"Finally, everything that has been part of my life, whether I wanted it to or not, has expressed itself in my dresses."
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"Everywhere I've turned somebody has wanted to sacrifice me for my own good—only /they/ were the ones who benefited. And now we start on the old sacrificial merry-go-round. At what point do we stop?"
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"I never wanted to make it too easy for people to sum me up."
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"If only I knew what I wanted I could try to see about getting it."
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"She wanted something to happen - something, anything: she did not know what."
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"What I really wanted was every kind of life, and the writer’s life seemed the most inclusive."
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"As I look back on it, I'm glad that I had this false image. I was who everyone else - my parents, my friends, society - wanted me to be. I was a pleaser, someone who wanted to make everyone happy, to not let anyone down. Now, I'm not like that."
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"She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris."
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"Things do not always happen the way I would have wanted, and it's best that I get used to that."
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"Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves."
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"I discovered very early on that if you wanted a thing, you went for it - and you got it. Most people never go anywhere, or want anything - so they never get anything."
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"What I wanted to hear didn't exist, so it was necessary for me to go out and create it."
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"I wanted to be famous, I wanted everybody to love me. I wanted to be a star. I worked really hard, and my dream came true."
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"Anything I wanted to do and achieve has not been influential in my life, but my failures have."
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"There was no telling what people might find out once they felt free to ask whatever questions they wanted to."
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"As a child, I wanted to know how things worked and to control them."
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"I never really wanted to be a singer - not with any longevity. But I always wanted to be a writer."
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"I was, you know, a mess. I totally wanted to kill myself every day."
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"I moved to Holland because I wanted to see American art."
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"Beauty opened all the doors; it got me things I didn't even know I wanted, and things I certainly didn't deserve."
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