"Do you know my dream? I really want to become an aluminum-siding salesman."
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"I always say I want to eventually shift my career to directing and writing."
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"When you create something you're free to explore it however you want to do it."
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"Everybody wants to live forever, but nobody wants to grow old."
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"I would certainly never want to inflict anything on the world exactly as [Buckminster Fuller] envisioned it because there is a technocratic worldview that I find horrific."
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"When you're shooting 20-odd episodes in a season, the last thing you want is for each script to be the same tone."
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"You never want to be the whitest-sounding black guy in a room."
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"People don't really want to know what happens. They ask you for just a second, but then they don't want to know."
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"The last thing reporters and editors want to be told is what to do and how to write. They don't want to be some politically correct, Orwellian, kind of like "you're telling me how to write about...?""
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"There are those who deny me the right to speak of God, because I am not a believer. And I say that I have every right in the world. I want to talk about God because it is a problem that affects all humanity."
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"There's a rule saying I have to ground anyone who's crazy ... There's a catch. Catch-22. Anyone who wants to get out of combat duty isn't really crazy."
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"The thing about throwing a fastball is, you want it to be easy, you want it to be effortless."
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"I would never make an artwork that I wouldn't want to make forever. Wouldn't you want to make Trash Humpers [Korine's 2009 film] forever?"
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"I didn't want it to have any technical virtuosity; I wanted it to just be really clear how it was made. For my work in general, it's always really clear how it is made."
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"Usually if I want to just listen to something or sing along to something I'll put on some Gavin DeGraw or some Billy Joel. Occasionally, if I am feeling vocally in really great shape I will sing Jean Valjean's Soliloquy from LES MIZ or something."
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"When you get your first record deal, you will do anything, because you just want to sing."
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"An actress wants to be seen. An actress wants to be loved. By multitudes of people, not just one lone man."
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"At all crucial moments in our lives we want to speak without knowing what to say."
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"Why should I want what's good for me?' Beatrice asked him, smiling. 'Is that what you want for yourself - only what's good for you?"
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"I want to tell you that I love you I want to tell you that I love you I want to tell you that I love I love I love I love but you do not."
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