"You should not begin to pray for all you want until you realize that in God you have all you need."
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"The way I look at a solo project is, I create what I want with whoever I want."
"Freedom isn't the ability to do whatever you want. It's the willingness to do whatever you want."
"Everything you've said, everything you want to believe is already true. You may not find some of it for a while, and some of it might take longer than that, but that doesn't stop it from being true this minute!"
"I learned that a long walk and calm conversation are an incredible combination if you want to build a bridge."
"If you want to be a leader, go lead"
"You want it to be hard. If it's hard, then that means others can't do it easily and you can charge for that value."
"Never want to say anything so strongly that you give up the option of finding something better. If you have to say it, you will."
"Everybody wants to be a series regular. It's something that a lot of actors would kill to have."
"Saying "please" without saying it to someone you don't want to say "please" to in the first place tops the list of hard."
"I want to make the audience laugh and cry within ten seconds, to show just how close those emotions are."
"It'll be impossible to protect Brittany for the rest of her life from all the other guys who want to be near her, to see her as I've seen her. Touch her as I've touch her. Man, I never want to let her go."
"Masturbation is not the happiest form of sexuality, but the most advisable for him who wants to be alone and think."
"I went out and got little jobs. I was selling candy as a teenager, selling newspapers. But as I got older, I didn't want to sell that anymore. I wanted to make more money."
"I try to always be open to what the actors want to try. I don't storyboard and try to be intuitive and open on the day of filming."
"An individual in despair despairs over something. . . . In despairing over something, he really despair[s] over himself, and now he wants to get rid of himself. Consequently, to despair over something is still not despair proper. . . . To despair over oneself, in despair to will to be rid of oneself-this is the formula for all despair."
"You can do anything you want to do. What is rare is this actual wanting to do a specific thing: wanting it so much that you are practically blind to all other things, that nothing else will satisfy you."
"Think if you want to stay alive. Fear will kill you if you don't control it."
"I always get what I want in the end. And I think I want...ornamental ironwork. For the windows of my bedchamber."
"I want parents to teach that academic intelligence is essential, but so is financial intelligence."