“I took little interest in fleshly infants; it being my private opinion that their attractions did not justify the fuss that was made about them. I had, for instance, early discovered that, if you gave a baby a finger to hold, it held it. This was perhaps interesting, but it wanted greatly in the dear element of surprise.” IfsLittlesMadeWantedInterestInterestingOpinionBabyElementsSurpriseFingersDearAttractionInstanceJustifyInfantElement Of Surprise Book:The Singing Gold Source: The Singing Gold
“I started to write a lot of ballads that were sultry and had a Norah Jones-for-country kind of feel. I wanted to bring elements of old soul music and old country music.” FeelsWritingKindSoulCountryWantedElementsBalladsMusic SoulOld Soul Author:Laura Bell Bundy
“The fact that I didn't finish school left me with a lifelong need to prove that I'm smart, prove it to myself, maybe to the world. I [also] needed to be - not the center of attention - but I needed to be able to attract attention when I wanted it, through my stunts and my fooling around physically with faces or postures or voices I would do. Those things are important elements in the drive behind all of this [my career].” WorldNeedsImportantFactsAbleWantedSchoolFacesLeftVoiceBehindsAttentionCareersNeededProveElementsSmartLifelongPostureProve ItFooling AroundCenter Of Attention Author:George Carlin
“I love every aspect of the show. I've been very involved. It was important for me to be very involved in, you know, all of the creative elements. And so, you know, it - David, you know, being brought onto the show, you know, that - I always just wanted to make sure that we maintained the sophistication and intelligence of (the) - and the comedy that we were able to establish in the mini-series.” KnowsImportantShowsAbleWantedCreativeComedyInvolvedElementsAspectSeriesSophistication Author:Debra Messing
“When I was a film critic, the reason I kind of found it disenchanting was because the things that I wanted to talk about were the ideas in the movie, the theme of it, and contextual elements that weren't necessarily central to the story. But the only thing people really wanted was a plot description and how many stars I'd give it. It didn't matter how much effort you put into writing a piece, they looked at it solely as a consumer's guide toward going or not going to films.” PeopleGivingWritingKindIdeasMatterReasonStoriesWantedFilmFoundStarsEffortPiecesElementsCriticsGuidesConsumersThemeDescriptionPlotFilm Critics Author:Chuck Klosterman
“It was shocking to see a leg! You've never seen a leg in these stories. We made it a little saloon girl. We played up on many elements because everything is just very covered and the tights are very thick and heavy. And then to have it all fell apart, absolutely, we wanted to see the leg!” LittlesMadeStoriesWantedGirlElementsHeavyLegsMade ItCoveredThickShockingTightsSaloons Author:Jerusha Hess
“There's an element of realism to it. I immersed myself more in the subject as a young adult. Then I started to get involved with a lot of people that were involved in it, and they would just bring me along basically. And I learned and decided that my Christian charity, what I wanted to do to serve God's will, was to help people that were ensnared by the demonic.” PeopleHelpingWantedChristianYoungSubjectsInvolvedElementsAdultsDecidedCharityYoung AdultGods WillRealismServing GodGet InvolvedDemonic Author:Ralph Sarchie
“My roots are very closely tied to the DNA of the brand. Growing up in Serbia where women are unapologetically very feminine, I came to London and realised that I wanted to keep this feminine element but give it a twist and challenge ideas of classical beauty.” GivingIdeasWantedChallengesGrowing UpGrowingElementsRootsLondonBrandsFeminineTiedDnaTwistsRealisedSerbia Author:Roksanda Ilincic
“It's to a writer's advantage to contain within himself elements of each sex, or any sex. It's to his advantage because it makes him able to write from the female point of view as well as the male. In some cases, of course, you will find some homosexual writers who can only write from a f - - -'s point of view. But I don't regard myself as a f - - -! Some people may. Also audiences wanted escapism. They don't like too much protest or criticism of their way of life.” PeopleWayWritingWellsMayAbleWantedCoursesSexViewsCasesAudienceToo MuchElementsAdvantageFemaleCriticismRegardMalesPoint Of ViewProtestHomosexualEscapism Author:Tennessee Williams
“She [Joni Mitchell] wanted to have that (jazz) element in her music. Of course, when she heard Jaco's [Jaco Pastorius'] music and met him, that floored her -- really grabbed her. She decided that Wayne Shorter was really conducive to her music. She would speak metaphorically about things. "I want this to sound like a taxicab driver, or a taxi in New York," or "I want this to sound like a telephone ringing." She would speak to musicians like that, and we really tuned into what she would want our music to be.” WantWantedCoursesSpeakSoundHeardNew YorkMetsElementsMusicianDecidedJazzDriversTelephonesTaxiWayne Author:Don Alias
“As I've gotten older, now I've really got to back that up with record sales. Anytime showed me that I could still have some of those elements I wanted, but you still have to come with hit after hit after hit.” StillsWantedRecordsElements Author:Brian McKnight
“Most pop albums I was looking at as examples to point out production elements had a song that made you want to dance. I've been listening to electronic music forever and I just wanted to have something dancey.” WantMadeWantedSongForeverExampleListeningElementsAlbumsProductionsPopsElectronic Music Author:Michelle Chamuel
“And having those mystical elements you see in Asian cinema and certainly Asian martial arts cinema, it's something that we wanted to begin to introduce - the idea of spirituality and the idea of there being something else out in the world besides people who are great fighters.” PeopleWorldArtIdeasWantedSpiritualityElementsFighterCinemaMartial ArtsIntroducingMysticalAsian Author:Alfred Gough
“We always wanted to make a comedy that was a little bit more than that, which had tragic elements to it... that people engaged with - an intelligent comedy essentially.” PeopleLittlesWantedBitsComedyElementsLittle BitIntelligentEngagedTragic Author:Alice Lowe
“I guess I think that sex and desire and humiliation are central to my experience of consciousness - to my experience of humanness - and I wanted to explore the ways that they circle around and approach and fail to add up to love, or the ways that those three terms - sex, desire, love - can in some lights seem synonymous and in others like elements entirely alien to one another.” ThinkingWayLightSeemsWantedDesireThreeSexTermConsciousnessFailingElementsApproachAddCirclesAliensHumiliationHumannessDesire Love Author:Garth Greenwell
“For me, the greatest source of frustration was trying to work with a willful child when there was something else I wanted - say, to get the child to go to bed so I could have my own time. Just the promise of the time, and feeling that promise slip away, was enough to introduce a whole other element of stress into the encounter.” TryingChildrenEnoughWholeFeelingsWantedMy OwnSourcePromiseBedElementsStressEncountersFrustrationSlipsIntroducing Author:Carolyn Hax
“I really tried to push every genre that I could into this record. I wanted every song to have this feel, where as soon as the listener tunes in, they say "That's CoJo, that's Cody right there." That being said, it is a little different. There's Americana, there's Bluegrass, there's some rock, there's some really George Jones-style stuff on it, slow-style Ray Price country elements, there's some modern country, a little of this and a little of that. We tried to push a lot for show versatility, because I grew up with a lot of versatility in my music.” FeelsLittlesSaidDifferentCountryShowsWantedSongStuffRecordsModernRocksStyleGrewElementsGrew UpGenreTunesRaysListenersBluegrassVersatilityAmericanaGeorge Jones Author:Cody Johnson
“I started out in theatre and I definitely have wanted to add extra musical elements to my music with both imagery and text.” WantedElementsAddMusicalTheatreExtrasImagery Author:Glenn Branca
“David Bowie used to cover loads of people, and there was an element of "David Bowie did it, so we wanted to do it," because we're kind of obsessed [with him].” PeopleKindWantedUsedElementsObsessedLoadBowie Author:Simon Taylor-Davis
“I wanted to make a massive work so as soon as Nick Mitzevich invited me I said yes straight away and began to make the work. The island was made in direct response. I used the diagnostic tool of Rorschach blots - something designed to extract and evaluate the dark and unconscious elements of our personality.” MadeSaidWantedUsedDarkPersonalityElementsToolsDirectResponseIslandsUnconsciousMassiveInvitedEvaluateRorschach Author:Ben Quilty
“George was the easy part. As for Michael, I had always liked the name, and my father's brother is named Michael. I thought it was a good idea because there are a lot of Greeks in England with the second name of Michael; as a child I had a Greek friend whose second name was Michael. It was like getting the name that I wanted without having to get rid of the Greek element.” ChildrenIdeasWantedFatherNamesEasyBrotherElementsEnglandGreekGood Ideas Author:George Michael
“Growing up, I always wanted to be in punk bands, so I'm really enjoying the harder, heavier element. It's always been my dream to have people moshing at my gig, kind of that really feral element of the music coming out more. I love crowd-surfing.” PeopleKindDreamWantedEnjoyGrowing UpGrowingBandElementsHarderCrowdsComing OutPunkSurfingGigs Author:Florence Welch
“Fall 2013 was inspired by the 1970s equestrian lifestyle. I wanted to incorporate the moody and romantic - intricate baroque detailing and classic menswear elements - with something tougher and edgier in a nod to London's rock n' roll underground.” WantedFallRocksElementsInspiredLondonLifestyleClassicRock N RollIntricateMoodyBaroqueEquestrian Author:Rachel Zoe
“The central question is, is this guy right? Or is he mad? What do you, the reader, think about this? Which struck me as a properly anarchist solution. I didn't want to tell people what to think, I just wanted to tell people to think and consider some of these admittedly extreme little elements, which nevertheless do recur fairly regularly throughout human history.” PeopleThinkingWantHumansLittlesWantedGuyReaderElementsSolutionsMadExtremesNeverthelessThis GuyHuman HistoryAnarchist Author:Alan Moore
“I had always wanted to love Eve as Denny loved her, but I never had because I was afraid. She was my rain. She was my unpredictable element. She was my fear. But a racer should not be afraid of the rain; a racer should embrace the rain. I, alone, could manifest a change around me. By changing my mood, my energy, I allowed Eve to regard me differently. And while I cannot say that I am a master of my own destiny, I can say that I have experienced a glimpse of mastery, and I know what I have to work toward.” KnowsShouldI CanWantedEnergyMy OwnDestinyMastersElementsRainRegardEmbraceMoodManifestMasteryUnpredictableGlimpseRacers Author:Garth Stein