"I just wanted it to be me."
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"I wanted to be on 'Saturday Night Live' since I was ten."
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"What is wanted is a deliberate giving up of violence out of strength."
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"The freedom that I wanted as a kid would - probably would not have been good for me and not in the way in which I wanted it."
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"People wanted to have fun more than they wanted to learn from their music, and that's where the shift started to happen."
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"Everything I've done, I've done because I wanted to do it. In doing it, I've plunged in headlong, always believing in it."
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"I had to decide if I wanted to be known as a writer or a reader. I chose writer."
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"I am responsible for myself. I am exactly who I eventually wanted myself to be, I guess, without consciously knowing what I wanted me to be."
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"I always wanted to do something completely different."
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"I always wanted to be respected for my mind."
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"While I very much wanted to be in a relationship, I didn't want to be in the wrong one."
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"This is not the person I wanted to become: Hatred has carved a permanent place inside me, a hollow where things are so easily lost."
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"I still wanted to know why. As though somebody was going to answer that for me, as though any answer would be satisfying."
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"I always wanted to be a movie actress. I thought it was very romantic. And it was."
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"All my friends were going off to be professionals, and I said I wanted to be an actor."
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"When I dealt with set theory, I could never make it be the music that I wanted."
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"All I wanted, to be petite and attractive. I was afraid I'd never stop growing."
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"I wanted to contribute my time, myself, my knowledge, my love, because Haiti is my everything."
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"I wanted to make a name for myself."
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"You wanted to know my passions? Allow me to introduce them to you."
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