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“I am very happy that Floyd Mayweather and I can give the fans the fight they have wanted for so many years.”

“There are so many comics about violence. I'm not entertained or amused by violence, and I'd rather not have it in my life. Sex, on the other hand, is something the vast majority of us enjoy, yet it rarely seems to be the subject of comics. Pornography is usually bland, repetitive and ugly, and, at most, 'does the job.' I always wanted to make a book that is pornographic, but is also, I hope, beautiful, and mysterious, and engages the mind.”

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Author:Dave McKean

“I didn’t do anything. I don’t have an explanation, I don’t know why I wanted to write. I did some short stories at that time, but very infrequently. I quit my job just to quit. I didn’t quit my job to write fiction. I just didn’t want to work anymore”

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Book:Conversations with Don DeLillo

Source: Conversations with Don DeLillo

“The only place where you could see life and death, i. e., violent death now that the wars were over, was in the bull ring and I wanted very much to go to Spain where I could study it. I was trying to learn to write, commencing with the simplest things, and one of the simplest things of all and the most fundamental is violent death.”

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Book:Death in the Afternoon

Source: Death in the Afternoon

“Booking an act for my Dad's 70th birthday, I wanted a great act and went straight to John Archer- his reputation in the magic world is among the very best. I was so pleased he was able to do it, and he absolutely brought the house down. It was brilliant, hysterically funny, and perfectly pitched for the occasion. He made the evening. I'd recommend him unreservedly.”

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Author:Derren Brown

“I wanted to have the opportunity to travel to Vietnam and Sydney, and have the chance to work there.”

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Author:Brendan Fraser

“I just loved being in the gym. It was tough at times. Sometimes I wanted to quit, but I'm glad I stuck with it.”

Sometimes Wanted Tough Quitting Stuck Glad Gym

Author:Kevin Durant

“I was just a big fan of tattoos always growing up, and I wanted something cool that symbolizes what I've been through in my life, and everything on my chest and my back is like a collage.”

Bigs Wanted Growing Up Growing Fans Chests Tattoo Collages

Author:Kevin Durant

“My energy just couldn’t stop dancing. I was caught up in the music of struggle, and i wanted to dance.”

Wanted Energy Struggle Dancing Caught Caught Up

Book:Assata: An Autobiography

Source: Assata: An Autobiography

“I can't quite remember the exact moment when I became obsessed with writing a play about the seemingly endless war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, but I knew that I wanted to somehow tell the stories of the Congolese women caught in the cross-fire.”

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Author:Lynn Nottage

“My biggest regret is that my mother didn't see me walk on to that London Palladium stage, being the star she always wanted me to be. But I always say that when she reached Heaven, she had a word with a few agents.”

Wanted Mother Heaven Stars Walks Stage Regret London Agents

Author:Bruce Forsyth

“To tell you the truth, I never wanted to become a moviemaker. It was like I was a cinepihile, and I go, like, three or four times per week to the cinema, and I like to watch films.”

Wanted Film Three Watches Four Week Cinema

Author:Marjane Satrapi

“If priests had not been fond of mutton, lambs never would have been sacrified to god. Nothing was ever carried to the temple that the priest could not use, and it always happened that god wanted what his agents liked.”

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Book:Discussions

Source: Discussions

“I've been a kind of a wildcatter. I've been able to say anything I wanted.”

Kind Able Wanted Say Anything

Author:Jack Kemp

“With 300 Marines, you could probably take over Iraq if you wanted to and get rid of ISIS completely. Make no mistake about it, Marines are war fighters. I mean they are really good at what they do. The only time they are not good at what they do is when someone puts the shackles on them.”

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Author:Marcus Luttrell

“It took me three weeks to write the 'Rhapsody in Blue.' I had always wanted to write something blue and Paul Whiteman inspired.”

Writing Wanted Three Week Blue Inspired Gershwin

Author:George Gershwin

“There had to be a better way - if I couldn't find it, I wanted to create it.”

Ifs Way Wanted Better Ways

Author:Curtis Jackson

“I wanted to create something that broke rules and made women feel confident and empowered.”

Feels Made Wanted Broke Empowered

Author:Christian Louboutin

“I am an avid follower of the news, and sometimes you just can't take any more war, any more disasters, and you want to remind yourself there's beauty in the world. I wanted to show a more poetic side to my work. It was all about... a feeling of sadness, but in a cinematic kind of way. I find beauty in melancholy.”

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Author:Alexander McQueen

“All of us started normal. All of us started out as functioning human beings with the potential to do almost anything we wanted, but somewhere along the paths of our lives, we got lost.”

Humans Wanted Lost Human Beings Path Our Lives Normal Million Little Pieces

Book:A Million Little Pieces

Source: A Million Little Pieces

“I wanted out of my record deal with EMI. They wanted me to record one type of album; I wanted to record the type of music I wanted to make.”

Wanted Deals Records Type Albums

Author:Joss Stone

“A lot of people think I had such a rosy career, but I wanted to identify that one of the things that helps you have a long career is learning how to deal with adversity, how to get past it. Once I learned how to get through that, others things didn't seem so hard.”

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Author:Cal Ripken, Jr.

“In 1962, we created the Filmmakers' Co-Op because nobody wanted to distribute our films. If we had the Internet in those days, we wouldn't have needed the Co-Op.”

Ifs Wanted Film Internet Needed Filmmaker

Author:Jonas Mekas

“It was always sort of my dream to make handbags and I wanted a handbag that was very sharp, very structured, very tailored I wanted a bag you could put all of your things in it, you can open it, you could close it, you could hid all your tricks, but it's not all lumpy.”

Dream Wanted Tricks Bags Handbags Tailored

Author:L'Wren Scott

“I wanted to go into prison and come out a better person - mentally, physically. So, I read a lot of books, got my GED while I was in there, and worked out every day. Strong body, strong mind.”

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Author:Ja Rule

“Film and TV and stuff like that was something that I wanted to do when I was really, really little; like, I remember I used to do these plays with my cousins. We used to do Michael Jackson performances, and I would be Michael.”

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Author:Ja Rule

“Acting was something I always wanted to try. I just didn't know how, or I didn't know when the door was gonna be open for me to try it. But it finally opened up for me when I did 'Turn It Up', and ever since then I've been in love with doing films.”

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Author:Ja Rule

“I never wanted to be famous. It was amusing at first, but now I hate it. I just wanted to be respected by people I respect. And I wanted to be rich. It's best to get rich, then you can do what you want.”

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Author:Caitlin Moran

“When I came to the Food Network, I didn't want to do a cooking show. I told Kathleen Finch for nine months I didn't want to do a cooking show, I wanted to do a home-and-garden show.”

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Author:Sandra Lee

“To live the life you've always wanted, you must confront the issues you've always avoided.”

Wanted Issues Live Life Avoided

Author:Orrin Woodward

“Life doesn't offer you promises whatsoever so it's very easy to become, 'Whatever happened to... ?' It's great to be wanted. I spent a few years not being wanted and this is better.”

Years Wanted Easy Struggle Happened Promise Offers

Author:Morgan Freeman

“My first injury ever was a broken toe, and my mother made me run laps around the mat for the rest of the night. She said she wanted me to know that even if I was hurt, I was still fine.”

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Author:Ronda Rousey

“For AERO, I wanted to revisit in 5.1 some existing tracks in order to give them that space I had imagined when I originally composed them, and also to compose some new tracks for this new technology. All of the existing tracks in AERO have been performed with the original instruments, re-recorded and spatially arranged/spatialised for this new dimensional sound experience without betraying their very essence.”

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Author:Jean Michel Jarre

“I wanted to have very strong female characters. I just thought it was always the way the world should be.”

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Author:Elizabeth Hand

“I knew at an early age I wanted to act. Acting was always easy for me. I don't believe in predestination, but I do believe that once you get where ever it is you are going, that is where you were going to be.”

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Author:Morgan Freeman

“What used to drive me was the fact that I wanted to be better than everybody at something. One of my best qualities is that I used whatever other people found to be an adverse thing to be a positive thing for myself.”

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Author:Daley Thompson

“I wish that every baby everywhere could land in a family that wanted that baby as much as we want ours.”

Want Wanted Wish Land Baby

Author:Sharon Creech

“I'm 100 percent sure this is it. I know that I'll never play in the NHL again. It's not a hard decision. I think the hardest thing is you get a little emotional talking about your family. I couldn't have played any longer than I did and I accomplished what I wanted to.”

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Author:Chris Chelios

“I didn't want to do a book just to do a book. I wanted to do a book that, if you should read it, you might take one thing from it. Until that was clear in my mind, I wasn't going to do one.”

Ifs Want Should Mind Book Might Wanted Clear One Thing

Author:Bobby Orr

“I was a pizza-delivery boy at the Pizza Oven in Canton. I wanted to get fired so bad, I actually wrecked the delivery car, but they wouldn't fire me. I was the only person they had working there.”

Persons Wanted Boys Fire Car Pizza Delivery Ovens

Author:Marilyn Manson

“I'm big on being positive. I'm generally so positive and happy. I just always felt that I was exactly where I wanted to be. And things have continued to go in great directions.”

Bigs Wanted Felt Being Positive

Author:Andy Cohen

“I always knew I wanted to be in front of the camera. But even after 10 years behind the scenes at CBS News producing live segments, celebrity profiles, and breaking news, I still hadn't been given the chance to be on TV.”

Years Stills Wanted Given Chance Behinds Fronts Tvs Scene News Cameras Profile Behind The Scenes Breaking News

Author:Andy Cohen

“I wanted to tell a dream-come-true story about going from a closeted gay kid who loved pop culture to an out adult man making pop culture. I went from being told when I was 21 that I should never go on TV because of my crossed eyes to winding up being a 'Housewives' whisperer and talk-show host.”

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Author:Andy Cohen

“I've had a couple of years where injuries have not let me develop in the way I wanted. When I was 21, after the European Championship, I had more injuries. Everything has been less continuous and it has cost me more progress. Continuity is what got me where I am.”

Way Years Has Beens Wanted Progress Couple Cost Let Me Injury Championship Continuity

Author:Cesc Fabregas

“My dad's Israeli. He was born in Baghdad to Iraqi Jews. Then, at age two, his parents wanted to move to their homeland and he grew up in Israel. I've been there twice, once as a baby and once when I was 15.”

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Author:Elliott Yamin

“In school all I wanted to do was build technology. That's what I loved.”

Wanted School Technology

Author:Marc Benioff

“One day my dad would say, 'OK, if you want to play tennis I can help you out.' And that's how it started. And I had a goal. I wanted to beat my mom first. And my parents and my brother. And that was the ultimate goal.”

Ifs Want Firsts I Can Play Helping Wanted Parent Goal Brother Mom Dad One Day Beats Ultimate My Dad My Mom My Brother Tennis Ultimate Goal

Author:Caroline Wozniacki

“I never wanted to be a playwright.”

Wanted Playwright

Author:Zoe Kazan

“I hated the idea of a high school sweetheart. Growing up, oh my God, it just made me sick. I wanted to have a range of cool boyfriends. I wanted to travel around and date these interesting men. Then it just happened. You fall in love.”

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Author:Charlotte Arnold

“I always wanted to design for films.”

Wanted Film Design

Author:Ken Adam

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