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"If you work diligently... without saying to yourself beforehand, 'I want to make this or that,' if you work as though you were making a pair of shoes, without artistic preoccupation, you will not always find you do well. But the days you least expect it, you will find a subject which holds its own with the work of those who have gone before."
"All my life I have been haunted by the obsession that to desire a thing or to love a thing intensely is to place yourself in a vulnerable position, to be a possible, if not a probable, loser of what you most want. Let's leave it like that."
"If you want to be loved by everyone, don't go into politics."
"Politeness is fictitious benevolence. Depend upon it, the want of it never fails to produce something disagreeable to one or other."
"Want of pluck shows want of blood"
"I want your loves to be multiple. I don't want you to be a snob about anything. Anything you love, you do it."
"These are all novels, all about people that never existed, the people that read them it makes them unhappy with their own lives. Makes them want to live in other ways they can never really be."
"First, find out what your hero wants, then just follow him."
"Space travel is life-enhancing, and anything that's life-enhancing is worth doing. It makes you want to live forever."
"Remember, Montag, we're the happiness boys. We stand against the small tide of those who want to make everyone unhappy with conflicting theory and thought."
"I want to lay up like that, to float unstructured, without ambition or anxiety. I want to inhabit my life like a porch."
"I want to meet my God awake."
"He never wants anything but what's right and fair; only when you come to settle what's right and fair, it's everything that he wants and nothing that you want. And that's his idea of a compromise."
"A right to property is founded in our natural wants, in the means with which we are endowed to satisfy these wants, and the right to what we acquire by those means without violating the similar rights of other sensible beings."
"What do you want to want to be, anyway?" "I don't know; I guess what I want to be is a good Catholic." "What you should say"--he told me--"what you should say is that you want to be a saint."
"Any time you're trying to do a movie with a happy ending, it's very difficult because it's been done before and you don't want to be manipulative."
"When I read about young designers selling 51 percent of their company to someone else, I cringe. I want to say, 'Don't do it - call me first.'"
"I just want to make beautiful, glamorous clothes."
"I worry constantly and obsess over things, but I just don't let fear stand in the way of doing something that I really want to do."
"I do not want to admit to the world that I can be a bad person. It is just that I don't want anyone to have false expectations. Moviemaking is a harsh, volatile business, and unless you can be ruthless, too, there's a good chance that you are going to disappear off the scene pretty quickly."
