“Everything is super personal. Basically all of the songs are 'this is my life and what I feel about it.' That's how my brain works and thinks about things. It's really strange because I never really think about what I want to write about - it sort of just comes out. I literally say whatever is in my brain.” ThinkingWantFeelsWritingSongBrainStrange Author:Elena Tonra
“Milton on speed. I am going to need about a decade to think about that. That delay in syntax, the putting off of the click of the sentence into itself, is something that has always intrigued me. I love the emotional effect of it, and never want it to be merely a gesture. Sometimes I try it and it doesn't work, so I have to put the poem aside, and try again, more simply and more strange.” ThinkingWantNeedsTryingSometimesEffectsEmotionalStrangeSentencesSpeedDecadesGesturesDelayTry AgainClicksIntriguedMiltonSyntax Author:Matthew Zapruder
“It's strange to think that I can go places and people want to hear my music. I guess that's all I ever wanted.” PeopleThinkingWantI CanWantedStrange Author:George Ezra
“Then little writings and recordings that thankfully continue to come up. I'm in this kind of wonderful, kind of awkward, off-putting, and strange position where there's nothing I want to do more than continue to make music, but the ways that I do things are not in tune with how I can do them commercially.” WayWantWritingKindLittlesI CanCan DoWonderfulPositionStrangeCome UpTunesAwkward Author:Will Oldham
“You always have to sign contracts for several years, if they want to pick you up. It's kind of a strange scenario. They have the option or not.” IfsWantYearsKindStrangePicksContractsScenarios Author:Patricia Arquette
“I want what I write to be deeply engaging and strange and true.” WantWritingStrangeEngaging Author:Dana Spiotta
“If you want to make something that's aggressive and challenging and peculiar and strange and trying to step outside of a traditional approach, some people aren't going to like it.” PeopleIfsWantTryingChallengesStepsStrangeApproachTraditionalAggressivePeculiar Author:Casey Spooner
“[Doctor Strange] is difficult, he's arrogant, but he's kind of brilliant and charming and you'd think, "Yeah, I'd want him on my head if I needed brain surgery." He's good enough to warrant his arrogance and he respects other people but not when he thinks he's right and he'll just do what he deems needs to be done when he knows or feels that he's right and the problem from humility's point of view is that he is right, he's really really good at his job.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWantNeedsFeelsKindDoneEnoughProblemJobsDifficultViewsBrainHumilityStrangeNeededDoctorsYeahPoint Of ViewBrilliantArroganceGood EnoughArrogantCharmingSurgeryRespecting OthersWant HimWarrantsBrain Surgery Author:Benedict Cumberbatch
“We do not want to repeat ourselves [in Doctor Strange] or do what's been done before necessarily, and when you have a track record now you can either do that and keep, this seems to work and let's keep doing this - which some people accuse us of no matter what, because I don't think they pay attention, but really what we do is say, 'Okay, we have a studio that trusts us and let's us do what we want for the most part with the creative.” PeopleThinkingWantMatterDoneSeemsPayAttentionCreativeRecordsStrangeDoctorsOkayNo Matter WhatTrackStudiosPay AttentionRepeatsTrack Record Author:Kevin Feige
“At Cambridge, you have to kiss the vice-chancellor's fingers. But I missed out on that, 'cause I was doing a matinee. I don't want to kiss a strange man's fingers anyway.” MenWantCausesStrangeKissingFingersVicesCambridgeStrange Man Author:Eric Idle
“The reason I don't want to say anything about it is it has a strange power to take over the conversation. Just like it's doing with us. I was asked to participate in a documentary about Richard Prince, and be the voice of someone who was appropriated, and I declined. The reason I did is I don't want it to be the subject of the discussion of my work.” WantReasonVoiceSubjectsStrangeConversationDiscussionSay AnythingDocumentaries Author:Sam Abell
“I think that the more alien and strange a world or situation is, the more concise you have to be if you want the reader to follow you. It depends on what effect you're looking for.” IfsThinkingWorldWantSituationEffectsStrangeDependsReaderAliensConcise Author:Karin Tidbeck
“I want my own cloak. I mean, that's also up in the air that you know - . I haven't really thought about it because it's you know, really is sort of to be determined. I think the success of the film [Doctor Strange] determines that.” ThinkingKnowsWantMeanFilmMy OwnAirHavensStrangeDoctorsDetermineDeterminedCloaksUp In The Air Author:Rachel McAdams
“Compared with now when almost everyone knows what graphic design is and has some sort of access to the tools to make it, back then, it was really esoteric, you had to quantify it as being 'like commercial art', as one still does in certain circles. It was a strange thing to want to do for a living.” KnowsWantDoeArtStillsCertainDesignStrangeToolsAccessCirclesGraphicStrange ThingsGraphic DesignEsotericCommercial Art Author:Michael Bierut
“I don't want to give too much away, but something horrible happens in 1977. That was also the year of the Queen's Silver Jubilee. I remember this jubilee. I remember receiving a commemorative coin from the school. I think it was a fifty pence piece. That was its monetary value, but it was not a normal fifty pence piece, and it would have been strange to try and use it in a shop.” ThinkingWantGivingTryingYearsHas BeensUseHappensSchoolRememberValuesToo MuchPiecesStrangeNormalHorribleQueensFiftyShopsSilverReceivingCoinsMonetaryJubileeMonetary Value Author:Quentin S. Crisp
“I still had the same frustration with trying to play [Edward Cullen], the entire way through, right up until the last shot. It's a strange part because, on the one hand, a lot of the audience projects their idea of Edward[Cullen] onto him. It doesn't matter what he is. They want him to be a certain way. And then, my instincts were to try and play it and to try to find the fallibility in him and the weaknesses.” WayWantTryingStillsIdeasMatterPlayHandsLastsCertainAudienceStrangeProjectsWeaknessShotsInstinctFrustrationWant HimFallibility Author:Robert Pattinson
“I don't want to pick on Deutsche Bank, but I think the world of the regulated financial conglomerate, it is a strange thing. There is nothing in common between writing checks and running branch offices, issuing credit cards - those are good businesses, but they really have zero in common with M&A advice. They're a different customer.” ThinkingWorldWantWritingDifferentRunningCommonAdviceStrangeOfficePicksFinancialCreditCustomersChecksCardsBranchesZeroCredit CardStrange ThingsGood Business Author:Ken Moelis
“As a non-western artist, you have to ask yourself a question fairly early in your life: do I want to become a bridge maker, do I want my culture to be understood by the west? I have no intentions of doing such things. I'm fine being a little strange to a non-western audience. It doesn't bother me if my book doesn't change a generation of American readers.” IfsWantLittlesBookArtistCultureAsksAudienceGenerationsStrangeFineReaderUnderstoodIntentionWestWesternBridgesBotherMakers Author:Sarnath Banerjee
“There probably is a lot of music that no one's ever gonna hear. For anyone doing music, just do exactly what it is that makes you want to do it. If you like listening to odd, strange, bizarre noise and that makes you want to create it, do it. Even if everyone around you tells you it's crap or thinks it won't work, someone out there is going to appreciate it.” IfsThinkingWantStrangeListeningAppreciateNoiseOddCrapBizarre Author:Dustin Diamond
“Looking back, the only person that really surprised me was Chris Vrenna only because I've known him since 1992, and for him not to be able to say it to my face, "Hey, I don't want to do this anymore." Instead, he said "I'll see you tomorrow" and then he never came back. I find that strange. I don't know if he is afraid of me or thinks I'm going to beat him over the head with something. I'm not like that.” IfsThinkingKnowsWantPersonsSaidAbleFacesKnownStrangeTomorrowBeatsHeyLooking Back Author:Marilyn Manson
“I feel like you have to earn something with an audience. If I just did it now, I think producers on any superhero movie, I think they wouldn't trust me to do it the way I'd want to do it, because I'd want to do something basically really strange. I think you have to earn that freedom to do stuff like that. So I think, if I keep kind of chipping away, trying to do good movies and interesting, strange movies then people will eventually trust you to do that on a bigger scale.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayWantFeelsTryingKindStuffInterestingAudienceStrangeLike YouBiggerScalesProducersSuperheroTrust MeGood MovieChipping Away Author:Robert Pattinson
“So what is so strange about saying I want Barack Obama to fail if his mission is to reconstruct and reform this nation so that capitalism and individual liberty are not its foundation? I want the country to survive. I want the country to succeed.” IfsWantCountryIndividualNationsLibertyFailingStrangeSucceedCapitalismFoundationMissionsReformBarackReconstructionIndividual Liberty Author:Rush Limbaugh
“As long as the world continues to be strange and interesting, I still want to take pictures of it.” WorldWantLongStillsInterestingStrange Author:Moby
“I feel like once the song is done, you put it out there and if people want to do bizarre remixes, if people want to make strange videos, great. You know, like chaos theory applied to the music business.” PeopleIfsKnowsWantFeelsDoneSongStrangeTheoryChaosVideoBizarreMusic BusinessRemixChaos Theory Author:Moby
“I don't want children. Why should I let some strange little monster into my life to destroy what to me is a perfect set-up?” WantShouldChildrenLittlesPerfectStrangeMonstersShould I Author:Wilbur Smith