“I wanted to be involved in music and I felt I needed to get in quick. I didn't want to spend four years in college and then hope for the best. I gave myself a year, which is why I kept pushing people for a chance. I literally felt my whole life was in the balance. Music was my life, and I was scared of having time pass by and missing my chance.” PeopleWantYearsWholeWantedFeltChanceFourMissingCollegeNeededBalanceInvolvedScaredWhole LifePushingFour YearsHoping For The BestTime Passes Author:Guy Oseary
“I wouldn't have wanted to miss the opportunity to make those three films that didn't do well. They were really important to me, and the things I learned doing them were important to me.” WellsImportantWantedFilmThreeOpportunityMissing Author:Michael J. Fox
“I'm always a little leery about doing shows where I'm not the headliner because when I first started playing in 1982 I opened for Missing Persons and got pelted for 45 minutes. After that, I made the decision to headline no matter what, even if I was playing to seven people. I wanted people to be there to see me.” PeopleIfsFirstsLittlesPersonsMadeMatterShowsWantedDecisionMinutesMissingNo Matter WhatSevenHeadlinesMissing A Person Author:Al Yankovic
“I am very boring, but it has allowed me to survive better than other people. If you don't drink, you don't smoke, and you don't do drugs, and you're not missing it and never even wanted it, and you sleep for seven hours. I tell you, life is quite pleasant.” PeopleIfsWantedLife IsHoursSleepMissingDrinkDrugSevenBoringSmokePleasantMissing It Author:Karl Lagerfeld
“I earned my share same as everybody. Well, I coulda got killed same as everybody. And I'm wanted by the law same as everybody. I'm a nervous wreck, and that's the truth. I have to take sass from Miss Bonnie Parker all the time. I deserve mine.” WellsWantedLawShareMissingMinesDeserveNervousWrecksSass Author:Estelle Parsons
“'I Know You Care' is about my dad. And I haven't seen him for a long, long time. And my parents divorced when I was really young. And I guess I just wanted a - it was my way of saying that I wasn't bitter or angry anymore. I was just sad and just felt like something was missing.” KnowsWayLongCareWantedYoungFeltParentMissingHavensDadLong TimeAngryMy DadBitterMy WayDivorcedLike Something Author:Ellie Goulding
“My whole life, Ive wanted things before I was ready. I was always pushing for the next job, the next success. I was so focused on achieving and the path that I was missing some great point about life.” WholeWantedJobsNextPathAchieveMissingReadyFocusedWhole LifePushing Author:David Duchovny
“I wanted to write a voice that for me, as a reader, had been missing from the chorus: the voice of an angry woman.” WritingWantedVoiceMissingReaderAngryChorusAngry Women Author:Claire Messud
“I can't even begin to describe how I miss him. He always supported me in everything I did. He was a very wise man and I realised at an early age I could learn a lot from him. He always gave me the right answer. But above all he was a very easy-going guy and all he wanted was to be my best friend. I'm an only child and so he shared everything with me. Of course he was very young to die and I was very young to lose a father. But there was nothing left unsaid between us.” MenChildrenI CanAgeWantedYoungGuyDiesCoursesFatherLeftEasyLosesAnswersWiseMissingMy Best FriendRealisedOnly ChildRight AnswersUnsaidVery WiseEasy Going Author:Dhani Harrison
“I stopped drinking when I had children because I wanted to be awake and aware. I did not want to be going, you know, daddy loves you and then drop my head on the table. I do not want to miss anything that they do or say. It is important to me.” KnowsWantChildrenImportantWantedLove YouMissingTablesDrinkingAwakeDaddy Author:Robin Williams
“I wanted to experience both. I wanted worldly enjoyment and divine transcendence. I wanted what the Greeks called kalos kai agathos, the singular balance of the good and the beautiful. I'd been missing both during these last hard years, because both pleasure and devotion require a stress-free space in which to flourish and I'd been living in a giant trash compactor of nonstop anxiety. As for how to balance the urge for pleasure against the longing for devotion...well, surely there was a way to learn that trick.” WayYearsWellsHardWantedLastsBeautifulSpacePleasureMissingDivineBalanceAnxietyStressLongingTricksDevotionGreekGiantsEnjoymentUrgesWorldlyTrashTranscendenceStress Free Author:Elizabeth Gilbert
“I was never the kind of girl who said, "One day, I am going to be a beautiful bride, and I am going to have a family." I wanted to work and support myself and make my parents proud. All I did was work. I did three or four films a year, and felt like I was on a treadmill. Finally I said, "Nothing is exciting to me anymore." So I took six months off, which turned into a year, and said, "God, I don't miss it." That's when all kinds of interesting things crossed my path.” YearsKindSaidWantedBeautifulFilmGirlThreeFeltParentInterestingSupportPathFourMissingMonthsProudOne DaySixExcitingAll KindsSix MonthsInteresting ThingsBridesTreadmillsKind Of Girl Author:Sandra Bullock
“I couldn't have children, I tried to for years. I've never been pregnant in my life. When I was a girl and fooling around I was scared to death I'd get pregnant, and then when I got married and wanted to have children I couldn't have any. But I don't miss it. I did for awhile, but I realize that I am everybody's mother.” YearsChildrenWantedMotherGirlRealizingMissingMarriedScaredPregnantFooling Around Author:Dolly Parton
“What do I miss? Second-hand bookshops where I can find things I had no idea I wanted. AbeBooks helps, but it doesn't have that smell.” I CanIdeasHelpingHandsWantedMissingSmellNo IdeaSecond HandBookshops Author:David Mitchell
“While wrestling in college as a junior it came to a point where wrestling just wasn't enough for me anymore. I love wrestling, but I felt like I was missing something, and so the striking part about MMA, the boxing and kickboxing, was what got me really interested in MMA. I saw it on TV and I just knew that I wanted to do it.” EnoughWantedFeltSawsMissingCollegeTvsBoxingMmaWrestlingJuniorsMissing SomethingKickboxing Author:Cain Velasquez
“When people watch me on TV they see part of my life. I wanted to let them know the real me behind the scenes. The child who was a concert violinist from the age of six. The young woman who took on the challenge to compete in the Miss America pageant. The television journalist for twenty-five years. The mother of two who, just like most women, struggles to balance work and family.” PeopleKnowsYearsChildrenTwoRealAgeWantedAmericaYoungMotherChallengesBehindsWatchesStruggleFiveMissingTelevisionTvsBalanceSceneSixTwentiesJournalistFive YearsConcertsYoung WomenTwenty FiveBehind The ScenesWatch MePageantViolinistReal MeMiss America Author:Gretchen Carlson
“In 1980, a well-meaning fundraiser came to see me and said, "Miss Graham, the most powerful thing you have going for you to raise money is your respectability." I wanted to spit. Respectable! Show me any artist who wants to be respectable.” WantWellsSaidShowsWantedArtistPowerfulMissingRaisesMost PowerfulShow MeRespectableSpitRespectabilityFundraiser Book:Blood Memory Source: Blood Memory
“I wanted to be the first to win three Oscars, but Miss Hepburn has done it. Actually it hasn't been done. Miss Hepburn only won half an Oscar. If they'd given me half an Oscar I would have thrown it back in their faces. You see, I'm an Aries. I never lose.” IfsFirstsDoneWantedFacesThreeWinningGivenLosesHalfMissingThrownOscarsHepburnAries Author:Bette Davis
“L.A. is such a different place. I miss New York so much. I almost teared up when I came back and wanted a Guinness and realized I could drink it and take a cab home. I remembered that I could be a functional alcoholic in New York, like I used to be!” DifferentHomeWantedUsedMissingNew YorkDrinkUsed To BeRememberedAlcoholicsDifferent PlaceCabGuinness Author:Donald Glover
“I was repelled by the sleazy reality of the totalitarian countries: politicians were shameless. There were corruption, pollution, shoddy goods, long lines, and suicide everywhere, but the leaders kept boasting about their great achievements and bright tomorrows. I saw all this and tried to show it in my pictures as simply and straightforwardly as I could. All I wanted to do was record how all these poor people adapted to lies and suffering, how they got used to it, how, in fact they were bound to miss it when it was over.” PeopleLongCountryFactsShowsRealityWantedUsedLyingSufferingLinesPoorLeaderRecordsSawsMissingTomorrowPoliticianAchievementSuicideBoundsCorruptionGoodsPollutionPoor PeopleBoastAdaptedShamelessGreat AchievementLong LinesSleazy Author:Antonin Kratochvil
“I wanted to have more songs with religious backgrounds. The Christmas record has strong, traditional hymns, but it also has a song called 'Christmas in Heaven' about missing someone that you love that's passed on, and wondering what's going on up there on Christmas.” WantedSongStrongHeavenReligiousWonderRecordsMissingBackgroundsTraditionalMissing SomeoneHymns Author:Scotty McCreery
“I wanted to come back to the guitar after three albums and almost 10 years. I started to miss this instrument and I wanted to come back to the guitar.” YearsWantedThreeMissingInstrumentsGuitarAlbums Author:Rokia Traore
“We, the people, gave the marching orders to our democratically-elected officials and instructed them. We wanted out of Vietnam and we got out of Vietnam. We wanted women's right to choose and we got women's right to choose. We got the EPA, we got the Clean Air Act, Water Act, we got rights for workers in the workplace to be protected from dangers. We accomplished pretty much all of what we wanted when we had the courage of our convictions. That is the missing ingredient.” PeopleWantedOrderWaterRightsAirMissingDangerCleanWorkersConvictionOfficialsAccomplishedIngredientsVietnamProtectedWorkplaceElected OfficialsClean AirEpa Author:Jill Stein
“I saw so many amazing musicians struggling to build something good. They would play and play... and play some more, but it seemed like there was something missing. I wanted to go someplace higher myself, and go there with the people who come to hear me play. So I began to envision events with their own gravity, that would pull a community of people together for a meaningful experience.” PeoplePlayWantedTogetherCommunityStruggleSawsMissingEventsHigherMusicianMeaningfulGravity Author:Dave Madden
“Well, one of the things we felt was missing from the greater conversation is that transgender people have been living and working in America for years...People may think it's a "new" thing; it's not...So we wanted to show not just the political side, which is what you see with Caitlyn Jenner. And not the other side with Laverne Cox, who's great.” PeopleThinkingYearsWellsMayHas BeensShowsWantedAmericaPoliticalFeltSidesGreaterMissingConversationNew ThingsTransgender Author:Whoopi Goldberg
“I felt my faith was on again off again until I met Paula White, who saw that the Lord had other plans; there was a weightiness to my spirit. She gave me the news that God loved me and wanted his son back. She spoke to the king in me and gave me new hope I could get right with God. The God I had hungered for; the Father I had been missing.” WantedSpiritFatherFeltWhiteLordSawsPlansMissingSonKingsMetsNewsGod LoveSpokesNew Hope Author:Jonathan Cain
“August Strindberg gave me the opportunity to have this incredible story [Miss Julie ], about the class system, about unfairness in life, but also this story about man and woman. What I wanted, because he gave me the freedom, to give her a voice that I missed a little in her.” MenGivingLittlesStoriesWantedOpportunityVoiceClassMissingMen And WomenIncrediblesAugustUnfairnessClass SystemMiss Julie Author:Liv Ullmann
“It wasn't [Barack] Obama per se; it was the feeling on the ground; it was seeing an old black woman in a wheelchair being wheeled by her son waving a big American flag, and then seeing a guy with his baby in his arms saying, "I didn't want her to miss tonight! I wanted to be able to tell her!" And to see all these people, a Hispanic cop dancing with an old white woman, wow! I mean, that's the world I want to live in, and because it's the world I want to live in, I had a hard time leaving.” PeopleWorldWantMeanHardFeelingsBigsAbleWantedGuyBlackWhiteSeeingMissingSonBabyArmsDancingLeavingBarackHard TimesTonightWowFlagsCopBlack WomenHispanicWheelchairsAmerican Flag Author:Bill Ayers
“The greatest competitor was Bob Gibson. He worked so fast out there and he always had the hood up. He always wanted to close his own deal. He never talked to you because he was battling so hard. I sure as hell don't miss batting against him, but I miss him in the game.” HardWantedGamesSportsDealsHellMissingBobCompetitorsHoodMissing YouBatting Author:Pete Rose
“Heaven's brightest and best-loved angel, who was cast out for inspiring a rebellion against God. Having lost Heaven, Lucifer and his rebel angels vowed to continue fighting here on earth." "I don't understand why he had to fight. He was already in heaven." "True. But he wasn't content to serve. He wanted more." "He had all he could ask for, didn't he?" Ann asks. "Exactly." Miss Moore states. "He had to ask. He was dependent upon someone else's whim. It's a terrible thing to have no power of one's own. To be denied.” StatesWantedEarthFightingAsksLostHeavenMissingTerribleAngelCastsDependentRebellionRebelDeniedTerrible ThingsWhimLuciferPower Of OneRebellion Against GodRebel Angels Author:Libba Bray