"I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book."
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"If there was somebody I wanted to meet, I'd like to be able to get their autograph."
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"I also wanted to play with Peyton Manning because I thought he could teach me a lot, and he did."
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"I just wanted to write something about running, but I realized that to write about my running is to write about my writing. It's a parallel thing in me."
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"We knew exactly what we wanted in each other. And even so, it ended. One day it stopped, as if the film simply slipped off the reel."
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"There are few things we should keenly desire if we really knew what we wanted."
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"Has fear ever held a man back from anything he really wanted?"
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"What courage and patience are wanted for every life that aims to produce anything!"
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"In Rome it seems as if there were so many things which are more wanted in the world than pictures."
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"I wanted to have virtual memory, at least as it's coupled with file systems."
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"As long as I loved and served Christ I could be anything I wanted to be."
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"I never wanted to see half the things I've seen, and I've never seen half the things I wanted to. I don't think wanting comes into it. You'd best go all the same."
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"But I was frightfully fond of the universe and wanted to address it by a diminutive. I often did so; and it never seemed to mind."
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"..you wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent"
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"I was clinging to all that had been and, in an ideal world, all that we had hoped for. He, he wanted out."
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"When I started out, I wanted to have everything solved by the time I was 30. That didn't happen. Instead, I realized that the journey is the destination, that the work."
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"They wanted them to look like the Gods. God doesn't look like this."
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"As a young person, I wanted everyone to agree with me."
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"I am as prompt as a clock, if I only know the day a thing is wantedotherwise I am a natural procrastinaturalist."
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"The personal antics have overshadowed the music. I never wanted that but I knew what I was getting into when I got into everything I got into."
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