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“I have always wanted to own a homemade ice cream shop!”

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“For a long time I was cautious of working with my parents because I wanted to feel separate from them in the community. Now there's no more wasting time.”

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Author:Lily Rabe

“I don't write on topics that require a lot of urgency. But in 'Stiff,' I wanted to change people's hearts about organ donation. Whenever I get a chance, I try to talk about that.”

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Author:Mary Roach

“I knew from a young age that I wanted to perform. I went to an arts camp called Brookdale Arts Camp, in New Jersey, from the time I was 6, and then I was a counselor there through high school.”

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Author:Melissa Rauch

“I took a lot of bad things after Athens. I just learnt to deal with it. The problem was beforehand I had this feeling where I was trying to please everybody - I wanted everybody to like me.”

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Author:Paula Radcliffe

“I've never been one to make plans, because I never wanted to disappoint myself.”

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Author:Rebecca Romijn

“I had turned down other head chef jobs. I didn't want to take over someone else's cuisine. I wanted to start from scratch.”

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Author:Rene Redzepi

“I've never had anything but the freedom to do what I wanted just as long as it made me happy.”

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Author:Rene Redzepi

“Well, I think probably when I first got in the business, I wasn't thinking of being strictly a character actor. But I knew I wanted to be a working actor, and as the years have gone on, I just naturally evolved into that. Because, y'know, I'm not a leading guy. Never was.”

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Author:Stephen Root

“I've always wanted to do action and action movies. I grew up on that.”

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Author:Tania Raymonde

“It would be the ultimate dream for me to win an Academy Award, be in love and have kids. Then I would say, 'Life is great! I have done everything I wanted.”

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Author:Tara Reid

“I wanted to have a normal childhood. Normal relationships.”

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Author:Tommy Rettig

“Quite honestly I never had a desire to be an actor. I tell people, I did not choose acting; acting chose me. I never grew up wanting to be an actor. I wanted to play football. In about 9th grade an English teacher told me I had a talent to act. He said I should audition for a performing arts high school so I did on a whim. I got accepted.”

“I wanted to be a marine biologist my whole life until I graduated high school.”

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Author:Cobie Smulders

“Secretly, or maybe not so secretly, I've always wanted to be a rock star.”

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Author:Cobie Smulders

“I wanted to be a marine biologist my whole life until I graduated high school. And even now, I'm still like, 'Maybe I'll just quit the biz and go to Santa Cruz and study marine biology and have my own research center in the Bahamas.' Yeah, I'm sure it would be just that smooth.”

“I didn’t try to intimidate anybody. I wanted to inform my employees of what their future would hold if they make the wrong decision. I wasn’t threatening any of the employees. If they vote for Obama they’re not going to lose their jobs.”

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Author:David A. Siegel

“When I was a little kid I wanted to be an artist or a painter. But once I got into boxing, all I wanted was to box.”

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Author:Emanuel Steward

“I certainly used to wish that I was skinny, lighter-skinned, with long, pretty hair. But only because I used to get made fun of for being the absolute opposite. I didn't see all of that stuff as the American Dream. I just wanted to look normal. Now that I'm older, I really do feel like I am a beautiful girl.”

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Author:Gabourey Sidibe

“I'm really, really interested in the job of acting. I can really care less about being famous. I'm more about the work, and 'The Big C' was amazing, so I wanted to be a part of it.”

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Author:Gabourey Sidibe

“Definitely River Phoenix is somebody that I thought, "This guy is very cool." I wanted to be like him when I was a kid.”

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Author:Jim Sturgess

“To be able to make up stories has been a great gift to me from my ancestors and from the storytellers who were so numerous at Laguna Pueblo when I was growing up. I learned to read as soon as I could because I wanted stories without having to depend on adults to tell or read stories to me.”

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Author:Leslie Marmon Silko

“I wanted to be a cartoonist. I was one of those kids who sat around and drew in my room all the time.”

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Author:Michael Stuhlbarg

“The first time I saw E.T., the actual image of an alien, and he was so sweet-looking. I wanted him. I wanted E.T.”

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Author:Octavia Spencer

“In my heart, my first desire was to be a dancer. I always wanted to dance and I danced from the time I was 7 till I was well into my 30s.”

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Author:Phyllis Smith

“I get my drive and determination from just winning and playing tennis. I know if I don't work, I won't get rewarded. It was a life long dream to win a Grand Slam so when I was able to do that it felt so good and I wanted to do it again. It's not that hard to stay motivated.”

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Author:Samantha Stosur

“I thought I was a pretty good writer, but I didn't have anything to write about. I wanted to go out in the world, have some adventures and then write about them.”

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Author:Shane Smith

“I wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and fantasy themes.”

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Author:Dario Argento

“I used to say that whenever people heard my Southern accent, they always wanted to deduct 100 IQ points.”

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Author:Jeff Foxworthy

“I always wanted to perform. I remember being 5 years old and telling my parents to sit down as I was going to put on a play for them.”

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Author:Tammin Sursok

“We wanted to be in great shape, we wanted to be able to cope with zero gravity, we wanted to be able to cope with accelerations and decelerations and so on. So all of us trained so that we were probably in the best physical condition we had ever been in up until that point.”

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Author:Alan Shepard

“Growing up I definitely looked up to Dominique Moceanu. She was my favorite gymnast and she was on that '96 Olympic team. She was always so fun to watch. I kind of wanted to model my career after hers.”

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Author:Alicia Sacramone

“I never intended being a business person I wanted to be a fashion designer.”

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Author:Anna Sui

“When I started my own business, my main reason for designing clothes was that I wanted to dress rock stars and the people who went to rock concerts. It didn't go beyond that aspiration at that point.”

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Author:Anna Sui

“Of course the Republicans have long wanted to privatize Social Security and destroy it. But Social Security has been the most important and valuable social program in the history of the United States.”

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Author:Bernie Sanders

“What you need to know about me is that I always just wanted to be a country singer. I didn't choose the path of television or being on magazine covers.”

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Author:Blake Shelton

“I knew that my hair was falling out and I had really weird skin. My face looked really weird and I was getting this fuzz on my face and I was always cold - always to the point of uncontrollably shaking. I was more scared that 85 lbs. wasn't good enough. I wanted to be lower.”

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Author:Brittany Snow

“I permed my hair 12 years ago, because I always wanted a perm, but my mother would never let me have one! I got a lot of stick, but I didn't care - I loved the curls. The growing out was the difficult part!”

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Author:Chloe Sevigny

“It was something I was more interested in myself. When I went to see my sister dance at ballet, I was really into costumes and the arts, and my family was also supportive of whatever me and my sister wanted to do. I would say I pushed myself the most to be into design.”

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Author:Christian Siriano

“I came to this country when I was twelve years old because my parents wanted to give me new opportunities to succeed. President Obama wants everyone to have the chances I had.”

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Author:Cristina Saralegui

“I always wanted to be an actor.”

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Author:Dan Stevens

“I went to college on a classical piano scholarship. My grandmother made me practice one full hour a day. Every day. Man. I thought all she wanted was for me not to have any fun. Next thing you know, you have a career in music. Now, not everybody's going to go on and be Mozart or Michael Jackson. But music makes you smarter.”

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Author:Jamie Foxx

“I really wanted to just be a musician. I didn't want to be anything else, but I was funny and all that.”

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Author:Jamie Foxx

“I don't think there was a particular book that made me want to write. They all did. I always wanted to write.”

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Author:Elizabeth Strout

“I always knew I wanted to be a musician, and I always knew I wanted to write, 'cause the people I was listening to all wrote. I never thought it was an option to sing anyone else's songs.”

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Author:Emeli Sande

“I always wanted to be a musician from when I was kid. It was always a massive dream of mine. School was also really really important to me and having an education was top of my priority. So I really wanted to have a degree before I tried anything in the music industry.”

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Author:Emeli Sande

“I built a reputation as a songwriter in the industry before my own hits. People were used to coming to me for songs. There were songs like 'Clown' and 'Mountains' that were my songs that I wanted to keep. But the record labels saw me as a songwriter. It was hard to get people to believe in me as an artist.”

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Author:Emeli Sande

“I feel like 'Next To Me' is a great introduction because it's a simple song that has a simple message for me. I wanted to introduce something that lyrically I'm proud of and introduces me both as an artist and as a writer.”

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Author:Emeli Sande

“I wanted to make an album that melodically people can connect to; something that reflects our times and the kinds of difficulties we face.”

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Author:Emeli Sande

“I was finding it very difficult to find a label that understood what I wanted to do and really believed that people wanted to hear something honest and a little bit different. So, I did feel a bit like a clown. You're knocking on everyone's door trying to get them to believe what you're doing.”

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Author:Emeli Sande

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