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Around the time I turned 30, I wanted to publish a novel

As a child I wanted to become an architect.

As a child, I was able to know that I wanted a better life.

As a kid, I always wanted to be Carol Burnett or Johnny Carson. I love to chat and entertain.

As a kid, all I wanted to do was be in a Viking film.

As a young person, I wanted everyone to agree with me.

As early as when I was five or six I wanted to perform.

As he thought of it, though, he could not imagine what “just living” might actually be. He had never done it in his life. But he wanted to do it anyway.

As if a woman of education bought things because she wanted 'em.

As I always said, if people wanted to know who James Brown is, all they have to do is listen to my music.

As I look back on it, I'm glad that I had this false image. I was who everyone else - my parents, my friends, society - wanted me to be. I was a pleaser, someone who wanted to make everyone happy, to not let anyone down. Now, I'm not like that.

As it turned out, everyone wanted a doughnut. Jace wanted two.

As I've gotten older, I've really wanted to find more balance and calm.

Ask for the impossible, then settle instead for what you really wanted in the first place.

A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.

As Spectator I wanted to explore photography not as a question (a theme) but as a wound.

At 15 I had moved out of my parents' place, and my options were looking pretty narrow. But I had this acting thing and I just wanted to be able to keep going because it was really good. That was all I wanted.

As time went on, I got envious and wanted to do a lot of stunts myself

At 17, all I wanted was to be a famous junky. Like all my heroes.

At a very early age I knew I wanted to be an actor and then more specifically that I wanted to be on Broadway and be in musicals.

At age 12 or 13, I wanted to design for showgirls - for the theater!

At school, I always wanted to belong to a gang, and no one would have me. So I'd have make my own gang, but with everybody else's leftovers.

At school, nobody thought I was smart and I became smart. Nobody wanted to be my friend and then I had lots of friends.

At school I briefly wanted to be a palaeontologist, but I was no good at chemistry and physics.

A wanted pregnancy as much as a dreaded pregnancy can play differently than all one's previous imaginings.

At the very beginning, I was a page at Letterman, and I freelanced for any place that would let me write any word. I wanted to do this so badly.

Back in 2008, when we were first preparing to launch Tor.com, I knew I wanted Jo Walton to be a regular writer for the site.

Beauty opened all the doors; it got me things I didn't even know I wanted, and things I certainly didn't deserve.

Baz. "Have you ever done this before?" Simon. "Yes. No." "Yes or no?" "Yes. Not like this." Baz. "Not with a boy?" Simon. "Not when I really wanted it.

Because it's there. (when asked why he wanted to climb Everest)

Before I settled on music, I wanted to be an archaeologist, an astronaut, all sorts of really diverse things.

Because nobody wanted to play bass, I was instantly in a band.

Before even Court Grip, I just wanted to be a part of a brand that I felt that listened to the athlete and really catered to the athlete, and gave us what we were looking for.

Before, I thought I was actually fighting for my own self-worth; that is why I so desperately wanted people to like me. I thought their liking me was a comment on me, but it was a comment on them.

Before that I wanted to be a magazine illustrator - I probably would have painted Gothic scenes.

Before I even took pictures I knew that I wanted to have them as hard copy memories.

Before, if I wasn't in baseball, I wanted to become a doctor.

Better to have tried and failed than to have never tried at all. Whoever came up with that phrase I wanted his greasy head on a silver platt

Being wanted is the tender heel of everything human.

Besides all those whaling details, Moby Dick is about someone who's looking for something so huge, something they've wanted all their life, yet they know when they find it, it will kill them.

But Doc had one mental habit he could not get over. When anyone asked a question, Doc thought he wanted to know the answer.

But I wanted marriage for myself. I was not calculating about it. I wish I was more calculating.

But I always wound up being the damn John, when I wanted to be the Paul.

But everything had changed, and I was becoming more and more of who I really was, and less of this person I had thought I wanted to be.

But in my defense, I knew enough about her to know I wanted to know everything else; I knew as much about her as she wanted me to know; I knew as much about her as anyone ever knows about anyone. And isn't love just curiosity at the beginning anyway?

But I was used to finding something deadly in things that attracted me; there was always something deadly lurking in anything I wanted, anything I loved.

But she'd wanted him there and there he was. A lamb ready for slaughter.

But the fact is, nobody gets off drugs unless they really want to, and I really wanted to.

But the gray and the cold are haunted by a beauty akin to pain, by a sense of a something wanted that never will come again.

But when’s the last time you took a chance? Or didn’t do what someone else expected of you? Or did something you really wanted to, even though you probably shouldn’t have?