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“You look up to your parents and you want them to accept you, and you don't want them to look at you in a negative light. So you do things to make them proud and accept you.”

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Author:Adepero Oduye

“I want to make beautiful paintings. But I don't make beautiful paintings by putting beautiful paint on a canvas with a beautiful motif. It just doesn't work. I expect my paintings to be strong and surprising.”

Want Beautiful Strong Painting Paint Surprising Canvas Motifs Beautiful Paintings

Author:Albert Oehlen

“I know people want me to sort of defend myself, to sit here and be like, 'I'm a boy, but I wear make-up sometimes.' But, you know, to me, it doesn't really matter.”

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Author:Andrej Pejic

“I just want to keep finding special characters that I feel like I can bring to life and characters that are real and not superficial.”

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Author:Aubrey Plaza

“If the United States wants access to Chinese, Indian or Vietnamese markets, we must get access to theirs. U.S. protectionism is very subtle but it is very much there.”

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Author:Azim Premji

“I first came to London as a musician, and when my group broke up, I did 'Guys and Dolls' at the Watford Palace theatre. After that, Ned Sherrin found me and brought me to the West End to do one of his shows. The work went from strength to strength, so I thought: 'This is where the world wants me; I'll stay.”

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Author:Clarke Peters

“Some film actors want to sit back and look at every scene and all that crap. No, you're an actor - tell the story, and when it's told, there's another one to tell.”

Want Looks Stories Film Actors Scene Crap Film Actors

Author:Clarke Peters

“I guess people recognize me, but I'm not a household name. Two out of every five people who come up to me know my name. The one thing I don't want is to be followed by paparazzi.”

People Knows Want Two Names Five One Thing Come Up Household Paparazzi

Author:Michael Pena

“If pro-abortionists want to commit intellectual suicide and deny scientific facts, that's their problem. But there's no reason a civilized society should fund their anti-scientific outlook - or accept its inhumane consequences.”

Ifs Want Should Reason Facts Problem Accepting Intellectual Consequence Suicide Deny Commit No Reason Fund Civilized Outlook Civilized Society Scientific Facts Inhumane

Author:Nancy Pearcey

“Let me tell you something. Nobody goes to jail unless they want to. Unless they make themselves get caught. They don't have things organized.”

Want Let Me Caught Organized Jail

Author:Nicholas Pileggi

“I believe that whenever I want to learn something I can learn it much better and faster by myself if I'm motivated to learn it as opposed to kind of doing it in more a standard, institutionalized way.”

Ifs Way Want Believe Kind I Can I Believe Standards Faster Motivated

Author:Oren Peli

“I think the tricky balance, the most important thing more than the horror is to have a compelling story, compelling drama, a show about great characters that you care about and you want to come back every week to see what they're up to.”

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Author:Oren Peli

“If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them.”

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Author:Pietro Aretino

“I think that people will always want music; I think that the form that they will get it in, or distributed to them from, and the price they pay for it is what's up in question.”

People Thinking Want Form Pay

Author:Ronald Perelman

“Being at school, being who I am, being an athlete, it was hard to find people like me. There's not many athletes that can be at my level. That was kind of hard finding people who love something so much they want to keep on doing it.”

People Want Kind Hard School Levels Findings Athlete Who I Am Like Me

Author:Sally Pearson

“I know who my dad is, I've met him a few times, but I don't even call him dad. I know it sounds horrible, but I don't even see him as part of my family, to be honest. If you want the truth, it doesn't bother me because I don't know any different. I just know that me and my mum, that was my family.”

Ifs Knows Want Different Sound Honest Dad Mets My Family My Dad Horrible Being Honest Bother Mum

Author:Sally Pearson

“My job is my sport so I have to make sure that I stay focussed on it. I train almost every day so it takes up a lot of my life and you don't want to bring any new distractions into your life.”

Want Jobs Sports Train Distraction

Author:Sally Pearson

“I don't just want to be another cog in the gears of Hollywood.”

Want Hollywood Gears Cogs

Author:Scott Porter

“Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want to get something out of them, otherwise you'll come home to me with a full belly and an empty purse.”

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“What people tell me they take away from my books is that they can shape their lives, they can achieve their own dreams. And certainly that's what I want them to take away.”

People Want Book Dream Achieve Shapes

Author:Tamora Pierce

“I want to be a major force.”

Want Force Majors

Author:Zac Posen

“You want to have fun but you also want to work well. Sometimes I was quite happy at Ferrari, because we would have fun, but then they could not stop having fun and go back to the real work.”

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Author:Alain Prost

“I think children in general have a very hard time - at least I did - expressing any pain because I didn't want to hurt the people that I loved.”

People Thinking Want Children Hard Pain Hurt Hard Times

Author:Aleksa Palladino

“We do this for the art, not the adulation. I'd rather our music get liked and we get ignored. I don't want to be adored for anything other than the music.”

Want Art Ignored Adulation

Author:Andy Partridge

“People gave me such a bad time about wanting a baby. I didn't want a baby, and I still don't. I wanted a dog.”

People Want Stills Wanted Dog Baby Bad Times

Author:Ann Patchett

“I like to do new things, so I always take on roles that I feel will keep me on my toes. I never want to pigeon myself, so I always like to surprise myself. I believe in versatility and so I would play anything as long as it was a challenge.”

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Author:Archie Panjabi

“I'd love to say I made the smart decision of picking projects that became hits, but with 'The Good Wife,' I read the script and something inside me said, 'I love this, I want to do this.'”

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Author:Archie Panjabi

“Since I was a baby my goal was to be on TV because film was just impossible - you never got any Asian women in Western cinema. I grew up wanting to be in 'East-Enders' because film wasn't even a dream. The community were very much like, 'How can you want to act? It's such a low-class profession.”

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Author:Archie Panjabi

“When something isn't done, you want to do something about it.”

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Author:Bernadette Peters

“Folks are really tired of this rabid division between Republicans and Democrats. Folks want people to come together and solve the problems and the challenges of America.”

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Author:Bev Perdue

“You never really want anything you can easily have.”

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Author:Bijou Phillips

“I've been around enough to know what it takes to get a team to reach its potential, and I want players who want to reach their potential.”

Knows Want Enough Player Team

Author:Bill Parcells

“There's not enough money in the world to get me singing 'Because We Want To' again. I wouldn't do it. I think Beyonce Knowles got a couple of million for a private show but I would be happy to turn it down.”

Thinking World Want Enough Shows Would Be Turns Millions Couple Singing Beyonce

Author:Billie Piper

“I'm so happy for anyone who chooses to get married! I want more people to join the club.”

People Want Married Clubs

Author:Busy Philipps

“Nobody wants to see a bejeweled pregnant lady from top to bottom.”

Want Bottom Pregnant

Author:Busy Philipps

“I wouldn't mind being the female MJ. I want to have major crossover appeal.”

Want Mind Majors Female Appeals Crossover

Author:Candace Parker

“I think my message goes out to the entire spectrum of political parties. I'm supported by the Tea Party, the Conservative Party and the Republican Party. I come from a Democratic world. My world is moderate Democrats, Reagan-type Democrats if you want, the blues or whatever you call them, the Blue Dogs. That's been my world, historically.”

“People always say, 'Who is your audience?' and I could never put a finger on it - and I wouldn't want to put a finger on it.”

People Want Audience Fingers

Author:Cassandra Peterson

“Women like to be scared, but they don't like the blood and the gore, and especially movies that have violence and torture involving women. Women don't want to see that, I can tell you for damn sure right now.”

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Author:Cassandra Peterson

“The public airwaves provide a chance to affirm we want to be a good, decent people; a good, decent nation.”

People Want Nations Chance Decent

Author:Charles W. Pickering

“I'm more cerebral than I want to be.”

Want Cerebral

Author:Chris Pine

“I take none of that to heart. I don't feel like there's anything that I need to do for anybody else. I want to win bad enough for myself anyway, that nothing anybody can say can make me want to win any more.”

Want Needs Feels Heart Enough Winning

Author:Danica Patrick

“I've read stories that are set in a celebrity's house, and you know where it is and what it looks like and what's inside it, and that's not something I want anyone to know.”

Knows Want Looks Stories House

Author:Danica Patrick

“My career divides in two: before and after 9/11. In the first part I was trying to show that Islam is relevant to political concerns. If you want to understand Muslims, I argued, you need to understand the role of Islam in their lives. Now that seems obvious.”

Ifs Want Needs Trying Firsts Two Shows Seems Political Careers Roles Concern Islam Obvious Divides Relevant Before And After

Author:Daniel Pipes

“The president and I sat down in the Oval Office, and he expressed very clearly that what he wants from me is my best professional military advice.”

Want President Advice Military Office Sat Oval

Author:David Petraeus

“President Obama has said that our aspirations should be realistic. We are not going to turn one of the poorest countries in the world, that was plunged into 30 years of war, into an advanced, industrialized, Western-style democracy. What we want to achieve is Afghanistan's capacity to secure and govern itself.”

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Author:David Petraeus

“The American people want to have trust in their leaders.”

People Want Leader

Author:David Plouffe

“For too long, Democrats have been telling people what they want to hear. I'm going to tell you what I believe.”

People Want Believe Long Has Beens I Believe Democrat

Author:Deval Patrick

“I’m planning to stay in politics now, but, you know, George Burns worked until he was 100. I don’t know. I don’t want to be a Senator until I’m honored.”

Want Senators

Author:Deval Patrick

“Let's go tell everyone we meet that, when the American dream is at stake, you want Barack Obama in charge.”

Want Dream Barack Stakes American Dream

Author:Deval Patrick

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