"I wouldn't want to live if I did not have my work. In any case, it's good that I'm already old and personally don't have to count on a prolonged future."
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"The rest of my life (as a 39 year old) I want to reflect on what life is."
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"I am life which wants to live admidst of lives that want to live."
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"When you're with someone, you want everything to be great. And that's the pressure that you put on, and what you just can't do."
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"In the film business, when you're young, you just want to work. But when you're older, it has more to do with who's involved with the project - who you're going to get in the boat with."
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"Ultraconservatism is, to me, so illogical. Everywhere you go, conservatives want to cut, cut, cut, cut - cut money for powerless people. So, that's the biggest problem I have with them."
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"I am so much of a mind now to be in the audience, to watch and to experience, and to feel, rather than having to get up and perform, I want my life to be less about performing."
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"I think I do want to go into politics. I really, really do. And I don't know if I will."
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"I just want to be a wallflower. Nondescript. Just not anything. I don't want to see me."
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"I definitely want to study film. I'd like to have my own studio one day and just make a lot of movies."
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"I didn't get into fighting for the money. I didn't want to be famous. I just want to fight."
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"What I've been noticing is people coming up to me and going, 'Are you an actor?' which is cool. That's ultimately what I want."
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"Every organism requires an environment of friends, partly to shield it from violent changes, and partly to supply it with its wants."
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"Am I going to be able to be the person I want to be in this relationship?"
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"It's not so much what do I want to be doing in 15 years, it's how I want to be in 15 years."
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"I love true love, and I'm a woman who wants to be married for a lifetime. That traditional life is something that I want."
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"If you are strong you can take a punch and not flinch, but if you have a sore spot, a nudge on that sore spot will make you scream. Muslims committed the huge blunder of revealing their vulnerability. Now the world knows what hurts them. When you find your opponent's weak spot, it is exactly where you want to hit him."
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"I don't want a tombstone. You could carve on it 'She never actually wanted a tombstone.'"
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"I'm much more famous than I am rich, but I'm able to scale back my lifestyle. I know a lot of people who were where I was who can't imagine living any simpler, but I haven't got a lot of expensive wants."
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"I want to be bored. But I can't. But I really don't want to be this thing that I'm having to be instead of being bored."
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