Wanted Quotes - Page 40

• I wanted the light to be the revelation. It has to do with what we value. I want people to treasure light.

  James Turrell

  Light, People, Treasure

  "Incredible Lightness" by Julie L. Belcove, www.harpersbazaar.com. April 19, 201.

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• I've always gone out with men who wanted a cook all the time.

  Heather Mills

  Men, Gone, Cooks

  "From Lady Mucca ... to Mrs Whippy". Interview with Polly Vernon, www.theguardian.com. July 18, 2009.

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• For the longest time, I wanted to become a pianist. That was kinda my thing.

  Zedd

  Pianist

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• Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker seemed so sophisticated and bad. I wanted to be like that.

  Carla Bley

  Bakers, Sophisticated, Mulligans

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• I liked to win, but more than anything, I loved to play the way I wanted to play

  Ben Hogan

  Winning, Play, Way

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• I rang the bell and she opened the door, dried her hands, and said heartily: 'Hello, stranger. I was just saying to Cliff only tonight, it's about time you showed up around here.' I wanted to detach him from her, but first I had to sit through about ten minutes of her. She was my sister, but you don't tell women things like I wanted to tell him. I don't know why, but you don't. You tell them the things you have under control; the things that you're frightened of, you tell other men if you tell anyone.

  Cornell Woolrich

  Fear, Men, Doors

  Cornell Woolrich (1943). “I wouldn't be in your shoes”

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• The Zoo is a prison for animals who have been sentenced without trial and I feel guilty because I do nothing about it. But there it was, I wanted to see an oyster-catcher and I was no better than the people who'd caged oyster-catchers for me to see.

  Russell Hoban

  Zoos, Freedom, Animal

  "The Turtle Diary".

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• [Moses] is obsessed with hip-hop and wanted a gold chain like his uncle Jay-Z.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Funny, Uncles, Hip Hop

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• For sure, they don't teach you this in history class, but in colonial times, the person who got left in the stocks overnight was nothing less than fair game for everybody to nail. Men or women, anybody bent over had no way of knowing who was doing the ram job, and this was the real reason you never wanted to end up here unless you had a family member or a friend who'd stand with you the whole time. To protect you. To watch your ass, for real.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Jobs, Real, Men

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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• I wanted to write as well as I possibly could to deal with life-and-death problems in contemporary society. And the form of Wilkie Collins and Graham Greene, of Hammett and Chandler, seemed to offer me all the rope I would ever need.

  Ross Macdonald

  Writing, Life And Death, Needs

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• When I was a kid, I went through a lot of musical phases, and one was when I'd learn everything that The Beatles ever recorded. After I started drums, I fell in love with their music so much that I just wanted to learn everything.

  Eric Carr

  Kids, Musical, Phases

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• I always wanted more - more of everything.

  George Best

  "Been there, drunk that". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. July 20, 2002.

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• I was a big fan of Jean-Claude Van-Damme growing up, and I always wanted to be a martial artist 'cause of him.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Growing Up, Artist, Fans

  "Georges St-Pierre On Training". Interview with Johnny Testa, www.askmen.com. April 29, 2011.

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• I just always wanted to be a singer. My mom said I was even singing in my cot!

  Pixie Lott

  Mom, Singing, Singers

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• I always wanted to be one of the hottest rappers.

  Meek Mill

  Rapper, Hottest

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• All my friends who wanted to write had got nowhere trying to write the great European novel. So I deliberately steered clear of that and set out to write something story-led.

  Jo Nesbo

  Writing, Trying, Stories

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• I wanted my voice to be a tenor sax, really.

  Robert Plant

  Voice, Tenors

  "Robert Plant: Born In England; Made In America". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. September 20, 2010.

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• I've never wanted to be anyone other than who I am.

  Roger Daltrey

  Who I Am

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• At school I briefly wanted to be a palaeontologist, but I was no good at chemistry and physics.

  Mark Gatiss

  School, Chemistry, Physics

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• I always wanted to do Restoration comedy. It seems like so much fun.

  Mark Gatiss

  Fun, Restoration, Comedy

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• What my parents never considered is that I just wanted a choice.

  Stephanie Perkins

  Choices, Parent

  Stephanie Perkins (2013). “Anna and the French Kiss”, p.29, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• A lot of people hear it in a dark way, but, I think, without saying the word too many times, it's empowering, and so we wanted to display that in a way that the listener wouldn't see normally.

  Dan Reynolds

  Dark, Thinking, People

  "Imagine Dragons' 'Radioactive' video: empowerment, Lou Diamond Phillips-style". www.mtv.com. December 14, 2012.

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• I never had any plans to become a producer when I was a kid. I wanted to be a DJ, like most other kids at the time. Then my mum bought me a Casio keyboard and I started to sample sounds that I liked.

  Timbaland

  Kids, Sound, Keyboards

  "Soundtrack of my life: Timbaland" by Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2007.

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• My wife is Dutch and very independent. She never wanted or needed to be married.

  Julio Iglesias

  Independent, Wife, Dutch

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

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• My parents wanted me to be smart and be a scholar, and the best I could do was graduate high school.

  Levon Helm

  Smart, School, Parent

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