Wanted Quotes

12092 quotes by 6986 authors

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 back, I needed… — 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 anything else. So… — Paul Auster
For years I wanted to be older, and now I am. — Margaret Atwood
I'm a practised writer now. But when I began, I had no idea what this was going to be. I just knew that there was… — Chinua Achebe
I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when I didn't write.… — Margaret Atwood
My drawings at first were made altogether in watercolors, but they wanted softness and a great deal of finish. — John James Audubon
All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however… — Paul Auster
The book that convinced me I wanted to be a writer was 'Crime and Punishment'. I put the thing down after reading it in a… — Paul Auster
I was living an extremely burdensome life, because every time I prayed, I became more clearly aware of my faults. On the one hand, God… — Teresa of Avila
My father is an actor, so he brought me into his agency when I was young. It wasn't something I wanted to do until high… — Jensen Ackles
I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose the last remnants of my… — Peter Ackroyd
During my lifetime, I realized that discrimination was not accidental, that there were structural roots and causes to it. So if we wanted to change… — Michelle Bachelet
I always wanted, and still aspire, to be something more than just one thing, just one performance. — Kevin Bacon
Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence. — Honore de Balzac
My dad was an architect, and he wasn't a rich guy, but in our little world in Philadelphia, he was famous. He loved to see… — Kevin Bacon
I thought the Billie Holiday comparison was beautiful. I think, Wow, what a wonderful, creative, helpful spirit. She's someone who wanted to help others by… — Erykah Badu
It was clear soon after his election that Obama, like FDR, wanted to start dealing with the economic crisis immediately after his inauguration. — Russell Baker
I wanted to be president of the United States. I really did. The older I get, the less preposterous the idea seems. — Alec Baldwin
I'm the kind of person who does not want to be anywhere that I'm not wanted. — Alec Baldwin

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