"I've kind of shut myself off to a lot of new music because I don't want to be influenced by it."
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"My biggest regret is probably that it took me so long to find out what I want to do."
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"To play Hillary Clinton? I'm kind of winging it. No, are you kidding me? I prepared obsessively. I mean, as much as I could in the time that I was given. Of course, with someone like Hillary Clinton, obviously, anything you want is on YouTube and at your fingertips there."
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"Want of occupation is the bane of both men and women, perhaps more especially of the latter."
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"I want to be someone who is known for portraying themselves honestly. I try to avoid aggrandizing things I've done."
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"I want to be the person whose art is accessible, who someone could look at and say "That's doesn't look so hard, I could do that.""
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"Freedom, to me, is imagination, the power of imagination to create what we want and be who we want to be."
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"Find what you want. I will find you."
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"Fate has a way of getting what she wants, no matter how we try to avoid it."
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"I want my music to feel like I'm giving something to someone else and not that I'm expecting something back."
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"The biggest thing I learned was that the harder you work for the thing that you love the most, then everything that you want is going to come true."
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"I'm just happy when people want me to work for them."
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"The French will always do exactly the opposite on what the United States wants regardless of what happens, so we're never going to have a consistent policy."
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"America is a conservative country with a small "c" - they want change, but they don't want too much change too fast."
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"I want to understand how best to create and preserve a form of higher education that we value but that is in jeopardy for many reasons."
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"What want these outlaws conquerors should have but history's purchased page to call them great?"
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"I've got at least one tiny corner of the universe I can make just the way I want it."
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"I want you to adore the Universe, to be easily delighted, but to be prompt as well with impatience with those artists who offend your own deep notions of what the Universe is or should be. ‘This above all ...’"
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"I have become an enthusiast for the printed word again. I have to be that, I now understand, because I want to be a character in all of my works. I can do that in print. In a movie, somehow, the author always vanishes."
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"It's not easy making money as an actor. It's just not an easy thing to do. There's so many that want to do it and so few opportunities to do it that it's not as easy as it would seem."
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