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"Are people who want this kind of progressive change not turning up at polling stations? Are they not voting for progressive representatives? It's hard to put your finger on why we are where we are."
"When I'm single, I don't focus. I focus on a guy if he's a boyfriend, but I don't focus on finding a boyfriend. They're never around when you want them."
"If something wants to be a story, it will be."
"The ability to work hard and make sacrifices comes naturally to those who know exactly what they want."
"If you want success, figure out the price, then pay it."
"There's no such thing as good ideas and bad ideas. There are only your own ideas and other people's. If you want someone to like your idea, tell him he said it first last week and you just remembered it."
"He [Oliver Stone] is great. I really like working with directors who know what they want and aren't afraid to tell you, "Do it like this. Don't do it like that.""
"I want to be in a position where I feel comfortable selling an idea."
"I want to live a really positive ass life. No matter what is in the media about me or what's said in the comments."
"Ultimately I want to be able to create whatever I want whenever I want. And if that doesn't work, I don't mind just doing weird plays."
"I want to be able to make a movie."
"I've always been selective about materials I choose anyways. The incoming calls haven't been projects that I necessarily want to do. Now I can always be called "Emmy winner Regina King.""
"And just because someone doesn't understand doesn't mean they don't want to."
"Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap; it will be dear to you."
"The truth is that the want of common education with us is not from our poverty, but from the want of an orderly system. More money is now paid for the education of a part than would be paid for that of the whole if systematically arranged."
"Having always observed that public works are much less advantageously managed than the same are by private hands, I have thought it better for the public to go to market for whatever it wants which is to be found there; for there competition brings it down to the minimum value."
"I want to make movies that I want to see, and what I miss and I'm not seeing."
"Nothing is so disgusting to our sex as want of cleanliness and delicacy in yours."
"Great directors turn in mediocre work and first-time directors turn in exceptional work. No matter how good a person can talk about what he wants, you never know."
"Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want."
