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"Mass-market movies have become about one thing. They kind of declare themselves right off the bat. . . . But when I go to see (a film), I want to be surprised. I want to see something I never expected. And when you get that, it should be celebrated."
"Working because you want to, not because you have to is financial freedom."
"I want my prose to be as clear as a pane of glass."
"It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something"
"America wants its respect."
"I just want to go as far as I can take myself. No limits."
"He wants to put his story next to hers."
"I didn't really want to be part of a clique or a niche. But I also was looking for my own voice, as a writer, y'know? And a world I could call my own."
"While we want doubts to give way to faith, we should be merciful and patient with those who are still in a doubt-troubled place."
"You actually don't want people thinking your product is cool, because then you're a fad."
"I want to do something creative, not just easy."
"I'm young. I'm pretty. And I'm willing to burn the whole world to the ground to get what I want."
"That moderation which nature prescribes, which limits our desires by resources restricted to our needs, has abandoned the field; it has now come to this -- that to want only what is enough is a sign both of boorishness and of utter destitution."
"Everybody who plays me plays me so hard because they always want to beat me."
"Of course there’s destiny, but destiny doesn’t push you where you don’t want to go. You’re the ones who choose. Destiny is up to you."
"When we put up with any situation we don’t have to put up with, it’s not because we’re dumb. We put up with it, because we want the lesson only that situation can teach, and we want it more than freedom myself."
"I don't want to live in a monoculture of any kind. I don't want to live in a wealthy monoculture, a black monoculture. I don't want to live in an elitist, progressive monoculture."
"The status quo is persistent and resistant. It exists because everyone wants it to. Everyone believes that what they've got is probably better than the risk and fear that come with change."
"If you want customers to hear about you, make something worth talking about."
"Saying 'no' or even 'stop' is the hallmark of the professional you want on your team."
