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“Show business has never been my everything. It's a means; it's not the end. It's a means to the end. I want and have always wanted freedom. That was always my goal, to not have a boss, to not have anybody tell me what to do. Luckily, as an actor, I got that.”

Want Mean Ends Shows Wanted Actors Goal Boss Show Business

Author:Steve Guttenberg

“I have absolutely no complaints about my life. But people think I got handed everything, all this kind of fell in my lap, that I was just God-gifted with all this talent. I wanted people to realize it's a lot tougher than just waking up one day and you're in the NHL.”

People Thinking Kind Wanted Realizing Talent One Day Wake Up Waking Gifted Complaints Lap Nhl

Author:Wayne Gretzky

“People wanted to get me published, and my early work was so weird that they weren't getting anywhere. I thought, okay, I'll do something that's just a tad more normal.”

People Wanted Normal Okay Early Work

Author:Nell Zink

“The books are always there, just the way you wrote them. The plays often don`t turn out the way you wanted them to because in the theater, you`re always involved with collaborators and they don`t always see the work the way you do.”

Way Book Play Wanted Turns Involved Theater Collaborators

Author:Stephen King

“I think Americans is a very special nation that was created so that people could be free. And they could be free to believe what they wanted. They could be free to work as hard as they wanted, knowing that their labor would accrue to them and to their family, that there wouldn't be a lot of people impinging upon their freedom and telling them what they had to do, and that it would be a nation that was representative of the people, and that it would have a government that was representative of the people rather than one that tried to rule the people.”

People Thinking Believe Hard Government Would Be Wanted Nations Knowing Special Labor Representatives

Author:Benjamin Carson

“I never had a movie that I wanted to do turned down in my whole life. I always write the script first so it speaks for itself.”

Writing Firsts Whole Wanted Speak Scripts Whole Life Turned Down

Author:Steve Martin

“I wasn't remembering the gift that God had given me. I had totally put all that aside. And my daughter was growing up before my eyes, and I just wanted to grab hold of that. It goes by so fast. I wanted to watch her. I wanted to be that parent - because at that point in time, I was a single parent. Watch her go to school, and when she got home, be there. I wanted that moment.”

Moments Home Eye Wanted School Remember Given Parent Watches Growing Up Growing Daughter My Daughter That Moment Single Parent

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“I usually cast myself in things because acting is how I best relate to artistic impulses. It's what I've wanted to do since I was a child, so a scene usually plays itself out in my head with me performing it. And if I cast myself that's one less person I have to pay, one less person I have to explain my vision to, one less person I have to worry about.”

Ifs Children Persons Play Wanted Pay Acting Vision Worry Scene Casts Artistic Relate Impulse Performing

Author:Amber Sealey

“My parents only played Isley Brothers, Marvin Gaye. That's when New Kids came out, and we wanted to jam that. My mom was like, "Put that thing off and put my damn record on". So from old school to '90s to recent, it's just always been there.”

Kids Wanted School Parent Records Brother Mom My Mom Damn Jam Old School Marvin

Author:Solange Knowles

“I actually produced other people's vocals for a long time when I first signed my publishing deal and I had just sort of decided that I only wanted to be a writer. I would be in all of these writing sessions, and a lot of times my publisher would say, "You should get a demo singer to sing it because then it doesn't identify as a Solange song."”

People Should Writing Firsts Long Would Be Wanted Song Deals Long Time Decided Singers Publishing Publishers Session Vocal Demos

Author:Solange Knowles

“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.”

Ifs Persons Stills Use Age Wanted Creative Type Capacity Substance Be Creative Sober

Author:Macklemore

“I actually was a ballet dancer - I studied ballet from three until 13 - but like very seriously, that's what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a contemporary ballet dancer. I wanted to go to Juilliard.”

Wanted Three Contemporary Dancer Ballet Ballet Dancer Juilliard

Author:Solange Knowles

“My family is very musical, I was surrounded by it. And from four years old I was the one that asked my mother could I take piano lessons... It wasn't forced on me. It was something I wanted to do. And ever since, I've never stopped, I've never stopped playing music. I never went through a period where I didn't want to do it.”

Want Years Wanted Mother Four Periods Lessons My Family Musical Piano Four Years Playing Music Piano Lesson

Author:John Legend

“I never wanted to be a career politician. I always am interested just to take on challenges that everyone says are impossible to do and to take it on.”

Wanted Challenges Careers Impossible Politician Career Politicians

Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger

“I never took the game for granted as far as not having to work on what I needed to do to accomplish all of the things that I wanted to accomplish.”

Wanted Games Needed Accomplish Granted

Author:Allen Iverson

“Milton Friedman had the grace and good sense to recognize that he wanted to talk to the general public. He wasn't going to just lecture to the people who happened to appear in his classroom in Chicago or on some lecture circuit. He went out to talk to the general public, believing that you had to convince a democratic nation to change its ways, and he succeeded to a considerable extent.”

People Way Believe Wanted Nations Grace Happened Democratic Convince Chicago Classroom Lectures Good Sense Circuits General Public Milton

Author:Allan H. Meltzer

“There were times, I could say, later in the career, that I wished that my voice would be deeper for materials that I might've wanted to select to do. But that's the style of my voice. There's nothing I can do about the heighth of my voice. And so I learned to deal with it.”

I Can Might Would Be Wanted Voice Can Do Deals Careers Style Materials Deeper Select

Author:Jimmy Scott

“I just wanted to create things that I could be proud of. Money was just an evil byproduct to pay the bills at the end of the year.”

Years Ends Wanted Evil Pay Proud Bills Be Proud

Author:Richard Branson

“My childhood was pretty ordinary, except from a very early age, I wanted to be scared. I just did. I was scared afterwards. I wanted a light on, because I was afraid that there was something in the closet. My imagination was very active, even at a young age.”

Light Age Wanted Young Imagination Childhood Ordinary Scared Active Closets My Imagination Young Age

Author:Stephen King

“We just wanted to make albums where every song stands out and is different. It must not be the same track from one to 12.”

Different Wanted Song Track Albums Standing Out

Author:Chuck Comeau

“We grew up with all the Fat Wreck Records and all the Epitaph bands, that era. We mixed it up together. We were never purists of being just pop or just pop-punk. We always wanted to blend everything that we love.”

Wanted Together Records Grew Band Grew Up Pops Fats Eras Punk Wrecks Epitaph

Author:Chuck Comeau

“I'm really going off of watching John Waters speak one time and I remember he just kind of talked and it was totally interesting. I wanted to hear about his life and how he got started and when did he think he made it, stupid stuff like that. And what his relationship with the mainstream is because he's so far out there, but then he became part of the mainstream in this weird way. He was really funny, though. Yeah, I have to work on my jokes.”

Thinking Way Kind Made Wanted Remember Speak Stuff Water Interesting Stupid Jokes Yeah Made It One Time Mainstream

Author:Kathleen Hanna

“I always wanted to experience the street life because my teenage life in Aberdeen was so boring. But I was never really independent enough to do it. I applied for food stamps, lived under the bridge, and built a fort at the cedar mill.”

Enough Wanted Streets Built Independent Boring Bridges Teenage Stamps Mills Forts So Boring Food Stamps Cedars Street Life Teenage Life Aberdeen

Author:Kurt Cobain

“It's weird to make a decision where everyone in your life disapproves, pretty vocally and directly. They said, "You've got one year left. Just do it." I had a full scholarship so I didn't have to pay for it. They asked, "Why don't you just get the degree so you can have it?" And I said, "You don't understand. I was trying to figure out what I wanted to do and now I know. I have the answer and it's dumb to waste any more time."”

Knows Trying Years Said Wanted Left Decision Answers Pay Figures Degrees Waste Dumb More Time They Said Scholarship Just Do It

Author:Demetri Martin

“Twitter allowed me to talk about parenting in short snippets and find out what I really wanted to say about it, which is that I'm a dad who had no idea what he's doing.”

Ideas Wanted Dad No Idea

Author:Jim Gaffigan

“I made money. I wanted to give it back to Africa but I wanted to give it back in a meaningful way. So I really want to do something which deals with the root of the problem of hunger, of disease, of ills we have in our society.”

Way Want Giving Made Problem Wanted Deals Disease Roots Hunger Meaningful Our Society

Author:Mo Ibrahim

“It would not be better if men got what they wanted.”

Ifs Men Wanted

Author:Euripides

“I destroyed a lot of guitars trying to get them to do what I wanted, but I learned something from every guitar I tore apart, and discovered even more things. Things like if the string is not straight from the bridge saddle to the nut, you're going to have friction.”

Ifs Trying Wanted Guitar Destroyed Bridges Strings Nuts Friction Saddles

Author:Eddie Van Halen

“...but there isn't going to be any First Lady. There is just to be plain, ordinary Mrs. Roosevelt...I never wanted to be the president's wife, and don't want it now. You don't quite believe me, do you? Very likely no one would-except possibly some woman who had had the job.”

Want Firsts Believe Wanted Jobs President Wife Ordinary Believe In Me First Lady

Author:Eleanor Roosevelt

“Reading was my only escape from reality. Through books, I could be whoever I wanted. I could fall in love with the handsome prince, travel to exotic places, and take the leap that almost always had a happy ending.”

Book Reality Wanted Fall Reading Falling In Love Leap Handsome Happy Endings Exotic Exotic Places

Author:Teresa Mummert

“My mother taught me the principles of hard work, setting my own goals and visualizing my future. From my early days with Destiny's Child, I understood I had to be focused and dedicated if I wanted true success. We were taught we needed a plan and the discipline to execute that plan to the fullest. I strongly believe if you work hard, whatever you want, it will come to you. I know that's easier said than done but keep trying.”

“If someone like Karl Rove had wanted to neutralize the most creative, intelligent, and passionate members of his opposition, he'd have a hard time coming up with a better tool than Burning Man. Exile them to the wilderness, give them a culture in which alpha status requires months of focus and resource-consumptive preparation, provide them with metric tons of psychotropic confusicants, and then... ignore them. It's a pretty safe bet that they won't be out registering voters, or doing anything that might actually threaten electoral change, when they have an art car to build.”

“I always call Billy Elliot a fantasy autobiography because I never wanted to be a dancer, but I got a lot of stick from the other kids about wanting to be a writer and being interested in drama.”

Kids Wanted Fantasy Drama Sticks Dancer Autobiography Billy Elliot

Author:Lee Hall

“After I won the Pulitzer, there was this sense of, 'OK, that's enough for you. Now go away.' What I wanted was to keep writing, keep working. But no one would produce anything of mine they didn't think would be as big as ''night, Mother.'”

Thinking Writing Enough Bigs Would Be Wanted Mother Night Produce Mines Going Away Mother Night

Author:Marsha Norman

“It was one of the charms of the International Zone that you could get anything you wanted if you paid for it. Do anything, too, for that matter; - there were no incorruptibles. It was only a question of price.”

Ifs Matter Wanted Paid International Charm Zone

Book:The Sheltering Sky: Let it Come Down ; The Spider's House

Source: The Sheltering Sky: Let it Come Down ; The Spider's House

“That was what he wanted, to be baked dry and hard, to feel the vaporous worries evaporating one by one, to know finally that all the damp little doubts and hesitations that covered the floor of his being were curling up and expiring in the great furnace-blast of the sun.”

Knows Feels Littles Hard Wanted Worry Sun Doubt Dry Covered Blast Hesitation Damp Furnaces

Book:The Sheltering Sky: Let it Come Down ; The Spider's House

Source: The Sheltering Sky: Let it Come Down ; The Spider's House

“I never studied science or physics at school, and yet when I read complex books on quantum physics I understood them perfectly because I wanted to understand them. The study of quantum physics helped me to have a deeper understanding of the Secret, on an energetic level.”

Book Wanted School Understanding Levels Secret Study Understood Complexes Deeper Physics Quantum Energetic Quantum Physics Deeper Understanding

Book:The Secret

Source: The Secret

“I kind of got more interested in writing after I turned in my last college essay and nobody was going to tell me what kind of academic papers to write anymore. I could write whatever I wanted, and I realized that I actually liked it when I could choose what I would write.”

Writing Kind Wanted Lasts College Paper I Realized Academic Papers Essays

Author:Dan Millman

“I wanted revenge; I wanted to dance on the graves of a few people who made me unhappy. It's a pretty infantile way to go through life - I'll show them - but I've done it, and I've got more than I ever dreamed of.”

People Way Made Done Shows Wanted Revenge Graves Unhappy Infantile

Author:Anthony Hopkins

“I've never understood the point of ecstasy. I think if I wanted to get dehydrated and jump about with a load of people I've never met before I could go to a Methodist barn dance.”

People Ifs Thinking Wanted Funny Understanding Mets Understood Dance Ecstasy Load Jumping Barns Methodists Dehydration

Author:Victoria Wood

“I never wanted to become an actor. I always wanted to be a farmer and dreamt of owning half an acre of agriculture land.”

Wanted Actors Half Land Farmers Agriculture Acres

Author:Pawan Kalyan

“It's destiny that pushed me towards showbiz. I wanted to start off as a technician, but out of compulsion, I became an actor.”

Wanted Actors Destiny Compulsion Technicians Showbiz

Author:Pawan Kalyan

“I have been a depressed kid. I wanted to lead a quiet life, never wanted to be an actor.”

Has Beens Kids Wanted Actors Quiet Quiet Life

Author:Pawan Kalyan

“I have always wanted to be a gardener, and I love the time I spend in my garden.”

Wanted Garden Gardener

Author:Pawan Kalyan

“I went to medical school after having decided to do so somewhere between my junior and senior year at Harvard - very late. I initially wanted to be an intellectual historian.”

Years Wanted School Late Intellectual Decided Medical Historian Senior Juniors Harvard Medical School Senior Year

Author:Eric Kandel

“All my life I wanted to play music with love to every member of the audience.”

Play Wanted Audience Members

Author:Mstislav Rostropovich

“I wanted to be considered a good craftsman. I wanted my dresses to be constructed like buildings, molded to the curves of the female form, stylizing its shape.”

Wanted Form Building Shapes Female Dresses Curves Craftsman Female Form

Author:Christian Dior

“Finally, everything that has been part of my life, whether I wanted it to or not, has expressed itself in my dresses.”

Has Beens Wanted Dresses

Author:Christian Dior

“My mother didn't want me to be in fashion. She was in the fashion business, so was my brother, and she thought it was too crazy for me. She wanted me to be married with children, to be independent, yes, but not to have a crazy life.”

Want Children Wanted Mother Crazy Fashion Brother Married Independent My Brother Want Me Being Married Married With Children Crazy Life Fashion Business

Author:Donatella Versace

“I became a feminist because I wanted to help my daughters, other women and myself aspire to something more than a place behind a good man.”

Men Helping Wanted Behinds Daughter Feminist Good Man My Daughter Aspire

Book:Dancing at the Louvre: Faith Ringgold's French Collection and Other Story Quilts

Source: Dancing at the Louvre: Faith Ringgold's French Collection and Other Story Quilts

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