“What I want to know is: Why is it important to have visible stomach muscles? I grew up in an era (the Paleolithic) when people kept their stomach muscles discreetly out of sight.” PeopleKnowsWantImportantGrewGrew UpSightErasVisibleMusclesStomach Book:Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus Source: Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus
“You want to do things that you watched when you grew up. I grew up on The Sound of Music, Mary Poppins and Singin' in the Rain. I watched those, over and over again, so of course, I want to do musicals.” WantCoursesSoundGrewGrew UpRainMarySound Of MusicSingin In The Rain Author:Janina Gavankar
“Where I grew up - I grew up on the north side of Akron, lived in the projects. So those scared and lonely nights - that's every night. You hear a lot of police sirens, you hear a lot of gunfire. Things that you don't want your kids to hear growing up.” WantKidsNightSidesGrowing UpGrowingGrewProjectsGrew UpLonelyPoliceScaredEvery NightSirensLonely Nights Author:LeBron James
“I'm not going to do anything crazy, but I want to do music that I'm passionate about. I'm finally at an age where I can do the music that I grew up loving, which was urban pop, '90s music. I grew up listening to the divas, so I'm very happy to finally do urban pop. I hope that it's received well, and it has been so far.” WantWellsHas BeensI CanAgeCan DoCrazyListeningGrewGrew UpPassionatePopsUrbanVery Happy Author:Ariana Grande
“My mum and dad ran a family cafe in Sligo for 35 years and worked long hours. We grew up in a very hard-working family and had a lovely atmosphere, as we lived above the restaurant. It definitely made me want to work hard, whatever I chose to do. As the baby of seven kids, I was definitely a bit spoilt.” WantYearsLongMadeHardKidsBitsHoursHard WorkBabyGrewDadGrew UpSevenLovelyAtmosphereRanRestaurantsMumCafesLong HoursMum And DadSpoilt Author:Shane Filan
“If I wanted to do TV full-time, 'Breaking Bad' is definitely the type of project I would want to do. But TV is not my favorite thing in the world. I definitely want to focus on film. It's what I grew up loving. It's always been about movies, movies, movies, movies, movies. I really want to make great films.” IfsWorldWantWantedFilmFocusTvsGrewTypeProjectsGrew UpMy FavoriteFavorites ThingsGreat Film Author:Emily Rios
“A novel can educate to some extent, but first a novel has to entertain. That's the contract with the reader: you give me ten hours and I'll give you a reason to turn every page. I have a commitment to accessibility. I believe in plot. I want an English professor to understand the symbolism while at the same time I want the people I grew up with - who may not often read anything but the Sears catalog - to read my books.” PeopleWantGivingFirstsBelieveMayBookReasonTurnsI BelieveHoursNovelGrewReaderTenGrew UpPagesCommitmentGive MeI Believe InPlotContractsProfessorsEducateSymbolismAccessibilitySears Author:Barbara Kingsolver
“Beyond just writing about falling in love and out of love and wanting to do certain things and going out and partying and all the things that I grew up writing about, I want to write about deeper things.” WantWritingCertainFallPartyGrewGrew UpFalling In LoveDeeperGoing Out Author:Joan Jett
“I wanted to be a songwriter.I didn't so much want to be a performer.I more grew into that just from being a songwriter.” WantWantedGrewPerformersSongwriters Author:Rosanne Cash
“When someone writes something hateful and threatening I respond with something like, "I want to be so much like you; I want to wear your skin." By messing with them in that way you change what they're selling. They won't share it. And it halts the conversation. Or I'll change it to "Jenny, you're like a rose bush that grew a watermelon." They come back pissed off and write, "I didn't say that!"” WayWantWritingShareLike YouGrewConversationSkinsRoseSellingThreateningHatefulHaltPissed OffJennyRose Bush Author:Jenny Lawson
“I grew up in the indie world and that's what I'm used to, but there's something really incredible about having money behind a film and having the time to do as many takes as you want.” WorldWantFilmUsedBehindsGrewGrew UpIncredibles Author:Maika Monroe
“I have three boys. And I wanted to make sure it connected with them and then those guys who grew up like me, in environments like me.And then I knew something about science that your New York Times reader would be interested in. So I was thinking about it in multiple ways: I'll connect with the people who grew up like me first, and then the New York Times reader will be interested in the science because it's so good and they want to be "in the know."” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayWantFirstsWould BeWantedGuyThreeBoysEnvironmentNew YorkGrewReaderGrew UpConnectedLike MeMultipleNew York Times Author:Carl Hart
“When you work with a major label they create their own message for you and a lot of the time that works great, or at least it did back in the 90's but now it doesn't work, so I think as an artist if you learn your own business, like anybody would when they want to start a little restaurant - they'd figure it out and then build it and they work hard - then it could be your own little business that you grew to as big as you want it to be but you had much more control with how to communicate it and how it's cared for.” IfsThinkingWantLittlesHardBigsArtistFiguresHard WorkGrewMajorsMessagesCommunicateLabelsRestaurantsOwn Business Author:Tom DeLonge
“I grew up loving fantasy, adventure, and children's book series. At the time, I was in a place in LA where I wasn't working and I kind of thought to myself, "What do I really want to do? Like, what kind of role would be really exciting for me?" And I sort of thought about being in an adventurous, magical, fantastical world and a character that was powerful and sophisticated and perhaps even a dandy, that might have even passed in my head, and then I got an audition for the show ["The Magicians"] shortly after.” WorldWantKindChildrenBookCharacterShowsMightWould BePowerfulRolesFantasyAdventureGrewGrew UpExcitingSeriesSophisticatedAuditionsMagicianAdventurousChildren's BooksDandy Author:Hale Appleman
“As the children get older and know what they want ... We all grew up at one point.” KnowsWantChildrenGrewGrew Up Author:Fetty Wap
“When I grew up in Tanzania, I went to school with kids who were blind and deaf, and we were all in one class. There wasn't a different class or teacher for them, so they didn't learn anything. I'm hoping to organize a school to train teachers to help children with disabilities. It's my future goal. I want to move back to Tanzania and do that eventually.” WantChildrenDifferentHelpingKidsSchoolMovingGoalClassTeacherGrewGrew UpBlindTrainDisabilityOrganizeDeafMy FutureTanzaniaFuture Goals Author:Herieth Paul
“Without parental guidance telling you there's another way to live it can be tough but my kids have an advantage over my life. I can tell them I know what it's like and that they don't ever want to go to the places I've been, whereas when I grew up, it was so accepted and normal that if you didn't do it, you were considered weird.” IfsKnowsWayWantI CanKidsGrewNormalGrew UpToughAdvantageAcceptedGuidanceAnother WayWay To LiveParentalPlaces I've BeenParental Guidance Author:Christian Hosoi
“Of course, there's always one theater that shows some kind of European film. Now, fortunately, you have DVDs, so it's possible to get anything you want within a few hours. In those days, it was virtually impossible to get Italian films, or German films, or whatever. So I grew up with very standard, mainstream films.” WantKindShowsFilmCoursesHoursImpossibleGrewGrew UpStandardsTheaterItalianMainstreamDvds Author:Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
“I grew up caring about people and I would say again, that's what made me who I am. I became a doctor for what I like to call "healthy reasons." Not because I'm fascinated by the human body or want to understand death, but I like people and I want to help them. That also became my problem, because I couldn't help everyone, I couldn't fix everyone.” PeopleWantHumansMadeReasonHelpingProblemBodyGrewHealthyGrew UpDoctorsCaringWho I AmFascinatedHuman Body Author:Bernie Siegel
“The experience that I had in Paris I could never have ever again in my life. This is when I grew up as a young man. I was independent. There was no one there to talk to; I didn't even want to talk to anyone. I started to write about what I was experiencing, and I had no choice, so I was never scared.” MenWantWritingYoungChoicesGrewGrew UpIndependentScaredParisYoung Man Author:Benjamin Clementine
“I grew up thinking the best job in the world would be a Jedi and being a psychologist is the closest thing I could get, so I wanted to be a Jedi and I don't want to be a Sith, so that is what keeps me on the straight and narrow.” ThinkingWorldWantWould BeWantedJobsGrewGrew UpClosestPsychologistBest JobSith Author:John Amaechi
“I grew up, I was going I want to be Jerry Lee Lewis. Only I can't play piano and sing that good.” WantI CanPlayGrewGrew UpPianoJerry Author:Chris Isaak
“I grew up in a very religious family, so that was never going to leave me. I just accepted it over the years. Although I'm not religious myself, it is so much a part of me. It's a part of my history, a part of my tradition and my culture, so I don't want to just throw it away and leave it behind, because it's made me who I am today.” WantYearsMadeTodayCultureReligiousBehindsGrewGrew UpTraditionAcceptedWho I AmLeaving MeReligious Family Author:Brendon Urie
“I always tell people is really make sure you know why you want to do it. For me, I didnt make a conscious decision like "Oh I want to be a singer", it was like I grew up around it, I was singing because it was just natural for me to sing.” PeopleKnowsWantNaturalDecisionGrewGrew UpSingingConsciousSingers Author:Jhene Aiko
“I want to represent the street, not in a negative sense, but in the sense that when I was growing up, that's what I grew up on.” WantGrowing UpGrowingStreetsGrewGrew UpNegative Author:Fred Foster
“I grew up with an absolutely horrible, debilitating stutter, and it was what caused me to retreat into myself and caused me to have very few friends and not want to socialize, and it made me absolutely terrified of giving reports in school. It was awful. It wasn't until I was 19 that I had intensive speech therapy. I had it for two years and it really helped, though I will say when I'm tired, the stutter comes out, even now.” WantGivingYearsMadeTwoSchoolGrewSpeechGrew UpTiredHorribleAwfulTherapyReportsTwo YearsTerrifiedRetreatI'm TiredFew FriendsSpeech Therapy Author:Tim Gunn
“Nobody wants a nanny state, where the government is stamping out initiative and telling us what to do, but the idea that the only alternative to that is to throw the American people overboard into a global economy with no protections to cushion us from some of these blows is absurd on its face. That's why I think there's been a concerted effort to distort my message. When you hear me speak beyond the sound bites taken out of context, I think I make a lot of sense to people, even those in Red States like the one where I grew up.” PeopleThinkingWantIdeasStatesGovernmentFacesSpeakSoundEffortEconomyTakenGrewMessagesGrew UpRedBlowProtectionAbsurdAlternativesBitesInitiativeGlobal EconomyCushionsNanniesOverboardOf ContextSound Bites Author:Van Jones
“[Ivy Wilkes] loves [Georgia] O'Keeffe's work, but is not satisfied by just looking at the paintings; she wants the painting to be her own. The plot grew naturally out of Ivy's personality (and flaws).” WantPaintingGrewPersonalitySatisfiedPlotFlawsGeorgiaIvyGeorgia O Keeffe Author:Liza Campbell