I Want Quotes
I have a perfectionist mentality; I want things to be right. But I've had a little duel over the years with that mentality. Because it can inhibit you.
I mostly make R-rated movies. To make a movie that one day if I have kids or my nephews want t watch, I can show them without being put in prison. It would be really nice.
Children can't help but create: they need to put their mind on the page, they want to paint, to sculpt, to write short stories.
You know when you get a crush on a person you don't know that much about them, you're sort of obsessed with them, you want to spend more time with them.
I've really never written about my relationships, or things like that. I wouldn't want to divulge things that were too private.
The reason it's hard for me to tweet is I don't want to pronounce anything, and Twitter is for pronouncing.
It started when I woke up, all I wanted to do is jump out of the window. I didn't want to eat anymore, because I was afraid that I might poison myself somehow.
I think I'm a better director than I ever was an actor. I'd love to go back to acting, but nobody seems to want me.
I've moved away from that sort of deep-ecological extremism. I started to think: what can we do for wild birds right now? I don't want these particular species to disappear.
If you have millions of dollars you are not going to get to continue doing what you want. You are into a world of commitment to that money and all the people that helped you get that money.
People are voting for the kind of country they want to live in, and there are different views about what kind of country we should have.
If I believe that abortion is wrong, and I want to convince you that it's wrong, there's no reason I should recount to you my personal narrative of how I came to believe this.
I'm not planning what I listen to, except when I think the music can guide me to some emotional place I want to be reminded of.
For me, music is sort of the art that I can't incorporate into my person the way I want to.
The nice thing about being a band that nobody knows about is that you can do whatever you want.
I know people whose entire lives are ruined by fame. If you make yourself exclusive, people want to break that down, but if you go about doing your shopping, no one bugs you.
Compromise is what it's got to be all about when you're governing, because no one is ever going to have a big enough majority to just do what they want to do all the time.
I found once you start writing about God it's really fun. It's like a rock singer saying "baby." "Baby, baby, baaayy-by." You start saying "God" on the page and you don't want to stop.
I try not to remember the life that I didn’t want to lose but lost and have to remember
I said I kicked a French chicken in the stomach once." "Huh?" "It said, 'Oeuf.'" "What is that?" "It's a joke. Do you want to hear another, or have you already had un oeuf?
That’s all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that love is there.
We eat as sons and daughters, as families, as communities, as generations, as nations, and increasingly as a globe. We can't stop our eating from radiating influence even if we want to.
We shouldn't be intimidated by someone else's idea of perfection if it will prevent us from taking steps we actively want to take.
People who want to find a place of rest, want to find an integrated personality, sense of self, want fewer fractures in their lives.
Some of my influences are black gospel artists so I definitely want to do a soul-gospel type thing.
When you're shooting 20-odd episodes in a season, the last thing you want is for each script to be the same tone.
I like the way my heart beats, I like the way I think; I don't need or want anything to change that.
When I was on 'Idol' and 17, everything was so new. Everyone is so nice and wants to see you succeed.
People don't really want to know what happens. They ask you for just a second, but then they don't want to know.
He's (Rafael Palmeiro) always the left-handed swing you want to copy. He's got a real smooth swing and he's never off balance. He's always on top of the ball. I just like watching him hit.
John Wetteland had a very good curveball. He threw it for a strike, too, in any count, any situation. But, he really didnt use it much. He didnt want to throw it. He wanted to throw fastball-slider.
The reason the contracts are so long is because actors are very spontaneous; we may want to do Shakespeare one day and be Porky Pig the next!
The last thing reporters and editors want to be told is what to do and how to write. They don't want to be some politically correct, Orwellian, kind of like "you're telling me how to write about...?"
We are marching against the law of the jungle that the United States and its acolytes old and new want to impose on the world.
Today I'm committed to take care of your families like I've taken care of mine. I want to make Mexico the best country to live in.
The Lord my pasture shall prepare, And feed me with a shepherd's care; His presence shall my wants supply, And guard me with a watchful eye.
I wanted to create clothes for women in their 40s and 50s and 60s who have careers and are sexy and dont want to look like grandmothers.
Our Father in Heaven does not wish us to cower. He does not want us to wallow in our misery. He expects us to square our shoulders, roll up our sleeves, and overcome our challenges.
Publicity gets more than a little tiring. You want it, you need it, you crave it, and you're scared as hell when it stops.
Sometimes it takes all my resolution and power of self-control to refrain from butting my head against the wall. I want to howl and foam at the mouth but I daren't.
Woman's rights should come by evolution, and not by revolution. I want a little woman's right tried first, and then, if the experience is bad, we can go back on our track; if good, forward.
I go through a lot of bad stuff, because most of the stuff that's written is pretty bad. But occasionally something comes along that's good, and I want to do it.