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When you direct a movie, you're basically looking at a story, the way you want to look at it. You bring that director's vision, and I'm totally open for that.

I'd been conflict-phobic my entire life because I didn't want to lose my inner core of peace.

I love people and psychology. As a writer, I’m not so interested in Fred getting from the living room to the car. I want to go inside Fred’s soul and play there.

I don't know if there's a method that I'd like to see younger people bring back, I just want to see everyone of every age in the kitchen.

When I'm developing a recipe with brown butter - I know how much butter I want in the end and I so I start with more butter than I'll need.

I now rely on a scanner, which reproduces the passages I want to cite, and then I keep my own comments on those books in a separate file so that I will never confuse the two again.

What the feminists want of me is something they haven't examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness.

I think I've learned that if you want to be successful, you have to tell your story honestly and from your heart - and I think a healthy sense of humor doesn't hurt either.

Socks may eat wherever they want to.

I'll tell you the secret. When you begin with a character, you want to begin by creating a villain.

I'm still very blunt: If you want to be a writer, get a day job. The fact that I have actually been able to make a living at it is astonishing.

If I can’t be personal, I don’t want to argue,” said his hostess categorically. “I may be missing your points, but you’re much too busy dodging mine.

She believed that owning a lots of things made you a better person. She didn't know - possibly didn't want to know - that happiness comes from the inside.

... men want recognition of their work, to help them believe in themselves.

I wonder a lot about making things meaningful. You want to do meaningful work and make art, but you're making records, which is good, but you don't want to weight them - it's a very curious thing.

Whether it's just the career path of doing independent music, being an artist, however you want to pigeon-hole it, it creates a certain type of character.

I'm not the kind of artist that wants to get a sound, refine it, and do it 'til I'm 50 so that it's the purest amber of my one way.

You can find truly original pieces of writing, but they're original because you go, "Who would have even have thought of that?," or, "Why would anyone ever want to go see that?"

It turns out that it's easier to do politics in a movie. People really don't want it in their TV.

There are actors who just bring an enormous amount of empathy. They just have that"it" that makes you want to follow them and root for them.

There are a lot of latchkey kids. I don't want to be sitting there when a guy blurts something out over the TV and have my daughters ask me what those words mean.

There are so many options in animation right now and this is such a great time to make animated movies that I want to make another one.

Now, more than ever, the choice between Obama and Romney will be which one do you want to ruin your country?

We are stuck with technology when all we really want is just stuff that works. How do you recognize something that is still technology? A good clue is if it comes with a manual.

Change is a process: future is a destination. People want a sense of hope, possibility and pride about Britain.

I live for challenges. In my career, all I want to do is try to challenge myself and have a varied career.

Each character you play has its own set of characteristics, for want of a better word.

John Kerry can be absolutely ruthless. I would not want to be on his enemies list when he's ready to go after you.

I've given up wanting to make a killing or be a bigshot. I just want to find happiness and maybe open up a little roadside cafe in Idaho.

You're the key barrier to your organization's innovation, because you are serious and you believe you know what your customers want.

A society that's addicted to narratives with beginnings, middles, and endings will eventually yearn to end. We just want it to end.

Most Internet business theorists are really looking at preserving the necks of giant, Fortune 500 companies, rather than promoting the digital, peer-to-peer economy that actually wants to happen.

I've decided to hire a 'food taster', not because I think anyone is trying to kill me, but because I want to make sure it's not to salty.

Flying first class means sitting next to a better class of person I don't want to talk to.

If you spend a lot of time shopping for athletic clothes, you may want to consider spending less time thinking about high school.

Everybody wants to be more wanted, until they are.

Assassinating someone is another way of saying I care, just not in the way they'd want you to.

Stop thanking god for your parking spot. He had nothing to do with it, and if he did, I want nothing to do with him.

If you hug someone goodbye and their response is what the hell are you doing? - you may want to examine you're definition of close friend.

She used to say 'You can be whoever you want, even yourself'.... Yeah, I show up knowin exactly who I was and never leave as myself

I kind of forget what it's like to be a dude who grew up in the south sometimes. I want to refresh my memory and remember why I love it [there] so much.

I can make a record like the [previous] one I put out, but I don't want to do that because I want to set the bar so high for myself. I don't want to do it like everyone else.

Labels want my name beside a X like Malcolm

I don't like to direct the actors by telling them what to do. If anything, it's reminding them where they are in the movie, what's happening emotionally and what they want in the scene.

I remember having to read 'The Old Man and the Sea,' and I didn't want to read it; I didn't want to like Ernest Hemingway. I was being a stubborn teenager.

I've never dated anybody older, actually. There are so many things I'm curious about, and I'd love to be able to say, "Teach me." I want to learn from the people around me.

I hate women who say they can eat whatever they want, because I don't relate to that at all. It isn't fair! I absolutely live for food.

I've approached so many things in my life with such intensity that I want to approach motherhood with dedication and focus.

Being pregnant and having a toddler, as every parent says, is amazing. You're very tired, but it's so wonderful. God, it's emotional, but it's the best. I wouldn't want to be anywhere else.

Any acting roles will be few and far between until my kids are older and by then, who knows what I'll want to do?