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It was probably good you couldn't flip the love switch because sometimes it was what you needed even if you didn't want it.

NBC's The West Wing is an icon for bad stories; Gitmo is a place where we keep an eye on evil, dangerous people who want to kill us.

One of the characteristics of the young is "I want it now."

It's the people without the money and the power, who desperately want to live, for those people small things aren't small at all.

Sometimes if there's a book you really want to read, you have to write it yourself.

If what a person wants is his life, he tends to be quiet about wanting anything else. Once the life begins to seem secure, one feels the freedom to complain.

I believe, in my better moments, that there is a plan and things go not the way we want them to but the way they should.

No one tells the truth to people they don't actually know, and if they do it is a horrible trait. Everyone wants something smaller, something neater than the truth.

People gave me such a bad time about wanting a baby. I didn't want a baby, and I still don't. I wanted a dog.

I can't write the book I want to write, but I can and will write the book I am capable of writing.

If anybody had shown me the paperwork for how my life was going to look in five years, I would have said, "No. That is not where I want to go."

Sometimes when I hear criticism of my husband, I want to come out of my seat and clock somebody. But you learn to take a deep breath.

If you tell me I can't have something then that just makes me want it more.

I think that the audience wants to see women being put into real situations where they can relate to them, rather than seeing some glamorous woman in a 'Bond' film.

People who are sick, or who have been sick, or have come close to death have a lot to say - and they want you to hear it.

Henry turned his hat in his hands but went on looking at Diana in a way that made her want to crawl into his arms and stay there forever.

Like any young person, I do what I want.

Quite often, when I describe to people what I want, I'll say "overwhelming" - I want it to feel like it's phy

If I have another child, I doubt I'll get married again. I don't think men particularly want to be with me.

I think the very best thing about the internet is that I can read all the London papers every day if I want to.

I don't feel like I've hit my stride. So I wonder what the moment will be when I get to be who I want to be.

I'm inspired by looking at art, by looking at precedent. Looking is what you have to do if you want to make things, so you develop a critical eye.

I love playing females that are put into these pressure-cooker situations, but they're real. I didn't want to be this kind of Lara Croft superwoman.

I believe that it's fine if the university wants to regulate, for example, bandwidth access, but they should treat the students data as private data.

I don't want my dad to say, 'My daughter is an actress on a TV show.' I want him to say, 'My daughter cares about people.' I would love to know that I'm a role model in Hollywood.

I stay out of the sun, which is very good. If you want to be in sun, please use SPF, it's important.

Usually one or two things happen: Either you have an idea straightaway - the sort of sound that you want or the instrumentation or one particular sound that you want to feature - or you don't.

The truth. The dead want nothing else. It is the only thing that they require.

There are so many female directors coming into the industry and a lot of them have important stories they want to tell that seem to fall a little bit more on the indie level.

It's what we call a dolce pazzia... a sweet madness. Once you feel it, you will never want to leave it.

Then I fall asleep with a stupid feeling of wishing to be different from what I am or from what I want to be; perhaps to behave differently from the way I want to behave or do behave.

I do my best to please everybody, far more than they'd ever guess. I try to laugh it all off, because I don't want to let them see my trouble.

I really don't drink, I don't do drugs. I feel like right now I've been given so many opportunities I don't want to mess it up with those things.

I think it takes an introspective person to want to go into the theater and see the dark side of themselves.

You just have to keep getting out of your own way so that whatever it is that wants to be written can use you to write it.

I'm very successful, but there are 50,000 general interest books published every year. If you don't want to read mine, there are others.

It's really, really hard to watch people struggling and not want to fix it.

That's what writing is all about, after all, making others see what you have put down on the page and believing that it does, or could, exist and you want to go there.

You are alone when something like this happens. Doesn't matter how many people love you and want to help you. You are alone. When Marchent died, she was alone.

When we love and want nothing but good for that person, it's one of the greatest gifts we possess.

I never wanted to run a production company. I didn't want to convert my life into running a business.... so I always resisted it and kept things simple.

I like to look put together without trying too hard. I don't want to look as if God's made another rainbow - I prefer muted, autumnal colours, like most fading redheads.

Images are probably the most important part of the poem. First of all you want to tell a story, but images are what are going to shore it up and get to the heart of the matter.

Inside many of us is a small old man who wants to get out.

Then God spoke to me and said: People say only good things about Christmas. If they want to say something bad, they whisper.

I really moved through my career based on curiosity about something. I never looked at a title and said, 'I want that.'

I never looked at a title and said, I want that.

No couple buying wedding rings wants to be reminded that someday one of them will have to accept the other one's ring from a nurse or an undertaker.

You can't worry too much about profile; otherwise, you become a different kind of actor, and that's not the kind of actor I want to be.

I worked so hard all my life, and all I want to do now is read.