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“I fell far short of living up to the kind of public servant I wanted to be.”

Kind Wanted Servant Public Servants

Book:What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception

Source: What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception

“I had a tough time fitting in, as I guess most kids do. I felt like school was kind of a grand opportunity to figure yourself out and to figure out what you wanted.”

Kind Kids Wanted School Opportunity Felt Figures Tough Tough Times Fitting

Author:Brie Larson

“I was taking piano lessons with a very good piano instructor in Toronto, and I'm afraid due to my schedule and discipline, it kind of fell apart. One thing lead to another and I was unable to practice as much as I wanted to.”

Kind Wanted Practice One Thing Discipline Lessons Very Good Dues Piano Schedules Toronto Instructors Piano Lesson

Author:Geddy Lee

“I knew I wanted to be some kind of artist from about 12. I met a neighbour who drew cartoons, and I had an idea I wanted to be a cartoonist - or something that involved Indian ink, at any rate.”

Kind Ideas Wanted Artist Involved Mets Rate Indian Cartoon Ink Neighbour Cartoonist

Author:Edward Ruscha

“Growing up I definitely looked up to Dominique Moceanu. She was my favorite gymnast and she was on that '96 Olympic team. She was always so fun to watch. I kind of wanted to model my career after hers.”

Kind Wanted Fun Careers Watches Growing Up Growing Team Models My Favorite Gymnast

Author:Alicia Sacramone

“I wanted to make an album that melodically people can connect to; something that reflects our times and the kinds of difficulties we face.”

People Kind Wanted Faces Difficulty Albums Our Time

Author:Emeli Sande

“I think my wife saw a picture of the rock group Journey, and they're kind of aging, and the one guy had dyed blonde hair with black roots, and... my idea was to get a little earring, I wanted to have a dangling earring.”

Thinking Kind Littles Ideas Wanted Guy Black Saws Wife Groups Journey Rocks Hair Roots Aging My Wife Blonde Earrings Blonde Hair

Author:Fred Willard

“I'd always liked to read, but when I picked up books I wasn't getting the same kind of excitement from them that I was from going out clubbing. I wanted to get the same kind of feel.”

Feels Kind Book Wanted Literature Excitement Going Out

Author:Irvine Welsh

“I loved Belle in 'Beauty and the Beast.' I just wanted to be her. I'm a brunette, so I think I kind of cling to all those princesses that have brown hair. I just wanted to be them.”

Thinking Kind Wanted Hair Beast Brown Princess Belle Brunette Brown Hair

Author:Kara Lindsay

“While some who downplay Christ's divinity have imagined Jesus as a great social worker 'being kind to old ladies, small dogs and little children,' orthodox Christianity has not wanted Jesus to have a political message.”

Kind Children Littles Wanted Political Jesus Social Christ Christianity Dog Messages Workers Divinity Orthodox Be Kind Social Worker Old Lady Orthodox Christianity Small Dogs

Author:N. T. Wright

“I never wanted to do something grotesque. I never wanted to shock. I wanted my audience to be happy, to be kind.”

Kind Wanted Audience Shock Be Kind Grotesque

Author:Eva Zeisel

“I’m very interested in sublimation. I love the way Francis Bacon talked about the grin without the cat, the sensation without the boredom of its conveyance… I’ve always wanted to be able to convey figurative imagery in a kind of shorthand, to get it across in as direct a way as possible. I want there to be a human presence without having to depict it in full.”

Way Want Humans Kind Able Wanted Direct Cat Boredom Sensations Imagery Shorthand

Author:Cecily Brown

“I suppose politicians have always wanted to get re-elected, but there's a kind of a feeling now that if you just discredit your opposition, it makes it easier for you to win. I don't think that's necessarily true.”

Ifs Thinking Kind Feelings Wanted Winning Politician Easier Opposition Discredit Discredit You

Author:George McGovern

“I've been a kind of a wildcatter. I've been able to say anything I wanted.”

Kind Able Wanted Say Anything

Author:Jack Kemp

“I am an avid follower of the news, and sometimes you just can't take any more war, any more disasters, and you want to remind yourself there's beauty in the world. I wanted to show a more poetic side to my work. It was all about... a feeling of sadness, but in a cinematic kind of way. I find beauty in melancholy.”

World Way Want Kind War Sometimes Shows Feelings Wanted Sides Sadness News Disaster Working It Poetic Melancholy Followers Cinematic Avid

Author:Alexander McQueen

“I waited just to see you at that kind of peace, I wanted to be beside you, I wanted you to wake up slowly or startle, or just half awaken and turn over or murmur my name. I wanted to watch you forever, or sleep beside you forever, or sleep forever while you woke and watched me, something forever anyway. I wanted to kiss you, rumple your hair, rest three fingertips on your hip bone warm and smooth, wake you that way or hush you back to sleep.”

Way Kind Wanted Turns Three Names Sleep Half Watches Forever Hair Kissing Wake Up Warm Bones Hips Smooth Fingertips Hush Beside You Wakes You

Author:Daniel Handler

“I wanted to be on my own and get out of the house. We were the kind of kids that - we - obeyed our parents. If they said no, you don't ask why.”

Ifs Kind Said Kids Wanted Asks House Parent My Own They Said

Author:Janet Jackson

“Part of the reason that I moved to Los Angeles is that even though my mom introduced me to all kinds of music, I really wanted to work on having my own identify, on being who I am and doing what I do, and seeing how people responded.”

People Kind Reason Wanted My Own Seeing Mom Moved My Mom Who I Am All Kinds Los Angeles

Author:Schuyler Fisk

“My childhood dream was always to be on Broadway. I wanted to end up in TV and film. It's kind of flipped, and I'm not mad about it, but my childhood dream is Broadway and I want to end up there.”

Want Kind Ends Dream Wanted Film Childhood Tvs Mad Broadway Flipped Childhood Dreams

Author:Grant Gustin

“Mother Firefly is the kind of character I've always wanted to play. She's larger than life, terribly tragic, and capable of a lot of love.”

Kind Play Character Wanted Mother Capable Tragic Firefly Larger Than Life

Author:Leslie Easterbrook

“White people couldn't do black music back in the day because they weren't funky or bad enough. They weren't from the ghettoes, but hip-hop and R&B changed all of that because white kids want to be down with it. They wanted to learn it so they studied the culture. It's kind of a cool thing because we shouldn't be so separate.”

People Want Kind Enough Kids Wanted Culture Black White Changed Hip Hop Hips Hops Cool Things Back In The Day Funky Black Music

Author:Narada Michael Walden

“When I moved to Paris in the '70s, there wasn't very much going on in film in England. So when I started doing French films, there was a natural movement toward the kind of films I wanted to do. It wasn't the reason I came, but it so happened that I stepped into a time and place that actually corresponded to what I wanted. That sometimes happens in life. And it was rather beautiful.”

Kind Sometimes Reason Happens Wanted Beautiful Film Natural Happened Movement England Moved Paris

Author:Charlotte Rampling

“When I was growing up, This is Spinal Tap [1984] was the ultimate comedy, and it was the kind of thing I wanted to do. But you get to a point with parody where you can't go much further because ultimately it's feeding off of somebody else's creativity.”

Kind Wanted Creativity Growing Up Comedy Growing Ultimate Feeding Parody Spinal Tap

Author:Ben Stiller

“I got on the phone with the president of my label and I said, "Obviously, I write songs in a lot of styles and play a lot of different kinds of music. We're getting toward the end of our business collaboration. If you could envision a record that you wanted to hear from me, what kind of record would it be?" It wasn't like asking him to fill an order, it was really just a conversation. For all the things I'd ever asked him, this was one thing I'd never asked, and I don't know why. So I was curious. And the thing that he was most interested in hearing was a solo record.”

“Yale Law School was the kind of place you went if you felt you needed to go to law school, maybe, for your resume, but you really didn't want to practice law. You wanted to do public policy, or maybe go into politics.”

Ifs Want Kind Wanted School Law Felt Practice Policy Needed Resumes Public Policy Law School Yale

Author:Robert Reich

“For a while, I felt a little self-impelled to write Lou Reed Kind of songs. I should have understood that a Lou Reed song was anything I wanted to write about.”

Should Writing Kind Littles Self Wanted Song Felt Understood Should Have Reeds

Author:Lou Reed

“I wanted to create a kind of substance by means of brush-work. But that is the kind of discovery which one makes gradually... Thus it was that I subsequently began to introduce sand, sawdust and metal filings into my pictures.”

Kind Mean Wanted Materials Discovery Substance Sand Metals Introducing Brushes Filing Sawdust

Author:Georges Braque

“I do not think my painting has ever been revolutionary. It was not directed against any kind of painting. I have never wanted to prove that I was right and someone else wrong.”

Thinking Kind Wanted Painting Prove Revolutionary Modernism

Author:Georges Braque

“I’ve always been inspired by women, and my mission was to inspire women. I always wanted to become a certain kind of woman and I became that woman through fashion. It was a dialogue. I would see that the wrap dress made those women confident, and made them act with confidence.”

Kind Made Wanted Certain Fashion Inspire Dresses Inspired Missions Dialogue Wraps Inspire Women

Author:Diane von Furstenberg

“Out of doing all that experimentation with sound I decided I wanted to do it with live musicians. To take repetition, take music fragments and make it live. Musicians would be able to play it and create this kind of abstract fabric of sound.”

Kind Play Would Be Able Wanted Sound Musician Decided Abstract Fabric Repetition Fragments Experimentation

Author:Terry Riley

“I started blogging a decade ago because I like blogging. Writing's a kind of lonely thing to do and I liked the idea of demystifying the process because I loved it as a kid and teenager and as somebody who wanted desperately to write.”

Writing Kind Ideas Kids Wanted Process Lonely Decades Teenager Things To Do Blogging

Author:Neil Gaiman

“After Dynasty, I wanted a reality check. I wanted to get in touch with real life, you know? That kind of world is outrageous.”

Knows World Kind Real Reality Wanted Real Life Checks Outrageous Dynasty

Author:Linda Evans

“Abuse of any kind thrives off secrecy. I felt like if I started talking about it, maybe other people would. I wanted to break the silence. Now I feel I'm in a much better place emotionally than I've ever been anytime in my life.”

People Ifs Feels Kind Wanted Felt Silence Talking Break Abuse Thrive Better Place Secrecy

Author:Chris Witty

“When I became a Sigma Chi it was great, because they were the pople I enjoyed being with and I was very proud of the association. It was kind of an instant confidence builder for me--that what I considered the best fraternity on campus had actually wanted me. And I had always been very shy and without a lot of confidence. So it was a really good social experience and for me it was also a social maturation. It was a great benefit.”

Kind Wanted Social Proud Benefits Enjoyed Instant Shy Association Campus Builder Fraternity

Author:David Letterman

“I never wanted to be the guy people looked at. I felt I could only be myself when I was alone, that I turned into some kind of novelty. The only way I could get through that time was to drink. I poisoned myself with alcohol for years but I've never been into drugs in the way it was sometimes made out.”

People Way Years Kind Made Sometimes Wanted Guy Felt Drink Drug Alcohol Novelty

Author:Johnny Depp

“I've done roles before where I've wanted to be buff and sort of fit or whatever. And I like to try and be a little bit fit because there's usually one scene in a movie where you've got to run, which means you've got to run for about five hours nonstop. So, for me, it's just worthwhile being fit because doing a movie can be kind of grueling for six, seven, eight weeks. Or 12 weeks.”

Trying Kind Mean Littles Done Running Wanted Bits Hours Roles Five Week Fit Scene Six Little Bit Seven Eight Be Kind Worthwhile

Author:Guy Pearce

“In the past, heartland whites with some kind of dream or desire left their towns for cities to become citified. They wanted to get away from religion, from their families, they wanted to come out, make art, have sex, have experiences. But this new crew was something we had never seen before. They were the first generation of suburban Americans. They came, not to be citified, but rather to change cities into places they could recognize and dominate.”

Firsts Kind Art Dream Wanted Past Desire Left Sex Cities Generations Towns Get Away Crew

Author:Sarah Schulman

“My dad's cool with that kind of stuff. He always wanted me to do my best. I'm quite dyslexic in school. My dad let me figure out what I wanted to do on my own. My parents never really lecture me.”

Kind Wanted School Stuff Parent My Own Figures Dad Let Me My Dad Lectures Dyslexic

Author:Georgia May Jagger

“God created man and He created the world for him to live in and I reckon He created the kind of world He would have wanted to live in if He had been a man--the ground to walk on, the big woods, the trees and the water, and the game to live in it. And maybe He didn't put the desire to hunt and kill game in man but I reckon He knew it was going to be there, that man was going to teach it to himself, since he wasn't quite God himself yet.”

Ifs Men World Kind Bigs Wanted Desire Games Water Walks Teach Tree Woods Hunts

Book:A Rose for Emily and Other Stories: A Rose for Emily; The Hound; Turn About; That Evening Sun; Dry September; Delta Autumn; Barn Burning; An Odor of Verbena

Source: A Rose for Emily and Other Stories: A Rose for Emily; The Hound; Turn About; That Evening Sun; Dry September; Delta Autumn; Barn Burning; An Odor of Verbena

“I didn't want the easy kind of love, I wanted the crazy love, the kind of love that created and destroyed all at the same time.”

Want Kind Wanted Easy Crazy Destroyed Kinds Of Love Crazy Love

Author:Julie Murphy

“My dad was a big fan of comedy. He wanted to be a stand-up. He loved Lenny [Bruce]. He also loved Lord Buckley and jazz and stuff. He was a hipster. My parents were kind of beatnik-y, you know, for Salt Lake City. But my humor, I think, came from wanting to disarm people before they hit me.”

People Thinking Knows Kind Bigs Wanted Stuff Parent Cities Lord Comedy Fans Dad Jazz My Dad Lakes Salt Hipster Beatnik Salt Lake City

Author:Judd Apatow

“Maybe in the back of my mind I was kind of wishing that I would become a rock star, kind of wishing that I would reach enough people who would be willing to pay me for the music, that I would actually be able to live off of just writing the songs that I wanted to write. But I don't think I really admitted to myself that that was my goal.”

People Thinking Writing Mind Kind Enough Would Be Able Wanted Song Wish Stars Goal Pay Rocks Willing Rock Star Of My Mind

Author:Jonathan Coulton

“I didn't realize how much of a Hoosier or a Midwesterner I was until I moved to New York. It's weird - growing up in Indiana, I wanted to get out, and now I completely romanticize Indiana. It just seems like there's a greater focus on family back there, which I suppose is something that kind of stayed with me.”

Kind Seems Wanted Realizing Growing Up Greater Focus Growing New York Moved Indiana Midwesterners Hoosiers

Author:Jim Gaffigan

“I did a lot of theater in school. I thought maybe I wanted to go to law school or be a judge or a politician. And then I just kind of got smitten by the process of rehearsal and working with other actors and those kinds of challenges. And then comedy.”

Kind Wanted School Law Actors Process Challenges Comedy Judging Politician Theater Rehearsal Law School Smitten Working With Others

Author:Rashida Jones

“It means rock'n'roll in the sack. It means sex: the lyrics, the beat of it, the thunderous feeling through your body. Before the word groupie even existed I knew that I wanted to share myself with someone who created that music and turned me on in every kind of way.”

Way Kind Mean Feelings Body Wanted Sex Share Rocks Beats Your Body Rock N Roll Groupie

Author:Pamela Des Barres