Things I Wanted Quotes

45 quotes by 40 authors

Throughout my career I have been talked out of things I wanted to do, and when I look back, I think I should have followed… — Halle Berry
After I did nine years of a television series, I didn't want to do anything really that involved going to a set and being in… — Gillian Anderson
Working with Monk brought me close to a musical architect of the highest order. I felt I learned from him in every way--through the senses,… — John Coltrane
I had never intended to be on the show more than three years, regardless of how successful it was. I had other things I wanted… — Desi Arnaz, Jr.
I had no choice in the decision to make myself available. I was not always doing things I wanted to do. — Namie Amuro
Once I started focusing on the things I wanted, they all started coming true. — Brooke Burke
I wanted impossible things. I wanted my life with her before it all turned bad. What I had been given had been taken away and… — Philip O Ceallaigh
Let go of the past, of the things I wanted, of the people I loved, and move forward. — Devon Monk
When I was 9, my parents let me take a cab to the mall all by myself. I had hardly any money to spend, but… — Leslie Mann
One of the things I wanted to introduce in The Same Sea beyond transcending the conflict, is the fact that deep down below all our… — Amos Oz
I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not be able to do all the things I wanted to do, but now… — Nancy Astor
I was thinking of going to London drama schools or to New York, because France didn't accommodate the things I wanted to do in film. — Vincent Cassel
I liked working with Republicans. We had five pretty good years after we had that bad year in '95 that culminated in two government shutdowns.… — William J. Clinton
I grew up poor. I had no money. My family was poor. There's things I wanted to do and couldn't. I was an abused wife.… — Anna Nicole Smith
I've always been bored with just making money. I've wanted to do things; I wanted to build things, to get something going. What money meant… — Walt Disney
I've wanted to do things; I wanted to build things, to get something going. — Walt Disney
I used to envy people who had written books, the way I think women envy other women who've had babies. I was resentful, shy, and… — Joan Juliet Buck
I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted. — Frederick Douglass
When I married Wilnelia, one of the first things I wanted to know about Puerto Rico was the quality of the golf courses. — Bruce Forsyth
For much of my life there was no place where the things I wanted to investigate were of interest to anyone. — Benoit Mandelbrot

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