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title: "2 Wrote Want Quotes by 2 authors"
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> [When I was little, I had to write down what I wanted to be when I grew up, and I wrote, 'I want to be an actress-singer-dancer because you can be a rich fairy princess and tell someone off.'](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-greene/when-i-was-little-i-had-to-write-down-what-i-wanted-to-be-when-i-grew/)

[Ellen Greene](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ellen-greene/)

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> [“She had a brief affair with a novelist, W. L. River, whose Death of a Young Man had been published several years earlier. He called her Motsie and pledged himself to her in letters composed of stupendously long run-on sentences,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erik-larson/she-had-a-brief-affair-with-a-novelist-w-l-river-whose-death-of-a/)

[Erik Larson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erik-larson/)

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