"I don't ever want to do the same character twice. Variety excites me."
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"A friend of mine asked me a question at the end of 2015. We were going over my finances and setting things up for the future when she said, "What do you want to do when you retire?" I said, "I always wanted to do a food show.""
"I guess you need days off, but I just didn't want them."
"Some of us get a feeling when we hear music and we feel music, and you want to figure out how to continue to feel that."
"I think another thing is that we don't really want exclusivity. We accept that it is in the artist's interest to be on sale in every place where they sell music."
"Given all the facts that I'm young and I'm in good health and I'm famous - that I have talent, I have money - given all these facts, I want to know why I'm so unhappy."
"I'm obsessive. I want to know the answer to how good I am. Most people aren't."
"I'm not an academic, but I'm someone who has a great passion for science and wants to convey the idea that science is for everyone."
"If you go through life and actually get to find out the thing you want to do, you're very lucky."
"If a hippo ever wants to fight, just walk away."
"Because most Christians want it both ways. They want to be able to proudly declare they are believers in the Bible and yet simply ignore those parts they find too difficult or too inconvenient to believe."
"The blind see what they want to see."
"I tend to write poetry that is rich in data of various sorts. The lyric poem isn't perfectly suited to accommodating such data, so I've had to find new ways to say everything that I want to say."
"You want your coach's blessing."
"Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need"
"How strange to read of a place in a book, and then stand on it, listen to the birds sing, and spit on the cobbles if you want."
"When I want to take God at his word exactly, I take a peep out the window at His creation. Because that, darling, He makes fresh for us everyday."
"I've never gotten over high school, to the extent that I'm still a little surprised that my friends want to hang out with me."
"But I've been there and done that. I'm not trying to prove anything to anybody, and if somebody wants me to come, if they can afford what I ask, it's not as much as Madonna makes; not that I want what Madonna makes, but I was saying."
"I dont want to write, Id rather draw."