“I ended up buying business.com for $150,000 because I wanted to make it a magazine. It would have been a 'Time'-type magazine: how to do business on the Internet. And I was offered a lot of money for that domain. I played two buyers against each other.” Has BeensTwoWantedTypeInternetMagazinesBuyingLots Of MoneyDomainBuyers Author:Marc Ostrofsky
“I wanted out of my record deal with EMI. They wanted me to record one type of album; I wanted to record the type of music I wanted to make.” WantedDealsRecordsTypeAlbums Author:Joss Stone
“Well, number one I like dancing. Number two I knew it would be challenging because I had never done this type of dance before. I always wanted to and I happened to have the courage to go out there and give it my best shot.” GivingWellsTwoDoneWould BeWantedChallengesNumbersHappenedTypeShotsDancingDanceBest Shot Author:Evander Holyfield
“I wanted to be an honest writer and show my ugliness as much as I showed my hopes or goodness. And that really sculpted the type of artist I've become.” ShowsWantedArtistHonestTypeGoodnessUgliness Author:Jewel
“I just knew what I wanted to be since the third grade. And I always did well in school, I was the type to get good grades, I never really got below Cs or nothing like that. I always kept it A-B. But there's no school for rap.” WellsWantedSchoolTypeThirdsRapGradesGrades In SchoolThird GradeGood Grades Author:Big Sean
“The idea of the walls of monastery was to keep everybody else out because you wanted to develop a certain type of life. Most people in the world had different ideas on the subject.” PeopleWorldIdeasDifferentWantedCertainSubjectsWallTypeMonasteriesDifferent Ideas Author:Frederick Lenz
“I've never wanted to be a doctor, I've never wanted to be an engineer, I've never had that goal, but when you're around people who are successful, you kind of feel some type of way like, I don't want to be a doctor or lawyer but I do want to be successful.” PeopleWayWantFeelsKindWantedGoalSuccessfulTypeDoctorsLawyerBeing SuccessfulEngineers Author:Eric Thomas
“Being born in Jamaica, race was never an issue. It was always about the type of person I wanted to be, not the colour of my skin.” PersonsWantedBornRaceIssuesTypeSkinsColourJamaica Author:Tessanne Chin
“I'm obsessed with the countryside: woods, forests, fields, lakes, mountains. I'm really into folk music and folklore. But more so I'm into electronic music. I'm into bands that have both aspects, like Boards of Canada is a perfect example. You could listen to that type of music running through a woods. It's kind of what I wanted to achieve.” KindRunningWantedRomancePerfectAchieveExampleFieldsTypeBandMountainAspectFolksWoodsForestsObsessedBoardsCanadaLakesCountrysideFolkloreFolk MusicElectronic MusicWoods And Forests Author:Ellie Goulding
“I wanted to describe the world at the same time, through image, express what I felt. It was the time of the great documentary filmmakers: Richard Leacock, Joris Ivens. Today, television has put an end to this type of filmmaking.” WorldEndsTodayWantedFeltTelevisionTypeFilmmakerFilmmakingDocumentaries Author:Krzysztof Kieslowski
“I was always the type of person, and still am the type of person, that I cannot be creative and use substances. So from a very early age I knew that if I wanted to make music, successfully, in any capacity, I was going to have to get sober.” IfsPersonsStillsUseAgeWantedCreativeTypeCapacitySubstanceBe CreativeSober Author:Macklemore
“Im not the type of artist thats like, Lets go out and party and dance your life away! I think those artists are so cool, but I wanted meaning in my songs and they have messages.” ThinkingWantedArtistSongPartyTypeLetting GoMessages Author:Claudia Lee
“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.” ThinkingGivingFeelsFirstsArtMadeBookFeelingsHomeHandsWantedArtistFoundSawsHeardSpecialObjectsTypeNeededDemandDuesPrivilegedFetishTreasuredAbram Author:Jeff Kinney
“Several people inspired me like Lil' Wayne, Juvenile, the whole Cash Money camp, the No Limit camp, DMX, Jay-Z, Eminem, LL Cool J, I listened to all type of sh*t. I listened to R&B like Teena Marie, just good music - anybody that made good music. When I was growing up out west I listened to Twista, Do or Die, and Crucial Conflict. They were the "it" artists in Chicago. I wanted to be like them on TV and all of that so that's how it all started.” PeopleMadeWholeWantedArtistDiesGrowing UpGrowingTvsTypeConflictLimitsWestInspiredChicagoCampsCrucialCashWayneJuvenileMarieCash Money Author:King Louie
“I loved surrealism and abstract painting, and anything related to those. I always thought painting was the highest form of art. What led me to drawing was seeing so much self-important, pretentious, conceptual-type art in university. I wanted to reject that by making quick, fun art.” ArtImportantSelfWantedFormFunSeeingPaintingTypeHighestUniversityDrawingRelatedAbstractRejectsPretentiousSurrealismAbstract Painting Author:Neil Farber
“I really wanted to get that dynamic on the record onto people and let them know it wasn't just a simple strumming along the guitar type of thing without ramming it down their throats so I kind of went the opposite way and sang some of the songs more quietly which allowed for the louder parts to sound as though there were more. It was the only way singing those songs made sense to me.” PeopleKnowsWayKindMadeWantedSongSoundSimpleRecordsTypeSingingOppositesGuitarThroatStrumming Author:James Vincent McMorrow
“I never wanted there to be any moment in my movies when something would happen and the audience would cheer, like sometimes that happens in certain types of horror movies. I was never a fan of that, I wasn't looking for 'inventive' kills and I even hate that word because it's like, if you have these characters screaming or crying in pain I don't think anyone should be jumping out of their seat cheering. It should be horrible and you should feel sick watching it because that's what it is, sick.” IfsThinkingFeelsShouldSometimesMomentsCharacterHappensWantedPainCertainHateAudienceFansCryTypeHorrorSickHorribleSeatsCheerJumping Author:Rob Zombie
“And you know, we were talking about American identity, and where we've come from and where we are and where we're headed. We knew that we wanted to have a hopeful ending and we wanted it to be pro-community, and a pro-democracy type of movie.” KnowsWantedCommunityTalkingDemocracyIdentityTypeHopefulAmerican Identity Author:Matt Damon
“I got a degree in sociology, didn't read much fiction in college, and I was a pretty political, left-wing type of guy. I wanted to do some kind of work in social change and make things better for the poor man, and I was very romantic and passionate about it.” MenKindWantedPoliticalGuyLeftSocialPoorFictionCollegeTypeDegreesWingsPassionateSociologySocial ChangePoor ManLeft WingVery RomanticType Of GuyRomantic And Passionate Author:Andre Dubus
“I was studying international business and instead of doing what I should have been doing which was studying for exams and figuring out what type of business I really wanted to do I was cooking for all of my friends and reading cookbooks and really inspired by the idea of travel and types of foods around the world and I wanted to cook them.” WorldShouldHas BeensIdeasWantedReadingStudyTypeMy FriendsShould HaveCookingInspiredInternationalAround The WorldCooksShould Have BeenExamCookbookInternational Business Author:David Myers
“I was really psyched about crooner types like Frank Sinatra or Scott Walker. Something that comes more from the stomach than the throat. There's an emotional thrust to singing that way that I wanted to try on my own. I can't really sing deep and strong like that, but I wanted to just aim in that direction.” WayTryingI CanWantedStrongMy OwnEmotionalTypeSingingAimThroatStomachFrankThrustWalkers Author:Panda Bear
“I wanted to get away from having a minister who pretends to be a certain type of role model. I don't want my life to serve as an example for anyone.” WantWantedCertainRolesExampleTypeModelsMinistersGet AwayRole Models Author:Kristina Schroder
“In terms of my inspirations to become an artist, I think they come from early ideas and impressions about community, and the type of community I wanted to be in, and the type of thinking I wanted to do.” ThinkingIdeasInspirationWantedArtistTermCommunityTypeImpression Author:Laura Owens
“When I was younger I always thought, 'If I were ever a comedian I'd make it like a rock concert.' I wanted to generate that type of enthusiasm and excitement.” IfsWantedRocksTypeEnthusiasmComedianExcitementConcertsRock Concerts Author:Carrot Top
“Yeah, once we decided to use that replacement animation, and the seams are a function of that animation, and other movies paint those out, we decided we wanted to keep the presence of the animation and the type of animation that it was rather than make it look polished. It created a kind of vulnerability, I think.” ThinkingLooksKindUseWantedTypeDecidedFunctionYeahPaintVulnerabilityAnimationPolishedReplacements Author:Charlie Kaufman
“The outsider hero is hero riding into town, he's the gunslinger, shame - the same thing, he didn't want to do it anymore, he wanted to live a different life but part of who you are sort of haunts you and you can't run away from evil and if you have special skills, and most people are mistreated, which is unfortunately in our world, we always need an equalizer, that type of character to come to our rescue.” PeopleIfsWorldWantNeedsDifferentCharacterRunningWantedEvilSpecialTypeHeroSkillsTownsShameWho You AreOur WorldRunning AwayRidingRescueOutsidersDifferent LifeEqualizerMistreatedGunslinger Author:Antoine Fuqua
“What happened was, I always wanted to be a singer/songwriter kind of guy like a James Taylor or Crosby, Stills and Nash type of thing; I went to a lot of coffee houses and used to watch all those guys, but I never had the nerve to get up and do it because singing seems so personal and intimate to me. It was too revealing.” KindStillsSeemsWantedUsedGuyHouseWatchesHappenedTypeSingingCoffeeSingersGet UpIntimateNervesSongwritersRevealingSinger SongwritersCrosbyCoffee Houses Author:Kevin Nealon
“I'm not the type of guy to go out and just say, 'Hey, I'm raising my fist to do this and do that.' I don't think I'm that type of guy. I wasn't a leader the way other people may have wanted me to be.” PeopleThinkingWayMayWantedGuyLeaderTypeHeyFistsType Of Guy Author:Willie Mays
“There is a lot of hype about drama school, I think. If you're an actor in England, that's just the way to get into it but I've been so incredibly lucky in that I was brought up in to it. I still might go to drama school, if I wanted to do theater work, definitely. It's a completely different type of training.” IfsThinkingWayStillsDifferentMightWantedSchoolActorsTypeDramaLuckyTrainingEnglandTheaterHype Author:Eleanor Tomlinson
“I like to move as much as possible and look at reflections, weird angles, subjects from airplanes and cranes. I feel sorry for the Jabba the Hut types who can't do this. Once an obese student told me that he wanted to be a war photographer. I said, "Really?" and then I shot him.” FeelsLooksSaidWarWantedMovingSubjectsStudentsTypeReflectionShotsSorryPhotographerAirplaneAngleHutsObeseCranes Author:Peter Menzel
“If I wanted to do TV full-time, 'Breaking Bad' is definitely the type of project I would want to do. But TV is not my favorite thing in the world. I definitely want to focus on film. It's what I grew up loving. It's always been about movies, movies, movies, movies, movies. I really want to make great films.” IfsWorldWantWantedFilmFocusTvsGrewTypeProjectsGrew UpMy FavoriteFavorites ThingsGreat Film Author:Emily Rios
“Frank [Zappa] always wanted to do a sound library - he sampled so many great musicians. For piano, for example, he sampled every octave, not just one (that you could just transpose electronically), and he did all different types of attack, with and without pedals, all that kind of stuff.” KindDifferentWantedStuffSoundExampleTypeMusicianLibraryPianoJust OneFrankGreat MusicPedalsGreat MusicianZappa Author:Gail Zappa
“In writing the book I wanted to make it very clear that I feel prostitution should be decriminalized. But some people might have breezed by those aspects that others took the time to notice. In All I Could Bare, I hope I relate in a conversational way how stripping is a lot like other types of work.” PeopleWayFeelsShouldWritingBookMightWantedClearTypeAspectRelateProstitutionStripping Author:Craig Seymour
“One of the people I've always wanted to emulate in pursuing that dream was Meryl Streep, in terms of the different types of roles she's been able to play and the number of different stories she's been able to tell.” PeopleDifferentPlayStoriesDreamAbleWantedTermNumbersRolesTypeEmulate Author:Viola Davis
“Sacrifice. I'd never been in a position where I was number one on the call sheet, and everything was in my lap. I worked 16 hour days, and I was just not the lead of any film, it was a film about Jesse Owens, one of the greatest heroes of the 20th century. It was a whole new type of responsibility. It was a big weight, and I wanted to do him justice, especially in reviving him after 80 years.” YearsWholeBigsWantedFilmHoursJusticeNumbersResponsibilitySacrificeCenturyPositionTypeHeroWeightSheets20th CenturyLap Author:Stephan James
“I initially told people I wanted to be a dancer and ultimately a "Rockette." I didn't really know what a musical theatre performer was other than the Shirley Temple type.” PeopleKnowsWantedTypeMusicalTheatreDancerTemplesPerformersOld PeopleMusical Theatre Author:Erica Schroeder
“I remember when I first got the call from Beyoncé to work on the project, and the mood that she was in and she was feeling, she wanted New Orleans-inspired music to be incorporated to the stuff she was doing. Creole-type stuff. Zydeco... She wanted that type of inspiration.” FirstsFeelingsInspirationWantedRememberStuffTypeProjectsInspiredMoodRemember WhenNew OrleansCreole Author:Rodney Jerkins
“What I wanted to do was drown something enormous, like a Star Trek or Star Wars kind of space opera-type thing, but actually make it about someone who was just married to the wrong guy, and that guy just happens to be this amazing dictator, and she has to get her kids as far away as possible from this guy. So something that could almost be a TV movie, if you'd ground it and set it in Wisconsin or something like that, but to give it this enormous setting.” IfsGivingKindWarHappensKidsWantedGuyStarsSpaceTvsTypeMarriedEnormousSettingSettingsOperaFar AwayDictatorThis GuyThat GuyWisconsinWrong Guy Author:Mark Millar
“When I was younger I always wanted to dress like Kim [Kardashian], but her style doesn't necessarily fit my body type.” BodyWantedStyleTypeFitDressesKimBody Types Author:Kim Kardashian
“Hollywood wanted a certain type of comic - that Def Jam comedy style of comic that was very loud, very brash, very much from the ghetto, had that sensibility.” WantedCertainComedyStyleTypeHollywoodComicLoudSensibilityJamGhettoBrash Author:Larry Wilmore
“I went to my first national convention in 1976, when my family supported [Ronald] Reagan over [Gerald] Ford, so we've always been Republicans, but we've always wanted the Republican Party to be the party of fiscally conservative, limited-government types. And I think, sometimes, we haven't done that as well.” ThinkingFirstsWellsSometimesDoneGovernmentWantedPartyHavensTypeRepublicanMy FamilyConservativeConventionsRepublican PartyLimited GovernmentGerald Ford Author:Rand Paul
“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
“The C+ amps is vintage at this point, and it definitely has a certain sound to it. I wanted something that was going to keep Dream Theater in more of a current musical landscape, as far as being the producer and producing the type of album I wanted to hear.” DreamWantedCertainSoundTypeTheaterMusicalCurrentsAlbumsProducersLandscapeVintageDream Theater Author:John Petrucci
“Twenty years after the Andy Griffith Show when Andy did Matlock, he hired me for four episodes. I told him I wanted to develop an Aunt Bea type role for Matlock, but he was against it. I did appear on other popular TV shows, like Family Affair, My Three Sons, Barnaby Jones and Little House on the Prairie.” YearsLittlesShowsWantedThreeHouseRolesFourSonTvsTypeTwentiesAffairEpisodesTv ShowsAuntPrairieLike FamilyLittle House On The PrairieAndy Griffith ShowThree Sons Author:Betty Lynn
“As I got older, I started to do it more and more, and I wanted to learn all of the different types. I grew up doing modern, so I wanted to learn ballet, tap, jazz, and African - just everything.” DifferentWantedModernGrewTypeGrew UpJazzBallet Author:Jillian Hervey
“For me, I wanted to create something that's much more driven by a type of selfishness, a type of decadence.” WantedTypeDrivenSelfishnessDecadence Author:Kehinde Wiley