“The most frustrating thing for me as a singer is that people have pinpointed me as an actress who suddenly woke up one day and decided that I wanted to sing.” PeopleWantedOne DayDecidedActressesSingersFrustratingFrustrating Things Author:Marla Sokoloff
“I'd always wanted to be on Broadway one day, but it seemed like a dream that might be unattainable. This business has a lot of ups and downs and I learned that pretty quickly.” DreamMightWantedOne DayBroadwayUps & DownsUnattainable Author:Kara Lindsay
“One day my dad would say, 'OK, if you want to play tennis I can help you out.' And that's how it started. And I had a goal. I wanted to beat my mom first. And my parents and my brother. And that was the ultimate goal.” IfsWantFirstsI CanPlayHelpingWantedParentGoalBrotherMomDadOne DayBeatsUltimateMy DadMy MomMy BrotherTennisUltimate Goal Author:Caroline Wozniacki
“Manet wanted one day to paint my wife and children. Renoir was there. He took a canvas and began painting them, too. After a while, Manet took me aside and whispered, 'You're on very good terms with Renoir and take an interest in his future - do advise him to give up painting! You can see for yourself that it's not his metier at all.” GivingChildrenWantedTermInterestWifePaintingOne DayGiving UpPaintVery GoodMy WifeCanvasAdviseRenoir Author:Claude Monet
“One day you will wake up and there wont be any more time to do the things youve always wanted. Do it now. The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.” WantedSimpleWiseOne DayWake UpExtraordinaryMore TimeSimple ThingsExtraordinary Things Author:Paulo Coelho
“I wanted to be able to tell my grandkids one day, "Hey, your grandpa ran into a burning building and survived."” AbleWantedBuildingOne DayHeyBurningRanSurvivedGrandpaHey YouGrandkidsBurning Buildings Author:Channing Tatum
“I have absolutely no complaints about my life. But people think I got handed everything, all this kind of fell in my lap, that I was just God-gifted with all this talent. I wanted people to realize it's a lot tougher than just waking up one day and you're in the NHL.” PeopleThinkingKindWantedRealizingTalentOne DayWake UpWakingGiftedComplaintsLapNhl Author:Wayne Gretzky
“Most of the books and films I love walk a knife edge between romance and cynicism, and I wanted 'One Day' to stay on that line. I wanted it to be moving, but without being manipulative.” BookWantedFilmRomanceMovingLinesWalksOne DayEdgesKnivesCynicismManipulative Author:David Nicholls
“When I went to my first CMA Fest, I wanted to be an artist, but I was such a fan girl - I still am - and the two people I waited in line to meet were Taylor Swift and Lady Antebellum. Taylor, I haven't gotten to sit and talk with her as much as I hope I get to one day, but even with her just supporting me on her social media has been incredible.” PeopleFirstsHas BeensStillsTwoWantedArtistGirlSocialLinesFansMediaHavensOne DayIncrediblesSocial MediaAntebellum Author:Kelsea Ballerini
“If colleges wanted to admit only legacies, or only tuba players, or only people who got astonishingly low SAT scores ' to ensure some of their graduates would be U.S. senators one day ' the Constitution wouldn't stop them. What the states, including state colleges, cannot do under the Constitution is discriminate on the basis of race.” PeopleIfsStatesWould BeWantedRacePlayerCollegeOne DayLowsBasesConstitutionIncludingLegacySatScoreGraduatesSenatorsTubasSat Scores Author:Ann Coulter
“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'm a lifelong Simpsons fanatic and I wanted to create my own animated show, one day.” ShowsWantedMy OwnOne DayLifelongFanaticsAnimated Author:Jonah Hill
“Black ink was always my favorite. I loved it. And then one day I realized that the only thing I ever wanted to do was to paint.” WantedBlackOne DayPaintMy FavoriteI RealizedInk Author:Pierre Soulages
“I design for a woman who is on the go. Women are busier than ever, and I wanted to design a collection that can go from day to night and be fashionable. Sometimes I wear three outfits in one day.” SometimesWantedNightThreeDesignOne DayCollectionsFashionableOutfitsBusier Author:Giuliana Rancic
“I mean, you could lie here day after day, if you wanted to, and think about nothing but waterbugs. Not chase waterbugs, mind you, just think about them. You could spend your whole day, every day, just wondering and pondering about waterbugs, and talking to others about waterbugs . . . and before you realized it, you'd be old. One day you'd realize that you'd never actually seen a waterbug . . . but by then you wouldn't want to, because it would spoil all your beautiful ideas.” IfsThinkingWantMindMeanIdeasWholeWantedBeautifulLyingRealizingTalkingWonderOne DaySpoilPonderingYour Beautiful Book:Tailchaser's Song Source: Tailchaser's Song
“I was never pushed into the business. I wanted to play the guitar. When my dad found out I could play pretty good he took me into the studio one day. I did my first session for his label. We did quite a few sessions up there.” FirstsPlayWantedFoundDadOne DayGuitarMy DadStudiosLabelsSession Author:Shuggie Otis
“When I was writing the script, I knew didn't want to make a sports movie. I was very clear that I wanted to make a sibling rivalry story. So when I was writing the script, the football was getting in the way of the drama. One day, I saw Michael Haneke's Funny Games, which is probably the most violent film I've ever seen - but the violence is off camera. When I finished watching the film, I said, 'Hey, that's what I have to do.' Haneke gave me this solution.” WayWantWritingSaidStoriesWantedFilmGamesSportsClearSawsViolenceFootballDramaOne DaySolutionsCamerasScriptsFinishedViolentHeySiblingRivalrySibling RivalrySports MovieFunny GameViolent Films Author:Carlos Cuaron
“One day I realized that that was not what I wanted to do for the rest of my life. I wanted to chase my dream and I wanted to show my young daughter that it's okay to chase your dreams. So, I set out to do it.” ShowsDreamWantedYoungOne DayDaughterOkayI RealizedYour DreamsChase Your DreamsYoung Daughter Author:Drew Waters
“I was fooling around one day and looking at Yahoo! Jobs. I typed in "photo" and, of course, what comes up is "One hour photo lab" or "Be a photographer in Disneyland" or jobs that no one really wants as a photographer. I saw, by chance, this ad that said, "Wanted: Photographer for premieres and Hollywood events" and I thought, "This can not be real. This is ridiculous. No one advertizes this!" I was really suspect about it.” WantSaidRealWantedJobsCoursesHoursChanceSawsEventsOne DayHollywoodPhotographerCome UpRidiculousSuspectsAdsBeing RealCan NotLabsDisneylandOne HourPremieresFooling Around Author:Jeff Vespa
“I find solace in animals. I have got a stray dog at home called Candy. I picked it up while I was waiting at the airport one day. I always wanted to have a 'macho' dog but got this sweet little thing instead.” LittlesHomeWantedWaitingAnimalDogSweetOne DayLittle ThingsCandyAirportsSolaceMachoStray Dogs Author:Randeep Hooda
“I had seen "Force Majeure" and I just love that movie so much. And I really wanted to artistically give a little hello to the filmmakers, and that kind of back and forth dialogue between artists that say, "I loved your movie. I was influenced by your movie. If I didn't have this job, I wouldn't be thinking of that. Do my TV show and then one day I'll make a movie where I can play with some of the visual themes in "Force Majeure."” IfsThinkingGivingKindLittlesI CanPlayShowsWantedJobsArtistForceTvsOne DayDialogueFilmmakerThemeVisualsTv ShowsHelloBack And ForthI Loved You Author:Jill Soloway
“I have never wanted to give up performing on stage, but one day the tours will be over.” GivingWantedStageOne DayGiving UpPerformingNever Giving UpPerforming On Stage Author:Mick Jagger
“One of my sisters wanted to be an opera singer. So, we spent a few dollars to try to train her, because Italian people would like to have an opera singer in the family. But she's got trouble coughing, let alone singing. One day, she was in the shower singing 'Madame Butterfly,' three days later the Japs attacked Pearl Harbor.” PeopleTryingWantedThreeTroubleOne DaySingingDollarsTrainSingersItalianMy SisterOperaButterflyShowersPearlsHarborsOpera SingersCoughing Author:Pat Cooper
“[Eugene Smith] was always writing these diatribes about truth, and how he wanted to tell the truth, the truth, the truth. It was a real rebel position. It was kind of like a teenager's position: why can't things be like they should be? Why can't I do what I want? I latched on to that philosophy. One day I snapped, hey, you know, I know a story that no one's ever told, never seen, and I've lived it. It's my own story and my friends' story.” KnowsWantShouldWritingKindRealPhilosophyStoriesWantedMy OwnPositionOne DayMy FriendsHeyTeenagerTelling The TruthRebelHey You Author:Larry Clark
“My father owned a music store when I was growing up in Rock Falls, Illinois. He could play all the instruments, which you had to do when you owned a music store back then. One day, when I was three years old, he took me to a parade. When the drums passed by, I got so excited I told him wanted to learn to play them.” YearsPlayWantedFallThreeFatherGrowing UpGrowingRocksOne DayInstrumentsExcitedStoresThree YearsParadesIllinoisThree Year Olds Author:Louie Bellson
“It was just such a complete shock to turn on the news one day and see someone that you know, someone you have passed in the halls of your high school. It got me thinking, 'Well, what are some novels that are about female sexual psychopaths? I really didn't have many references for that, and I felt like that was a void in transgressive literature that I wanted to fill.'” ThinkingKnowsWellsWantedSchoolTurnsLiteratureFeltNovelOne DayNewsHigh SchoolFemaleShockHallsVoidTurn-onPsychopath Author:Alissa Nutting
“I started as an artist and I had a side job moving some heavy boxes for a publishing company. They had just gotten a Mac for their art department, the department that creates the book covers. I was kind of showing the art director a thing or two about how to use a Mac. And one day everyone went out to lunch and I jumped on the computer and designed a book jacket and slipped it in the pile to go to the review board in New York. They picked my jacket and when the art director got back to Boston, he wanted to know who designed it and I said, "Me." He was like, "The box guy?"” KnowsKindArtSaidTwoBookUseWantedJobsMovingArtistGuySidesCompanyNew YorkOne DayDirectorsComputerBoxesHeavyBoardsDepartmentReviewsLunchPublishingBostonJacketsMacsBook CoversArt Director Author:Biz Stone
“There's an old, private cemetery here in Palm Springs, where I live, just down the street from the airport, that belongs to one of the local Native American tribes, and it occurred to me one day that if you really wanted to get away with murder, you'd kill someone, put them in a coffin and bury them in a private cemetery or, better, an abandoned one. And then suddenly this whole idea of a long con appeared before me and I had this idea of using a Jewish cemetery.” IfsLongIdeasWholeWantedStreetsOne DaySpringMurderLocalsNativeGet AwayAbandonedNative AmericanTribesPalmsAirportsCemeteryCoffinsPalm Springs Author:Tod Goldberg
“Well I've always wanted to sing at something called The Houston Rodeo in my hometown, so hopefully I'll get to do that one day.” WellsWantedOne DayHopefullyHometownHoustonRodeo Author:Danielle Bradbery
“I'm preparing to be a mother one day and I really wanted to get inside the mind of a mom.” MindWantedMotherMomOne DayPreparing Author:LeToya Luckett
“I definitely want to have kids one day. That's something I've always wanted since as long as I could remember. And the older I get, the more I'm like, "I'm too young!"” WantLongKidsWantedRememberYoungOne Day Author:Serena Williams
“One day, a pretty, fresh-faced young lady - intelligent and sincerely concerned - asked me if abortion wasn't preferable to making a young, unmarried girl have a baby she didn't want and which would, therefore, grow up unloved and probably turn out to be a criminal. I gave an answer which apparently she hadn't considered. I told her there were literally millions of people in this country who wanted but could not have children and who waited eagerly, sometimes for years, to adopt the baby she had described.” PeopleIfsWantYearsChildrenCountrySometimesWantedYoungTurnsGirlGrowsAnswersMillionsGrowing UpBabyOne DayConcernedIntelligentCriminalsAbortionSincerelyUnlovedUnmarriedYoung Ladies Author:Ronald Reagan
“One day it was that I wanted to go make a movie with my kid and then another day it was that I wanted to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro and another day it was that I wanted to sit in the studio and figure something out. All those things manifested themselves into what the TV show was.” ShowsKidsWantedFiguresTvsOne DayStudiosClimbsTv ShowsAnother DayKilimanjaro Author:Casey Neistat
“I think when I envisioned my documentaries, what I wanted to do when I left, I had no business doing those documentaries. I didn't know what I was doing. I was delving into an arena that I had no experience in, and Netflix paired me up with two documentarians that really executed my vision perfectly. That was great, to see that. All of a sudden I'm at Sundance, and those are premiering. I just thought, "Wow, they were four ideas I pitched one day, and now it's coming to fruition on this scale."” ThinkingKnowsTwoIdeasWantedLeftVisionFourOne DayScalesWowDocumentariesArenaFruitionNetflixSundanceDelving Author:Chelsea Handler
“I think every filmmaker in Europe would be lying if they didn't say one day they just wanted to make a movie here in Hollywood or at least try it. It's very different from European filmmaking, because here it's like a real industry. It's very much about money and making money, which I think is fine, because it's very expensive to make movies.” IfsThinkingTryingDifferentRealWould BeWantedLyingFineIndustryOne DayEuropeHollywoodMaking MoneyFilmmakerExpensiveFilmmaking Author:Baran Odar
“We didn't just wake up one day and here is the United States of America, and it is the gem, the shining city on the hill, however you want to describe it, it had to be built. It was not there. But from the moment it began to be built, isn't it interesting that everybody in the world who heard about it wanted to go there?” WorldWantStatesMomentsWantedAmericaInterestingUnitedCitiesUnited StatesHeardOne DayBuiltWake UpShiningHillsUnited States Of AmericaGems Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I knew something was wrong that day, he made the mistakes [Pablo Escobar] had never committed throughout the last 10 years as the most wanted man in the world in one day. He never used the phone, he only did the day he was killed.” MenWorldYearsMadeWantedLastsUsedMistakeOne DayPhonesCommittedMost WantedPablo Escobar Author:Juan Pablo Escobar
“It certainly was an important moment for me, that realization that I was not going to get what I wanted. It was very freeing. I keep using that word "freeing" or "liberating." I feel like Houdini sometimes, like I'm just getting out of one set of shackles after another, hanging upside down inside a burlap bag with handcuffs on. Hopefully one day, I'm going to get out of this tank of water.” FeelsImportantSometimesMomentsWantedWaterOne DayRealizationHopefullyBagsLiberatingTanksUpside DownShacklesHandcuffsImportant MomentsHoudiniBurlap Author:Alison Bechdel
“At one point I had to shove as much food in my body as possible to pack on calories. My trainer wanted me to do six meals a day and not go two hours without eating. If I would cheat on eating one day, I could tell - I'd drop a few pounds.” IfsTwoBodyWantedHoursOne DaySixEatingMealsPoundsPacksCheatTrainersCalories Author:Taylor Lautner
“So, you know, if, if I wanted to get up and just play golf one day, I would just get up and play golf. If I wanted to go to Vegas, I would just get up and go to Vegas.” IfsKnowsPlayWantedOne DayGolfGet UpVegas Author:Michael Phelps
“I've always wanted to sing, just as I've always known that one day I would have my own niche in the annals of song. It was a feeling I had.” FeelingsWantedSongMy OwnKnownOne DayNiche Author:Edith Piaf
“Do you know how many companies have wanted me to do an energy drink for them because I named my book 'Crush It!'? It might be fun one day, but right now I think it would undermine the personal brand I've built.” ThinkingKnowsBookMightWantedEnergyFunCompanyKnow HowDrinkRight NowOne DayBuiltBrandsCrushDo You KnowEnergy Drink Author:Gary Vaynerchuk
“In college, I had a course in Latin, and one day the word "divorce" came up. I always figured it came from some root that meant "divide." In truth, it comes from "divertere," which means "to divert." I believe that. All divorce does is divert you, taking you away from everything you thought you knew and everything you thought you wanted and steering you into all kinds of other stuff, like discussions about your mother's girdle and whether she should marry someone else.” ShouldBelieveKindMeanDoeWantedMotherCoursesI BelieveStuffPositiveCollegeOne DayRootsDivorceAll KindsDiscussionLatinDividesSteeringGirdles Author:Mitch Albom
“I suddenly remember being very little and being embraced by my father. I would try to put my arms around my father's waist, hug him back. I could never reach the whole way around the equator of his body; he was that much larger than life. Then one day, I could do it. I held him, instead of him holding me, and all I wanted at that moment was to have it back the other way.” WayTryingLittlesWholeMomentsBodyWantedRememberFatherArmsDadOne DayThat MomentHugLarger Than LifeEquator Author:Jodi Picoult
“And they will return one day knowing the miracle of the heavens and of all the world. God knew what he was doing when he drew their attention to the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. If he hadn’t wanted them to eat it, he would never have mentioned it.” IfsWorldWantedEvilHeavenAttentionKnowingTreeReturnOne DayMiracleGood And EvilBrida Author:Paulo Coelho