"I want to be a popular novelist who's also serious, or a serious novelist who's also very accessible."
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"She used to say 'You can be whoever you want, even yourself'.... Yeah, I show up knowin exactly who I was and never leave as myself"
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"I want to make good films; I don't want to make films for the moment."
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"I can make a record like the [previous] one I put out, but I don't want to do that because I want to set the bar so high for myself. I don't want to do it like everyone else."
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"I kind of forget what it's like to be a dude who grew up in the south sometimes. I want to refresh my memory and remember why I love it [there] so much."
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"I don't like to direct the actors by telling them what to do. If anything, it's reminding them where they are in the movie, what's happening emotionally and what they want in the scene."
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"And I don’t want to turn actress. I want to do both. I wouldn’t have built the confidence to do acting if I didn’t model."
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"Idioms are a big thing in Ireland. They want to fill the time, to show how good they are at talk - it's a talk-off"
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"America is this incredible mosaic of immigrants, so people really want to be anchored in some kind of culture as well as the one they are living in."
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"You never want to have a movie be derivative, because that's the worst if you ask me. I always want to be in original material, or an original idea, or an original vision, rather than a rehash of some other movie."
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"Everything keeps changing. People want to label things all the time and once you label it, it changes again."
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"We merely want to live in peace with all the world."
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"The seeker is never so popular as the sought. People want what they can't get."
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"I want to be a traveling circus in that big-league uniform, like everybody else."
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"I just want to throw strikes. If I can't throw strikes, I'm worthless."
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"Moral #1: "If you work hard, stay focused, and never give up, you will eventually get what you want in life." Moral #2: Sometimes the things we want most in life are the things that will kill us."
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"Sometimes the things we want most in life are the things that will kill us."
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"We don't naturally want to take responsibility for our lives. We want to give the responsibility to someone else. We blame them when our lives aren't good."
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"When a relationship is right, it is no more possible to wake up and want out of the marriage than it is to wake up and stop believing in God. What is, is what is."
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"Everybody wants to be somebody fancy. Even if they're shy."
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