All Quotes

I wanted a personal-finance tool for people who didn't want to be accountants: something you could set up in ten minutes and spend less than five minutes a week on. Mint is now that tool.
‐‐ Aaron Patzer

I wanted a picture of Jamaica that isn't in books, and certainly not in novels.
‐‐ Marlon James

I wanted a pseudonym partly because I'm quite shy and private. I know that sounds ludicrous, but if I should be lucky enough to make a hit, I wanted to be able to shrug off the mantel of Nick Harkaway when I got home.
‐‐ Nick Harkaway

I wanted a real profession. And I'd always been interested in architecture and in design and in, really, what makes things work. And understanding what's kind of behind the walls and why things stand up and some things don't.
‐‐ S. J. Rozan

I wanted a theory that would allow one to live outside the office with the same philosophy one uses inside it.
‐‐ Kenneth L. Pike

I wanted a woman who had the body and the power of a real pilot. I interviewed hundreds of woman, but Jessica just seemed perfect for the part. I couldn't get her out of my head. I continued to bother her and she finally gave in.
‐‐ Rob Cohen

I wanted above all else not to be like my mum.
‐‐ Julie Walters

I wanted 'Alien' to be all about claustrophobia.
‐‐ Ridley Scott

I wanted all my life to give my world into other arts - books, plays, movies - but I didn't want to sell out.
‐‐ Philippe Petit

I wanted all my visits to be official. When I sent the pass back with a note, I had no idea it would antagonize the president. I found out years later that it did.
‐‐ Louis Freeh

I wanted already to be a filmmaker after I saw 'La Dolce Vita.'
‐‐ Bernardo Bertolucci

I wanted an electric train for Christmas but I got the saxophone instead.
‐‐ Clarence Clemons

I wanted - and still want - to tell my mother's story. She fled Stalin's army in 1944, leaving Latvia, which was to be occupied by the Soviets for the next 50 years, and arrived to the U.S. when she was 11.
‐‐ Amity Gaige

I wanted as little formal linguistic theory as I could get by with. I wanted the basic linguistic training to do a translation of the New Testament.
‐‐ Daniel Everett

I wanted Cathy and Irving to actually say 'I do' and be pronounced husband and wife on Feb. 5, which is my mom's birthday.
‐‐ Cathy Guisewite

I wanted clothing that I couldn't find, so I decided to make it.
‐‐ Pharrell Williams

I wanted contemporary music to be treated the same as the traditional repertoire - performed regularly by people who knew each other and the music. That is the way you convince an audience.
‐‐ Pierre Boulez

I wanted control over the merchandising, the actual packaging of the product. That was a big factor. The only way for me to exercise control on all those levels was to start my own label.
‐‐ Helen Reddy

I wanted control over what was said and what was not said, rather than holding my head down in shame.
‐‐ Rebecca Loos

I wanted Dexter to have a family that could love him and understand him.
‐‐ Jeff Lindsay

I wanted each of my books to be very different from the others, each to be special and uncategorizable, and I knew I could only do that a few times before I was in danger of repeating myself.
‐‐ Michel Faber

I wanted everybody to like me. I thought I was one shuck and jive away in every direction.
‐‐ John Mayer

I wanted everything. What could you not want when you are brown and Indian-looking in a society in which the white aesthetic is praised as acceptable?
‐‐ Ana Castillo

I wanted green in my hair, so I did green. And I got my sunflowers to match. I've never done it before. Just said, 'OK, I'm doing my hair green.'
‐‐ Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce

I wanted him to love me, and I'm quite sure that he didn't.
‐‐ Dick Sargent

I wanted in my lifetime to vote for a radical Native American woman, since my vision of any future that we might have is that it will be led by women and older women.
‐‐ Alice Walker

I wanted it not to be true. I wanted it not to be her plane. I wanted it - I wanted, if it was her plane, to have somehow survived because she was in the back of the airplane. But we know that doesn't happen, not with those sorts of things.
‐‐ Ted Olson

I wanted it so badly that there was no choice. It's like something in your blood that you have to do.
‐‐ Delta Burke

I wanted it to be like a high quality, drive-in movie.
‐‐ Rob Zombie

I wanted it to be like Amy Grant, but it didn't pan out that way. My label actually went bankrupt, and I was left without a home.
‐‐ Katy Perry

I wanted James Carville to never die. I wanted Dylan, the poet, to not die. I wanted to put these people in a place where they would be inviolate. It wasn't enough to have a still life of them. I wanted to surround them with the lives they led.
‐‐ D. A. Pennebaker

I wanted Jesus in 'A.D.' to be very, very, very human - to have those qualities of vulnerability and doubt and pain and sadness and loneliness. Once the resurrection happens and we see that Jesus has risen, it's almost complete, right? It's all about the joy and the smile and the happiness and the closeness to the disciples.
‐‐ Juan Pablo Di Pace

I wanted kids to know that it's cool to be in a ski race in the morning and to go play in the terrain park in the afternoon. It's not one or the other.
‐‐ Ted Ligety

I wanted Kimi to be a Japanese record with a Japanese title. I wanted it to be for them. They appreciate things on a different level, and take their art very seriously - that's special if you're an artist.
‐‐ Matthew Sweet

I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that.
‐‐ Sam Abell

I wanted Lillian Hellman to be perfect because I wasn't perfect myself. I really wanted a mentor.
‐‐ Rosemary Mahoney

I wanted more control of my life. I wanted work to fit in, not to dominate; to support, not to lead the pattern of my life.
‐‐ Tim O'Reilly

I wanted more in depth ideas about the character and it never came.
‐‐ Nicholas Lea

I wanted more people from my city to be able to have the kind of opportunity that I had.
‐‐ Julian Castro

I wanted my art to deal with very formal concerns and to deal with very material concerns, and to deal with antecedents and art history, which for me go very far beyond just the influence of African-American artists.
‐‐ Rashid Johnson

I wanted my children to be able to see me play at the World Cup.
‐‐ Luis Suarez

I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.
‐‐ Parker Stevenson

I wanted my closet to look like a boutique.
‐‐ Kimora Lee Simmons

I wanted my dad to be proud of me, and I fell into acting because there wasn't anything else I could do, and in it I found a discipline that I wanted to keep coming back to, that I love and I learn about every day.
‐‐ Tom Hardy

I wanted my marriage to work, but it didn't.
‐‐ Diane Abbott

I wanted my new release 'Get Back Up' to benefit Haiti in their tragedy and I am blessed to use my music to help as your purchase becomes our gift.
‐‐ TobyMac

I wanted my students to leave my classroom loving reading and wanting to read more, and if they left my classroom thinking that reading is boring, then I haven't done my job.
‐‐ Rick Riordan

I wanted my voice to be a tenor sax, really.
‐‐ Robert Plant

I wanted no other job than to work in newspapers. I was fascinated by the process of collecting information, talking to people and having the story appear in a paper that would be delivered in your letterbox.
‐‐ Robin Leach