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“All I ever wanted to do was be able to pay my rent.”

“I decided that if I was never going to sell anything as long as I lived, I might as well do what I want to do 'cause then at least I would've done what I wanted to do in life. What's that worth?”

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Author:Janet Fitch

“It has long been a tradition among novel writers that a book must end by everybody getting just what they wanted, or if the conventional happy ending was impossible, then it must be a tragedy in which one or both should die. In real life very few of us get what we want, our tragedies don't kill us, but we go on living them year after year, carrying them with us like a scar on an old wound.”

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Author:Willa Cather

“In my prayers I never said I needed a home. I said I wanted a sanctuary.”

Said Home Wanted Prayer Needed Sanctuary Firefighter

Author:Mary Anne Radmacher

“I never wanted to do away with my intensity because I felt it was a gift that helped put fuel in my engine, giving me exceptional drive and energy.”

Giving Wanted Energy Felt Fuel Intensity Engines Exceptional

Author:Paul J. Meyer

“The darkest clouds are the best ennobling of the sun, because the sun is most wanted under the darkest clouds! The evil is condemned to glorify and to honour the good!”

Wanted Evil Sun Clouds Honour Glorify Most Wanted

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“I loved Belle in 'Beauty and the Beast.' I just wanted to be her. I'm a brunette, so I think I kind of cling to all those princesses that have brown hair. I just wanted to be them.”

Thinking Kind Wanted Hair Beast Brown Princess Belle Brunette Brown Hair

Author:Kara Lindsay

“I'd always wanted to be on Broadway one day, but it seemed like a dream that might be unattainable. This business has a lot of ups and downs and I learned that pretty quickly.”

Dream Might Wanted One Day Broadway Ups & Downs Unattainable

Author:Kara Lindsay

“It was a world that I wanted to record because it was such a miracle visitation to me.”

World Wanted Records Miracle Visitation

Author:Laurie Lee

“My mother gave me singing lessons; that was totally painful, because I couldn't do what she wanted to hear. She used to say: there's more there, there's more voice but I just didn't want to give it to her.”

Want Giving Wanted Used Mother Voice Lessons Singing Painful

Author:Linda Lavin

“Pied Piper' came to me all at once; I wanted to do a fairy-tale movie with some edge, but not 'dark,' per se.”

Wanted Dark Edges Tales Fairy Fairy Tale Pipers Pied Piper

Author:Max Landis

“I felt like the luckiest kid in the world. And I was. I was growing up middle-class in a time when growing up middle-class in America meant there would be jobs for my parents, good schools for me to prepare myself for a career, and, if I worked hard and played by the rules, a chance for me to do anything I wanted.”

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Author:Al Franken

“My mother, whose family was heavily rabbinic, said she wanted me to continue the family tradition in the rabbinate. My father said he wanted me to be a scholar of the Talmud, but he wanted me to make my living in science.”

Said Wanted Mother Father Tradition Scholar Family Tradition

Author:Norman Lamm

“The fact is, I never wanted to be a movie star.”

Facts Wanted Stars Movie Star

Author:Piper Laurie

“Clearly it is better that, when someone is wanted by the international police, and this person travels, and a country knows about it, that country reports the fact.”

Knows Persons Country Facts Wanted Police International Reports

Author:Ricardo Lagos

“When my dad was badly weakened by the flu and my mom wanted to call an ambulance to take him to the emergency room, he wouldn't go unless he could shave first and change into a nice shirt and a pair of slacks.”

Firsts Wanted Rooms Nice Mom Dad My Dad My Mom Shirts Pairs Emergencies Flu Ambulance Emergency Room

Author:Rich Lowry

“I told Mother of my decision to study medicine. She encouraged me to speak to Father... I began in a roundabout way... He listened, looking at me with that serious and penetrating gaze of his that caused me such trepidation, and asked whether I knew what I wanted to do.”

Way Wanted Mother Father Speak Decision Study Serious Medicine Trepidation

Book:In praise of imperfection: my life and work

Source: In praise of imperfection: my life and work

“I wanted to be a rock 'n' roll star. It defines life for me. It's all I've ever imagined for myself.”

Wanted Stars Rocks Rock N Roll

Author:Shelby Lynne

“I grew up in Colorado - went back there, tried to heal myself and grow and learn, then got a call that David Lynch wanted me to fly back to Seattle so he could meet me for Twin Peaks.”

Wanted Grows Grew Grew Up Heal Twins Seattle Colorado Twin Peaks

Author:Sheryl Lee

“My father lived by the philosophy, 'Be yourself, because everyone else is taken,' and he made sure I did, too. Whatever I wanted to do, he supported me. I don't mean that I was spoilt - he didn't believe in material gifts - but he watched my back while I worked to achieve things.”

Believe Mean Made Philosophy Wanted Father Taken Achieve Materials Being Yourself Spoilt

Author:Tommy Lee

“I always wanted to be an actress. I couldn't imagine being anything else.”

Wanted Imagine Actresses

Author:AnnaLynne McCord

“I knew I wanted to be an actress when I was 9 years old.”

Years Wanted Actresses

Author:AnnaLynne McCord

“At 15 I had moved out of my parents' place, and my options were looking pretty narrow. But I had this acting thing and I just wanted to be able to keep going because it was really good. That was all I wanted.”

Able Wanted Parent Acting Moved Keep Going Looking Pretty

Author:Ben Mendelsohn

“On my first date, my boyfriend asked me if I wanted to eat a la carte, and I said that I would prefer to stay inside!”

Ifs Firsts Said Wanted My Boyfriend First Date

Author:Cristin Milioti

“I wasn't ecstatic about being pregnant - I wasn't somebody who actively wanted kids. Certainly there were no fantasies about nappy-changing.”

Kids Wanted Fantasy Pregnant Ecstatic Being Pregnant Nappies

Author:Elizabeth McGovern

“I never really had that father figure to look up to. I think that's the reason I'm so ambitious. I felt like I wasn't appreciated as a child so I wanted to prove my worth as an adult, as an actor.”

Thinking Looks Children Reason Wanted Actors Father Felt Figures Prove Adults Look Up Ambitious Appreciated Father Figure

Author:Jesse Metcalfe

“Also, to be honest, my dad wanted me to be an athlete. And I think all sons want to prove something to their dad. So now, aged 35, I want to see what I can achieve physically.”

Thinking Want I Can Wanted Achieve Honest Son Dad Prove My Dad Athlete Being Honest

Author:Joe Manganiello

“I always wanted to be an artist, but I didn't really know how someone could make a life out it.”

Knows Wanted Artist Know How

Author:Julie Mehretu

“I've always wanted to do a period piece.”

Wanted Pieces Periods

Author:Kate Mara

“I've known I wanted to do this ever since I was a little kid and I used to get in trouble at church for goofing off all the time: mocking the preacher, imitating people and the things they did. I later learned my mother used to be just as goofy as I was when she was younger. I mean, Eddie Murphy in 'Coming to America?' My hero.”

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Author:Lamorne Morris

“'Kane and Abel' is the best popular fiction of all time. As a kid, I wanted to be prime minister when I read 'First Among Equals.'”

Firsts Kids Wanted Fiction All Time Ministers Prime Prime Minister Abel

Author:Louise Mensch

“Machiavelli had some cold tricks for people who wanted to be demagogues and wanted to take over the world.”

People World Wanted Cold Tricks

Author:Mads Mikkelsen

“I wanted to dismantle the bollocks that there's a military structure to a gang, with a leader, second leader, the good looking one, first babe, second babe. It's far more arbitrary than that and their values shouldn't be romanticised. They aren't something you want to sign up to.”

Want Firsts Wanted Values Leader Military Structure Looking Good Arbitrary Gang Babe

Author:Peter Mullan

“I always wanted to go into the military or something like that - my whole family, all my friends are either Air Force, Navy, or Marines.”

Whole Wanted Force Air Military My Friends Navy Marine Air Force Whole Family

Author:RJ Mitte

“I love L.A. It was an awesome place to spend my 20s, full of creative people, but I never wanted to stay there. It wasn't necessarily Texas that I wanted to move to; I just knew I wanted to live in the country somewhere. My wife and I found this place in Texas that we really liked, so we packed up our stuff and moved.”

People Country Wanted Moving Found Stuff Creative Wife Moved My Wife Texas Creative People

Author:Scoot McNairy

“I always knew I wanted to make my own way; I never wanted to be dependent on my father.”

Way Wanted Father My Own Dependent

Author:Tamara Mellon

“I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.”

Writing Trying Different Wanted Song Piano Flavor

Author:Aimee Mann

“I've been a Hip-Hop head forever. So when it turned out that we were gonna start getting celebrity guests for every show, I wanted rap guys from the get-go.”

Shows Wanted Guy Forever Hip Hop Rap Hips Hops Guests

Author:Andy Milonakis

“I got a job as soon as I graduated from school. I always wanted to bartend because I love listening to people and how awful their lives are.”

People Wanted School Jobs Listening Awful

Author:Anthony Mackie

“Do you want to be an actor, or do you want to be a celebrity? I made that decision when I went to Juilliard. I wanted to be an actor. So, if I get the opportunity to be an actor and do some cool, fun and interesting projects, I’m going to do that.”

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Author:Anthony Mackie

“No studio in Hollywood wanted 'Cold Mountain.' None. No one wanted 'Ripley,' no one wanted 'The English Patient.' That tells you there isn't really an appetite for ambitious movie-making out there.”

Wanted Cold Mountain Hollywood Patient Studios Appetite Ambitious Movie Making Cold Mountain

Author:Anthony Minghella

“The imaginative leap for me of writing for women is no more difficult than the one of writing for men. I've always wanted to have women well represented in the work that I've done because I've always been around them and around the way they look at the world.”

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Author:Anthony Minghella

“I've never wanted just part of the package, part of the prize. I want it all!”

Want Wanted Prize Packages

Book:From Ashes to Glory

Source: From Ashes to Glory

“I knew from my youngest age I wanted to be a fashion designer. I was always draping fabric and working with color palettes.”

Age Wanted Fashion Color Designer Fabric Fashion Designer Palette

Author:Catherine Malandrino

“For a long time I wanted to be a comic strip artist but when I started doing them in my teens they were getting really elaborate with tons of poses and a lot of information.”

Long Wanted Artist Information Long Time Comic Teens Comic Strips

Author:Craig McCracken

“I knew that Steve Harvey had a good, solid message to share, and I wanted to use my knowledge and skills as a relationship author to help him bring his message to those who were willing to receive it.”

Helping Use Wanted Share Willing Skills Messages Harvey

Author:Denene Millner

“People ask me if I left the lyrics open to ambiguity. Of course I did. I wanted to make a whole series of complex statements. The lyrics had to do with the state of society at the time.”

People Ifs States Whole Wanted Courses Asks Left Music Series Complexes Statements Ask Me Ambiguity American Pie

Author:Don McLean

“I wanted to learn a few foreign languages, and therefore I had to go abroad.”

Wanted Literature Language Travel Foreign Language

Author:Ella Maillart

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