All Quotes

I wanted nothing else than to make the object as perfect as possible.
‐‐ Erno Rubik

I wanted nothing less than to be a fiction writer when I was a kid. If you had told me I would be an artist or novelist when I grew up, I would have laughed in your face.
‐‐ Caleb Carr

I wanted out of my pain and that silliness, but I wanted an easy out. That's before realizing that there is no easy out. Before accepting that you just have to do the work.
‐‐ Mariel Hemingway

I wanted out of my record deal with EMI. They wanted me to record one type of album; I wanted to record the type of music I wanted to make.
‐‐ Joss Stone

I wanted passionately to be a priest.
‐‐ A. N. Wilson

I wanted people not to look at me as a little girl, but I was a little girl so how could I ask the world not to?
‐‐ Joss Stone

I wanted people to come to the restaurant and feel at home, so I put it in a house.
‐‐ Alice Waters

I wanted people to see me, to change their minds about me.
‐‐ Fantasia Barrino

I wanted people to see that I really am a real person. I'm not just some guy who was on a TV show, some guy engulfed in the Hollywood life. I'm just a normal guy when it comes down to it.
‐‐ Scotty McCreery

I wanted Puma to regain strength with the existing logo rather than try to get rid of the past.
‐‐ Jochen Zeitz

I wanted readers to be genuinely unsure as to whether she's telling the truth or lying. It meant making her partly sympathetic, and partly unsympathetic, which wasn't easy.
‐‐ Lee Child

I wanted really to make it moment to moment, partly because I'm an actor and that's how I operate - actors are all about creating the moment.
‐‐ Anthony Rapp

I wanted so badly to be straight like my friends. But I couldn't change it any more than I could change having brown eyes. And I knew I would never fit into what kids thought was normal.
‐‐ Cat Cora

I wanted so badly to have a backup plan for when I'm not performing anymore. Let's be realistic: it's not going to be like this forever.
‐‐ Gwen Stefani

I wanted so badly to study ballet, but it was really all about wearing the tutu.
‐‐ Elle Macpherson

I wanted some family structure and stability, and that's what The Partridge Family afforded me, not only financially but in the fact that I could be at home with my kids.
‐‐ Shirley Jones

I wanted something different; I wanted something that challenged me and that pushed me further. Then this idea of climbing Mount Everest came to my mind. It stuck in my head for days. Someone told me I couldn't do it, and that really annoyed me.
‐‐ Raha Moharrak

I wanted something that had the feel of a complete band and a variety of instrument. Apart from doing the album for musical satisfaction, I felt it was an important statement for other women - showing you don't have to rely on other people to do things for you.
‐‐ Danielle Dax

I wanted something very dense, something that would sustain long and more pieces of wood that would be soft, sweet, for more of a mellow sound.
‐‐ Les Paul

I wanted something where I could have the clearest and most unfiltered artistic and creative voice.
‐‐ David Alan Grier

I wanted 'Southland' to feel immediate, like a ride-along, and to make it the closest thing possible to a cop reality show. We've got real cops out there every day. A lot of times we'll say, 'You guys just do what you normally do and we'll film it.'
‐‐ Christopher Chulack

I wanted stores that would feel like a comfortable room in my apartment, cozy and colorful and different.
‐‐ Tory Burch

I wanted success, but I wanted it on my own terms.
‐‐ Ken Stott

I wanted the attention I missed at home, so I became the leader of a gang. That way, I got attention and was recognized as being important. It wasn't a bad gang - you know, in poor districts in New York, there's a gang to every block. We never robbed at the point of a gun; we'd steal potatoes from a grocery store, or crackers.
‐‐ John Garfield

I wanted the collection for Target to reinterpret all the must-haves of Stella McCartney for winter and to make my designs more accessible to a wider audience in Australia.
‐‐ Stella McCartney

I wanted the feel in these books to be like an epic fantasy, with kings, queens, dukes and court politics, but of course like what I was explaining before, about making the science make sense, you have to make the politics make sense, too.
‐‐ Kevin J. Anderson

I wanted the focus to be on my ability as a singer and as an entertainer - not on my private life.
‐‐ Adam Lambert

I wanted the ideal personal life, but I also wanted to keep rushing off, and that doesn't work, not unless you've got an incredibly understanding partner.
‐‐ Lynsey Addario

I wanted the new Green Arrow to somehow sense his long, brutal past. It's like someone who has past lives they can't remember but feels occasional flashes of.
‐‐ Ann Nocenti

I wanted the opportunity to play for Tom Osborne. Here we are in the locker room at half-time, gathering around Coach Osborne. It grows quiet, and I'll never forget what he said. He said, 'Let's get this over with.'
‐‐ Jeff Fortenberry

I wanted the Peace Corps to be something very vague and unorganized, and to a large extent it was. It did not run smoothly. The consequence was that we were left alone.
‐‐ Paul Theroux

I wanted the players to feel like they were part of a family, to be conscious of that controlled togetherness as they made that slow entrance onto the field. It had a great psychological effect on the opposing team, too. They'd never seen anything like it.
‐‐ Hayden Fry

I wanted the press to become something of a movement. Not a movement committed to a particular 'ism', but a gathering together of writers with an aesthetic approach to literature and with a lust for excellence.
‐‐ John Metcalf

I wanted the songs to be themselves, instead of worrying about all this crazy slickster production.
‐‐ Ryan Cabrera

I wanted things that I couldn't at times articulate.
‐‐ Helen Frankenthaler

I wanted this album to sound like a big crocheted blanket - to be warm yet to have a lot of space.
‐‐ Deana Carter

I wanted this, I wanted to do this, but my work is me, and it has to be right.
‐‐ Oscar de la Renta

I wanted this to have as wide an audience as possible. I didn't want to get an X rating, because in my opinion once that happens you X-out everyone else.
‐‐ Dana Plato

I wanted to acknowledge my U.S. heritage and to belong to it more closely. Having said that, I am certainly British by formation and education and readily think of London as home. I had never lived in the U.S. till 2007.
‐‐ Jamie Bamber

I wanted to acknowledge that life goes on but that death goes on, too. A person who is dead is a long, long story.
‐‐ Elizabeth McCracken

I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it.
‐‐ Taylor Caldwell

I wanted to act; that was my one goal. I wanted to devote all my time to acting and not waitressing or anything else.
‐‐ Edie Falco

I wanted to act when I was young. When I was 12, I asked the head of English at my school, 'Can I audition?' and he said, 'What would we want you for?' And I remember going, 'Oh yeah. Why would they want me?'
‐‐ Alison Moyet

I wanted to analyse and understand how the Chinese people could have their lives so crushed by fear.
‐‐ Ma Jian

I wanted to answer big questions about humanity, about how it is that we understand about the world, how we can know as much as we do, why human nature is the way that it is. And it always seemed to me that you find answers to those questions by looking at children.
‐‐ Alison Gopnik

I wanted to appeal to people who've never really listened to hip-hop or really given it a chance before. I've also tried to incorporate all my favorite lifestyle things in the music. Of course, 'Fashion Killa' is one of peoples' favorites because it just expresses how much I like fashion.
‐‐ ASAP Rocky

I wanted to avoid, special IO for terminals.
‐‐ Ken Thompson

I wanted to be a 150% entrepreneur and a 150% mom, and I found that I was having a very hard time doing both. I was about 75% and 75% - still better than 100%, but not what I was accustomed to at work.
‐‐ Barbara Corcoran

I wanted to be a ballerina as a child - I had a tutu, and I used to stage my own ballets in our front room with my family as the audience.
‐‐ Lucy Hawking

I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
‐‐ Beverly Cleary

I wanted to be a ballerina so badly. You can be seen and take over the spotlight without speaking. I had a fear of speaking in public back then.
‐‐ April Bowlby