Wanted Quotes
12092 quotes by 6986 authors
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I wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and fantasy themes.
— Dario Argento
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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
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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
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For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.
— Margaret Atwood
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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
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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
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My drawings at first were made altogether in watercolors, but they wanted softness and a great deal of finish.
— John James Audubon
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I always wanted, and still aspire, to be something more than just one thing, just one performance.
— Kevin Bacon
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Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.
— Honore de Balzac
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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
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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
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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
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I wanted to be president of the United States. I really did. The older I get, the less preposterous the idea seems.
— Alec Baldwin
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I'm the kind of person who does not want to be anywhere that I'm not wanted.
— Alec Baldwin
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