"If I wanted to do wrong, I could not."
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"...and I discovered something: the meaning of my life was whatever I wanted it to be."
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"I wanted clothing that I couldn't find, so I decided to make it."
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"I wanted to be the best in the world."
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"I wanted to be as comfortable in that environment as she was. I moved around those areas in character."
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"...she wanted God to make sense. He doesn't. He will make no more sense to me than I will make sense to an ant."
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"I've always wanted to push myself and move with the tide. That's just how I am and it's worked for me."
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"I never expected to be a star, never counted on it, never even wanted it. Not that I didn't enjoy it all when it happened."
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"We meet thee, like a pleasant thought, When such are wanted."
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"We just wanted to build the best thing we could build"
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"Fiction has always been a thorn in my side, because I've always wanted to be a writer but I can't seem to really do it."
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"I wanted to be where nobody I knew could ever come."
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"I never wanted to get caught in doing something that was really one note."
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"I always wanted to do an action movie, not particularly Bond."
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"All I wanted was to be a university teacher."
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"I did not myself know what I wanted: I feared life, desired to escape from it, yet still hoped something of it."
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"Not the outcome any of us wanted."
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"Was life always like that? she wondered. A game of hide and seek in which you only occasionally found the person you wanted to be?"
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"Even if I wanted, I cannot do anything. When they die, we always send for their co-religionists. Muslims take the Muslim's body to bury it, Hindus come and take away the dead to be cremated and Christians come and bury their dead."
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"I had started also studying because I wanted to learn more about power and fighting."
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