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I Wanted Quotes by Zadie Smith
- I tap danced for ten years before I began to understand people don't make musicals anymore. All I wanted to do was be at MGM…
- When I was 21, I wanted to write like Kafka. But, unfortunately for me, I wrote like a script editor for 'The Simpsons' who'd briefly…
- I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I wanted…
More I Wanted Quotes
- I wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and fantasy themes. — Dario Argento
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I could do… — Paul Auster
- For years I wanted to be older, and now I am. — Margaret Atwood
- I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when… — Margaret Atwood
- All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to… — Paul Auster
- The book that convinced me I wanted to be a writer was 'Crime and Punishment'. I put the thing down after reading… — Paul Auster
- My father is an actor, so he brought me into his agency when I was young. It wasn't something I wanted to… — Jensen Ackles
- My dad was an architect, and he wasn't a rich guy, but in our little world in Philadelphia, he was famous. He… — Kevin Bacon
- I wanted to be president of the United States. I really did. The older I get, the less preposterous the idea seems. — Alec Baldwin
- There are times when I am directing, and there are a couple of moments I didn't get the way I wanted, but… — Alan Ball
- I came to live in Shepperton in 1960. I thought: the future isn't in the metropolitan areas of London. I want to… — J. G. Ballard