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"I like to be on TV when interviewers are good. I like it especially when it's live. When they can cut things, I don't like it as much. Sometimes they cut something and say, "Well, you would get in trouble, you would get a lawsuit." I tell them, "Well, I don't want my lawyers to be unemployed.""
"ah, you always go for the ones who don't really want you"
""What do you want out of life?" I asked, and I used to ask that all the time of girls."
"I come from a middle class background. I have travelled a lot by trains and have lived in the world. It is a world I cannot get away from; I would not even want to."
"I want to succeed. And I want to succeed in the best way possible, without caring whether people call my actions leftist or rightist."
"I'm not interested in one label or the other - I'm only interested in solving certain problems, in getting where I want to go."
"I really care about you and I don't want to anymore because it feels too shitty for me."
"I've always said I've wanted to be around forever. I never wanted to be the latest, greatest thing. I want to be like Willie Nelson - touring when I'm 70. To do that, you can't be the latest, greatest thing because those things fizzle out."
"You don't really have time to do other than what's written. It's very rigid. Shows have a certain rhythm that nobody wants disturbed. So a lot of that doesn't take place on television, at least the television I was doing at the time when I first started."
"I crave time in all its duration, and I want to be myself unconditionally."
"I'm going to end a life that I thought could contain every kind of greatness but that in fact consisted only of my incapacity to really want to be great. Whenever I arrived at a certainty, I remembered that those with the greatest certainties are lunatics."
"I will be what I want. But I will have to want what I'll be. Success is in having success, not conditions for success."
"And as well as I dream, I reason if I want, for that's just another kind of dream."
"As a rule, I think they are quite impossible. Geniuses talk so much, don't they? Such a bad habit! And they are always thinking about themselves, when I want them to be thinking about me."
"If a woman wants to hold a man she has merely to appeal to what is worst in him."
"Never buy a thing you don't want merely because it is dear."
"No one wants to see a play called 'Lady Windermere's Fan'. It's going to be called 'Cocks in Frocks II' or I will find another publisher"
"Well I won't argue about the matter. You always want to argue about things. That is exactly what things were originally made for."
"I'm not on the run from anything and I'm not at all clear about what I'm running towards. But as some great writer put it, I want to be certain that when I arrive at death, I'm totally exhausted."
"Politics is like sausages, you don't want to watch either being made."
