"[...] you can get anything in this world if you genuinely don't want it."
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"One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death."
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"Mother, I want to see him fly!"
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"I don't ever want t' leave this cave, Jon Snow. Not ever"
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"I have some other novels I want to write. I have a lot of short stories - I love the short story."
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"He wants you to smile and smell sweet and be his lady love. He wants to hear you recite all your pretty little words the way the septa taught you. He wants you to love him... and fear him."
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"It's fine if you want a system that shows a boa constrictor to better advantage than a man."
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"The more one works, the better one works and the more one wants to work."
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"Americans are conservative. What they want to conserve is the New Deal."
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"Research is the search of people who don't know what they want."
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"[Capitalism is] that commercial system in which supply immediately answers to demand, and in which everybody seems to be thoroughly dissatisfied and unable to get anything he wants."
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"If you know what a man's doing, get in front of him; but if you want to guess what he's doing keep behind him."
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"By and large, serious fiction was the work of victims who portrayed victims for an audience of victims who, it was oddly assumed, would want to see their lives realistically portrayed."
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"People in my situation get to read about themselves whether they want to or not. It's generally wrong. Or oversimplified - which is sometimes useful."
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"U.S. certainly are not warlike. We don't want that. We want to make money, which I always thought was one of the most admirable things about Americans."
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"I've never tried to make a movie to pay an overhead. We're in a very creative business, and I want to make movies because I enjoy that movie or that material."
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"We've got to do everything in the world to make sure we kill Frank Gore's head. We want him running sideways. We want his head sideways."
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"Hearing things like 'Wake Up' by Lora Logic, or the Raincoats' 'In Love' - that was something I wasn't prepared for. I couldn't hear anything that came before it in the music, and I didn't want to. I was absolutely in love with its out-of-nowhereness."
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"As a filmmaker, you want your work seen by the widest audience possible."
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"Everyone is born into a certain era. I wouldn't want to see anyone faced with the circumstances that prevailed at the time, when there were few or no alternatives."
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