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My oldest sister was an actress living in NYC by the time I was ten, and desperately wanted to be the one in charge of the words.

My parents were absolutely delighted that I knew what I wanted to do.

My thing was always trying to do as much as I possibly could do. I wanted to do all the things the other kids did in the neighborhood.

My sister is 4 years older than me and I've always looked up to her, she was the girl I always wanted to be.

My parents wanted me to work in a bank or as an accountant.

Napoleon wanted his generals to be lucky. I don't think he would have worked with me.

My upbringing gave me a strong will, a mental aggressiveness in what I wanted to achieve.

New York was a place I wanted to live and work all along. If I wasn't going to live in Israel, I had to live in New York.

My work has so much to do with reality that I wanted to have a corresponding rightness. That excludes painting in imitation.

Never regret anything because at one time it was exactly what you wanted.

Nobody really wanted to do that one European tour. For one, it was budgeted to lose money. They would've made something, but I would've lost a lot of money.

No, because retiring is stopping. If I wanted to stop, I would have stopped.

No amount of manifest absurdity... could deter those who wanted to believe from believing.

Nobody told me how hard it was going to be to get published. I wrote four novels that nobody wanted, sent them out all over, collected hundreds and hundreds of rejection slips.

Nobody wanted to touch Decline III when they found out what it was about.

No, I've never wanted kids. But I do read about parenting a lot.

Nobody who was shooting dice wanted to get a dance.

No, I have never wanted to be a man. I have often wanted to be more effective as a woman, but I have never felt that trousers would do the trick!

Nobody . . . took me seriously. They wondered why in the world I wanted to be a chemist when no women were doing that. The world was not waiting for me.

No one wanted to hire me. No newspaper, television station, television network that I worked for ever wanted to hire me.

No one cared what she wanted. No one had ever cared. And perhaps, worst of all, no one ever would care.

No one wanted to spontaneously combust into flames, especially not in traffic.’ – Sundown

North Korea threatened to attack if Sony Pictures released The Interview, forcing us all to pretend that we wanted to see it.

Not everything you wanted, deep inside, worked out.

No one was creating and I always wanted to be created on.

Not that I'd really been planning on keeping the attack secret; it had just been an option I'd wanted to keep open if I could.

Nothing compares to being truly, exuberantly wanted by your children.

No one wanted a job. No one could hold a job. You tend to see those going hand in hand.

Obviously memoir is subjective truth: It is my memory, my perspective, that's the beauty. But I still wanted to be as factual as I could.

Obviously I always wanted to do a contemporary piece.

Not really, but after that I think about how I could kill him while he slept if I really wanted to, and then I feel better.

Once I figured out what I wanted to say in my music. As soon I recognized that and once I was living my truth, the money followed.

Obviously I wanted to be a bus driver - and I still do. If only I could get a part time job.

Once I started performing I knew that's what I wanted to do with my life. But you have to work really hard to be a performer.

Once I turned eighteen, I could cut myself off from everyone and finally get what I wanted, which was to be on my own, once and for all. ~Ruby, pg 38

Once I started focusing on the things I wanted, they all started coming true.

One minute it seemed I had more movie offers than I could handle, the next, no one wanted me.

One cannot have "success" in poetry. If I wanted to be successful, I'd have become a lawyer.

One cannot say he wanted wit, but rather that he was frugal of it.

One of the things that fascinated me about modeling was that you had the freedom to look any way you wanted.

Our attempts to trust others will often be frustrated, but that's because God never wanted us to trust others. He wanted us to love others but to trust him alone.

Our underwear used to just be cotton, but we wanted to see if we could create something out of synthetics.

Ox-Bow was a very free place, very open. You could do whatever you wanted to do.

Part of me didn't know if Australia wanted its champion to be gay.

Part of me wanted something bloody and really fun.

People are transported to that space that Poe wanted to make available to us.

People comment on how you look, it's so unnecessary. I just wanted people to listen to what I have to say instead of focusing on anything else.

People make maps of all the places I've mentioned. I knew that those people were out there. I wanted to create something for them.

People wanted to vote for us but the mechanics of getting the voters to the polling stations we didnt have. We did not have the money most of all .

Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse.