All Quotes

You want a political culture that works to create conditions under which an economy can thrive? Since signing the Oslo Accords with the Palestinians, Israel has spent two decades working to unshackle its economy from its socialist roots, with remarkable results.
‐‐ John Podhoretz

You want a story? Read 'Gone With the Wind'. These aren't stories. They're joke books. The whole thing of a beginning, a middle and an end has been done to death.
‐‐ Brian P. Cleary

You want all your books to stick around after you've gone.
‐‐ Salman Rushdie

You want an audience. If you didn't, you wouldn't be a writer. The biggest motivation to write is the knowledge that someone will read it.
‐‐ Andy Weir

You want, as an artist, to be pushing yourself to do what you haven't done before.
‐‐ T. C. Boyle

You want at least 5% of the population being serious. That five, 6% of the population carries the rest of the people. You've heard that old axiom: 5% of the people pull the wagon; 95% are in it.
‐‐ Rush Limbaugh

You want banks to take some risk, but intelligent risk.
‐‐ Charles Schwab

You want calamities? What about the Ice Age?
‐‐ Mario Cuomo

You want comedic themes to be recogniseable life truths that we all battle with, and with that comes the healing properties of comedy.
‐‐ Miranda Hart

You want everyone to be great and funny. I'm not saying I'm great, but I'm funny.
‐‐ Jon Lovitz

You want everyone to succeed in your family.
‐‐ Elizabeth Olsen

You want experimentation. Every once in awhile, you stumble upon something that blows your mind.
‐‐ Jeremy Stoppelman

You want fans to connect to the book, even movie fans. But if your sole purpose is to write towards a certain kind of fan, that way leads madness.
‐‐ Cullen Bunn

You want good ratings, you want people to like the show, you want to be appreciated for the hard work you put in. You don't always get it. Every show is not beloved.
‐‐ Yvette Nicole Brown

You want hot days to get your fruit ripe but then you want it to cool off nicely at night so that the grapes stay on the vine longer and develop complexity.
‐‐ Drew Bledsoe

You want, in a sense, to relate to the main character, so often, the main character POV is a bit more of a blank slate.
‐‐ Jane Goldman

You want less of the annoying nonsense that interferes with your portfolios and more of the significant data that allow you to become a less distracted, more purposeful investor.
‐‐ Barry Ritholtz

You want maybe to be that guy or one of the few guys who can help develop the game in the United States.
‐‐ Patrick Kane

You want me to become a leaker? I'm not. I do not leak any news from the Cabinet sessions.
‐‐ Menachem Begin

You want me to own a team and deal with these rich, spoiled stubborn athletes, and try to get them to perform? No thank you.
‐‐ Kobe Bryant

You want me to tell me the truth or do you want me to stroke you?
‐‐ Ed Koch

You want people - I want people to relate to me as a character. I want them to go, 'That could have been me,' or, 'I know someone like that.'
‐‐ Marcia Gay Harden

You want people to be eager for your book; the downside is when the people forget the series even exists.
‐‐ George R. R. Martin

You want people to buy you as just about anything. So if they think that you're one thing, it's hard to slip into, you know, all these other things.
‐‐ Rachel McAdams

You want people to feel comfortable to walk in their neighborhoods, go out and shop, do business.
‐‐ Rick Scott

You want people to feel something when you tell a story, whether they feel happy or whether they feel sad.
‐‐ Harry Dean Stanton

You want people to hate you. If you're just making people happy, you're like Mumford & Sons.
‐‐ Grimes

You want people to identify with the person on the screen or in the theater, but you don't want them to identify with you as a person.
‐‐ David Morrissey

You want people using your product because it's a part of your life, then they can't stop using it.
‐‐ Sean Parker

You want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact.
‐‐ Harry Dean Stanton

You want positive, go elsewhere. Go find a different lie.
‐‐ Lydia Lunch

You want private education for your students? No problem whatsoever; pay for it.
‐‐ Yair Lapid

You want reviews to come the week the movie's opening and not a month before when they do you absolutely no good.
‐‐ Scott Rudin

You want roles that challenge you and that scare you a little and where you can really discover something, even about yourself, that maybe you didn't understand.
‐‐ Jamie Dornan

You want somebody who's capable of being diverse in the characters they play, and you want a big name that's going to bring attention to the filmmakers and to the project.
‐‐ Dana Brunetti

You want something? Go get it with single-minded devotion.
‐‐ Reggie Lee

You want stability in the world, you have to start with values.
‐‐ Jeff Fortenberry

You want stealth? Be a rogue in 'World of Warcraft'.
‐‐ John Romero

You want success, and then when you do get it, you don't want it because of the attention.
‐‐ Shirley Bassey

You want the actor to be happy with the movie. You really want the actor to think they did a good job and all that.
‐‐ Michael Lehmann

You want the audience to be uncomfortable.
‐‐ Richard Thompson

You want the best for your kid, but everybody's career is completely different in this industry.
‐‐ Joely Fisher

You want the book to be special, and they are not always going to be special, but at least you want that to be the ambition. So the only way that happens is if you are not pressing to write a book.
‐‐ Michael Lewis

You want the good life? You live where white people live, you go to school where white people go to school, and you shop where white people shop.
‐‐ Sherman Alexie

You want the song to be at least at the same level of goodness throughout. Whereas with something you're doing live, a song dips and rises and that can actually be worked to the song's benefit.
‐‐ John Darnielle

You want to balance the budget in this country? We change the salary structure for Congress and the President. Every year they don't balance the budget, we don't pay them.
‐‐ Daniel Keys Moran

You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do.
‐‐ Steve Martin

You want to be a trader, come be a trader. The door's open. You want to travel six days a week, you want to travel the world, the door's open.
‐‐ Ivan Glasenberg

You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.
‐‐ Paul Simon

You want to be a writer? Start writing. You want to be a filmmaker? Start shooting stuff on your phone right now.
‐‐ Matthew McConaughey