"I gave my hero a talent I'd love to have. Who wouldn't want to fly?"
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"I have met thousands of children now, and not even one time has a child come up to me and said, 'Ms. Rowling, I'm so glad I've read these books because now I want to be a witch.'"
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"Honestly, I think we should be delighted people still want to read, be it on a Kindle or a Nook or whatever the latest device is."
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"If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work."
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"He must have known I'd want to leave you." "No, he must have known you would always want to come back."
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"There. Maybe if you're lucky, you'll get a scar! That's what you want, isn't it?"
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"You've got to appreciate what the worst is. You don't want to find yourself in a situation where you're facing it."
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"Why would I go looking for someone I know wants to kill me?"
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"You know for me when I promise something I want to deliver. If you don't, you have to disappear."
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"I want to avoid injuries by running only road."
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"Tarantino is a spoiled little white kid. He can do any movie he wants and nobody can do anything about it."
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"A famous writer who wants to continue writing has to be constantly defending himself against fame."
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"I want the same one, the way she always is, without failures, without fights, without bad memories."
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"The officer looked at Daisy while she was speaking, in a way that every young girl wants to be looked at sometime, and because it seemed romantic to me I have remembered the incident ever since."
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"I want to do everything in the world with you."
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"How I feel is that if I wanted anything I'd take it. That's what I've always thought all my life. But it happens that I want you, and so I just haven't room for any other desires."
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"He's sensitive and I don't want him to break his heart over somebody who doesn't care about him."
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"Want any of this stuff? Jordan?... Nick?" I didn't answer. Nick?" he asked again. What?" Want any?" No... I just remembered that today's my birthday." I was thirty. Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade."
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"I want leisure to read—an immense amount."
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"Somebody who knows all about how to make the record, or how to make records, they know how to work the EQ and they know how to work the stuff, but they don't know what I want it to sound like. So it's just easier for me to do it myself."
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