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[Personal life] doesn't affect my creative process. It just gives me more subjects to talk about. Basically whatever you put in your music is how you want people to view you.

I base my track-listing and what songs I pick by what my fans expect from me and what they want and what I think they want.

I think there's something that happens at 40 where you settle into your own skin and you stop caring what people think - you realize life is a gift from God and you want to live it to the fullest.

I try not to take on the weight or the burden of it. Once it's on the paper, I try to leave it, because I want to surrender to what I'm supposed to write about.

I put more pressure on myself to do well. I know how good I can be and I don't want to fall short of that.

As a youngster in the projects, I definitely didn't have anything. So if you get something, you want to be able to give back and help others.

I do a lotta trash talking to keep me motivated, to keep me to not want to lose.

I think we are living in a time, where as a whole, as a community, people do want to push the boundaries.

It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.

Daytime sleep is like the sin of the flesh; the more you have the more you want, and yet you feel unhappy, sated and unsated at the same time.

There are more people than you think who want to have a challenging experience, in which they are obliged to reflect about the past.

The lnternet is turning economics inside-out. For example, everybody on the internet now wants stuff for free and there are so many free services available.

What is the art world? I never really understood. I started doing this stuff to do what I want to do. Not to be this or that.

I have no control over my writing. I have lots of good intentions, but no control. There's a story that wants to be told.

When people say, Did you always want to be a writer?, I have to say no! I always WAS a writer.

Well, the secret to writing is writing. It's only a secret to people who don't want to hear it. Writing is how you be a writer.

House of the Dead 2 I gave away. Alone in the Dark 2 I will also not do; even if the DVD movie made money. BloodRayne 2 in the Wild West is what I really want to do.

I'm totally sick of hotels. I'm totally sick of room service. I'm totally sick of how can I help you ma'am? I just want to go home and wash some dishes, play with my cat, watch some TV.

I love what I do. But I want to go home, just for four days, then I'll get back on the road again.

Most films made about the future acquiesce toward death, and I don't want to be told how to define my future.

For those that are working part time, in small businesses, or who are unemployed and do not currently have health insurance, we want to make sure that you are covered.

American people aren't interested in the procedural analysis. What they want is an up and down vote. They deserve an up and down vote on health care.

I met PJ Harvey when I was in England, and the first thing I want to do when I meet a songwriter I admire is to ask them how do they receive songs.

I know a lot of people that don't pray or anything, and that's fine - but I need to. I don't even want to call it prayer, I just want to call it talking to something bigger than me.

The Love Army is a growing network of people who want to stick up for the underdogs in the red states and blue states in the era of [Donald] Trump.

[Donald Trump] has a tremendous opportunity, you know, this week, to come out and say I don't want that.

"Big" government? Who wants that? I just want effective government. That means America's government needs to be big in some places, small in others and non-existent in others.

If you get into introspective blues or something where you're stretching out a bit, large audiences don't respond to this, so you have to give them what they want, basically.

It's real difficult to pin down directions. I just want to do collaboration-tape stuff.

I guess my mantra is you have to work really hard if you want something. You have to be committed to hard work and persistence even when it gets tough.

Writing 'This Is Who I Am...' I wanted to write a song about where I'm at, that I have accepted where I have come to and I wanted my fans to be able to connect to it too. I want them to stand proud!

Honestly, a lot of people thought that I was on top of the world selling so many millions of records, and that this is the life that everybody would want, but I never got to enjoy any of my success.

Poets can't worry about popularity since loving life and humanity involves saying what some people don't want to hear.

I can do whatever I want, but I'm a French girl. It goes with everything.

Women and men basically want the same things. Trust. Respect. Support. Love. Room to grow and a major physical attraction.

It's a voluntary act. I cannot punish anyone not taking the public transport, but I want everyone, from the highest ranking officers to the lowest, to take public transport every Wednesday.

Im so lucky, Ive been so successful, so much has come my way. I want to give back.

My dresses are designed to win, so going through it, I think about, what do I want to represent? So, definitely, Vera Wang has been an inspiration for me.

I think sometimes older people wind up being a little childlike. They've done their time, now they get to do what they want.

It's a delicate thing for me, with how involved I am in social media and being a part of people's lives in a way that they want me to.

When I look at female characters, I want to recognize myself in them - my trials, my tribulations as a mother, as a wife, as a lover, as a daughter.

I cherish each director that I have. I want to be maneuvered out of my comfort zones. I don't have the time to prepare.

I don't live through my kids. But I do know what will happen in life, and I just want them well prepared.

In that moment I know exactly what I want; I want to peel away all the layers of clothing between us, strip away everything that separates us, the past and the present and the future.

I don't want to stop you. I want you to stop yourself.

Tris.” I keep staring. “Tris.” I finally look at him. “I just don’t want to lose you.

Being honest doesn't mean you say whatever you want, wherever you want. It means that what you choose to say is true.

Why do you say vague things if you don't want to be asked about them?

Every tattoo I got with them is a mark of their friendship, and almost every time I have laughed in this dark place was because of them. I don’t want to lose them. But I feel like I have already.

I know some things--I know that I'm not alone, that I have friends, that I'm in love. I know that I don't want to die, and for me that's something--more than I could have said a few weeks ago.