I Want Quotes

As a rule, I don't worry about genre. I just want to tell a good story, with characters that interest me and my readers.

When a man has died, he wants you to know about it.

The past is obdurate. It doesn't want to change.

I don't want you to apologize for being rich; I want you to acknowledge that in America, we all should have to pay our fair share.

Showrunning is a thing where you have to work with tons of different people. You have to schmooze people, you have to talk to network people. I don't want to do any of that.

I go where the story leads. And, sometimes, it is a little bit outrageous. And I relish that. I sort of want to be as much on the edge as I can.

I find it hard to think of myself as selling books. I don't even have a Web site. I want to sit and write, not sell.

I'm always reading plays, and when I find something that I really want to do, then I'll make the time to do it.

Most people want to be seen or heard. You want to shine. That's my way of shining.

Microsoft is no longer thought of as the company where the smartest people want to work.

The position of power and having to make decisions that you don't necessarily want to make is always good conflict and good drama.

What makes you so certain?" "But I am not certain," I told him. "Nothing is certain. You want certainty?" "Yes!" "Then you want death.

In not-for-profit theater, you don't worry so much about how the audience is going to react. You want to make them absorb the piece.

I took piano lessons when I was 6. I didn't want to go on with it. I don't remember being moved by a piece of music.

If you get to a certain age, all people want to know about you is people you knew. ...An American student once said to me, you know, isn't it extraordinary that I am alive and you're not dead.

It's important for me to be free and know I'm acting for myself. I do things because I want to, and that's important. You want to be your own person.

Next time you want to hit me hit me with a baseball bat or a crowbar!

I'm really glad I did not tattoo on my body 'cause I don't want them. So, permanence is a very scary thing to me, along with things that don't change at all.

If I weren't acting, I think I'd want to be a professional hockey player.

I'm not sure blogs are necessarily the best place to get a pulse on anything. People want to blog for a variety of reasons, and that may or may not be representative.

[Apple and RIM] are probably restricted, in some sense, to a certain maximum. ... If you want to reach more people than that, you sort-of have to separate the hardware and the software issue.

The lesson there is that there's no hiding the sound of a band that is bored with its own music. Whatever it takes to create the sound of excitement, that's what you want to do.

I'll do whatever I can do to remain employed. I'm just not precious about doing comedy or doing drama. I never want to do something in order to prove to other people what I can do.

I am a patriot and I want to see this country [the USA] soar again.

But the idea that some day people would want to be able to interact and get stock quotes and talk with other people or all these different things, I just believed that was going to happen

With everything going on in the world I really just want what is best for everyone regardless of who they are.

If I was ever to ask advice, it could be from any actor or showrunner or writer. I wouldn't necessarily ask an animate. I don't want to say that the wrong way, but animation's not really my world.

People can try to make me into anything they want, but I think they're really throwing around language but saying the same thing.

At home, I'm lucky if I can write three or four hours before the phone starts ringing and the kids want to go to soccer.

I think the music business is changing. Artists that don't want to tour and just want to collect royalty checks and stay home are not going to be able to do that.

The material dictates the approach. I tell the stories in the way that feels natural to tell them. Certainly the last thing I want is to be "difficult."

I'm my own "ideal reader" in the sense that I write novels that I would want to read.

No-one wants acorns, but everyone wants oaks.

To be perfectly honest, it isn't fair that people have used my personality, and the sacrifices I make because I want to, as an indication that I want to be in a political office.

Major League Baseball has prostate awareness for two weeks leading up to Father's Day, and I want to get involved in that.

I'm not always open to creative input when I have my heart set on a creative idea or a message I want to convey.

If you're buying something from Chanel, you want it perfect, and delivered on time.

The president-elect seems to want Russia as a friend. President Obama arguably has not wanted to say that Russia is that great of a threat.

Is that really the issue [of bathrooms and gender] we want to be pushing leading up to a momentous election like this one? It's that shortsightedness that comes from identity politics.

I do write my own music, and I also have been doing a lot of non-Beatle covers, just singing whatever I want to sing, the way I want to sing. But it can be hard to find the time to do that.

As much as I remember, I just thought, I want to sing a song that starts normal and ends crazy.

Ill never be as good an actor as I want to be....but I'll be good.

We've got very few bodies right now so we were tired, but we've also got a lot of character and we want to win.

Spend time cultivating your deepest desires, no matter how impractical or impossible they seem. It's perfectly OK to want the impossible. It's not OK to pretend that your desires don't matter.

I believe we can proactively choose to believe whatever we want instead of merely letting our beliefs coalesce as reactions to events.

This website is the dream of people who want to change the culture of state government.

National coach John McKay has told me that it won't be easy but I want to make up for losing the 2003 Four Nations Tournament final here in the Kelvin Hall by beating this guy Santana.

What a nasty act of cruelty, giving a dying man his last wish. Don't you realize he doesn't want it? His real wish is not to die.

Once a year I try writing a poem, usually because I've read some poetry that amazed me and I want to do that.

I back away from negativity - there's too much in this world, and I don't want to be around it.