“My dad knew that if I wanted to make a career out of it, I needed to go to NASCAR rather than dirt racing. Personally, I like dirt racing a little bit more. It's a little more fun.” IfsLittlesWantedFunBitsCareersNeededDadLittle BitMy DadRacingDirtNascar Author:Tanner Berryhill
“I wanted to be a jazz pianist, but I wasn't good enough. I got into city college because I didn't have the grades to get into university. I took acting because it was a way to get three credits. I just needed three credits and my friend told me to take acting because it was like gym - nobody fails you. I took it and that's literally how I got involved in acting.” WayLifeEnoughWantedThreeActingCitiesDestinyFailingCollegeNeededInvolvedDirectorsMy FriendsJazzUniversityCreditCinemaGradesGood EnoughGymInvolvementInvolvingPianist Author:Dustin Hoffman
“There was probably something as a child I wanted to express, something unsaid that I needed to share.” ChildrenWantedShareNeededUnsaid Author:Juliette Binoche
“I wanted to be self-sufficient, I wanted to take care of myself, and I wanted to learn. I wanted to travel, I wanted to see the world and have my eyes opened. I wanted to be consistently challenged, and I knew I needed to be creative in some way. When I got my job in a bar and I could pay for my tuition and go on auditions and sometimes get jobs that I loved and pay my rent, I knew that I would be all right. That's when my dreams came true, long before the telephone rang and someone said, 'Come and meet Tom Cruise'".” WorldWayLongSaidSelfSometimesDreamWould BeEyeCareWantedJobsPayCreativeGoes OnNeededTake CareBarsSufficientTomsConsistentlyAuditionsBe CreativeTelephonesCruiseSelf SufficientTuitionDreams Came True Author:Renee Zellweger
“I thought New York had it coming, that it needed a kick in the balls. When I returned to New York, I wanted to get even. Now I had a weapon, photography.” WantedNew YorkNeededPhotographyWeaponsBallsKicks Author:William Klein
“I never wanted to be the person who said, "I woulda, coulda, shoulda." Life is way too short, and you may not last that long. I dropped out of Yale after two years to pursue one of the most uncertain careers - modeling. That seemed like a crazy decision, especially coming from where I came from and given what Yale is. Most people I knew told me so. But I was following what my heart was telling me I needed to do. I took the risk. It could easily have not worked out, but it did. Phew!” PeopleWayYearsHeartMayPersonsLongSaidTwoWantedLastsLife IsGivenDecisionCareersRiskCrazyNeededMy HeartFollowingPursueTwo YearsUncertainToo ShortModelingRisk ItYaleLife Is Way Too ShortWoulda Coulda Shoulda Author:Joy Bryant
“I left Stone Sour in '97 because, by that time, we'd been together for about five years and I was kind of getting to the point where I wanted to do something different. I loved the music that we did and I loved the guys that I was with, but I was 24 and just felt like I needed to go and try something different so I didn't get stuck where I was, you know, just doing the same thing. And, coincidentally, that's when Slipknot came and asked me to join. I'd never done anything like Slipknot up until then, so I was like, "Okay, we'll try this and we'll see what happens." And it worked out.” KnowsTryingYearsKindDifferentDoneHappensWantedTogetherGuyLeftFeltFiveNeededStonesOkayStuckFive YearsSourStone Sour Author:Corey Taylor
“But my body was telling its story. I have read a lot of stuff about cancer. I needed this book. I wish I'd had this book when I had cancer. I wanted someone to be talking to me about "fart floors." I wanted somebody telling me what it was like to have a colostomy bag. I felt so alone. And if you're a person who's been traumatized by past abuse, it's so potentially re-traumatizing. You slip right into "oh my god, this is the only person this has happened to before" mentality: "I'm especially bad and I have especially bad cancer..."” IfsPersonsBookStoriesBodyWantedPastWishFeltStuffTalkingHappenedNeededAbuseCancerBagsSlipsMentalityFartWanted Someone Author:Eve Ensler
“Teaching in Providence and Oakland, I realized that the first thing is that it wasn't good enough to come in and assume that I had what my students needed in terms of knowledge and skills. I also had to show them that I was their ally. I had to show them that I was concerned about them, wanted to relate to them, and that I was fundamentally on their side.” FirstsEnoughShowsWantedSidesTermTeachingStudentsNeededSkillsConcernedAssumingI RealizedRelateGood EnoughAlliesProvidenceOakland Author:Pedro Noguera
“I loved short stories, and they were all I wanted to write. I love the compression of them and the exactitude needed to get a whole world into such a small space.” WorldWritingWholeStoriesWantedSpaceNeededWhole WorldShort StorySmall SpacesCompressionExactitude Author:Debra Dean
“I used to ask myself why American universities are financed through endowments. Now I know: During the early days of America, the state was poor and when citizens wanted to set something up, they needed to collect money themselves. Historically, this was different in Europe. There used to be a strong state, a monarch or a king. He provided money.” KnowsDifferentStatesWantedAmericaUsedAsksStrongPoorKingsNeededCitizensEuropeUniversityUsed To BeMonarchsEndowmentAmerican Universities Author:Zhang Xin
“We definitely needed to spend a good solid year just finding ourselves before anyone would even notice us. We had our fan-base growing around here in Los Angeles, but I wouldn't even have wanted anyone to come out to see us that was from a record label or something like that at that time, because we really needed to feel ourselves out as a live band.” FeelsYearsWantedRecordsGrowingFansNeededBandFindingsLabelsLos AngelesRecord Labels Author:Theresa Wayman
“I was like 14 and decided I wanted to be a rapper, so I needed a hip rapper name. I was with one of my friends in class and literally went through a thesaurus. I saw "temper" and thought, "I like this, but it's too much." My friend was like, "What about Tinie for tiny," and that was that.” WantedNamesClassSawsToo MuchNeededMy FriendsDecidedTinyHipsTemperRapperThesaurus Author:Tinie Tempah
“I wanted to become an actor and I knew that if I was really going to do it, I needed the training. I was not one of those people that was like, "I got it." I was like, "No, I don't have it yet. I need work. I need help fixing myself."” PeopleIfsNeedsHelpingWantedActorsNeededTrainingFixingNeed Help Author:Condola Rashad
“Scott and I had just worked with Jimmy Pardo doing a live show over the summer. And it was a lot of fun and we wanted to keep doing a live show. And as Scott said, we knew a lot of funny young people who needed a place to do stand-up. And we were in a place, where we were writing so much that we weren't around live comedy so much, so we kind of missed it.” PeopleWritingKindSaidShowsWantedYoungFunComedyNeededSummerJimmy Author:B. J. Porter
“I think that the most significant, guiding principle was that we wanted to return to a three-piece live form, whereas we became a four-piece for the last record because the songs had more extensive arrangements and we needed a keyboard player to pull off a lot of those songs. We missed the energy, and more push-and-pull of the three-piece.” ThinkingWantedLastsFormSongThreeEnergyPrinciplesRecordsPiecesFourPlayerReturnNeededSignificantArrangementsKeyboardsGuiding PrinciplesKeyboard Players Author:Chris Cain
“I wanted to challenge myself and move into something new. I felt that using the name Swans and the sonic attitude that that engenders was what I needed to move forward musically, and it's led to lots of new things.” WantedMovingNamesFeltChallengesAttitudeNeededMoving ForwardSomething NewNew ThingsSwans Author:Michael Gira
“It used to be, if you wanted to have a strong, influential voice in the feminist movement, you really needed to be part of this New York/D.C. elite group of feminists, or part of a mainstream feminist organization. And now it's kind of an amazing thing that you can just start a blog and put your voice out there and build your readership.” IfsKindWantedUsedStrongVoiceGroupsNew YorkMovementNeededOrganizationFeministUsed To BeElitesMainstreamBlogsInfluentialAmazing ThingsReadershipFeminist Movement Author:Jessica Valenti
“I really wasn't about to get a Ph.D. in art history, you know, which you'd absolutely needed. And that was not something I wanted. And I loved art history, but not that way.” KnowsWayArtWantedNeededArt History Author:Robert Barry
“"Tabernacle" was probably the easiest song I'd ever wrote because all I really had to do was rhyme the words since the whole story, front to back, was already in my head. All I needed to do was verbalize it, and if it didn't have to rhyme I could've just freestyled it because I already knew what I wanted to say.” IfsWholeStoriesWantedSongFrontsNeededRhyme Author:Ryan Montgomery
“[Adolf] Hitler needed, he didn't want to kill Jews, he wanted to expel German Jews, and therefore it's not entirely corroborating your theory.” WantWantedTheoryNeededJew Author:Elie Wiesel
“I wanted people to feel me as a person. I do this music for the people, man, so at the end of the day I feel like, [given] our state of mind and the state our economy is in, I felt like we needed motivation for the type of situation we're in nowadays.” PeopleMenFeelsMindPersonsEndsStatesWantedMotivationGivenFeltSituationEconomyTypeNeededThe End Of The DayState Of Mind Author:Ace Hood
“I knew that I always wanted to keep making music, but I knew that comics needed to be a part of my life.” WantedNeeded Author:Gerard Way
“I needed to enhance the outward threat to Rachel.In the book [Girl on the Train], her inner threat is so strong; the fear of herself and her inability to remember and the false memories. In the film [Girl on the Train]I wanted to increase the exterior threat. So that's why Allison's part was bigger and was an important part of the climax of the film.” ImportantBookWantedRememberFilmGirlStrongMemoriesNeededBiggerIncreaseTrainThreatInabilityExteriorClimaxAllison Author:Erin Cressida Wilson
“When assignments were over, photography continued. One of the primary reasons it did was that I wanted and needed to have fresh work. Also, it's very stimulating to be around non-professional photographers. They're the ones with the purest flame burning about their photography. I appreciate that.” ReasonWantedNeededPhotographyAppreciatePhotographerBurningPrimariesFlamesAssignmentsProfessional Photographer Author:Sam Abell
“With our last album ("No Time To Bleed"), we recorded most of it in New Jersey. And with being on the road 9 months a year, recording an album on the other side of the country- it just wasn't a good experience for us. All I wanted to do was go home and see my daughter, so for us to only be a couple hours away was huge- I could go home if I needed to.” IfsYearsCountryHomeWantedLastsSidesHoursHugeMonthsCoupleNeededDaughterAlbumsMy DaughterJerseyNew JerseyGood Experiences Author:Mitch Lucker
“[Paper Girls] needed to have a certain kind of almost neon style to it, but at the same time we wanted also to show the modern perspective that we had.” KindShowsWantedCertainGirlModernStylePerspectiveNeededPaperNeon Author:Cliff Chiang
“I get the Martian look all the time even in the hood. I walk down to the shopping block and people just look at me with their mouth open man like what are you doing out here and I'm like I'm trying to get a pair of sneakers duke what's good? What are you doing [and I'm like] I'm hungry I wanted some juice and I needed some bread.” PeopleMenTryingLooksWantedWalksNeededMouthsHungryBreadBlockPairsShoppingLook At MeJuiceHoodDukesSneakersMartians Author:Rakim
“We can't talk about the book [Albert Camus] wanted to write because we have barely its beginnings. He had written hardly any of it, but he needed to write it. It seems to me that if you look at the style of The First Man it conforms much more to who he was as a man, it resembles him very closely.” IfsMenWritingFirstsLooksBookSeemsWantedWrittenStyleNeededConform Author:Catherine Camus
“I read that Hollywood wanted to film Fences years ago with a white director, but [August] Wilson refused. He thought that the director needed to have lived the culture of black Americans.” YearsWantedFilmCultureBlackWhiteNeededDirectorsYears AgoHollywoodFenceAugustWilson Author:Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
“I got about half the time I wanted to write poetry. I got about half the time I needed to be a father. So there is something in adulthood that has to do with accepting the half of things, allowing a renunciation of the other half, accepting half a basket instead of a full basket.” WritingWantedFatherHalfAcceptingNeededAllowingAdulthoodOther HalfBasketsRenunciation Author:Robert Bly
“I wanted to take a damaged individual in a damaged society with damaged relationships between nations and take a look at how this individual survives amongst them, and that for me as a writer is the connection that you needed to get inside the skin of the main character and wonder how he's going to cope with all this.” LooksCharacterWantedIndividualNationsWonderNeededConnectionsSkinsMain Characters Author:Steven Knight
“What I wanted to do was give society the information it needed to decide if it wanted to change the system.” IfsGivingWantedInformationNeeded Author:Edward Snowden
“When my husband gives me this ultimatum, "You either stop singing, or you move out," then it became very clear that what I needed to do - not just because I wanted to sing, but because I didn't want to live with anybody who issued ultimatums to me like that - would be to move out.” WantGivingWould BeWantedMovingClearNeededHusbandSingingGive MeMy HusbandUltimatum Author:Rene Marie
“The minute you're offered another option, you're like, "You mean, I can watch this every week, if I want to, or twice this week, if I need to, and not next week, if I don't have time?" I didn't even realize it was something we wanted or needed, which is where all great innovations come from.” IfsWantNeedsMeanI CanWantedNextRealizingWatchesWeekMinutesLike YouNeededInnovationNext Week Author:Tom Riley
“I might have been too tiny for it, but I wanted to become a professional tennis player. I was a pretty good tennis player as a kid, but ultimately I just don't think that I have that jock mentality needed for sports.” ThinkingHas BeensMightKidsWantedSportsPlayerNeededTinyTennisMentalityMight Have BeenJocksTennis Player Author:Robbie Rist
“I never had aspirations to go into politics or medicine. I always wanted to be an artist of some sort. I wasn't so politically motivated. I felt that the world from an early age was disappointing. My father taught me about the bomb, and it was eye-opening. From then on, I thought grown-ups needed to do a better job. I still think that.” ThinkingWorldStillsEyeAgeWantedJobsArtistFatherFeltTaughtNeededMedicineOpeningAspirationBombsMotivatedDisappointingBetter JobsEye Opening Author:Patti Smith
“Distinguish between the work and the job title. When I was leaving school in the early 1970s, many people wanted to be journalists, carrying out investigative reporting for print newspapers. Print newspapers may not exist in twenty years. But good thinking and good writing about issues that need to be reported and investigated will always be needed; but where this happens, what it is called, and who pays for it may be quite different than could have been envisioned by the great journalists of the past.” PeopleThinkingNeedsWritingYearsMayHas BeensDifferentHappensWantedSchoolJobsPastPayIssuesNeededTwentiesLeavingNewspapersJournalistTitlesPrintCould Have BeenGood WritingGood ThinkingJob TitlesLeaving School Author:Howard Gardner
“I wanted to make the album I always needed to make. I had to say the things I never could.” WantedNeededAlbums Author:Cyndi Lauper
“Because my dad abused me, I was determined to never let a man tell me what to do. God clearly showed me that I needed to be a submissive wife if I wanted to be effective in ministry. The truth is, if we don't learn to submit to authority, we won't ever learn to submit to God.” IfsMenWantedWifeNeededDadTruth IsAuthorityMy DadDeterminedSubmitMinistrySubmissive Author:Joyce Meyer
“We wanted to solve robot problems and needed some vision, action, reasoning, planning, and so forth. We even used some structural learning, such as was being explored by Patrick Winston.” ProblemActionWantedUsedVisionNeededSolvePlanningReasoningRobots Author:Marvin Minsky
“But 'Cuban Linx' was a project that really needed to come, and I really wanted to get it off my chest because I know that the fans were really skeptical about it, like 'is this really gonna be what it's supposed to be?' So once everybody caught it for what it was and everybody was happy, that's mission accomplished for me.” KnowsWantedFansNeededProjectsCaughtMissionsSupposed To BeAccomplishedChestsSkepticalCubanMission Accomplished Author:Raekwon
“In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.” GivingWantedNeededSatisfactionContactLastingStubbornSoulmate Author:Eleanor Roosevelt
“My parents were working class folks. My dad was a bartender for most of his life, my mom was a maid and a cashier and a stock clerk at WalMart. We were not people of financial means in terms of significant financial means. I always told them, 'I didn't always have what I wanted. I always had what I needed.' My parents always provided that.” PeopleMeanWantedMotherParentTermClassMomNeededDadMy DadFinancialFolksMy MomSignificantWorking ClassMaidsClerksBartenderWalmartCashiers Author:Marco Rubio
“In my mind I needed a symbol of today's technology, and I realized that what I wanted to photograph was the Space Shuttle. And so that's where Places of Power came into being.” MindTodayWantedSpaceTechnologyNeededPhotographyPhotographI RealizedSymbolsSpace Shuttle Author:John Sexton
“I wanted to make sure that the man who found the genie would not take terrible advantage of her, so he needed to be a person of integrity and honor - which is why I made the male lead an astronaut. The rest, as they say, is history.” MenPersonsMadeWantedFoundNeededHonorTerribleIntegrityAdvantageMalesAstronautGenies Author:Sidney Sheldon
“I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I'd become famous.” WantedLiteratureNeededFame Author:Danielle Steel
“What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.” IfsNeedsDreamAgeWantedUsedSongTurnsRecordsNeededAgingStudiosExcitedProducersUsed To BeBirthdayDigitalGapsDoing YouLaptopsDigital Age50th BirthdayTurn MeDreaming And Doing Author:Bono
“She wanted to leave, she wanted to lie alone face down on her bed and savor the vile piquancy of the moment, and go back down the lines of branching consequences to the point before the destruction began. She needed to contemplate with eyes closed the full richness of what she had lost, what she had given away, and to anticipate the new regime.” MomentsEyeWantedFacesLyingLostGivenLinesNeededBedConsequenceDestructionRegimesContemplatingRichnessAnticipate Book:Atonement Source: Atonement
“And in the end, I lost him. I did it on purpose, the way Garance lost Baptiste in the crowd. I needed to be alone, I felt. I wanted to be going on alone to my future.” WayEndsWantedPurposeLostFeltNeededCrowdsMy Future Author:Susanna Kaysen