"Who'd want a pony when you could have the whole universe? It was far more interesting and you didn't have to muck it out once a week."
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"In my experience, what every true artist wants, really wants, is to be paid."
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"Mort was hurt by this. It was one thing not to want to marry someone, but quite another to be told they didn't want to marry you."
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"I think," he said, "I think, if you want thousands, you have to fight for one."
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"YOU FEAR TO DIE? "It's not that I don't want... I mean, I've always...it's just that life is a habit that's hard to break."
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"After you've been working fairly intensively on a novel for six months you never want to see the damn thing again."
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"Certainly the Americans want to buy rights, but have no idea what to do with them."
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"What I've always said was, hang in there, let me write what I want to write, and you'll probably like it."
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"Independence can be tough. Without a studio to back you up, when you finish a feature and want to start a new project you have to start from zero."
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"The library is the biggest cracker box factory in the world. The more you eat, the more you want."
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"If you want to kill Christianity you must abolish Sunday."
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"I try not to eat processed foods, well, ever. If it comes from a lab or a factory, I don't want it."
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"I want to experience as much as I can in this very short life that we have."
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"I want to get an abortion. But my boyfriend and I are having trouble conceiving."
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"Mastery is in constantly wanting to close the gap between where you are and where you want to be."
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"I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected. Because if you like me you can throw me away too quick. If you respect me, you may not even like what I was wearing, but you'll say, "I respect that.""
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"To hell with the Constitution when people want coal!"
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"We want the active and zealous help of every man far-sighted enough to realize the importance from the standpoint of the nation's welfare in the future of preserving the forests."
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"Want More Advice Like This?"
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"When youre a new person and a new idea, you get invited to all these different things, and everybody wants a piece of you. And you want to be polite and say yes to everything, but it gets dangerous."
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