"I don't want to wait for Hollywood to decide that what I do is good."
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"I want to talk a little bit abut two things: clarity and cloudiness. Both of them quiet the mind. One quiets it, the other numbs it. either way, there's less thought, and the less thought, the more happiness."
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"I don't want to be a part of any Bollywood movie."
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"I would like to employ more people but I don't want to empower my charities at the cost of exploiting people or doing things that are not useful, so I'm working on that."
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"I don't want to appease everyone. It seems very difficult to be steadfast on truth and be a politician."
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"I'm from the theater, darling. I want to know what happens at the end."
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"To not want children or not be considerate of them is a very unwomanly thing to be, from a certain point of view."
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"My remit has always been: I want to do something different from the last thing I've done."
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"I simply want to take a break and catch my breath. But I also think that, sometimes, the bravest thing you can do is to deliberately keep some time free and see what the world throws at you."
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"I always have to remember that I am the narrator, but it doesn't have to be about me. A lot of songwriting is about trying to use what part of me is valid in telling the story. I don't want to overcook it, you know? Sometimes it seems that's really where the work is."
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"If you're in the minor leagues, you want to get to the majors."
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"Disputational knowing wants customers. It has no soul."
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"Everytime I think I want to be young again, I remember algebra and physics."
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"I think that for the position that I'm in the strongest thing that I can do is produce pieces that are exactly the thing that I want them to be."
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"Don't talk to me about the world needing cheerful stuff! What the person out of Belsen physical or psychological wants is nobody saying the birdies still go tweet-tweet, but the full knowledge that somebody else has been there and knows the worst, just what it is like."
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"What a man wants is a mate and what a woman wants is infinite security,’ and, ‘What a man is is an arrow into the future and a what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from."
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"I like you, but not too much. I don’t want to like anybody too much."
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"But sometimes I'd feel more fulfilled making Christmas cards with the mentally ill. I want to live and I want to love. I want to catch something that I might be ashamed of."
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"We all have a tendency to want order in our lives. But order presupposes authority, and authority presupposes, sooner or later, that we'll all need hooves. It's going to happen sooner or later, isn't it? You know it is."
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"A lot of authority figures want to be good. I sense that, and yet at the same time I sense that authority, after a while, always leads to some kind of oppression. When the minority report comes in, what you do is run the minority out of town with a flaming cross. It's just the way things are."
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