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"If they're willing to pay you what you think you're worth for it, that's why an actor goes to work. A lot of times they want to pay you a lot for a picture you don't want to do."
"[People] want to feel superior, so they imagine we're Bible thumpers and uneducated and all that."
"What everybody is well advised to do is to not write about your own life, this is if you want to write fast. You will be writing about your own life anyway but you won't know it."
"If I hold onto something it's because I want it not because I want to display it or show it to somebody else. I've got some cool stuff, I've got some cool things."
"All of a sudden I'm an expert on everything. Interviewers want your opinion on golf, foreign policy and even the price of peanuts."
"I'm not sure the public knows what it wants."
"I don't want to wear my compositional tools on my sleeve."
"What you want is one thing, and what you cannot really obtain is another."
"I don't want to die. Please don't let me die."
"Sometimes you're fooled quickly. You want to be fooled. If you can't trust your first impression you're going to have a harder time than you should."
"One thing I've often thought is that I never want to tell anybody else what to do. It's hard enough to figure out what I want to do."
"I write whatever shows up. That's good enough for me. I'm part of the first generation that wants to still do original material and not tour around as an oldies act."
"People can vote for who ever they want. That doesn't mean I have to go near them."
"Caroline says as she gets up from the floor, you can hit me all you want to, but I don't love you anymore."
"I for one don't want to be ranked among idiots, felons, and minors any longer, for I am none of them."
"We'll all grow up someday, Meg, we might as well know what we want. ~Amy March~"
"The more we dwell on what we don't want, the more we get it."
"It's what we all wanted when we were children- to be loved and accepted exactly as we were then, not when we got taller or thinner or prettier...and we still want it... but we aren't going to get it from other people until we can get it from ourselves."
"We do seminars, sometimes, for 7,000 people. These are people, predominantly women, who are seeking, who want to know more, who want to improve the quality of their lives, who want to find themselves."
"If we want to be respected and honored when we're older, then we must lay the groundwork by respecting and honoring the elders we meet in our lives today. How we treat them today is the way we'll be treated later."
