Wanted Quotes - Page 24

• I always wanted to act and sing, but my first love was ballet.

  Jennifer Ellison

  First Love, Ballet, Firsts

  "My CV: Jennifer Ellison". www.mirror.co.uk. November 10, 2005.

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• I loved to sing and I loved to act, and I didn’t want to continue opera because I wanted to act.

  Kelli O'Hara

  Opera, Want

  "DIVA TALK: A Chat with Piazza's Kelli O'Hara Plus News of Menzel, Haran and Lansbury". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. August 26, 2005.

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• I wanted to learn how to do everything a person could do on a guitar. Of course, that was impossible.

  David Bromberg

  Guitar, Impossible, Persons

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• My childhood may have been more demented than most, because I learned to read very early and was allowed to read whatever I wanted.

  Poppy Z. Brite

  Childhood, Fatherhood, May

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• All I wanted was to be a university teacher.

  Jalal Talabani

  Teacher, University

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• All the doctors who wanted to forbid me to smoke and to drink are dead.

  Jean Sibelius

  Doctors, Drink, Smoke

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• We let 50,000 Jewish intellectuals get across the border. Just as I wanted Lebensraum for Germany, I thought Jews should have a Lebensraum for themselves--outside of Germany.

  Alfred Rosenberg

  Should Have, Germany, Borders

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• I wanted to become a mathematician, physicist or astronomer.

  Philip Emeagwali

  Astronomers, Mathematician, Physicist

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• From the beginning, I wanted to make dance music with a human element to it.

  Beth Orton

  Elements, Humans, Dance Music

  "I'm strong like an ox". Interview with Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. July 5, 2002.

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• I wanted to be a Bride of Christ but I guess now I'm a young divorcee.

  John Guare

  Christ, Young, Brides

  John Guare (2002). “The House of Blue Leaves and Chaucer in Rome”, p.44, The Overlook Press

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• The media was, 'Oh my God, you're gay,' and I'm like yes -- I've been out my whole life to my family and friends. Everyone in the skating community knew. But just because I won the national title, it's like, 'Oh, my God, you're gay.' The judges would say, 'You have to tone down your costumes, your choreography,' and I'm like, 'No . . .' I wanted to skate for the audiences, not for the judges.

  Rudy Galindo

  Gay, Media, Judging

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• INXS’ touring days could never last forever. We wanted it to end on a high. And it has.

  Jon Farriss

  Forever, Lasts, Ends

  "INXS Makes It Official: Band's Touring Days Are Over" by Pip Bulbeck, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 12, 2012.

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• I just wanted to be an athlete.

  Merlin Olsen

  Athlete, Nfl

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• In a normal education everything is designed to suppress spontaneity, but I wanted to develop it.

  Keith Johnstone

  Normal, Spontaneity

  Keith Johnstone (1981). “Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre”, p.15, Routledge

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• I wanted to convey the message to children that this life is worth living.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Children, Messages, Life Is

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• I almost flunked first grade and also the second, third, forth, and fifth; but my younger brother was in the grade behind me and he was a brain and nobody wanted to have me be in the same grade as him, so they kept passing me. I never learned how to spell, graduated from eighth grade counting on my fingers to do simple addition, and in general was not a resounding academic success.

  Robert Munsch

  Brother, Simple, Brain

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• I wanted to show that women could run, but I also wanted to kind of inspire the idea that ordinary people can run. I was like, boy, I feel so good when I run, if everybody could feel like this, this sense of joy and physical well-being and strength and autonomy you have when you run, how much better the world would be, you know?

  Bobbi Gibb

  Running, Boys, Ideas

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• It was curious that when we had been able to buy new clothes when we wanted we had never really appreciated them nor enjoyed them. You have to be in the position of needing things very badly indeed before you can appreciate possessing them.

  D.E. Stevenson

  Clothes, Appreciate, Able

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• Of course I wanted to know. I was a writer. I wanted to know everything.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Courses, Knows

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.311, Macmillan

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• I was convinced that luck was a matter of knowing what one wanted and then being willing to work to make the wish come true.

  Carlos P. Romulo

  Knowing, Luck, Wish

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• On the law that requires women to wait twenty-four hours before they are permitted to have an abortion: I think it's a good law. The other day I wanted to go get an abortion. I really
  wanted an abortion, but then I thought about it and it turned out I was just thirsty.

  Sarah

  Thinking, Law, Abortion

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• Books gave us a way to shape ourselves - to form our thoughts and to signal to each other who we were and who we wanted to be. They were part of our self-fashioning, no less than our clothes.

  Rebecca Mead

  Book, Self, Clothes

  Rebecca Mead (2014). “My Life in Middlemarch”, p.16, Broadway Books

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• I didn't want to make the same mistake my parents made. I didn't want my love to fade away one day like an old scar. I wanted it to burn forever.

  Jenny Han

  Love, Mistake, Parent

  Jenny Han (2011). “It's Not Summer Without You”, p.182, Simon and Schuster

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• I wanted to explain that trusting is harder than being trusted.

  Simon Van Booy

  Harder, Being Trusted, Trusted

  Simon van Booy (2014). “The Secret Lives of People in Love”, p.20, Oneworld Publications

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• I have always wanted to come and play in MLS so it’s the perfect combination for me and a dream come true.

  Robbie Keane

  Dream, Play, Perfect

  "Robbie Keane completes 'dream' £3.5m move to LA Galaxy from Tottenham". www.theguardian.com. August 15, 2011.

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