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The difficult thing for me is that I want basically to be a good man. That's what I want to be.

— Karl Ove Knausgaard

When you're a kid and get your first bike, you want to go somewhere you've never been before. That's like Pokémon. Everybody…

— Satoshi Tajiri

Ethan thought he was doing the right thing. He knew it was crazy. And he didn’t want to go, but he had…

— Kami Garcia

I literally want to work until I'm in the grave.

— KaDee Strickland

Wouldn't--" Kel began to say, but the words stuck in her mouth. She swallowed and tried again. "Wouldn't it be well, not…

— Tamora Pierce

If you [want to] change something, come talk to me. It's the easiest solution.

— Jake Allen

Actually, I came because I have a last-minute invitation. My friend Erika Gill is having a big party tomorrow night, one of…

— Elizabeth Chandler

Cept for Ben, who I can’t describe much further without seeming soft and stupid and like a boy, so I won’t, just…

— Patrick Ness

I kiss him as the train slides into unlit, uncertain land. I kiss him for as long as I want, for longer…

— Veronica Roth

If you start to just aim for what the audience wants to hear, you're already hamstrung because you don't have any freedom.

— Andy Richter

I personally have never made a movie in Hollywood, because I don't want to get up in my own bed and then…

— Sydney Pollack

I want people to look like people when they're dancing.

— Mark Morris

I didn't want to fall back. But I realized it was more important to make it to the end under my own…

— Danica Patrick

There's a great freedom in writing by yourself. You can write anything you want.

— Walter Becker

When you want to share something with another person more than anything, it is one of the most difficult things to realize…

— Ashly Lorenzana

I wanted to live the life, a different life. I didn't want to go to the same place every day and see…

— Harrison Ford

If it came back I would be thrilled. I would be delighted to write more songs. I need them now because I…

— Joan Baez

I don't want to be married just to be married. I can't think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my…

— Mary Ann Shaffer

I don't think we're the screaming femme fatale running away from danger as much as we used to be. I think people…

— Barbara Crampton

Obviously, I want the big fights.

— Jermall Charlo

If you want to know where you would have stood on slavery before the Civil War, don’t look at where you stand…

— Paul Watson

Many immigrants do not talk about what they endured back home. They were fleeing that world, and when they left they didn't…

— Isabel Wilkerson

I thought if I gave people all of my journey in one go, it could be overwhelming and easily forgotten, and I…

— Dawn Angelique

Why would anyone want to be called a size zero or even aspire to being a zero? I don't even understand the…

— Dawn French

Only evil grows of itself, while for goodness we want effort and courage.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

I'm an actor for hire. It's important not to forget that you're disposable....When you have that mentality, you fight for the jobs…

— Scarlett Johansson

I'm an audience member first. My inspiration is still based on hunger. Often, when people try to tell me "nobody wants that…

— Victoria Mahoney

When you tell me to be good, it makes me want to be good,' I say, hearing the undisguised desire in my…

— Tammara Webber

I understand entertaining. You want people to walk out saying, 'I spent a night with interesting people.'

— Aby Rosen

See that little girl? I wanted to marry her mother, but she ran off with a coal miner," "A coal miner? Why…

— Suzanne Collins

I've always been inspired even more by any naysayers to keep going for what I really want and they've almost been my…

— Christina Aguilera

They want liberalization! I'll give them liberalization. I'll loosen the screws until the Americans beg me to tighten them again.

— Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

Great pals we've always been. In fact there was a time when I had an idea I was in love with Cynthia.…

— Anonymous

My mentality is like a samurai they used to train every day, work on their technique to make themselves better, almost perfect,…

— Georges St-Pierre

I care," he said in a trembling voice. "I care so much that I do not know how to tell you without…

— Aimee Carter

I want to do a musical so bad. I don't care what it is. I'm not picky. I just want to do…

— Janina Gavankar

You can only bite off so much, so you gotta know what you want to do.

— Lesley Gore

There are names I do not want mentioned in my home.

— Elisabeth Schwarzkopf

Tell him to leave me alone, Astrid. Else I’ll have to barbecue him and make akri angry at me. I don’t want…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

When making a film, I'm never concerned about whether the theme is new or whether it's been done before in cinema or…

— Michael Haneke