"I'm going to play with physics, whenever I want to, without worrying about any importance whatsoever."
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"Every girl wants to play Bridget Jones."
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"I want women to get paid more. I want to teach them to negotiate so they get paid more."
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"Sixty-four percent of managers in the U.S. are afraid to be alone in a room with a woman. Mentoring is all about being alone in a room with someone. Let's start talking about this honestly. The lack of equal access is the silent killer for women and no one wants to talk about it."
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"I would love to play a nun. I used to want to be one when I was a kid."
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"My God, what do we want? What does any human being want?"
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"I want, I want, I want! We never grow out of it somehow. Unless we become Buddhists, maybe."
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"I do want to do the entire alphabet. There's in [Walker's Alphabet] a poem called "A Life" in that grouping. I was going to change that title to "A.""
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"I was going to get drafted, but I didn't really want to go into the Army."
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"If we want to be sincere, we must admit that there is a well-nourished love and an ill-nourished love. And the rest is literature."
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"I really want bubbies - I always have."
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"You want to feel that you can do something creative that you love without being picked apart and mutilated for other people's pleasure."
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"I want a big church wedding."
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"I never Google myself. Only if I want to feel really terrible about myself would I do that."
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"It's really exciting to be in a film that people actually want to go and see! I was having to pay people to see my movies!"
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"I think the toughest thing about being an actor in a film is to be with a director who doesn't know what they want. And that can be really, really frustrating."
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"Coaches want so many things from a back. It's hard to find someone like Edgerrin James or Marshall Faulk, someone you can trust to block, catch and be physical. But I can do all those things."
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"I want to deal with what's in front of me now to the best of my abilities, and sometimes that's not very good. But a lot of the days it is really great."
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"If critics want to help me, let them come sit next to me while I'm writing."
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"Nike doesn't want to make products for everyone - they want to make products for champions."
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