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"If you knew that miracles could happen, what miracles would you wish for? If you knew that you could have it all and do anything you wanted, what would you choose to have and what would you choose to do?"
"I'd finally come to understand what it had been: a yearning for a way out, when actually what I had wanted to find was a way in."
"When I was thirteen I only wanted to be a drummer."
"I've always wanted to be bald. I mean it, completely bald. Wouldn't it be great to be bald in the rain?"
"I never wanted to be Marilyn - it just happened. Marilyn's like a veil I wear over Norma Jeane."
"Whoever has really sacrificed anything, knows that he wanted and got something in return."
"The chief thing is to love others like yourself, that's the chief thing, and that's everything; nothing else is wanted - you will find out at once how to arrange it all."
"I have not wanted syllables where actions have spoken so plainly."
"I just wanted to be an actor. It's better to be well-rounded."
"I wanted to take off all my clothes and never wear them again."
"He had to choose between something he had become accustomed to and something he wanted to have."
"When I was anorexic it just seemed like I literally wanted to disappear. And now I would like to reappear."
"My voice was not heard, the questions were not asked that I wanted to see asked."
"When I was young, all I wanted and expected from life was to sit quietly in some corner doing my work without the public paying attention to me. And now see what has become of me."
"Eventually I knew what hair wanted; it wanted to be itself ... to be left alone by anyone, including me, who did not love it as it was."
"I've always wanted to do a boxing movie."
"I wanted to learn everything I could about what it takes to be a great chef. It was a turning point for me."
"I've always wanted to own and control the primary technology in everything we do."
"She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see."
"Nobody wanted to believe Jack Ma."
