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“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.”

Wells Important Wanted Film Three Opportunity Missing

Author:Michael J. Fox

“But on the other hand, I talked to a woman who was a working woman, and it was actually great for her, because she had her husband one week of the month and the other three weeks, while he was with his other wives, she got to pursue what she wanted to do.”

Hands Wanted Three Wife Week Months Husband Pursue Working Women

Author:Jeanne Tripplehorn

“All I wanted to do was put together one of the best home maths systems in the world, and that's what we've done. I've loved numbers since I was two or three, and I get really excited about them. Now, I'm allowing myself to get excited about things. If you're doing it for a TV network or any major corporation, you have to put a lid on it a little.”

Ifs World Littles Two Done Home Wanted Together Three Numbers Tvs Majors Excited Math Corporations Allowing Get Real

Author:Carol Vorderman

“As you watch the world crumble, try taking your Armageddon with this sprinkling of irony: Over the last three decades, business has got virtually everything it wanted, and its doomsday scenario from the 1970s has come true because of it.”

World Trying Wanted Lasts Three Watches Decades Irony Scenarios Armageddon Doomsday

Author:Thomas Frank

“I went to Iraq because I wanted to see what one year of occupation had done to Iraqi society, and I went to the West Bank and Gaza Strip because I wanted to see what three generations of occupation had done to Palestinian society. I found a lot more hopelessness and despair in Palestine.”

Years Done Wanted Three Found Generations Despair West Iraq Occupation Palestinian Hopelessness Palestine Gaza Three Generations Gaza Strip

Author:Michael Franti

“To tell you the truth, I never wanted to become a moviemaker. It was like I was a cinepihile, and I go, like, three or four times per week to the cinema, and I like to watch films.”

Wanted Film Three Watches Four Week Cinema

Author:Marjane Satrapi

“It took me three weeks to write the 'Rhapsody in Blue.' I had always wanted to write something blue and Paul Whiteman inspired.”

Writing Wanted Three Week Blue Inspired Gershwin

Author:George Gershwin

“I waited just to see you at that kind of peace, I wanted to be beside you, I wanted you to wake up slowly or startle, or just half awaken and turn over or murmur my name. I wanted to watch you forever, or sleep beside you forever, or sleep forever while you woke and watched me, something forever anyway. I wanted to kiss you, rumple your hair, rest three fingertips on your hip bone warm and smooth, wake you that way or hush you back to sleep.”

Way Kind Wanted Turns Three Names Sleep Half Watches Forever Hair Kissing Wake Up Warm Bones Hips Smooth Fingertips Hush Beside You Wakes You

Author:Daniel Handler

“I really wanted to work with Luc Besson. I'm a big fan of his. Did you ever see 'The Professional.' It was very violent. But a fabulous story, a fabulous movie, very well done. So that and two or three other projects of his that I've seen, I just thought if I had a shot to work with him I wanted to do it.”

Ifs Wells Two Done Stories Bigs Wanted Three Fans Projects Shots Violent Fabulous Well Done

Author:Morgan Freeman

“I looked at my family and I said, "I've got a spouse. I've got three kids. There's no way I'm ever buying a music subscription service for the five of us. It's just not going to happen." So we wanted to do something really great for families... It wasn't easy. We had to convince the labels it was in their best interests, too.”

Way Said Happens Kids Wanted Three Easy Interest Five My Family Labels Buying Convince Really Great Spouse Subscription

Author:Eddy Cue

“It's like aversion therapy. You keep doing scenes over and over again with three women in the bed with you, and we had to do them all in one week. Three girls would step out and another three girls would step into the bed. It sounds like a fantasy but by the end of it, I just wanted to go for a hike on my own in the north of England, in the hills. Because it became a sort of "be careful what you wish for" kinda thing.”

Ends Wanted Girl Three Wish Sound My Own Steps Fantasy Week Scene Bed England Careful Hills Therapy Be Careful Aversion Careful What You Wish For

Author:Steve Coogan

“There's one reason why [Presidents' Day] is a holiday. It had nothing to do with our country deciding that we wanted to show reverence for our presidents, Lincoln, Washington, or all of them. Nothing to do with that. The ski industry wanted a three-day weekend.”

Country Reason Shows Wanted Three President Industry Our Country Reason Why Holiday Weekend Reverence Skis Presidents Day President Lincoln

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“A saint a real saint never does anything, a martyr does something but a really good saint does nothing, and so I wanted to have Four Saints who did nothing and I wrote the Four Saints In Three Acts and they did nothing and that was everything. Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing something.”

Doe Real Wanted Three Interesting Four Saint Martyr Doing Nothing

Book:Everybody's Autobiography

Source: Everybody's Autobiography

“I met this amazing person, and we realized we had very similar views on how we wanted to live our lives. It’s happened quickly, with so many children. Yesterday, picking up the kids from school, Brad turned around in the car, and there were three of them. He couldn’t stop laughing. We love them and are having a great time.”

Children Persons Kids Wanted School Three Views Laughing Our Lives Happened Car Mets Yesterday Great Times Brad Amazing Person

Author:Angelina Jolie

“I've done everything I've wanted to do. I have three children, I have grandchildren, I have books, I did movies, I've directed movies, I've done almost everything I've wanted to do.”

Children Book Done Wanted Three Grandchildren

Author:Carl Reiner

“I told my boyfriend after three weeks that I wanted to marry him and that we could do it tomorrow.”

Wanted Three Week Tomorrow My Boyfriend

Author:Ali Larter

“I went down to London with the idea that I was going to do vocals over this crazy, crazy trip-hop digital beat. Within two or three months, I heard Hunky Dory by David Bowie and that changed me in one way, and I realized what I actually wanted was to have an E Street Band - individuals, not session musicians.”

Way Two Ideas Wanted Three Individual Heard Crazy Streets Changed Months Band Musician Beats London I Realized One Way Hops Digital Session Vocal Three Months Bowie

Author:KT Tunstall

“In the first week of the showings of the The Matrix Revolutions, The Godfather and The Godfather Part II played on cable television. I started watching, and I was held; I wanted to go through the process again. Can anyone credit that 30 years from now there will be an audience for the three parts of The Matrix, anywhere? Even if Keanu Reeves is our president by then?”

Ifs Years Firsts Wanted Film Three Process President Audience Week Television Revolution Hollywood Credit Cables

Author:Edward Jay Epstein

“On the lip of the Grand Canyon. I've always wanted to do that. My very first TV special out of the Olympics was on a glacier in Alaska. Right after that one, I went and pitched this idea to skate in three National Parks. Like Voyageurs National Park, because it freezes over and you have these little islands that you can skate around. [The networks] were like, 'Way too expensive.'”

Way Firsts Littles Ideas Wanted Three Sports Special Tvs Lips Islands Parks Expensive Olympics Freeze Alaska Skates Canyons National Parks Glaciers Grand Canyon

Author:Brian Boitano

“One of the things I wanted to do after three, prolonged movies is to do something that was really, kind-of knee-jerk decisions, and artistic instincts and strip down the process to more of a guttural level, and make something that wasn't so manicured and polished; wasn't quite so developed and supported, and just run wild with it and see what happens with it.”

Kind Happens Running Wanted Three Process Decision Levels Instinct Artistic Knees Jerk Polished

Author:David Gordon Green

“You want me to admit I'm a four-foot, six-inch freckle-faced person of Jewish extraction? I admit it. All but the extraction. But being short never bothered me for three seconds. The rest of the time I wanted to commit suicide.”

Want Persons Wanted Three Four Feet Six Suicide Commit Seconds Want Me Inches Bothered You Want Me Freckles Extraction

Author:Mel Brooks

“I came home for a week after I finished filming Rambo because, after being in the jungle for three months, all I wanted to do was walk in the Highlands.”

Home Wanted Three Walks Week Months Finished Jungle Three Months Rambo

Author:Graham McTavish

“Before I decided to concentrate on writing, I drew pictures and painted, and made Super 8 experimental movies. I was the singer in three rock bands, and I wrote and staged and acted in plays for kids in my neighborhood. So I was kind of all over the place in my interests and far-flung in terms of where my creativity wanted to end up.”

Writing Kind Made Ends Play Kids Wanted Three Term Interest Creativity Rocks Band Decided Singers Neighborhood Rock Bands

Author:Dennis Cooper

“I got the three things I wanted. I did my job, I worked hard in the process, and I cherish the memories, and they're mine.”

Hard Wanted Jobs Three Process Memories Mines Cherish Three Things Cherish The Memories

Author:Lance Armstrong

“That whole world of musical theater was my first love. It's where I wanted to be when I was three years old.”

World Years Firsts Whole Wanted Three Theater Musical Whole World Three Years First Love Musical Theater Three Year Olds

Author:Debra Messing

“I actually wanted to be a forensic scientist for a while. When I was doing my Standard Grades, three of them were science subjects. The interest in science didnt wear off, but I found other interests.”

Wanted Three Found Interest Subjects Standards Scientist Grades Forensics

Author:Emun Elliott

“I actually was a ballet dancer - I studied ballet from three until 13 - but like very seriously, that's what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a contemporary ballet dancer. I wanted to go to Juilliard.”

Wanted Three Contemporary Dancer Ballet Ballet Dancer Juilliard

Author:Solange Knowles