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“It's time to start really writing some stuff, and I really wanted to write some stuff in the vein of the original Misfits, and this was really the first step in that direction.”

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Author:Gerald Caiafa

“I wanted to be a huge star and I have failed.”

Wanted Stars Huge

Author:John Otway

“I've liked women but I've never felt I wanted to give up my life completely. I've never wanted to go to bed with anybody.”

Giving Wanted Felt Bed Giving Up

Author:Keith O'Brien

“I have achieved what I wanted to achieve. I'm better off at some sort of independent place where they not only like what I produce but also trust me to be the one to produce it.”

Wanted Achieve Produce Independent Better Off Trust Me

Author:Keith Olbermann

“I never wanted to be aligned to a mature group because they go off and become politicians and stuff.”

Wanted Stuff Groups Politician Mature

Author:Richard O'Brien

“I've never wanted to play bank managers and real people particularly.”

People Real Play Wanted Managers

Author:Richard O'Brien

“I was lucky on 'Arli$$.' I basically got to do whatever I wanted because HBO is great for that.”

Wanted Lucky Hbo

Author:Sandra Oh

“I had wanted to be a regular character on a series for a while. 'The Brady Bunch' was an answer to a prayer.”

Character Wanted Prayer Answers Series Bunch Brady Brady Bunch

Author:Susan Olsen

“When I was eight years old, I wrote a paragraph-long short story about a goat on my mother's hundred-pound, black-and-white-screen laptop. The story came about largely because I liked the way the word 'goat' looked on the page, but I decided then and there that I wanted to be a writer. That desire never changed.”

Way Years Long Stories Wanted Mother Desire Black White Changed Pages Hundred Decided Eight Screens Pounds Short Story Black And White Never Change Goats Paragraph Laptops

Author:Tea Obreht

“I immediately called the command center of the Department of Justice to let them know that my wife was on a plane that had been hijacked. I mainly wanted them know there was another hijacked plane out there.”

Knows Wanted Justice Wife My Wife Command Planes Department

Author:Ted Olson

“Thankfully, I was able to go to Marquette University and get my education, a Catholic education, so I could please my family, because I think they wanted me to be a priest.”

Thinking Able Wanted Please My Family Catholic University Priests Catholic Education

Author:Danny Pudi

“I grew up in St. Louis, Missouri. I lived in Grand Blanc, Michigan for a year and that's when I got involved in acting and took classes there. A manager who saw me at the agency I was at in Michigan wanted me to come out to L.A.”

Years Wanted Acting Class Saws Grew Involved Grew Up Managers Agency Michigan Missouri

Author:Evan Peters

“When I left school, I wanted to be an artist, specifically a painter.”

Wanted School Artist Left Painter

Author:Jonathan Pryce

“I loved my boarding school, but I didn't know what I wanted to do. I didn't have a career.”

Knows Wanted School Careers

Author:Lilly Pulitzer

“To be honest, the only thing I ever really wanted to be was a writer - since I read 'Charlotte's Web' as a child.”

Children Wanted Honest Being Honest Charlotte Charlotte's Web

Author:Louise Penny

“I turned down all the requests for the rights to the books, for years, mostly because they wanted the rights to the characters, and to turn it into a TV series. This would have allowed them to do anything they wanted with the characters, and that just wasn't an option for me.”

Years Book Character Wanted Turns Rights Tvs Series Request Turned Down Tv Series

Author:Louise Penny

“After about ten years of study I ended up feeling so full and blessed that I wanted to give some of what was given to me back to humanity.”

Giving Years Feelings Wanted Humanity Given Study Blessing Ten Blessed

Author:Brandon Bays

“When I started writing this blog more than years ago, it was in response to traditional media's habit of twisting interviews to fit the headlines they wanted to create.”

Writing Years Wanted Funny Media Habit Fit Years Ago Response Traditional Interviews Thoughtful Blogs Headlines Blogging

Author:Mark Cuban

“If you pray enough for things, I am proof that they can happen. I feel like a kid on Christmas day now, every day. It's something I have wanted for a long time and I am as happy as anyone to be here. It is great to be back at my first love.”

Ifs Feels Firsts Long Enough Happens Kids Wanted Praying Long Time Proof Christmas First Love Christmas Day

Author:Robbie Fowler

“The Jews might have had Uganda, Madagascar, and other places for the establishment of a Jewish Fatherland, but they wanted absolutely nothing except Palestine, not because the Dead Sea water by evaporation can produce five trillion dollars of metaloids and powdered metals; not because the sub-soil of Palestine contains twenty times more petroleum than all the combined reserves of the two Americas; but because Palestine is the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa, because Palestine constitutes the veritable center of world political power, the strategic center for world control.”

“The use of force, including beatings, undoubtedly has brought about the impact we wanted - strengthening the [occupied] population's fear of the Israeli Defense Forces.”

Use Wanted Force Impact Including Population Jew Defense Israeli Strengthening Use Of Force

Author:Yitzhak Rabin

“I knew Otto Kahn [According to the Figaro, Mr. Kahn on first going to America was a clerk in the firm of Speyer and Company, and married a grand-daughter of Mr. Wolf, one of the founders of Kuhn, Loeb & Company], the multi-millionaire, for many years. I knew him when he was a patriotic German. I knew him when he was a patriotic American. Naturally, when he wanted to enter the House of Commons, he joined the 'patriotic party.'”

Years Firsts Wanted America House Party Company Married Daughter Jew Firm Patriotic Founders Millionaire Clerks American Patriotic House Of Commons Grand Daughter

Author:Denis Fahey

“I wouldn't be where I am, if not for Jamaica. My formative years were here. I wouldn't have the confidence that I have if I wasn't born here, because growing up here I knew I could become anybody I wanted to become. There was no ceiling on top of me.”

Ifs Years Wanted Born Growing Up Growing Ceilings Jamaica Formative Years

Author:Michael Lee-Chin

“I never really thought about what characters I play. I always just wanted different characters.”

Different Play Character Wanted Different Characters

Author:Stephanie Leonidas

“Steve Jobs is the most epic entrepreneur of all time. He served as a guiding light for any emerging businessperson who wanted to learn how things should get done. He'll be looked at as one of the best business leaders of all time, and certainly one of the best tech entrepreneurs.”

Should Done Light Wanted Jobs Leader Entrepreneur All Time Epic Emerging Business Leaders Best Business Guiding Light Most Epic

Author:Aaron Levie

“I could give 48 penalties in every match if I wanted to. It is a question of sometimes choosing what is - in your own mind - of material importance and what isn't, what might be a crucial potential penalty and what might not be.”

Ifs Giving Mind Sometimes Might Wanted Materials Importance Crucial Penalties

Author:Alan Lewis

“Since I was 15 years old, all I wanted was to find the guy I was going to marry.”

Years Wanted Guy

Author:Ali Larter

“My number one goal was not getting 'A's' - and I proved it. I was a 'C' student. You have to be ready to learn. If you're not interesting in learning, it doesn't work. As I grew older and wanted to learn and desperately wanted inside information, learning was a lot easier.”

Ifs Wanted Goal Interesting Numbers Information Students Ready Grew Easier

Author:Brian Lamb

“I was 3 when I told my mom that I knew what my dharma was and that I wanted to be an actor.”

Wanted Actors Mom My Mom Dharma

Author:Brie Larson

“I didn't have a regular school experience and wanted a more abstract way of learning. I started exploring in lots of different creative ways. It gave me the opportunity to travel and play music, so it was good for me.”

Way Different Play Wanted School Opportunity Creative Abstract Exploring School Experience

Author:Brie Larson

“I had a tough time fitting in, as I guess most kids do. I felt like school was kind of a grand opportunity to figure yourself out and to figure out what you wanted.”

Kind Kids Wanted School Opportunity Felt Figures Tough Tough Times Fitting

Author:Brie Larson

“I wasn't interested in going to the school dances. I wasn't interested in going to the football games. What I wanted was to be in my room painting my walls and doing weird stuff. That's what I wanted and I got to do what I wanted, so that, to me, is my high school experience.”

Wanted School Games Stuff Rooms Football Painting Wall High School Football Game Weird Stuff School Experience

Author:Brie Larson

“At age 12 or 13, I wanted to design for showgirls - for the theater!”

Age Wanted Design Theater

Author:Christian Louboutin

“I never wanted to design clothes. I never wanted to work for the fashion industry. Shoes sort of belong to the fashion industry, which is why I'm part of the fashion industry. But that's never been my thought. My thought since I was a child was really to design those shoes for girls on stage.”

Children Wanted Girl Stage Fashion Design Industry Clothes Shoes My Thoughts Fashion Industry

Author:Christian Louboutin

“When I was 12, all I wanted was to be good at school, and to do something admirable, something you can't take away from me because I'm not popular or beautiful enough.”

Enough Wanted School Beautiful Be Good Admirable

Author:Diane Lane

“I never wanted to be rich or successful or famous. I just wanted to be happy and have fun.”

Wanted Fun Successful Rich Having Fun

Author:Donna Leon

“Honestly, I was a good kid but I figured out pretty early that I had a gift for making people laugh. I wanted to entertain and when that happens you tend to get yourself in trouble in class.”

People Happens Kids Wanted Class Laughing Trouble Honestly Making People Laugh

Author:Eric Ladin

“I was taking piano lessons with a very good piano instructor in Toronto, and I'm afraid due to my schedule and discipline, it kind of fell apart. One thing lead to another and I was unable to practice as much as I wanted to.”

Kind Wanted Practice One Thing Discipline Lessons Very Good Dues Piano Schedules Toronto Instructors Piano Lesson

Author:Geddy Lee

“I believe that the profits will come from the quality of your creative products. Since the beginning, I've always wanted to develop a self-feeding circle of creative productions: the positive financial returns from one show would be used to develop and create a new show, and so on.”

Believe Self Shows Would Be Wanted Used I Believe Quality Creative Products Return Financial Profit Productions Circles Feeding

Author:Guy Laliberte

“After 'Sports' came out in the fall of 1983, everything changed for me. Four of the album's singles became top-10 hits, and by the end of June in 1984, the album was No. 1 on the Billboard chart. It was quite a ride, and for the first time I had enough money to live the way I wanted.”

Way Firsts Ends Enough Wanted Fall Sports Four Changed First Time Albums June Had Enough Singles Billboards Top 10

Author:Huey Lewis

“I also wanted to play with Peyton Manning because I thought he could teach me a lot, and he did.”

Play Wanted Teach Peyton

Author:Jamal Lewis

“The thing that I had saved up for myself and wanted most to bring off was a fully fledged professional production of Hamlet at the Royal Shakespeare Theater in Stratford.”

Wanted Theater Productions Saved Royal

Author:Trevor Nunn

“I've always wanted two kids. I've always wanted a girl and a boy.”

Two Kids Wanted Girl Boys

Author:Ana Ortiz

“I wanted to be involved in music and I felt I needed to get in quick. I didn't want to spend four years in college and then hope for the best. I gave myself a year, which is why I kept pushing people for a chance. I literally felt my whole life was in the balance. Music was my life, and I was scared of having time pass by and missing my chance.”

People Want Years Whole Wanted Felt Chance Four Missing College Needed Balance Involved Scared Whole Life Pushing Four Years Hoping For The Best Time Passes

Author:Guy Oseary

“The lips on my upper right bicep are my girlfriend's lips. She has the most amazing lips, and I wanted to carry them around with me everywhere I go, considering I can't carry her lips physically with me. So I decided to place them in a discreet location, such as the inside part of my bicep.”

I Can Wanted Decided Lips Girlfriend Considering Location My Girlfriend Most Amazing Discreet

Author:Jake Owen

“Everyone has their own path in life, no matter if it's being a celebrity or a singer. Quite frankly, I didn't move to Nashville and tell myself I wanted to be a singer because I wanted to be a celebrity or I wanted to be somebody that people admired. I wasn't about that. I just loved music.”

People Ifs Matter Wanted Moving Path Singers Nashville

Author:Jake Owen

“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 Beens Two Wanted Type Internet Magazines Buying Lots Of Money Domain Buyers

Author:Marc Ostrofsky

“I grew up in Middle America and I don't think my family was very funny, but I watched 'The Princess Bride.' I always wanted to be an actor. I didn't know anything about it. I'd never seen any plays or anything and I watched that movie over and over and over again.”

Thinking Knows Play Wanted America Actors Middle Grew Grew Up My Family Princess Brides Princess Bride Middle America

Author:Missi Pyle

“I'm just considering myself extremely lucky. All I wanted is to have 'Paranormal Activity' be released and become successful. And everything that's happened since then is just an enormous bonus.”

Wanted Successful Happened Activity Lucky Enormous Paranormal Considering Bonus Becoming Successful Paranormal Activity

Author:Oren Peli

“I was constantly, always and forever, trying to perform the musical 'Annie' for anyone who would listen, and I have a terrible singing voice. It was the first thing that made me think I wanted to be an actress.”

Thinking Trying Firsts Made Wanted Voice Forever Terrible Singing Musical Actresses Annie Always And Forever

Author:Sarah Paulson

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