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The Sound of Building Coffins is a soulful work from a writer of the weird. Maistros does more than make you feel for his characters and their twisted, damaged lives; he makes you *want* to feel.

I don't know what an audience wants to see but I know what I like to see.

The wrong one will start saying things like "withdraw with honor." We've heard phrases like that before, and they led to thousands and thousands of deaths. Democrats always want to look tough.

You realize that we only have so much time, and whatever you want to do in life, you need to do it now. There's no time to wait.

Nobody wants to have in their CV in the upper echelons of the American economic family that they nationalised major banks.

In other words, [ H.P. Lovecraft] was areligious, asexual, neurasthenic, he just didn't want to react to the world. Like Virginia Woolf, who considered religion the ultimate obscenity.

Someday I'm going to go onstage in a dress if I want to.

As a people, we know what we can do, we know how to do it, and we just want to get on with it. How? By ensuring that Canada's place in the world is one of influence and pride.

I wonder if that's hurt me at the box office. Maybe audiences these days want to know exactly what to expect when they go into a movie, and my movies are hard to explain in just one way.

I just always enjoy it; if you really enjoy what you do, you don't want to stop.

A lot of the Beatles albums were very various, and we did it on purpose: We didn't want the next track to sound like the last one.

I saw that Meryl Streep said, I just want to do my job well. And really, that's all I'm ever trying to do.

I'm always writing songs, and I've got a bunch that I want to record.

I feel that if I said anything about John, I would have to sit here for five days and say it all. Or I don't want to say anything.

I am convinced that a person is entitled to as much privacy as he wants. It should be his privilege to keep certain areas of his life out of the newspapers.

When I was in the studio with Madonna, we would work 12-hour days. If you want to work with the best, then that's what you have to do.

When you win a championship, it is a great feeling, and you really don't want that feeling to go away.

When you gotta go through something tough, I've always been a guy that just wants to get it out of the way.

We didn't do wrong things because we didn't want to embarrass our parents.

MLB has become overly active, actively involved in the game, the on-the-field game. They're trying to run the game the way they want to and you just have to play along with it, deal with it.

I shall take my voice wherever there are those who want to hear the melody of freedom

If God didn't want you to have it, He would never have let you see it.

Mitt Romney and I know the difference between protecting a program, and raiding it. Ladies and gentlemen, our nation needs this debate. We want this debate. We will win this debate.

On behalf of every Republican and every Democrat in Congress, on behalf of the whole House, I want our friends in the Jewish community to know that we stand with them.

The curse of cyberspace is that everything we want to preserve will get lost and everything we want to lose will be preserved.

It isn't difficult to leave King Lear or Macbeth, but once you have gone back to yourself, you want it to be the same self you have always been.

Given all the facts that I'm young and I'm in good health and I'm famous - that I have talent, I have money - given all these facts, I want to know why I'm so unhappy.

People see me in powerful roles. That's what people want to see. That's what I want to do.

If Ansel Adams gets a thousand dollars a print, I want ten thousand.

Fogeydom is the last bastion of the bore and reminiscence is its anthem. It is futile to want the old days back, but that doesn't mean one should ignore the lessons of the visitable past.

History justifies whatever we want it to. It teaches absolutely nothing, for it contains everything and gives examples of everything.

I always run the stories by Capcom. They read the scripts and give their comments. I would never want to kill a character that they really want to use in the next game.

I make films and do the publicity and interviews, but then I want to get away from it all and be on my own.

That's one thing about Hollywood. People don't always want what's real. People always want a little more. So for me, it's a compromise. Here you go, that hyper-reality.

There are so many artists who get to my age that get comfortable and just stick in a groove, and I really don't want to do that.

If you're making music, you must want to turn other people on to it, whether you're number one in the charts or number 60.

[My kids] were very young at the time and didn't realize what was going on. We told them that mom made a mistake and people want to talk about it in the news so they're outside our house.

I don't have the advocates. I don't have a good old boys network. Part of what I want to do is to create a good old girls network.

As a feminist, I'll wear whatever I want to.

But at the age of 44, I sure hope to be a better businesswoman. I want to get the music straight to my fans.

I feel like movies should stick to a genre and give the audience what they want, and then surprise them with the unexpected, and not just do the same thing you've always seen.

In my Olympic history I don't think I have achieved my potential as an athlete. That's what I want when I look back at my career. I want to be able to say I gave it my best shot.

The Olympics is not a race I want to watch on television and think 'I wonder what I could have done if I was there?

I have achieved a lot and I'm grateful for that - I'm just a bit greedy because I want to add the Olympics. It's once every four years - everyone wants it and very few people get it.

I get to work on things I've never done before and I get better at it, and I can do things that are innovative. Which I've done in my fifties, and want to continue to do through my sixties.

When I see those ads with the quote 'You'll have to see this picture twice,' I know it's the kind of picture I don't want to see once.

Imagining [The Wizard of Oz] without Judy Garland is a bit like dancing on wet cement: you can do it, but why would you want to?

Writers who go to Hollywood still follow the classic pattern: either you get disgusted by 'them' and you leave or you want the money and you become them.

Reality, like God and History, tends to direct people to wherever they want to go.

You invent things like algorithms to take care of some of the changes you want to make. The changes aren't detectable. There's all kinds of things happening as I play.