"Next time I want to do something nice, slap me."
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"I want to live life on my own terms. But I'm Mexican, so mi familia is always there to guide me in everything I do, whether I want them to or not. Well, "guide" is too weak a word. "Dictate" is more like it."
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"I don't want to point out her flaws, but if I see her going on a self-destructive path, isn't it up to me as her friend to stop her?"
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"You're where I want to be."
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"I don't want to be just another blade of grass."
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"Can one say that there is a way of crying out, of speaking, which is properly feminine? Personally, I don't think so. In the end, I find this is another way of putting women in a kind of singularity, a ghetto, which is not what I want. I want them to be singular and universal at the same time."
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"Existence must be asserted in the present if one does not want all life to be defined as an escape toward nothingness."
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"Insects were scurrying about in the shade cast by the grass, and the lawn was a huge monotonous forest of thousands of little green blades, all equal, all alike, hiding the world from each other. Anguished, she thought, "I don't want to be just another blade of grass.""
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"- I don't want you to love me. - Too late, mi chava."
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"I want to tell her how much she's become the center of my being. But I can't. The words won't come."
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"Who am I kidding? I have no reason for being here other that the fact that I want to be near her."
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"I want only dead actors. That way there'll be no jealousy."
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"Almost all photographers have incurred large expenses in the pursuit of tiny audiences, finding that the wonder they'd hoped to share is something few want to receive."
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"When a man's busy, why leisure Strikes him as wonderful pleasure: 'Faith, and at leisure once is he? Straightway he wants to be busy."
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"I know what I want and what I might gain, and yet, how profitless to know."
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"I like my small camper. I just do not want to return to a fixed home. I cannot stand being in one place. I must keep moving."
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"So don't blame me for the problems. You can't fault me for it. You can't blame me. You want to blame me but I'm just trying to express what is going on, and trying to keep America open to it."
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"I want to be a soul singer."
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"In troubled times the last thing you want to do is to stick your money into a film. It's such a gamble."
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"I don't want to be a luvvie actor. It took a long time for me to accept I was an actor, a professional actor, and that, actually, I make a living out of this."
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