“With a book called 'Keeping Score,' I really did want to write a book about the Korean War, because I felt that it is the least understood war in the American cultural imagination. So I set out with the idea that Americans didn't know much about the Korean War and that I was going to try to fix a tiny bit of that.” KnowsWantWritingTryingBookIdeasWarFeltBitsImaginationUnderstoodTinyScoreKoreanKorean War Author:Linda Sue Park
“I have always felt extremely weird. But I am very happy with my weirdnesses, and I want other people to be very happy with theirs.” PeopleWantFeltVery HappyWeirdness Author:Alice Sebold
“I felt that I didn't want to be in show business anymore. I felt that I wanted to be a farmer. I was milking cows and shoveling terrible stuff and working all day. By the end of the day, all I wanted was my tap shoes - I thought, 'What am I doing? I better get back where I belong on the stage where we work at night and can sleep late!” WantEndsShowsMotivationalWantedNightFeltStuffSleepStageTerribleLateDanceShoesThe End Of The DayGet BackFarmersCowsShow BusinessSleep LateMilking Cows Author:Gregory Hines
“I don't want to waste the precious moments I have, and I've felt that way since I was 17. I have to take risks because why else would you be alive? Put your pirate patch on and go on an adventure because you only have one life to live.” WayWantMomentsFeltAliveRiskAdventureGoes OnWastePatchesPirateOne Life To LivePrecious Moments Author:Kathleen Hanna
“The day Caleb touched my hand and I saw all those things, I was excited. Yes, a little freaked but excited more. I felt like...everything I ever needed was right there. I still feel like that. It's not something you can just turn off and I wouldn't want to. I want him more than I need him.” WantNeedsFeelsLittlesStillsHandsTurnsFeltSawsNeededExcitedTouchedWant HimTurn OffCalebI Need Him Author:Shelly Crane
“I know how it feels to be completely alone and helpless, and the last thing you want to hear in that situation is, 'It's going to be OK.' "The only thing that seems to really help is that someone else who has felt that low expressing those feelings to you.” KnowsWantFeelsHelpingFeelingsSeemsLastsFeltSituationKnow HowLowsHelpless Author:Amy Lee
“For me, I want to see diversity in storytelling sources because we live in a very diverse society, and the stories are for the whole society. That's really important. For me, as a female filmmaker, when I was out on the festival circuit on 2006, I felt like such a freaking anomaly - an oddity.” WantImportantWholeStoriesFeltSourceDiversityFemaleStorytellingFilmmakerDiverseFestivalsCircuitsAnomaliesOdditiesDiverse Society Author:Lynn Shelton
“Power tends to corrupt. But the power in Washington resides in Congress, if it wants to use it. It can do anything-it can stop the Vietnam War. It can make its will felt, if it can ever get its act together to do anything.” IfsWantWarUseRealityTogetherPoliticsFeltCan DoLeadershipJusticeHistoryDemocracyGenerationsHuman NaturePolicyEthicsStrategyUnityCongressHuman RightsIdeologyVietnamForeign PolicyVietnam War Author:Antonin Scalia
“Once you lose attachment to how you want things to be because you realize you don't control anything, there's a curiously liberating aspect of that. I've always been a control freak, I've always felt that if I try hard enough, everyone I love will be kept safe and everything will be okay. Being shown, in such brutal terms, that that's simply not the way it works, in someways, it messed me up. I've been through hell, but on another level, if you pile up so much tragedy, it either destroys you, or you just start laughing about it. Because at the end of the day, no one gets out alive.” IfsWayWantTryingEndsHardEnoughFeltTermRealizingLosesLevelsLaughingHellAliveSafeAspectOkayTragedyThe End Of The DayAttachmentFreakBrutalLiberatingControl Freak Author:Daniele Bolelli
“On Stranger Than Fiction, the script was so good that I stuck to every line because it was just such brilliant writing from Zach Helm that I felt like I really just want to shoot the page.” WantWritingFeltLinesFictionPagesScriptsStrangerBrilliantStuckHelmStranger Than Fiction Author:Marc Forster
“I think that is what you want to do as a cinemagoer - to experience something fully. Some things don't let you experience them fully. It may be your own preordained prejudice where you can't experience them fully. But when you come out of the cinema having felt, thought, and experienced your way through two hours, that is a really cool thing.” ThinkingWayWantMayTwoFeltHoursPrejudiceWhat You WantCinemaReally CoolCool Things Author:Colin Farrell
“I don't want my marriage or my guns registered in Washington. And if people have an opinion, it's a religious opinion that is heartly felt, obviously they should be allowed to practice that and no government should interfere with them.” PeopleIfsWantShouldGovernmentFeltReligiousOpinionPracticeGunInterfere Author:John Kasich
“As things grew for me I felt like I was losing myself and wanted to stay true to myself as well. I didn't want to lose any connection I had with the audience. I felt small on a big stage and I felt like I was peaking generically to an audience.” WantWellsBigsWantedFeltLosesAudienceStageGrewLosingConnectionsStay TrueTrue To MyselfLosing MyselfPeaking Author:Jason Mraz
“I can do what I want to do, lucky me. But when these people are coming at me and asking these things, they don't really care about me. And I have felt like there were all these people who just wanted to use me.” PeopleWantI CanUseCareWantedFeltCan DoLuckyAskingUsing Me Author:Alicia Keys
“I think it's a greater risk not to write about 9\11. If you're in my position - a New Yorker who felt the event very deeply and a writer who wants to write about things he feels deeply about - I think it's risky to avoid what's right in front of you.” IfsThinkingWantFeelsWritingFeltGreaterRiskFrontsEventsPositionNew YorkersVery Deep Author:Jonathan Safran Foer
“The idea of being in a hugely successful movie that I don't like would be just as bad as being in a film that I love that no one sees. I wouldn't want the kind of success that felt cheap or that I didn't own.” WantKindIdeasWould BeFilmFeltSuccessful Author:Ryan Phillippe
“I don't think drugs are a problem; I think they're a symptom. As long as Americans are empty, spiritually, emotionally, morally empty, they will need things like the drugs they choose to use. Mankind has wanted to change the way it felt from the beginning anyway. In this country there are even more reasons to want to feel different, to want to feel better, because this is such a neon sewer. This is such a degrading culture. It forces you to play Beethoven to your child in the uterus so that he will get into a better school and a better job and make more money so he can take care of you.” ThinkingWayWantNeedsFeelsChildrenLongDifferentCountryReasonPlayUseProblemCareWantedSchoolJobsCultureForceFeltMankindDrugEmptyOur ChildrenTake CareYour ChildrenMore MoneyFeel BetterSymptomsBetter JobsDegradingNeonSewersUterus Author:George Carlin
“I always felt that if you're not trying something different each time out of the gate, you're being safe, and you don't ever want to find that place of safety. I like that, each time, before I even go in front of the cameras, the studio's reaction will be fear.” IfsWantTryingDifferentFeltFrontsSafeCamerasSafetyStudiosReactionsGatesTrying Something Author:Johnny Depp
“My heart and passion has always been to reform the criminal justice system. I want to be a public servant, and I wanted to be a prosecutor because I felt it was the best way forward.” WayWantHeartWantedPassionFeltJusticeMy HeartCriminalsBest WayReformServantJustice SystemCriminal JusticeProsecutorCriminal Justice SystemPublic ServantsWay Forward Author:Marilyn Mosby
“When Michael (Jackson) died, it felt like part of my family died. I want [my fans] to know that my music is for them and if, god forbid, anything happened [to me], it would be like a piece of them is gone.” IfsKnowsWantWould BeFeltGonePiecesHappenedFansMusic IsMy FamilyDied Author:The Weeknd
“I always considered myself bi-racial, because I didn't want to disconnect from either side, and I felt very strongly about that. Now, I understand that the world sees me as a black woman, a person of color, and I'm okay with that.” WorldWantPersonsFeltSidesBlackColorOkayVery StrongBlack Women Author:Brooklyn Sudano
“Write what you want to read. So many people think they need to write a particular kind of book, or imitate a successful style, in order to be published. I've known people who felt they had to model their book on existing blockbusters, or write in a genre that's supposed to be "hot right now" in order to get agents and publishers interested. But if you're writing in a genre you don't like, or modeling yourself on a book you don't respect, it'll show through. You're your first, most important reader, so write the book that reader really wants to read.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantNeedsWritingFirstsKindImportantBookShowsOrderFeltKnownSuccessfulStyleParticularReaderRight NowModelsHotWhat You WantAgentsSupposed To BeGenrePublishersModelingBlockbuster Author:Cassandra Clare
“I felt comfortable in the water. I was in my own world, focused. I love sports and I'm a very goal-oriented person. Once I started falling in love with sports, it was easy. I was able to put my mind on something and go for it. That's how I am with everything, it doesn't matter what it is that I do. If I want to do something, nothing will stand in my way.” IfsWorldWayWantMindPersonsMatterAbleFallFeltEasySportsGoalWaterMy OwnComfortableFalling In LoveFocusedMy WayMy Own WorldGoal Oriented Author:Michael Phelps
“In terms of work, I never felt that I've done it right. I always want to have done it differently, to have done it better, a different way.” WayWantDifferentDoneFeltTermDifferent Ways Author:Joan Didion
“I tried eating vegetarian. I felt like a wimp going into a restaurant. "What do you want to eat sir? Broccoli?" Broccoli's a side dish, folks. Always was, always will be, OK! When they ask me what I want, I say: What do you think I want? This is America. I want a bowl of raw red meat right now.” ThinkingWantHumorFunnyAmericaAsksFeltSidesRight NowEatingRedFolksAsk MeMeatRestaurantsVegetarianBowlsDishesBroccoliRed MeatWimpsSide Dishes Author:Denis Leary
“I think I let go of the need for approval. It certainly feels good when you get it, but I used to be more desperate for it. Once I felt better inside about myself... I could do everything based on how I want to do things.” ThinkingWantNeedsFeelsHumorFunnyUsedFeltLetting GoFeel GoodUsed To BeDesperateApproval Author:Ellen DeGeneres
“I am 100% there when I'm doing what I'm doing when I'm onstage and recording. I don't ever want to look back at any moment and say to myself that I felt uncomfortable with who I am.” WantLooksMomentsFeltWho I AmUncomfortable Author:Nneka
“I've felt love from certain songs that I've wanted to experience from other people - where I know that love may never happen - and I want to give that to someone else.” PeopleKnowsWantGivingMayHappensWantedCertainSongFelt Author:Wesley Eisold
“The thought of building a life around minimal morality or minimal significance—a life defined by the question, “What is permissible?”—felt almost disgusting to me. I didn’t want a minimal life. I didn’t want to live on the outskirts of reality. I wanted to understand the main thing about life and pursue it.” WantRealityWantedFeltBuildingMoralityPursueDefinedSignificanceDisgusting Author:John Piper
“I think that when you go on a shamanic journey, you're allowing yourself to have much more access to your unconscious or your sense of connection within the universe, whatever you want to call that. You've accessed places in your brain that you don't normally. You're still there - it's your brain. But you have access in a way that you normally don't. For me, doing that felt like being in a new environment.” ThinkingWayWantStillsUniverseFeltBrainEnvironmentJourneyGoes OnConnectionsAccessUnconsciousAllowingNew Environment Author:Amy Hardie
“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
“I've always felt I had more in common with the modernist approach than with postmodernism, but I can see where the connection might arise - and to be honest, I'm no academic, so I tend to use these words, like in Alice In Wonderland, to mean what I want them to mean rather than what they actually do mean.” WantMeanI CanUseMightFeltCommonHonestApproachConnectionsAriseBeing HonestAcademicPostmodernismWonderland Author:Grant Morrison
“On the flip side, no one has any idea who the hell I am. I felt like I had to prove myself to them. On any new project I'm working on, the first week is nerve-wracking, but especially with these people that I admire so much and who I just want to be equal with.” PeopleWantFirstsIdeasFeltSidesHellWeekProveEqualProjectsAdmireNervesFlipProve MyselfNew Projects Author:Dave Franco
“Ever since I was little, I've felt very comfortable on a set. The time is stressful - being creative under time constraints. But there is an excitement and energy that you only have a certain amount of time to get what you want.” WantLittlesCertainEnergyFeltCreativeAmountComfortableWhat You WantExcitementBe CreativeConstraintsStressful Author:Sofia Coppola
“When you go to bed at night, you get seven or eight hours of sleep. I've had enough sleep. I've rested, and it's as simple as that. I want to do it now. I didn't want to three years ago. I was waiting until it felt right. I wanted to get back to falling in love with my guitar again, and hanging out with my guitar like I would a friend.” WantYearsEnoughWantedNightFallThreeFeltWaitingHoursSleepSimpleBedYears AgoFalling In LoveSevenGuitarEightHanging OutGet BackThree YearsHad EnoughEnough Sleep Author:Damien Rice
“I'd always rather stand or fall on my own mistakes. There's nothing worse than looking back, in a published book, at a line edit or a copy edit that you felt queasy about and didn't want to take, but took anyway.” WantBookFallFeltLinesMy OwnMistakeCopiesLooking BackEdits Author:Donna Tartt
“My husband wasn't put off by it - he thought it was hilarious to see me dressed as Dylan! He didn't particularly want to kiss me with stubble all over my face - it felt a bit odd! But I think he's used to it [the make-up process].” ThinkingWantFacesUsedFeltBitsProcessHusbandKissingOddMy HusbandDylanKiss Me Author:Cate Blanchett
“But I'm not a small-literary-novel kind of guy, and once I'd developed the world in the first couple of hundred pages, I felt that there was potential here to go on and write an engaging story set in that world. So that's what I did. This probably ruins things both for the people who want small literary novels and for those who want action-packed epics, but anyway, it's what I wrote.” PeopleWorldWantWritingFirstsKindStoriesActionGuyFeltNovelGoes OnCouplePagesHundredRuinsEpicEngaging Author:Neal Stephenson
“I write the script; nobody sees it, not the people that put the money in the picture. I cast who I want, and make the film. That's why I've always felt the only thing standing between me and greatness, is me. There's no excuse for me not to be great except that I'm not.” PeopleWantWritingFilmFeltGreatnessStandingScriptsCastsExcuseNo Excuses Author:Woody Allen
“I have a mouse, but don't have a mouse driver for MINIX and have never felt the need to write one. Typing "rm x y z" is a lot faster than clicking five times and then having to convince the system that you really, truly, mean it and this is not a mistake and that you are consenting adult over 18 and that you completely understand the consequences and you still want to do it.” WantNeedsWritingMeanStillsFeltMistakeFiveAdultsConsequenceFasterConvinceDriversMiceTyping Author:Andrew S. Tanenbaum
“I know how I felt when I saw things like 'Fame' on television when I was growing up and how that was an exceptional magnet for me to want to explore the theater. I can only assume that 'Smash' is doing that for anyone who is halfway interested in theater already.” KnowsWantI CanFeltKnow HowGrowing UpSawsGrowingTelevisionFameTheaterAssumingExceptionalHalfwayMagnet Author:Brian d'Arcy James