Wish Quotes - Page 21

• The only regrets I have are rather prosaic - like I wish I went for a swim in the Pacific.

  Paul Allen

  Regret, Swim, Pacific

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I wish the dashboard indicators for lights were standardized throughout the auto industry.

  Robert James Thomson

  Light, Dashboards, Indicators

  "Dr. Gridlock". The Washington Post Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. January 4, 2016.

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• I wish that something interesting would come across the desk. I'm bored by what people think is interesting.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Thinking, People, Interesting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I certainly do believe that a lot of comedy comes from awkwardness and embarrassment - pointing out the ways things are uncomfortable. Definitely the stuff that interests me. I don't necessarily think that comedy comes from a dark place, like you have to be a strung-out heroin addict. But I don't think it comes from happiness, that's for sure. It comes from frustration and suppressed rage, and wishing the world were different.

  Christian Finnegan

  Happiness, Believe, Dark

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, tv.avclub.com. June 17, 2009.

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• I do have one regret though. I wish Kathy Acker was still alive. I wish I could go swim with her again. My literary indebtedness to her is enormous. She's a more important mother to me than anyone can possibly imagine. In language I became a daughter worth a crap because of her. In language I redefined daughter, woman, I became a writer. Dora is an homage of sorts.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Daughter, Mother, Regret

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I wish every American explored the importance of novel writing, identity, honesty, character and place in fresh-ass ways.

  Kiese Laymon

  Honesty, Writing, Character

  Source: therumpus.net

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• "Similar but not the same" - that's like the return of the beloved for me. And metamorphosis: the spirit of the beloved moving through things, not lingering long in any one thing or place, no matter how we might wish it.

  Gregory Orr

  Moving, Long, Matter

  Source: therumpus.net

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• During the war, there were people wishing me death, wishing my son death, wishing my wife death in very graphic ways. In the past, I would go overseas and I would say, "Israel is like my family: we disagree, but we're all brothers." I can't say that anymore, because life proves me wrong.

  Etgar Keret

  Brother, War, Son

  "Etgar Keret: We Can Try to Be Human". Interview with Meakin Armstrong, www.guernicamag.com. August 17, 2015.

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• If we're a family and your brother wishes you death, it's not a very happy family.

  Etgar Keret

  Brother, Happy Family, Very Happy

  "Etgar Keret: We Can Try to Be Human". Interview with Meakin Armstrong, www.guernicamag.com. August 17, 2015.

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• In the future, we've forgotten it. It's disappointing to find out that the past is the present is the future. Nobody wants that. And yet, that's what it is. Maybe it's a kind of surrealist move, to use language like "post-racial" - thinking that if you create the language for it, it will happen. I wish it worked that way. But that's not our reality.

  Claudia Rankine

  Moving, Reality, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I wish I knew exactly who I was. I was talking to a friend earlier about the advice people give each other, advice like "just be yourself," and how this is particularly awful because it presumes we know who we are. As if people are static and unchanging.

  Mary J. Miller

  Being Yourself, Talking, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I never wanted anyone to know about me and Osama [Bin Laden]. I wanted that to be a secret that I carried to my grave, and since I wasn't the one who revealed it'it's definitely something that I wish was in the closet. It's destroyed my career.

  Kola Boof

  Careers, Secret, Osama Bin Laden

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• Arabs don't do crime fiction. I read crime fiction and I read Arabic literature, and I wish this was a novel I could have read in Arabic.

  Elliott Colla

  Fiction, Literature, Crime

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Style is about the choices you make to create the aspects of civilization that you wish to uphold.

  David Bowie

  Civilization, Choices, Style

  "David Bowie & Mos Def: The Style Council". Interview with Ben White, www.complex.com. August, 2003.

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• In fact, the early demographer Thomas Malthus believes that the only way the human population would ever check itself was by running headlong into a disaster, like a pandemic or famine. Sometimes we get so frustrated with the slowness of human political processes that we wish a giant flaming rock would solve the problem for us.

  Annalee Newitz

  Running, Believe, Rocks

  Source: therumpus.net

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• For me, the more I don't foolishly waste my life wishing for a better past the more free I am today to create, grow, and love.

  Lee L Jampolsky

  Past, And Love, Today

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Write down how you really feel, not how you wish you felt or how you think you should feel, but how you really feel. Don't try to change it. Honor it: "This is how I feel." Express it, and then it's not suppressed and stored somewhere in your liver or somewhere else.

  Deborah King

  Writing, Thinking, Somewhere Else

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• I've kind of gone from TV series to TV series or project to project, and I've wanted to get back in a rehearsal room. I feel like there's that exploration process, in a way, that you get in phases on jobs but I do wish I had that time [at school].

  Jenna Coleman

  Jobs, School, Rehearsal

  "The Time Traveling Actor". Interview with Haley Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 28, 2015.

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• I really want to show my supporters - -the direction I wish to go into, and my fans know that is what I want to do! They even have recommended songs for me to sing, I love my fans...they are awesome!

  Jessica Sanchez

  Song, Fans, Want

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• I wish I had been less keen to inject my own opinions, but I was a teenager and your teenage self is generally an idiot compared to the adult you. That's the way it should be. If it's the other way around, you have a problem.

  Emma Forrest

  Teenage, Self, Adults

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• The collaboration wish list is huge, very long. It goes from people like Elton John, for whom I have an unbelievable amount of respect, to Snoop Dogg, whom I also respect a great deal.

  Dave Koz

  Long, People, Collaboration

  Source: chicago.gopride.com

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• I think it's because Po [from Kung Fu Panda] is such a geek, and he is so relatable. He is so excited by life and is excited to learn new things. I think that accessibility is something that we all can relate to, there are so many things we wish we could do but don't have the means to achieve it.

  Jennifer Yuh Nelson

  Mean, Thinking, Kung Fu Panda

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• We got the best actors imaginable [in Kung Fu Panda]. If we could have made a wish list I don't think there would anyone else we would have added. Yeah, we've been blessed with exactly how amazing a cast of actors we have. To have someone like Bryan Cranston, who is not just an amazing actor, but who has such a range.

  Jennifer Yuh Nelson

  Blessed, Thinking, Kung Fu Panda

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• Dear God, I've done so many crazy hair colors and outfits and makeup looks where I look back and it's like, What the hell was I doing? You can't be afraid to make mistakes, you have to take risks. We all have those moments we look back on and wish weren't captured on film, but we're not alone in that.

  Evan Rachel Wood

  Mistake, Crazy, Makeup

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• It's interesting to get older and realize that part of your job growing up in this profession is to help the next generation. More and more, with Boyhood and with Ellar Coltrane and with Emma [Watson], I start to see that role. There's no better way. Nobody wants advice, so you can't really give it. You just have to try to wish them well on their journey.

  Ethan Hawke

  Jobs, Growing Up, Journey

  "Ethan Hawke on ‘Regression’, ‘The Magnificent Seven’, and Playing a Space Pimp in ‘Valerian’". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. February 4, 2016.

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