“There's also something happening in television similar to what happened in the '80s, when people stopped taking so many drugs and wanted to hear real instruments in music again. I think people want plot, story and characters. Those are more important than having a big star.” PeopleThinkingWantImportantRealCharacterStoriesBigsWantedStarsHappenedTelevisionDrugHappeningsInstrumentsPlot80s Author:Jessica Pare
“My mom wanted me to apply to Princeton, cause she just I guess since I was a kid had this dream that I would apply to Princeton, and it was not happening.” DreamKidsWantedCausesMomHappeningsMy MomPrinceton Author:Tina Fey
“There is no economic policy. That's really important to say. The general modus operandi of the Bushies is that they don't make policies to deal with problems. They use problems to justify things they wanted to do anyway. So there is no policy to deal with the lack of jobs. There really isn't even a policy to deal with terrorism. It's all about how can we spin what's happening out there to do what we want to do.” WantImportantUseProblemWantedJobsDealsEconomicPolicyHappeningsTerrorismJustifyEconomic PolicyModus Operandi Author:Paul Krugman
“Gandhi wanted to meet with Churchill, his most bitter foe, when he visited London in 1931- but it didn't happen. Churchill wanted to go to India personally as prime minister in 1942 to negotiate a final settlement on India with Gandhi and the other nationalist leaders - but the fall of Singapore prevented it from happening.” HappensWantedFallLeaderHappeningsIndiaFinalsLondonBitterMinistersPrimePrime MinisterFoeSettlementSingapore Author:Arthur L. Herman
“I got my shot at the movies. I love doing standup live. I didn't know what I wanted to do. I wanted to try movies, so I gave it a shot. I had two shots and I didn't really do it. That wasn't really happening for me. On the second movie I got to meet the girl that would be my wife. So I got to hang out with her and get engaged, and get the whole wedding thing. It was really great.” KnowsTryingTwoWholeWould BeWantedGirlWifeHappeningsShotsMy WifeEngagedHanging OutReally Great Author:Jimmy Fallon
“A lot of young painters love to incorporate celebrity. One idea of being a painter is to use what's happening at the time. Velázquez was painting of his time. And so was Rembrandt. And Francis Bacon was painting his time in London. He was a real mover, but he saw the insect in the rose. But yes, when I do a painting, I want to take the "I did this" out of it. That's why I started using chance, like the markings on the wood. I never wanted to compose.” WantIdeasRealUseWantedYoungChanceSawsPaintingHappeningsRoseWoodsLondonPainterInsects Author:Ellsworth Kelly
“I wanted to do a war movie, a western and an alien movie. In reality, there are a lot of ugly things happening in the world.” WorldWarRealityWantedHappeningsWesternUglyThings HappenAliensUgly ThingsWar MovieAliens Movie Author:Aaron Eckhart
“That was one of the reasons why I wanted to tell the story of Colin Price. I saw someone in this fictionalized political character that was trying to do something important for his city. He meant well, but then you see that the human flaws had really derailed his past. It seems to be happening more and more in our country. I wanted to hold a mirror up to that.” TryingHumansWellsImportantCountryReasonCharacterStoriesSeemsWantedPastPoliticalCitiesSawsHappeningsMirrorsOur CountryReason WhyFlaws Author:Nicolas Cage
“Sometimes you got to a point where it wasn't happening and you had to figure out another way to do it, particularly in terms of making the jaguar do what you wanted. That was not CG, a real guy had to run really fast and not trip. There was a form of restraint on the creature that you can't see. so it was all very safe - but it is real.” WayRealSometimesRunningWantedFormGuyTermFiguresSafeCreaturesHappeningsRestraintAnother WayJaguars Author:Mel Gibson
“I've been active all my life. In 1990 I retired from my firm, I.M. Pei & Partners, and for two years I didn't do much. Then I started to get kind of antsy, so I decided, I'm going to do some more work. And I chose to do work outside the U.S. because I've spent 45 years here and I wanted to learn more about what's happening in the rest of the world.” WorldYearsKindTwoWantedHappeningsDecidedWork OutActivePartnersFirmTwo YearsRetired Author:I. M. Pei
“I never wanted to accept the position of the observer who is not involved in the situation. The technique and the aesthetics do not matter to me. Only the essence of what is happening is important to me. Here, for example, blurred pictures, they have appeared because for years I was shooting while being drunk.” YearsImportantMatterWantedSituationAcceptingExamplePositionInvolvedHappeningsEssenceTechniqueDrunkShootingObserversAestheticsBeing Drunk Author:Antoine D'Agata
“Everybody wants to be a professional baseball player and, sure, as a kid, I wanted to do that. But once I got cut from my high school team, I figured there wasn't much chance of that ever happening. I'm still in awe of it.” WantStillsKidsWantedSchoolChanceCuttingPlayerTeamHappeningsHigh SchoolBaseballAweBaseball Player Author:Mark Buehrle
“You want to find the right balance, but you have to have the Minions because people responded so much to them. We wanted to find a story that would make the Minions more a part of the story than they were in the first movie. In this one, as you know, they're disappearing. What's happening to the Minions? We made them a much bigger part of the movie in those terms.” PeopleKnowsWantFirstsMadeStoriesWantedTermBalanceHappeningsBiggerDisappearMinions Author:Cinco Paul
“My mum says I wanted to be a surgeon, but I don't remember that. I think from the time I knew what was happening, I wanted to be a guitar player.” ThinkingWantedRememberPlayerHappeningsGuitarMumSurgeonsGuitar Player Author:Brian May
“I wanted to put reality in my photographs. Sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. That's what was happening. And I was going to help make it happen. Boy, they did not want that in America.” WantHelpingRealityHappensWantedAmericaSexBoysRocksDrugHappeningsPhotographRock N RollMake It HappenSex Drugs Author:Bob Richardson
“Let's say somebody were [in the White House] and they wanted to destroy this nation. I would create division among the people, encourage a culture of ridicule for basic morality and the principles that made and sustained the country, undermine the financial stability of the nation, and weaken and destroy the military. It appears coincidentally that those are the very things that are happening right now.” PeopleMadeCountryWantedCultureHouseNationsWhitePrinciplesMilitaryMoralityRight NowHappeningsFinancialDivisionWhite HouseStabilityRidiculeFinancial Stability Author:Benjamin Carson
“I wanted to think about ways to get an American readership concerned with what is happening in Mexico, but also to reframe it as a problem Americans share.” ThinkingWayProblemWantedShareHappeningsConcernedMexicoReadership Author:Sarah Stillman
“I wanted to dissolve the boundary between the outside world and the world of the relationships. Those events, with exception of the Mt. Saint Helens explosion, were happening in the real time of the book, as I was writing.” WorldWritingBookRealWantedEventsHappeningsSaintBoundariesExceptionExplosionsOutside World Author:Paul Lisicky
“I have an artist background and I got into the field because I heard things in my own head that weren't happening and I wanted to have the control. So I learned to record and mix and do all those things. I found it as a means to an end, and I was fascinated by sound and creating sound. I very quickly became addicted to understanding everything there was to know.” KnowsMeanEndsWantedArtistFoundUnderstandingSoundMy OwnRecordsHeardFieldsCreatingHappeningsBackgroundsFascinatedMeans To An EndUnderstanding Everything Author:Emily Lazar
“Saying "yes" [to sexual activity] is a pretty low baseline for sexual experience and I wanted to write about what was happening to girls after "yes."” WritingWantedGirlActivityLowsHappeningsSaying Yes Author:Peggy Orenstein
“I'm a parent. I have kids, and what's happening with our waters, and our oceans, and what's happening with deforestation, and all these things that human beings are having negative impacts on at this time, are concerning to me. I wanted to do whatever I could to be a part of the solution and not just be a part of the problem.” HumansProblemKidsWantedParentWaterHuman BeingsOceanSolutionsHappeningsNegativeImpactDeforestation Author:Don Cheadle
“Chocolate and candy. That's what we brought in to our friends. We worked in East Berlin with other artists who were smuggled out to come work in the Western Bloc. It was extraordinary because people in East Berlin just wanted to know what was happening. Music. Fashion. The news. All of the things we get every day.” PeopleKnowsWantedArtistFashionNewsHappeningsWesternExtraordinaryEastChocolateCandyBerlinEast Berlin Author:Whoopi Goldberg
“People who came to the clinics or came to the fundraiser knew what was happening in their state but didn't realize the profundity of what was happening all over the place. But the third thing [was] that at every single clinic I went to, somebody who worked there - it could have been the doctor, it could have been the receptionist - said, "Thank you for coming, no one ever comes." And it broke my heart...I've used these services, I've had an abortion, I got to be where I am because of access to making choices to have the life I wanted.” PeopleHeartHas BeensSaidStatesWantedUsedChoicesRealizingMy HeartHappeningsDoctorsThirdsAccessBrokeAbortionCould Have BeenClinicMaking ChoicesProfundityBroke My HeartFundraiserReceptionistsThank You For Coming Author:Lizz Winstead
“I think, year in, year out, Google is starting to get worse instead of better. I think this is happening to a lot of the web companies, is as their demand to increase the payload they deliver in ads increases, they end up degrading and corrupting their own services. And you can see it with Google Maps, you can see it with Google Directions, where somehow Uber is, you know, always one of the options. And it's becoming exactly what they said was what they never wanted, which is a pay-for service where the highest bidder gets the best results.” ThinkingKnowsYearsSaidEndsWantedResultsPayCompanyBecomingDemandHighestHappeningsIncreaseStartingMapsAdsGoogleThey SaidDegradingUberGoogle Maps Author:Tim Wu
“I wanted to educate myself about the world and I wanted to know what was happening to people in other countries. I feel now I have only just begun.” PeopleKnowsWorldFeelsCountryWantedHappeningsEducateOther Countries Author:Angelina Jolie
“These people that started here, they support the government now against those rebels. Why talking about what happened at the very beginning is completely different from what is happening now - it's not the same. There's very high dynamic, things are changing on daily basis. It's a completely different image. Those people who wanted revolution, they are cooperating with us.” PeopleDifferentGovernmentWantedTalkingSupportHappenedRevolutionHappeningsBasesRebelCooperating Author:Bashar al-Assad
“I saw this trend happening with the proliferation of guitar clinics and schools. And I was approached to do a camp in the past, but I wanted to have a good enough idea because most of them are just about jamming and learning. I decided I wanted a theme for each camp.” IdeasEnoughWantedSchoolPastSawsHappeningsDecidedGuitarThemeGood EnoughTrendsCampsProliferationClinic Author:Steve Vai
“Germany has become the economic heart of Europe because our leaders are weak. But Germany should never forget that France is Europe's political heart. What is happening here today foreshadows what will happen in the rest of Europe in the coming years: the great return of the nation-state, which they wanted to obliterate.” ShouldYearsHeartStatesHappensTodayWantedPoliticalNationsForgetLeaderEconomicReturnHappeningsEuropeWeakFranceGermanyNever Forget Author:Marine Le Pen
“Ever since I was younger I wanted to be on stage, singing my songs in a glittering costume. And that happened and is still happening. I have to remember that this is what I wished for and be grateful because there are 500 other girls right behind me that are ready to snatch it up.” StillsWantedRememberSongGirlBehindsHappenedStageReadySingingHappeningsGratefulBe GratefulCostumesOther Girl Author:Katy Perry
“I'm glad about what's happening to the music business. This last crop of people we had in the 90s, who are going away now, they didn't like music. They didn't trust musicians. They wanted something else from it.” PeopleWantedLastsMusicianHappeningsGladGoing AwayCropsMusic Business Author:James Taylor
“..and I thought how liking a boy was just the same as believing you wanted to know a secret - everything was better when you were denied and could feel tormented by curiousity or loneliness. But the moment of something happening was treacherous. It was just so tiring to have to worry about whether your face was peeling, or to have to laugh at stories that weren’t funny.” KnowsFeelsBelieveMomentsStoriesWantedFacesSecretBoysWorryLaughingLonelinessHappeningsYour FaceDeniedTireTreacherousPeelingCuriousity Book:Prep: a novel Source: Prep: a novel