"I just wanted all the wars to be over so that we could spend the money on starships and Mars colonies."
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"I would like to be able to gently drift in and out of existence when I wanted to."
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"I never tried to prove anything to someone else. I wanted to prove something to myself."
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"The price of getting what you want, is getting what once you wanted."
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"He is exactly the poem I wanted to write."
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"More than rich, more than famous, more than happy...I wanted to be great."
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"I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted."
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"I wanted [my photography] to appear as though the camera was seeing by itself."
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"I wanted to see New York . . . so I tried to see how fast I could do it in."
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"A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did."
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"All I knew is that I NEVER wanted to be AVERAGE."
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"Fame gives you everything you never wanted."
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"I wanted so much to write that I couldn't write a word."
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"If you weren't here, if you could be anywhere you wanted to be, doing anything you wanted to do, where would you be and what would you be doing?"
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"You're not going to say anything about me that I'm not going to say about myself. There's so many things that I think about myself; if someone really wanted to get at me, they could say this and this and this. So I'm going to say it before they can. It's the best policy for me."
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"One went to school, one wanted to act, one started to act, and one's still acting."
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"I had no idea what I wanted to be when I was 17. I just knew I wanted to be something larger than myself."
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"I always wanted, and still aspire, to be something more than just one thing, just one performance."
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"I always imagined I could be what I wanted to be."
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"I painted. I wanted to be a painter. I sang."
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