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“I grew up on the crime stuff. Spillane, Chandler, Jim Thompson, and noir movies like Fuller, Orson Welles, Fritz Lang. When I first showed up in New York to write comics back in the late 1970s, I came with a bunch of crime stories but everybody just wanted men in tights.”

Men Writing Firsts Stories Wanted Stuff Crime New York Grew Late Grew Up Bunch Noir Tights Fritz Lang

Author:Frank Miller

“No one was creating and I always wanted to be created on.”

Wanted Creating

Author:Graeme Murphy

“I've always wanted to be a mom.”

Wanted Mom

Author:Holly Madison

“I've always wanted to make music like people write plays, so I was inspired by writers as much as musicians.”

People Writing Play Wanted Musician Inspired

Author:St. Vincent

“And if I'm honest about it, I was obsessed with Nirvana and Pearl Jam. This is like '92, right in the throes of Soundgarden and Pearl Jam and Nirvana. I think I probably wanted to be Kurt Cobain.”

Ifs Thinking Wanted Honest Obsessed Pearls Jam Cobain Pearl Jam

Author:St. Vincent

“I started playing guitar when I was 12 and probably from that age knew that I wanted to make music and make my own music. Playing with other bands like the Polyphonic Spree and Sufjan Stevens was more like an apprenticeship for me than anything.”

Age Wanted My Own Band Guitar Playing Guitar Apprenticeship

Author:St. Vincent

“I kept listening, kept going to see people, kept sitting in with people, kept listening to records. If I wanted to learn somebody's stuff, like with Clapton, when I wanted to learn how he was getting some of his sounds - which were real neat - I learned how to make the sounds with my mouth and then copied that with my guitar.”

People Ifs Real Wanted Stuff Sound Records Listening Mouths Sitting Guitar Neat

Author:Stevie Ray Vaughan

“I've wanted to act since I was little, but my parents told me I couldn't pursue it until after college. The understanding was that I was lucky enough to be able to go to college and that it's important to being successful in life.”

Littles Important Enough Able Wanted Parent Understanding Successful College Lucky Pursue Being Successful

Author:Allison Williams

“I've always been fascinated by horror films and genre films. And horror films harbored a fascination for me and always have been something I've wanted to watch and wanted to make.”

Has Beens Wanted Film Watches Horror Genre Fascinated Fascination Horror Film

Author:Edgar Wright

“I wanted to be a stage actor but I got stuck on television. It took a couple of years to get used to.”

Years Wanted Used Actors Stage Television Couple Stuck Stage Actors

Author:Kevin Whately

“While some who downplay Christ's divinity have imagined Jesus as a great social worker 'being kind to old ladies, small dogs and little children,' orthodox Christianity has not wanted Jesus to have a political message.”

Kind Children Littles Wanted Political Jesus Social Christ Christianity Dog Messages Workers Divinity Orthodox Be Kind Social Worker Old Lady Orthodox Christianity Small Dogs

Author:N. T. Wright

“I don't feel under pressure to work because I love what I do and I wanted to do the projects that came my way.”

Way Feels Wanted Projects Pressure My Way Under Pressure

Author:Olivia Williams

“From a very young age, I wanted to get up on stage whenever I went to the theatre - the actors just seemed to be having so much fun. One of my worries about theatre, in fact, is that the actors are quite often having more fun than the audience.”

Facts Age Wanted Young Actors Fun Worry Audience Stage Theatre Get Up Young Age

Author:Olivia Williams

“I wanted to play a TV detective because it's a rite of passage; I wanted to experience every area of acting. I haven't done comedy or as much Shakespeare as I had intended.”

Done Play Wanted Acting Comedy Havens Tvs Areas Passages Detectives Rite Rite Of Passage

Author:Olivia Williams

“I picked books by their covers - the worse the cover, the more I wanted to read it.”

Book Wanted

Author:Ahmet Zappa

“I looked up to my father when I was 7 and 8. I believed it was my calling to be in the big leagues. I'd been raised by a family that always told me I could do anything I wanted.”

Bigs Wanted Father Calling Raised League

Author:Barry Zito

“I've always loved movies, since I was a little kid, but I never wanted to be part of that industry. It always seemed horrifying, the way films were made.”

Way Littles Made Kids Wanted Film Industry Little Kid

Author:Benh Zeitlin

“My biggest fear in writing 'Gossip Girl' was that the characters would sound like stereotypical rich, air-headed heiresses. These were my friends. They were smart and multifaceted. They had interests and passions. They wanted to become lawyers and doctors and writers and filmmakers.”

Writing Character Wanted Girl Passion Sound Interest Rich Air Smart My Friends Doctors Lawyer Filmmaker Gossip Biggest Fear Heiress Gossip Girl

Author:Cecily von Ziegesar

“I never wanted to do something grotesque. I never wanted to shock. I wanted my audience to be happy, to be kind.”

Kind Wanted Audience Shock Be Kind Grotesque

Author:Eva Zeisel

“You know, when we were kids, we had to go to a theater to see a movie. And then television came in and you had to wait until midnight to see the one you wanted to see. Now, all you've got to do is go to a store and buy it and you can watch it whenever you want!”

Knows Want Kids Wanted Waiting Watches Television Theater Stores Midnight

Author:John Zorn

“When I was growing up, I wanted to be a house painter like my father, but I was always screwing up when I went to work with him. I had a talent for knocking over paint and painting myself into corners. I also realized fairly quickly that painting bored me.”

Wanted Father House Growing Up Growing Talent Painting Paint Corners Painter Bored Knocking

Author:Markus Zusak

“I wanted to be free to write the way I wanted to write, and my impression of Christian publishing, at least in fiction, was that there wasn't room for what I wanted to write.”

Way Writing Wanted Christian Rooms Fiction Impression Publishing

Author:Sara Zarr

“I don't think I could be terribly demanding even if I wanted to be.”

Ifs Thinking Wanted

Author:Stephanie Zimbalist

“I was really interested in geishas' work, and wanted to meet real geishas.”

Real Wanted Geisha

Author:Zhang Ziyi

“It's not that I wanted to be an actor; it's that I didn't want to be a dancer! I was trained in traditional Chinese dance, and after working so hard it seemed unfair to just disappear into a group.”

Want Hard Wanted Actors Groups Disappear Traditional Chinese Dancer Unfair Working So Hard

Author:Zhang Ziyi

“My first real writing job was at 'Rolling Stone,' so I wrote about rock-and-roll and politics and the like. At the time, I really didn't know what I wanted to write, and I did a bunch of investigative journalism.”

Knows Writing Firsts Real Wanted Jobs Rocks Stones Bunch Journalism Rolling Rock And Roll Rolling Stones Investigative Journalism

Author:Tim Cahill

“Well, I jumped for the first time when I was 16. I just loved it and immediately realized that it was what I wanted to do.”

Firsts Wells Wanted First Time

Author:Felix Baumgartner

“To compete at the Olympic Games, I dreamed of any medal, but frankly speaking, I wanted a gold one.”

Wanted Games Gold Medal Olympic Games

Author:Adelina Sotnikova

“It was the most earnest ambition I ever had....Not that I ever really wanted to be a preacher, but because it never occurred to me that a preacher could be damned. It looked like a safe job.”

Wanted Jobs Safe Ambition Preacher Earnest

Book:Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

“I wanted to show that your health is more important than your hair.”

Important Shows Wanted Hair

Author:Joan Lunden

“I guess I really always wanted to act. When I was seven, I actually had the opportunity to come out to California. Ive always really loved playing a part, playing a character and being someone else.”

Character Wanted Opportunity Seven California

Author:Madison Davenport

“I wanted to write about how people's beliefs shift.”

People Writing Wanted Belief

Author:Alexei Sayle

“It seems like when I first started, people got into comedy because they wanted to be good comedians.”

People Firsts Seems Wanted Comedy Be Good Comedian

Author:Wanda Sykes

“Usually, when Nirvana made music, there wasn't a lot of conversation. We wanted everything to be surreal. We didn't want to have some contrived composition.”

Want Made Wanted Conversation Composition Surreal

Author:Dave Grohl

“I’m very interested in sublimation. I love the way Francis Bacon talked about the grin without the cat, the sensation without the boredom of its conveyance… I’ve always wanted to be able to convey figurative imagery in a kind of shorthand, to get it across in as direct a way as possible. I want there to be a human presence without having to depict it in full.”

Way Want Humans Kind Able Wanted Direct Cat Boredom Sensations Imagery Shorthand

Author:Cecily Brown

“I wanted to be a singer forever. But it's not really my cup of tea. Having the whole world know who you are.”

Knows World Whole Wanted Forever Who You Are Singers Whole World Cups Tea Cups Of Tea

Author:Adele

“I have always wanted to do something high octane. I've wanted to tackle an action role where I play a tomboy but empower myself as a woman.”

Play Action Wanted Roles Empowering

Author:Annie Ilonzeh

“My daughter's wanted to be an actress since she was six years old, but I didn't want her to go through the same experiences as I did as a child actor.”

Want Years Children Wanted Actors Six Daughter Actresses My Daughter Six Year Olds Child Actors

Author:Ricky Schroder

“I went to Iraq because I wanted to see what one year of occupation had done to Iraqi society, and I went to the West Bank and Gaza Strip because I wanted to see what three generations of occupation had done to Palestinian society. I found a lot more hopelessness and despair in Palestine.”

Years Done Wanted Three Found Generations Despair West Iraq Occupation Palestinian Hopelessness Palestine Gaza Three Generations Gaza Strip

Author:Michael Franti

“It's like creating an artificial loop saying, 'You didn't play the game the way I wanted you to play, so now you're punished and you're going to come back and play it again until you do what I want you to do.' In an action game, I can get that – why not? It's all about skills. But in a story-driven experience it doesn't make any sense.”

Way Want I Can Play Stories Action Wanted Games Skills Creating Driven Why Not Artificial I Want You Loops

Author:David Cage

“I think I was always looking for that perfect woman, who obviously doesn't exist. I wanted to be married. I wanted more kids. I'm a family man, at heart.”

Thinking Men Heart Kids Wanted Perfect Married Being Married Family Man Perfect Woman

Author:Rod Stewart

“I wanted to make photographs in which everything was so complex and detailed that you could look at them forever and never see everything.”

Looks Wanted Forever Complexes Photograph

Author:Thomas Struth

“Ever since I was a kid, this was all I wanted to do. I've wanted to do music. I wanted to sing. It's all I know.”

Knows Kids Wanted

Author:Bruno Mars

“I have not been the witness I wanted to be.”

Wanted Witness

Book:A Book of Common Prayer

Source: A Book of Common Prayer

“I suppose politicians have always wanted to get re-elected, but there's a kind of a feeling now that if you just discredit your opposition, it makes it easier for you to win. I don't think that's necessarily true.”

Ifs Thinking Kind Feelings Wanted Winning Politician Easier Opposition Discredit Discredit You

Author:George McGovern

“I remember feeling ashamed, for some reason. I was ashamed of my parents. I couldn't face some of my friends at school anymore, because I desperately wanted to have the classic, you know, typical family. Mother, father. I wanted that security, so I resented my parents for quite a few years because of that.”

Knows Years Reason Feelings Wanted School Remember Faces Mother Father Parent Security My Friends Classic Ashamed Typical

Author:Kurt Cobain

“There is an old song which asserts 'the best things in life are free.' Not true! Utterly false! This was the tragic fallacy which brought on the decadence and collapse of the democracies of the twentieth century; those noble experiments failed because the people had been led to believe that they could simply vote for whatever they wanted...and get it without toil, without sweat, without tears. Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain.”

Source: Starship Troopers

“Second, there are so many magical places in books that you cant go to, like Hogwarts and Middle Earth, so I wanted to set a story in a place where children can actually go.”

Children Book Stories Wanted Earth Middle Cant Middle Earth Hogwarts Magical Places

Author:Cornelia Funke

“A lot of fantasy names are too much. They’re too difficult to pronounce. I wanted the flavour of medieval England. I took actual names we still use today, like ‘Robert’, and in some case I tweaked them a little bit. I made ‘Edward’ into ‘Eddard’. If you look back at medieval times, no one knew how to spell their own names. There are a lot of variations that we’ve lost.”

Ifs Looks Littles Made Stills Use Today Wanted Names Lost Bits Difficult Cases Fantasy Too Much Little Bit England Spells Variation Medieval Flavour Medieval Times

Author:George R. R. Martin

“What some people wanted was sometimes too hard to get, and the stress of trying was sometimes too hard to deal with... Maybe doing well in life was just too hard for some people.”

People Trying Wells Sometimes Hard Wanted Deals Stress

Author:Walter Dean Myers

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