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The main reason I want someone to read a story of mine is so they can enjoy it and feel like they got something interesting out of it.
If you want to understand poetry, You have to go to its origin, If you want to understand the poet, You have to go to the Poet's home.
I know what I want when I start a marathon: to win! But what do you want? Make sure you're clear in advance and don't go out too fast.
Society wants to put us in a box and say, OK, you do this and you do that and you do this, and I'm like, no, I like this, I like that.
Always keep your foes confused. If they are never certain who you are or what you want, they cannot know what you are like to do next.
Adulthood has something to do with not choosing any of the pure points of view, but living about half of what you really want to live.
If you want to capitulate to what commercial needs are, you can always be commercially valuable, but I'm not interested in being that.
Why would I want to sound like Joni Mitchell? I've got Joni Mitchell records, and they're great, and I couldn't possibly be that good.
I don't want to see a 'Sopranos' movie. This is just me. I like to think the end is where it was on TV as opposed to becoming a movie.
I'm not the kind of coach who just goes out and buys players for the sake of it. I'm a coach who wants to - and can - improve players.
When you have great working relationships with people, both collaborative and creatively, everybody will always want to work together.
The best thing to do, if you really want to be good, is drink vodka all day, from the second you get up to the second they say, "Cut!"
You want me to believe American evidence and don't want me to believe the indications that we have. We live here, this is our reality.
I neither want it [brandy] nor need it, but I should think it pretty hazardous to interfere with the ineradicable habit of a lifetime.
The safest rule of conduct is to claim kinship when we want to do service and not to insist on kinship when we want to assert a right.
I never want someone to come out of one of my films and say, "Damn. I wasted an hour and a half of my life." I'm trying to avoid that.
In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.
As an actor, there's very little you can do if people don't want to see you. Just getting yourself into the room to audition is tough.
I don't want to steal anybody's story. I very much want to use the stories that I hear to get lost in my mind, to tell a larger story.
I'm making the art for me first. I'm making it because these are the pictures I want to see. I'm making pictures that don't yet exist.
I've always embraced failure as a noble pursuit. It allows you to be anti whatever anyone wants you to be, and to break all the rules.
Incompetency begets incompetency. The last thing a guy who isn't sure of himself wants is a guy backing him up who is sure of himself.
I don't expect to get 100 percent of what I want, but what we can't do is go back to the kind of top-down economics that doesn't work.
- I don't want to be a writer so I can write about my life. I want to be a writer to escape from it. + Then you shouldn't be a writer.
The trouble with energy farming is that the energy isn't always where you want to use it, and it isn't always when you want to use it.
I don't want to hold you and feel so helpless I don't want to smell you and lose my senses And smile in slow motion With eyes in love.
I'm really not a clothes person. To me, that's just work. It's the thing I hate to do the most. I don't want to be judged in that way.
The main thing that excites me and makes me want to get out of bed is the thought of being able to go into my studio to work on music.
Liberals want Conservatives to shut up. Conservatives want Liberals to keep talking. Because our arguments make sense and theirs don't
I had you pictured dead in a pool of blood in front of the fireplace. And now you show up alive, and I want to kill you myself. (Zack)
If you are going to develop beast technology, you want to start by having cage technology. You want to make the rules first, you know.
Can we ever break free of the devices and desires of our own hearts? Might not our conscience be telling us what we most want to hear?
I want to live for something. I don't want to live to get charity food to give me enough strength to go back to get more charity food.
I have a kind of remarkable ability to, for want of a better phrase, get what I want. I kind of project. I guess it's called dreaming.
Sometimes we don't want the bad guy to get caught because otherwise the story is over. You want to at least see it through to the end.
Every time before a collection, I say, "I don't want it to come out. I want to cancel it. It's not good. I haven't achieved anything."
The longing of my heart is a fairy portrait of myself: I want to be pretty; I want to eliminate facts and fill up the gap with charms.
When I see those ads with the quote 'You'll have to see this picture twice,' I know it's the kind of picture I don't want to see once.
You visualize yourself as the person you want to be. You strive to make the ideal in your mind become a reality on the canvas of Time.
Small-business people do not want to have more than 50 employees, because that's when all the regulatory burden of Obamacare kicks in.
The main reason for people's lack of success is their willingness to give up what they want most of all, for what they want right now!
Very often on films, even without a producer credit, I'll be involved, very early on. I want to be there as the thing is taking shape.
We must find out for ourselves that inside us is a god or goddess in embryo that wants to be born so that we can express our divinity.
Tobey puts the CD on. Then he comes over and hugs me. I lean my head on his chest. 'I want to know everything about you,' he whispers.
The best way to do comedy is to not filter yourself, and then you could always fix it later. You want to be able to push the envelope.
If you are clever enough to figure out what men want, you are either too wise to marry them or too intimidating for them to marry you.
Homosexuals are not monogamous. They want to destroy the institution of marriage. It will destroy marriage. It will destroy the Earth.
God, George Bush makes me want to slash my wrists. He's so embarrassing I have to leave the room when he's on the news. What a monkey.
Who would seriously want to listen to anything emanating from a quasi-chimpanzee's irrational bundle of mental accidents and energies?
To want to meet an author because you like his books is as ridiculous as wanting to meet the goose because you like pate de foie gras.