Want Something Quotes - Page 18

• When you go to commercial, you want something to call the viewers back, and if you don't have a decent act out, the audience probably won't be there in the numbers you want when the show returns.

  J. J. Abrams

  Numbers, Return, Decent

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Politics is a lot like sex - if you want something, you have to ask for it, if they're not doing it right you've got to speak up and show them and if you still don't get what you want, then there is nothing wrong with doing it yourself.

  Jennifer Beals

  Sex, Speak, What You Want

  Q&A at the L5 Convention, Blackpool, UK, November 16, 2008.

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• If you want something you just have to see it and believe in it and not take no for an answer.

  Rick Springfield

  Believe, Answers, Ifs

  "Rick Springfield: The Journey Is Never Over". Interview with Howard Kerbel, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 19, 2014.

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• For many of these people the social is just a mirror of themselves. I'm not against the social, but I want something genuinely social, not something that has been fetishized as social so that a group of people can feel better about themselves.

  Andrew Keen

  Feel Better, Mirrors, People

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• When people go to the theater, people say they want something different, but what they really want is something the same with slight permutations. To really not know what is going to happen next is a hard thing.

  James Gunn

  People, Different, Next

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If you love someone, when it's the most real, the most important thing in your life, it's not enough to coast. You need to dig in those footers, start building on that base. You want something to last, you put your back into it.

  Nora Roberts

  Love, Real, Important

  Nora Roberts (2011). “The Novels of Nora Roberts”, p.475, Penguin

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• I will look through 200 photographs of Kate Moss and there will be just one that I connect with for some reason, maybe because of the composition or something in the eye... Something touches me and I know I have to paint it, in the way a child knows it wants something.

  Stella Vine

  Children, Eye, Moss

  "Stars in her eyes". Hermione Eyre, The Independent on Sunday, July 15, 2007.

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• I feel a big obligation to the audience, almost in a moral sense, to say something useful. If I'm going to spend a year of my life on these things, I want something that I feel that strongly about.

  Harold Ramis

  Years, Moral, Bigs

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• I'm a very direct person and, sometimes, when I want something, I will push it until I get it. But, it's OK. It's not as bad as some people. When I have an idea in my head, I'm pretty stubborn.

  Julie Delpy

  Ideas, People, Stubborn

  "Chris Rock & Julie Delpy On ‘2 Days In New York’ And Michael Scott’s Chris Rock Impression". Interview with Mike Ryan, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 27, 2012.

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• If you want something done, ask. If you want something done quickly, ask, and then begin counting down from ten with no explanation.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Done, Counting, Explanation

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• Women are skinny for other women. Men want something they can actually hold on to.

  Garcelle Beauvais

  Men, Want, Skinny

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• If God doesn't want something for me, then I shouldn't want it either.

  Philip Yancey

  Want, Ifs

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