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I don’t mind getting smacked on the chin. I just don’t want to get nibbled to death. There’s a difference.

If you're going to be a Christian, you're going to change. You're going to lose some old friends, not because you want to, but because you need to.

I'm so uncomfortable wearing colors in public. I really am. Even denim. If I've got a day off in a town, I want to go out for a walk I'll put on denim. But almost everything I've got the black on.

Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th Century invention and I don't want one. You don’t need to worry about me; I have a college education. I’m not destitute. I'm living like this by choice.

Songwriting is the way of perpetual want. Songwriters are the blessed/cursed people. You will never have a moment's peace in your life. You will always be wanting the next song.

Simply because the nanny-state wants to hug you doesn't mean it's not tyrannical if you don't want to be hugged.

The comedy really comes from how badly you want these characters to succeed and with a comedy that's often hard.

It's of course understandable that people want to know about actors in their favourite series.

It's a funny thing with documentary films - you want them to feel as entertaining and as gripping as a fictional film. With a fictional film you want it to feel as realistic as a documentary film.

I genuinely find it difficult to think of places that I'd never want to see again. It might be because part of my career has been concerned with writing about topography.

I felt suddenly shy. I was not used to shy. I was used to shame. Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want. Shame is when you turn your head away from something you do not want.

Just before our love got lost you said "I am as constant as a northern star" And I said, constantly in the darkness, Where's that at? If you want me I'll be in the bar.

Nobody wants to see sketch comedy that's the same sketch they've seen time and time again, or that's just a rehash of that thing.

What a writer wants to do is not what he does.

Sometimes, it's not getting what we want that offers us the most important Lessons

The last thing a woman will consent to in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.

I think our culture is sick and tired of fluffy nonsense and people want something more sincere and heartfelt.

Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail; then you can let go when you want to.

I break my back for music because it's something that I love, but I'm not going to break my back for a bank. I wouldn't want to be an ATM repairman; there are some things that just aren't worth it.

Obedience to God is the pathway to the life you really want to live.

Our words will either bring life and victory or death and destruction. If we want to be happy, we have to be serious about speaking words of life that line up with God's Word.

Everyone wants to be an overcomer, but nobody wants anything to overcome.

God wants us to be totally dependent on Him, and suffering seems to bring us to that point.

When I raced with Mercedes, I thought Id learn German. But my wife didnt want to live in Germany.

I don't consider myself any great sage of fashion or style, whatever people may want to think.

Many a woman will pass for elegant in a ballroom, or even at a court drawing room, whose want of true breeding would become evident in a chosen company.

Limitations force you to find the essence of what you want to say, which is one of the most important things to know for an artist.

One of the things in the back of my mind is that, after my sports experience, I never want to be, totally consumed by any one endeavor, other than my family life.

When you first start to do jiu-jitsu everyone has the goal of being a black belt. You want to be great at everything you do.

It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.

In my next life, I want to come back as one of my dogs. They live nicely.

I've had meetings where a guy actually told me, "What we're trying to figure out is how we can control you." In the meeting, to me! Why do you want to control me?

All I look for is good quality stuff. Whatever I read, if I like it, then I want to do it. It's as simple as that. I don't have a master plan of, "I should do this genre, and then this."

Saying what you believe others want to hear is, of course, a form of lying.

So there is a personal sense of style for a given work - I don't like a general style, but every work has its own style, and I want to create a style for every work.

A friend of mine said Winn-Dixie is the way that people want the world to be and Tiger Rising is the way that it is.

I think for all the women who are working parents it's difficult to balance your work-life and your home-life. You make obvious sacrifices because you really just want to be with your family.

There's nothing worse than people who want to make you feel better when you are losing. I just want to smack them.

It's easier to discredit the science than to say that climate change is a genuine issue but we don't want to do anything about it.

My faith tells me that God does want people to understand climate change and do something about it.

People who want to be famous are really loners. Or they should be.

I decided I was sick of trying to figure out what everybody else wanted, and I should just decide what I want, and be honest, and not spend all my time guessing.

For a long time I did not want to do television because I did not want to get stuck playing the same person. I wanted the ongoing challenge of a variety of roles.

Honey, I am the chief of my train. If critics want to hop on board, fantastic. There's plenty of room. The KP train is fun.

I read the Bible sometimes, but it bores me to death. I just want to know what other people find so bloody fascinating.

My strategy has always been to give people just enough of me, then pull back. That way, they'll want more.

In a collaborative environment directors hire actors because they want their input, not just their bodies.

In most films music is brought in at the end, after the picture is more or less locked, to amplify the emotions the filmmaker wants you to feel.

I like what I like, I am who I am, I know what I want to do, you know what I'm saying?

I am very fortunate having the job that I do and I want to do it for as long as possible.