Wanted Quotes - Page 8

• 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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• I've wanted to be an actor ever since I was a little boy.

  Henry Darrow

  Boys, Actors, Littles

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• I come from a family of business people, but I had the idea I wanted to become an artist.

  Dick Bruna

  Artist, Ideas, People

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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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• Propriety was a rigid master, but one that must be obeyed if one wanted to keep a sterling reputation.

  Lawana Blackwell

  Reputation, Dignity, Masters

  Lawana Blackwell (2007). “Courtship of the Vicar's Daughter, The”, p.173, Bethany House

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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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• Even without love, I can live fine alone. It's not like I've always had what I wanted. In my life not even once... I was never selfish nor full of greed. The things I want to do, the things I want, the things I wish for... have I ever even had any of those, for at least once in my whole life? I can live fine without love. I will find a way to survive. Dying is hell. Why is living supposed to be hell?

  Ma-Roo

  Selfish, Innocent Man, Greed

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• Making a history was not what I wanted to do. I wanted to construct something more powerful than that.

  Claude Lanzmann

  Powerful, Constructs

  "IFC Films to Re-Release Landmark Documentary Shoah" by Sophia Savage, www.indiewire.com. November 2, 2010.

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• My grandmother always acted in other people's interests, whether they wanted her to or not. If they'd had an Olympics in martyrdom my grandmother would have lost on purpose.

  Emily Levine

  Grandmother, People, Olympics

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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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• I wanted to tell my story in a way I haven't done before, things I've been going through in my life.

  Bubba Sparxxx

  Stories, Done, Way

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• Ten years before Matrix, ten years before Crouching Tiger - I wanted to do a Hong Kong action movie.

  Robert Mark Kamen

  Years, Hong Kong, Action

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• I wanted to make a cinema of ideas, not plots, and to use the same aesthetics as painting, which has always paid great attention to formal devices of structure, composition and framing.

  Peter Greenaway

  Ideas, Plot, Cinema

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• You know, when I was nineteen, Grandpa took me on a roller coaster. Up, down, up, down. Oh, what a ride! I always wanted to go again. You know, it was just so interesting to me that a ride could make me so frightened, so scared, so sick, so excited, and so thrilled all together! Some didn't like it. They went on the merry-go-round. That just goes around. Nothing. I like the roller coaster. You get more out of it.

  Lowell Ganz

  Grandpa, Sick, Interesting

  "Fictional character: Grandma". "Parenthood", www.imdb.com. 1989.

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• Polisse' is the sort of cop thriller where people do things like angrily bang on a desktop or sweep everything off it. If it happens once, it must happen six times. But every time it did, I wanted to stand up and cheer, which I've never wanted to do for any such thriller.

  Wesley Morris

  Cheer, People, Bangs

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• Not at all, I wanted to go into medicine. I took science in college. But my dad was a Producer - Director in Kannada films, and someone saw me, and one thing led to another.

  Soundarya

  Dad, Science, College

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• There is something really mysterious about lions. They could rip you apart if they wanted to, but at the same time they look so cuddly. Can you imagine what humans look like to animals? They must think we're so weird.

  Lee Ryan

  Rip, Animal, Thinking

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• My goal was not to have huge luxuries. As a child, I wanted a house with a garden, which I have today. This is what I dreamed of. I’d never worry about age if I knew I could go on being loved and having the possibility to love... So it isn’t age or even death that one fears, as much as loneliness and the lack of affection.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Children, Loneliness, Garden

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• I've always wanted to do characters that would help me find my connection with others and connect all of us together. You always want the energy of the character, the spirit of the person, to enter you.

  Forest Whitaker

  Character, Together, Energy

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

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• I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.

  David Bowie

  Power Of Music, Prove, Sustaining

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• Each of my books is different. Deliberately... I wanted to create my society, my people, in their fullness.

  Chinua Achebe

  Book, People, Different

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• For the first time the sun kissed my own naked face and my soul was inflamed with love for the sun, and I wanted my masks no more. And as if in a trance I cried, "Blessed, blessed are the thieves who stole my masks." Thus I became a madman.

  Khalil Gibran

  Blessed, Soul, Thieves

  Khalil Gibran (1918). “The Madman”, p.1, Library of Alexandria

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• I have always wanted my art to service my people - to reflect us, to relate to us, to stimulate us, to make us aware of our potential. We have to create an art for liberation and for life.

  Elizabeth Catlett

  Art, People, Liberation

  "Elizabeth Catlett, Sculptor With Eye on Social Issues, Is Dead at 96" by Karen Rosenberg, www.nytimes.com. April 3, 2012.

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