Wanting Quotes
1660 quotes by 1298 authors
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A writer starts out, I think, wanting to be a transfiguring agent, and ends up usually just making contact, contact with other human beings. This,…
— Joy Williams
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But my motivation was more a matter of wanting to create order - to keep track of things. All those boxes full of photographs and…
— Gerhard Richter
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The urge to break with a tradition is only appropriate when you're dealing with an outdated, troublesome tradition: I never really thought about that because…
— Gerhard Richter
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I think everybody starts out by seeing a few works of art and wanting to do something like them. You want to understand what you…
— Gerhard Richter
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The Buddha taught that suffering is the extra pain in the mind that happens when we feel an anguished imperative to have things be different…
— Sylvia Boorstein
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Meeting writers is always so disappointing. I got over wanting to meet live writers quite a long time ago. There is this terrific book that…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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Never to be cast away are the gifts of the gods, magnificent, which they give of their own will, no man could have them for…
— Homer
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This is just strictly me wanting to make a record that is the real deal. It is all the stuff that I have learned and…
— Vince Gill
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Part of the very impulse of writing for me is actually wanting to get away from myself.
— Graham Swift
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You're working on being a father, so that is something that when you experience it you'll understand the profundity of wanting to protect something dear…
— Harvey Keitel
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I didn't grow up with great privilege, nor did I grow up wanting for anything. I was a middle-class kid and, relative to the rest…
— Matt Damon
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I think it's every girl's dream, a little bit, to be a model because it seems from the outside to be a glamorous industry and…
— Alexa Chung
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In English, I'm a little bit limited. I speak English as a second language, and that's a little limitation that I have to work around…
— Gael Garcia Bernal
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I'd be lying if I said, 'No,' to wanting a lot of kids.
— Gisele Bundchen
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I think the obsession with wanting to change yourself is crazy over the top.
— Downtown Julie Brown
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I went to a very academic school that actually - when I got to the point of wanting to pursue acting, they just had no…
— Freema Agyeman
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We get a lot of overseas people wanting to order cakes.
— Jane Asher
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You can't win with some people. If you're not in government, you're criticised for being not serious. If you are in government, you're criticised for…
— Vince Cable
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Rock stars wanting to write is even worse than wanting to act in movies, right?
— Evan Dando
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I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world.
— Garret Dillahunt
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