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“When I started studying acting in New York, I didn't plan to be an action hero. I just wanted to learn acting because I felt it was something I needed to try to do for myself, to express something, my inner pain, or something I couldn't get out.”

Trying Action Wanted Pain Felt Acting Study Plans New York Hero Needed Action Heroes

Author:Dolph Lundgren

“We needed to make a sound that's not gonna fit in with everything else - we wanted to make something that was completely unique and individual to us. We spent a lot of time trying to make a sound that was a One Direction sound. At first it was quite hard to do that, but I'm really happy with the sound.”

Trying Firsts Hard Wanted Individual Sound Needed Fit Unique Really Happy One Direction

Author:Zayn Malik

“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.”

People Want Years Whole Wanted Felt Chance Four Missing College Needed Balance Involved Scared Whole Life Pushing Four Years Hoping For The Best Time Passes

Author:Guy Oseary

“I love that we are one of the least unionized states in the country...We don't have unions in South Carolina because we don't need unions in South Carolina...And we'll make the unions understand full well that they are not needed, not wanted, and not welcome.”

Needs Wells Country States Wanted Values Needed Unions South Conservative Welcome Carolina South Carolina Conservative Values

Author:Nikki Haley

“I knew I had to write a good screenplay to be taken seriously, and I knew I needed to present Mississippi on visuals instead of just saying, 'Hey I wanted to film it in Mississippi.' It would seem like it was a hometown boy just wanting to be home.”

Writing Home Seems Wanted Film Boys Taken Needed Hey Visuals Screenplays Mississippi Hometown Just Saying

Author:Tate Taylor

“In my prayers I never said I needed a home. I said I wanted a sanctuary.”

Said Home Wanted Prayer Needed Sanctuary Firefighter

Author:Mary Anne Radmacher

“In 1962, we created the Filmmakers' Co-Op because nobody wanted to distribute our films. If we had the Internet in those days, we wouldn't have needed the Co-Op.”

Ifs Wanted Film Internet Needed Filmmaker

Author:Jonas Mekas

“When I played, I never needed the spotlight, nor did I want it. I simply wanted to play baseball and be respected by my teammates and the opposing players.”

Want Play Wanted Player Needed Baseball Teammate Opposing Spotlight

Author:Bruce Sutter

“I wanted to make Jerusalem as feature film. But we couldn't finance it only through theatrical release, we couldn't get all the money we needed. We had to get some money from television. So we said, ok, let's do it both ways. So we did it in four parts.”

Way Said Wanted Film Four Television Needed Finance Release Features Theatrical Jerusalem

Author:Bille August

“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

“Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.”

People Wanted Economy Century Needed Advertising Nineteenth Century

Book:The affluent society

Source: The affluent society

“I needed to get to know myself and really, really explore music without any pressure to sell it. I wanted to try and not restrain myself at all, so I've been trying to move quite freely between different sounds and genres.”

Knows Trying Different Wanted Moving Sound Needed Pressure Sells Genre

Author:Tove Styrke

“At one point Trudeau mentioned to me that the National Gallery wanted to buy a masterpiece by the great Italian painter Lotto, and it needed a million dollars from the Treasury Board. "Is that Lotto-Quebec or Lotto-Canada?" I joked, but I got the message, and the National Gallery got the painting.”

Wanted Millions Painting Needed Messages Dollars Painter Boards Canada Italian Masterpiece Gallery Million Dollars Treasury Quebec

Author:Jean Chretien

“After playing Saffy in 'Ab Fab', I needed to take time out from acting to see if I really wanted to do it. I had been doing it for a very long time and I was being sent the same sort of scripts again and again.”

Ifs Long Wanted Acting Needed Long Time Scripts Take Time Again And Again

Author:Julia Sawalha

“I could only try to comfort the women that I came face-to-face with. I was really moved by how much they wanted to talk, how much they needed to be comforted, and how happy they were that we were there.”

Trying Wanted Faces Needed Comfort Moved Face To Face

Author:Connie Sellecca

“I always wanted to be on Glee. As soon as the pilot aired, I said I needed to be on the show.”

Said Shows Wanted Needed Pilots Glee

Author:Alex Newell

“I became more courageous by doing the very things I needed to be courageous for-first, a little, and badly. Then, bit by bit, more and better. Being avidly-sometimes annoy-ingly-curious and persistent about discovering how others were doing what I wanted to do.”

Firsts Littles Sometimes Wanted Bits Needed Curious Courageous Annoying Discovering Persistent Be Courageous

Author:Audre Lorde

“All dogs can be guide dogs of a sort, leading us to places we didn't even know we needed or wanted to go.”

Knows Wanted Dog Needed Guides Guide Dogs

Book:Pack of Two: The Intricate Bond Between People and Dogs

Source: Pack of Two: The Intricate Bond Between People and Dogs

“The essence of charity ... was not deciding what others needed and giving it to them, but giving them what they wanted.”

Giving Wanted Needed Essence Charity

Book:Moo

Source: Moo

“This is something that I do consider to be good advice: I took my first paycheck and I put it in the goddamn bank. Then I took my second paycheck and put it in the goddamn bank. I had seen the roller coaster of my father's career - top of the world, then unemployed - and I never wanted to take a job because I needed money.”

World Firsts Wanted Jobs Father Money Careers Advice Needed Be Good Unemployed Good Advice Paychecks Roller Coaster Coasters Top Of The World

Author:Joss Whedon

“I wanted a drink. There were a hundred reasons why a man will want a drink, but I wanted one now for the most elementary reason of all. I didn't want to feel what I was feeling, and a voice within was telling me that I needed a drink, that I couldn't bear it without it. But that voice is a liar. You can always bear the pain. It'll hurt, it'll burn like acid in an open wound, but you can stand it. And, as long as you can make yourself go on choosing the pain over the relief, you can keep going.”

Men Want Feels Long Reason Feelings Wanted Pain Voice Hurt Goes On Bears Needed Drink Hundred Addiction Wounds Reason Why Relief Liars Keep Going Acid

Author:Lawrence Block

“Anybody that makes films knows the film is never finished. It's abandoned or it's ripped out of your hands, and it's thrown into the marketplace, never finished. It's a very rare experience where you find a filmmaker who says, "That's exactly what I wanted. I got everything I needed. I made it just perfect. I'm going to put it out there."”

Knows Made Hands Wanted Film Perfect Needed Finished Made It Filmmaker Thrown Abandoned Marketplace Ripped

Author:George Lucas

“I never took the game for granted as far as not having to work on what I needed to do to accomplish all of the things that I wanted to accomplish.”

Wanted Games Needed Accomplish Granted

Author:Allen Iverson

“My mother taught me the principles of hard work, setting my own goals and visualizing my future. From my early days with Destiny's Child, I understood I had to be focused and dedicated if I wanted true success. We were taught we needed a plan and the discipline to execute that plan to the fullest. I strongly believe if you work hard, whatever you want, it will come to you. I know that's easier said than done but keep trying.”

“I needed to be alone, I felt. I wanted to be going on alone to my future.”

Wanted Felt Needed My Future

Author:Susanna Kaysen

“When I first learned about Abrams and saw the types of books they were making, I knew I wanted my books to be published by them. Abrams books are special-when you hold one in your hands, you have the feeling that this book needed to be made. I once heard an artist say that books are fetish objects-I think Abrams gets that, because their books demand to be treasured. So who better to give comics art its proper due? I feel privileged to have found a home with Abrams.”

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Author:Jeff Kinney

“If I wrote at all, I must throw myself headlong into the great political maelstrom, and would of course be swallowed up like a fishing-boat in the great Norway horror which decorated our school geographies; for no woman had ever done such a thing, and I could never again hold up my head under the burden of shame and disgrace which would be heaped upon me. But what matter? I had no children to dishonor; all save one who had ever loved me were dead, and she no longer needed me, and if the Lord wanted some one to throw into that gulf, no one could be better spared than I.”

“This is why Indians are thought to be stupid. They can't think, they don't know anything, they say. But we have hidden our identity because we needed to resist, we wanted to protect what governments have wanted to take away from us.”

Thinking Knows Government Wanted Stupid Identity Needed Protect

Book:I, Rigoberta Menchú: an Indian woman in Guatemala

Source: I, Rigoberta Menchú: an Indian woman in Guatemala

“I pray that I may never meddle, interfere, dictate, give advice that is not wanted, or assist when my services are not needed. If I can help people, I'll do it by giving them a chance to help themselves; and if I can uplift or inspire, let it be by example, inference and suggestion, rather than by injunction and dictation. That is to say, I desire to be Radiant -- to Radiate Life!”

People Ifs Giving May I Can Helping Wanted Desire Chance Advice Example Inspire Praying Needed Uplifting Interfere Suggestions I Pray Radiant Inference Dictation

Author:Elbert Hubbard

“A central notion in the Affordable Care Act was we had an inefficient system with a lot of waste that didn't also deliver the kind of quality that was needed that often put health care providers in a box where they wanted to do better for their patients, but financial incentives were skewed the other way... We don't need to reinvent the wheel; you're already figuring out what works to reduce infections in hospitals or help patients with complicated needs.”

“It's nice to feel needed... it's better to feel wanted.”

Feels Wanted Nice Needed

Author:Ingrid Weir

“After the November elections gave Republicans control of the Senate, voters made clear they wanted change. We were hopeful our leaders got the voters' message. However, after our speaker forced through the (spending bill) by passing it with Democratic votes and without time to read it, it seemed clear that we needed new leadership.”

Made Wanted Change Leadership Leader Clear Needed Republican Messages Vote Election Bills Democratic Spending Passing Passings Hopeful Voters Senate Speakers November Ever After Passing It

Author:Louie Gohmert

“I was born in an odd spot and was a very sensitive kid. My feelings could get hurt so easily because I always wanted to be loved, I wanted to be touched, I wanted to touch somebody. I wanted everybody to love me, so I think I was louder than I should have been. I was just trying to get attention. I always felt like I was somebody special, maybe it's because I needed to be somebody special.”

Thinking Should Trying Has Beens Feelings Kids Wanted Felt Born Hurt Attention Special Needed Should Have Spots Odd Sensitive Touched Should Have Been Wanted To Be Loved Somebody Special

Author:Dolly Parton

“I realized that if I wanted to truly talk about vastness and the sublime and scale and the West - recurrent themes in my overall work - I needed to engage with the vast ocean that is Los Angeles.”

Ifs Wanted Needed Ocean West I Realized Scales Theme Los Angeles Sublime Vastness Vast Ocean

Author:Michael Light

“I've overcome a lot - sexual abuse, death of a loved one, bad parents and experienced life. My nature is such I not only survived all this but I have thrived. I've always been psychologically ambitious in that I've never been willing to settle emotionally for anything less then what's needed. I've wanted more then that from life.”

Wanted Parent Willing Needed Overcoming Abuse Settling Loved Ones Ambitious Death Of A Loved One Survived Bad Parent

Author:Augusten Burroughs

“I got into pastoring because of the art form. I started a church, but I felt the art form needed to be freed for all people. A particular religion over others was never interesting to me. I wanted to talk to people about what it means to be alive and what it means to be human.”

People Humans Mean Art Wanted Form Felt Church Interesting Alive Particular Needed What It Means To Be Human

Author:Rob Bell

“I realized that my book readings were boring me. I was going to go up there and read a passage and sleepwalk through the whole event and I needed to make it more interesting. I wanted to be running and jumping and do something so that the event would be so exciting. I had to trick myself into having fun every time.”

Book Whole Would Be Running Wanted Reading Fun Interesting Events Needed Exciting Boring I Realized Tricks Having Fun Passages Jumping Book Reading

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“The fact that I didn't finish school left me with a lifelong need to prove that I'm smart, prove it to myself, maybe to the world. I [also] needed to be - not the center of attention - but I needed to be able to attract attention when I wanted it, through my stunts and my fooling around physically with faces or postures or voices I would do. Those things are important elements in the drive behind all of this [my career].”

World Needs Important Facts Able Wanted School Faces Left Voice Behinds Attention Careers Needed Prove Elements Smart Lifelong Posture Prove It Fooling Around Center Of Attention

Author:George Carlin

“I never wanted to be a writer; I just had stories I needed to tell.”

Stories Wanted Needed

Author:Sefi Atta

“If the decline of Christianity created the modern political zealot - and his crimes - so the evaporation of religious faith among the educated left a vacuum in the minds of Western intellectuals easily filled by secular superstition. There is no other explanation for the credulity with which scientists, accustomed to evaluating evidence, and writers, whose whole function was to study and criticize society, accepted the crudest Stalinist propaganda at its face value. They needed to believe; they wanted to be duped.”

“I can remember as a college student writing stories and novels, some of which ended up getting published and some that didn't. It was like my head was going to burst - there were so many things I wanted to write all at once. I had so many ideas, jammed up. It was like they just needed permission to come out.”

Writing I Can Ideas Stories Wanted Remember Novel Students College Needed Permission College Students Writing Stories

Author:Stephen King

“I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed some breathing room. I'd already been translating French poetry, I'd been to Paris once before and liked it very much, and so I just went.”

Wanted America Rooms Needed Breathing Paris Translate French Poetry Expatriates

Author:Paul Auster

“Early in my career, a critic said that I needed to "explain" the irony in my work, suggesting that I needed to add text next to the images to help people understand what I was trying to say. At first I was dismayed that I wasn't making work with a clear enough message. That's when I realized that that was the exact opposite of what I wanted to do - that I wasn't responsible for a misinterpretation of my work, that there should be some ambiguity to it. They either got it, or they didn't.”

People Should Trying Firsts Said Enough Helping Wanted Next Careers Clear Needed Messages Opposites Responsible Add Critics I Realized Irony Ambiguity Suggesting Dismayed Misinterpretation

Author:Cindy Sherman

“I would never write in response to what I believe the public wanted or needed.”

Writing Believe Wanted I Believe Needed Response

Author:Don DeLillo

“When I wanted to change the concept of what I was doing, I needed to be more public because it involved more people to collaborate. And I'm doing television now. I have to be honest, I was very afraid to do TV. I said no for 10 years.”

People Years Said Wanted Honest Television Tvs Needed Involved Concepts Being Honest

Author:Naomi Campbell

“I wanted to stay close enough so mom could see me play - where I could go home if I needed to.”

Ifs Enough Play Home Wanted Mom Needed

Author:Bo Jackson

“I wanted to build something that was a system - that was mechanical and would propagate itself like a virus. I needed a way for it spread from person to person, and the best way to do that was trying to get someone to get their friends to sign up.”

Way Trying Persons Wanted Needed Spread Best Way Viruses

Author:Michael Birch

“I ran for president because I wanted to help Lithuania and its people during a difficult time. My country was on the very edge of an economic crisis, and people were disappointed by the economic situation and the political elite. We all needed change and motivation to consolidate our efforts in order to overcome the difficulties.”

“I felt my personal life was not what it should be. It had nothing to do with Mr. Show - I'm monstrously appreciative and understand what it did for me and to me - but after four years, I just felt like I needed to do something else. I guess I wanted to be in a different place, physically.”

Should Years Different Shows Wanted Felt Four Needed Four Years Personal Life Different Place Appreciative Mr Show

Author:Bob Odenkirk

“I asked Shia: who is the guy that terrifies you the most? And he said Mads. So it was somebody we both really wanted to work with. He's intimidating, but has a really big heart and he's sexy. He's got this sexiness, even guys fall for him. He just penetrates everything-not literally. So we needed a brokenhearted thug that could really give us the heartache. And going between the violence and viciousness and the complete softness without making it too much. A lot of those characters can go into a charade, and I needed it to be genuine heartbrokenness and that's what he's great at doing.”

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Author:Fredrik Bond

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