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"I'm working for myself; what else have I got to work for? How can you work for an audience? What do you imagine an audience would want? I have got nobody to excite except myself, so I am always surprised if anyone likes my work sometimes. I suppose I'm very lucky, of course, to be able to earn my living by something that really absorbs me to try to do, if that is what you call luck."
"If I am your leader, you have to listen to me & if you don’t want to listen to me, then drop me as your leader"
"How do you want to create peace, if there is no peace inside yourselves?"
"The peasant wants only to be left alone to prosper in peace."
"It's true that this year, following my accident in the pre-season, I kind of lost morale and I felt like quitting at the end of this year. But today I can say that I want to be a professional bike rider in the year 2003 as well."
"There is definitely something that has to be said for me liking the action, Lara Croft type stuff. I really want to explore that side of me."
"There's a basic feeling of lack that we want to distract ourselves from. We want to fix it by looking outside ourselves, as if it is going to fill us up."
"A problem that I have with everything fictional is that writers are always having to come up with sudden artillery explosions in the middle of whatever is going on. The characters are having interesting, subtle interactions, or jealousies, or whatever it is, and suddenly some gigantic angry eruption has to happen, a giant gasp where everyone has to scramble around. That's the point where I'm turned off. I want the dynamic range to be a little smaller. I don't like the big false bangs."
"I no longer want to live in an apartment furnished with forklifts and backhoes."
"I want to light the lights of patriotism."
"If you [want to] change something, come talk to me. It's the easiest solution."
"Writers have to keep on writing if they want to mature, like caterpillars endlessly chewing on leaves."
"I can be hurt, you know. I can get as exhausted as anybody else. I can feel so bad I want to cry, too."
"Young people these days don't trust anything at all. They want to be free."
"Serious occupation is labor that has reference to some want."
"I don't want a zombie society. I don't want to go that far."
"How can we be answerable for what we shall want in the future, since we have no clear idea of what we want now?"
"There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means."
"I don't want to fight any wars; if you can get them off before we get there, you do it, but off they go."
"It took us a long time to get rid of the effects of the French Revolution 200 years ago. We don't want another one."
