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"Acting is the least mysterious of all crafts. Whenever we want something from somebody or when we want to hide something or pretend, we're acting. Most people do it all day long."
"When you want something with all your heart, that's when you are closest to the Soul of the World. It's always a positive force."
"It's not about pop culture, and it's not about fooling people, and it's not about convincing people that they want something they don't. We figure out what we want. And I think we're pretty good at having the right discipline to think through whether a lot of other people are going to want it, too. That's what we get paid to do."
"If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else."
"Customers always want something new"
"The very condition of having Friends is that we should want something else besides Friends. Where the truthful answer to the question "Do you see the same truth?" would be "I see nothing and I don't care about the truth; I only want a Friend," no Friendship can arise - though Affection of course may. There would be nothing for the Friendship to be about; and Friendship must be about something, even if it were only an enthusiasm for dominoes or white mice. Those who have nothing can share nothing; those who are going nowhere can have no fellow-travellers."
"When you want something badly enough, you will develop the confidence and the ability to overcome any obstacle in your way."
"If you want somethin', go get it. Period."
"There are three wants which never can be satisfied: that of the rich, who wants something more; that of the sick, who wants something different; and that of the traveler, who says anywhere but here."
"If you want something, give it"
"Be honest, be brutally honest, and if you want something go out there and get it."
"It was difficult for me to understand that, when you're kind to someone in a big city, a lot of the time, they think that you want something. I didn't understand that, all of a sudden, niceness meant that you were trying to get something out of somebody."
"Remember that when you truly want something, the entire Universe conspires to make it happen."
"People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of. It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting. And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it."
"It seems to me if you want something badly enough, whether you're a man or a woman, you'll do whatever you have to do to get it."
"The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth."
"Personalities don't love. They want something."
"I don't want something special. I want something beautifully plain."
"I want something from Daddy that he is not able to give me. ... It is only that I long for Daddy's real love: not only as his child, but for me - Anne, myself."
"If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself. This especially includes your health care."
