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“Recently a young mother asked for advice. What, she wanted to know, was she to do with a 7-year-old who was obstreperous, outspoken, and inconveniently willful? "Keep her," I replied.... The suffragettes refused to be polite in demanding what they wanted or grateful for getting what they deserved. Works for me.”

Knows Years Children Wanted Young Mother Advice Grateful Polite Outspoken Suffragettes Young Mother

Author:Anna Quindlen

“I wanted to be an empowered woman, and I became an empowered woman. And now I want to empower every woman. And I do it through my clothes, I do it through my words, I do it through my money, I do it through everything.”

Want Wanted Clothes Empowering Empowered Empowered Women

Author:Diane von Furstenberg

“I'm not the only one; most people's mothers are the most influential person in their life. But my mother survived the camps, and she was very strong. She made me strong, but she wanted me to be strong. That's more important.”

People Persons Made Important Wanted Mother Strong Inspiring Camps Very Strong Survived Influential Influential Person

Author:Diane von Furstenberg

“I’ve always been inspired by women, and my mission was to inspire women. I always wanted to become a certain kind of woman and I became that woman through fashion. It was a dialogue. I would see that the wrap dress made those women confident, and made them act with confidence.”

Kind Made Wanted Certain Fashion Inspire Dresses Inspired Missions Dialogue Wraps Inspire Women

Author:Diane von Furstenberg

“I've always liked wrinkles. When I was a young girl, I used to make lines on my face with my nails because I loved Jeanne Moreau. I always wanted to be older; I always added years to my life. For the longest time, if people thought I was older I would take it as a compliment.”

People Ifs Years Wanted Faces Young Used Girl Lines Compliment Nails Wrinkles

Author:Diane von Furstenberg

“I lost my job as an art salesman. It was the customer's fault. He wanted to buy the wrong paintings.”

Art Wanted Jobs Lost Painting Faults Customers Salesman

Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“The hippies had in mind something that they wanted, and were calling it freedom, but in the final analysis freedom is a purely negative goal. It just says something is bad. Hippies weren't really offering any alternatives other than colorful short-term ones, and some of these were looking more and more like pure degeneracy. Degeneracy can be fun but it's hard to keep up as a serious lifetime occupation.”

Mind Hard Wanted Fun Goal Term Serious Calling Pure Negative Lifetime Finals Alternatives Analysis Occupation Offering Short Term Hippie Colorful

Author:Robert M. Pirsig

“Mama seemed to do only what my father wanted, and yet we lived the way my mother wanted us to live.”

Way Wanted Mother Father Mama

Author:Lillian Hellman

“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.”

Giving Children Wanted Term Interest Wife Painting One Day Giving Up Paint Very Good My Wife Canvas Advise Renoir

Author:Claude Monet

“I wanted to make abstract films that are emotional, and I still do.”

Stills Wanted Film Emotional Abstract

Author:George Lucas

“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.”

Wanted Simple Wise One Day Wake Up Extraordinary More Time Simple Things Extraordinary Things

Author:Paulo Coelho

“Some people just wanted to blow it all to hell, animal, vegetable and mineral. They wanted a Vietnam they could fit into their car ashtrays.”

People Wanted Animal Hell Car Fit Blow Vietnam Vegetables Minerals Ashtrays

Book:Dispatches

Source: Dispatches

“It is difficult to say why I decided I wanted to be an artist. Obviously, I had some facility, more than other people, but sometimes facility comes because one is more interested in looking at things, examining them, more interested in the visual world than other people are.”

People World Sometimes Wanted Artist Difficult Decided Observation Visuals Facility Examining

Book:David Hockney

Source: David Hockney

“Manet did not do the expected. He was a pioneer. He followed his individual whim. Told the public what he wanted it to know, not the time worn things the public already knew and thought it wanted to hear again. The public was very much offended.”

Knows Wanted Individual Expected Worn Offended Pioneers Whim

Book:The Art Spirit

Source: The Art Spirit

“I wanted a shark that's big enough to eat you, and in a large enough amount of liquid so that you could imagine you were in there with it.”

Enough Bigs Wanted Imagine Amount Liquid Sharks

Author:Damien Hirst

“I have studied the art of the masters and the art of the moderns, avoiding any preconceived system and without prejudice. I have no more wanted to imitate the former than to copy the latter; nor have I thought of achieving the idle aim of art for art's sake.”

Art Wanted Achieve Masters Prejudice Aim Sake Former Latter Copies Idle Avoiding Copying

Author:Gustave Courbet

“I wanted to make sure the last chapters of my life were full, and painting, it turns out, has helped occupy not only space but opened my mind.”

Mind Wanted Lasts Turns Space Painting Chapters

Author:George W. Bush

“I did a series of classes in psychology (at the institute), .. The students that came to that class had children. And over a period of a few years, they decided they wanted a nursery school, a play group (to watch over their children while they were studying). So in one of the garages that was near where we were having the classes, we established a play group area and the students volunteered to supervise. That eventually led to building a state-licensed nursery school, which was approved by the California department of social welfare.”

“How long were the stretches of toilsome tacking back and forth, of being blocked, of being thrown back again and again. But all that was annulled by the periods when I had my technique in hand and succeeded in doing what I wanted.”

Long Hands Wanted Periods Technique Thrown Again And Again Back And Forth Back Again Blocked

Book:The diary and letters of Kaethe Kollwitz

Source: The diary and letters of Kaethe Kollwitz

“I've hung around in absolute exhaustion and starvation waiting for an idea to hit, which might have been months. I've talked things over with editors, found out what they wanted, and when they wanted it delivered.”

Has Beens Ideas Might Wanted Found Waiting Months Absolutes Editors Hung Might Have Been Starvation Exhaustion

Author:Theodore Sturgeon

“Since I couldn't actuate the things that I wanted to do, the only weapon I had was to say no.”

Wanted Weapons

Author:Sidney Poitier

“My parents were lenient. My mother believed God was another word for nature. I took up Satanism not out of desperation, but out of logic. I rebelled, not but because of a religious or repressive childhood. I wanted to join the French Foreign Legion.”

Wanted Mother Parent Religious Childhood Logic Desperation Legion Satanism Lenient

Author:Anton Szandor LaVey

“I definitely felt the pressure I wanted to live up to all of the expectations.”

Wanted Felt Expectations Pressure

Author:Elijah Wood

“I had this dream, and I really wanted to be a star. And I was almost a monster in the way that I was really fearless with my ambitions.”

Way Dream Wanted Funny Stars Ambition Monsters Fearless My Ambition

Author:Lady Gaga

“I was not ready for abstraction. I clung to earth and her dear shapes, her density, her herbage, her juice. I wanted her volume, and I wanted to hear her throb.”

Wanted Earth Ready Shapes Dear Volume Abstraction Juice Not Ready Density

Book:Growing Pains: The Autobiography of Emily Carr

Source: Growing Pains: The Autobiography of Emily Carr

“If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place. I wouldn't know where to send a student to study.”

Ifs Knows Want Wanted Study Students Painting

Book:Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt

Source: Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt

“I wanted to be a skinny little ballerina but I was a voluptuous little Italian girl whose dad had meatballs on the table every night.”

Littles Wanted Night Girl Father Dad Tables Italian Every Night Skinny Ballerina Voluptuous Meatballs Italian Girl

Author:Lady Gaga

“What I really wanted was to travel and see all the different animals that were on the verge of extinction.”

Different Wanted Animal Extinction Verge Different Animals

Author:Leonardo DiCaprio

“Never work for a company that says people are its most important asset. If you wanted to get a mortgage and you said that your only asset was people you would end up living in a tent.”

People Ifs Said Important Ends Wanted Company Assets Mortgage Tents

Author:Guy Browning

“Sculpture is for the touch, painting is for the eye. I wanted to make a sculpture for the eye and a painting for the touch.”

Eye Wanted Painting Sculpture

Book:Richard Artschwager: texts and interviews

Source: Richard Artschwager: texts and interviews

“I called my son Jett and I wanted to call my daughter Qantas, but my wife wouldn't let me.”

Wanted Wife Son Daughter Let Me My Wife My Daughter My Son

Author:John Travolta

“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.”

Giving Wells Two Done Would Be Wanted Challenges Numbers Happened Type Shots Dancing Dance Best Shot

Author:Evander Holyfield

“I really wanted to break the mold of what modern touring is right now.”

Wanted Break Modern Right Now Touring Mold

Author:Lady Gaga

“I wanted to only create a great perfume, not any perfume that would sell, but a great artistic one that the fans would not feel cheated by.”

Feels Wanted Fans Sells Artistic Perfume Cheated

Author:Lady Gaga

“I grew up poor. I had no money. My family was poor. There's things I wanted to do and couldn't. I was an abused wife. Just - there's tons of things that I couldn't even mention. And for me to come up and to have all of this fame and fortune, it's just - it is a Cinderella story to me.”

Wanted Poor Wife Grew Fame Grew Up My Family Fortune Come Up No Money

Author:Anna Nicole Smith

“Out of doing all that experimentation with sound I decided I wanted to do it with live musicians. To take repetition, take music fragments and make it live. Musicians would be able to play it and create this kind of abstract fabric of sound.”

Kind Play Would Be Able Wanted Sound Musician Decided Abstract Fabric Repetition Fragments Experimentation

Author:Terry Riley

“I've always wanted to serve my country in some capacity. But many years ago, my father said he wanted me to run the brewery and he'd do politics.”

Years Said Country Running Wanted Father Politics Capacity Years Ago Breweries

Author:Pete Coors

“I feel more as if I'm shaping something with my hands. I feel as if I've always wanted to get to that state. Like a blind man in a dark room had some clay, what would he make? I end up with 2 or 3 forms on a canvas, but it gets very physical for me.”

Ifs Men Feels Ends States Hands Wanted Form Dark Rooms Blind Canvas Clay Blind Man Dark Room

Author:Philip Guston

“The only thing I really wanted to be was a beatnik, and look what happened: I ended up being in a band.”

Looks Wanted Happened Band Beatnik

Author:Debbie Harry

“I live on a boat, which is in the midst of renovation. I figure the good Lord will put me in the right place and hopefully I'll have the right clothes on. I think what we're going to do is bring the boat through the Panama Canal. My husband has always wanted to do that. So I think we'll do that and have the boat in Florida for the winter.”

Thinking Wanted Lord Figures Husband Clothes Winter Boat Hopefully Midst My Husband Florida Right Place Canals Panama Renovation Panama Canal

Author:Florence Henderson

“I think I wanted to be on Top Gear from a fairly young age because I loved cars and I wanted to do something on telly because I loved TV. I know that I?m ridiculously lucky”

Thinking Knows Age Wanted Young Car Tvs Lucky Luck Young Age Gears Top Gear

Author:Richard Hammond

“We wanted to hear from viewers about why they watch or participate in call-ins on C-SPAN, ... Viewers of all ages and walks of life wrote to us, including actresses, stand-up comics, parents and students. What's clear after reading the entries is the impact that call-ins have had on the political conversation on the network.”

Age Wanted Political Reading Parent Walks Watches Clear Students Conversation Impact Including Actresses Participation Viewers Entry Walks Of Life

Author:Brian Lamb

“I wanted to write something that would be a comedy in the sense of making people feel happier when they finish it than they did when began it.”

People Feels Writing Would Be Wanted Literature Comedy

Author:Neil Gaiman

“I never wanted to do Harry Potter. I thought it should have stayed as a book. There are some books that should be made into movies and some that shouldn't. Harry Potter is 70% imagination. When the movie comes out, it's going to be such a stereotype for kids. When they think of Harry Potter, they're going to think of what is portrayed on screen.”

Thinking Should Made Book Kids Wanted Imagination Should Have Screens Harry Potter Stereotype Potters

Author:Haley Joel Osment

“A good writer should be able to write comedic work that made you laugh, and scary stuff that made you scared, and fantasy or science fiction that imbued you with a sense of wonder, and mainstream journalism that gave you clear and concise information in a way that you wanted it.”

“I started blogging a decade ago because I like blogging. Writing's a kind of lonely thing to do and I liked the idea of demystifying the process because I loved it as a kid and teenager and as somebody who wanted desperately to write.”

Writing Kind Ideas Kids Wanted Process Lonely Decades Teenager Things To Do Blogging

Author:Neil Gaiman

“My work has so much to do with reality that I wanted to have a corresponding rightness. That excludes painting in imitation.”

Reality Wanted Painting Imitation Corresponding

Book:Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007

Source: Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007

“Obviously I wanted to be a bus driver - and I still do. If only I could get a part time job.”

Ifs Stills Wanted Jobs Drivers Bus Part Time Bus Driver Part Time Jobs

Author:Jerry Springer

“The only reason I wanted to get one [a star on Hollywood Boulevard Walk of Fame] was because Simon Cowell didn't have one.”

Reason Wanted Stars Walks Fame Hollywood Boulevard

Author:Ryan Seacrest

“You never know what`s going to be big. It`s the fans. It was just a Disney Channel Movie and the kids made it huge... For High School Musical 2 (2007) (TV), we just wanted to have fun and make something together.”

Knows Made Bigs Kids Wanted School Together Fun Fans Tvs Huge High School Musical Made It Having Fun High School Musical Disney Channel

Author:Ashley Tisdale

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