as much as you can in your own experiences and then tint those with different hues, different colors to give the different characters their way.” WayGivingTryingHeartDifferentCharacterRealityWantedActingColorTypeRootsRootedDragAspireHueBelievableDifferent CharactersDifferent Colors Author:Tobias Menzies
“I've only wanted paper and beautiful colors. It was my dream, and it still is my dream. And books. They're all I need, and the rest I can do without.” NeedsStillsI CanBookDreamWantedBeautifulCan DoColorPaperBeautiful Colors Author:Karl Lagerfeld
“Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.” WritingWholeWantedPoliticalExistenceColorExperiencePursueVocation Author:Honore de Balzac
“For my prom I really wanted to wear a bright color - something that was going to pop and stand out.” WantedColorPopsStanding OutPromBright Colors Author:Shay Mitchell
“You gotta understand, when moving images first started, people wanted sound, color, big screen and depth.” PeopleFirstsBigsWantedMovingSoundColorDepthScreensBig Screen Author:Martin Scorsese
“We wanted to step off our island and add the color of the third world. We got gold cigarette paper and stuck it around our teeth. We really did look like pirates and dressed to look the part.” WorldLooksWantedArtistStepsColorPaperGoldThirdsAddStuckTeethIslandsCigarettePirateThird World Author:Vivienne Westwood