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You know, my problem is I cant say no to people, especially people who want to write me checks to do things.

I like sharing stuff with people. I feel like it's kind of at their own discretion, you can see too much if you want to see too much.

Pro-Tip: Ask for one clear action per panel. Don't ask your artist to do two, three, or more things in a shot. You want those? Add more panels.

While many comics have a secret persona, I fundamentally want to be myself.

I always make the point that teachers are people too, and that they don't just want to be in front of kids all day and have children be their only feedback loop.

If my dog wants to know why I didn't feed him this morning, he may want to rethink walking out of the room when I'm telling him a joke.

Where is the good will in the thought, I was going to throw this in the garbage, do you want to wear it?

As I die, and my life flashes before my eyes, I want to see who made faces at me when I turned my head. That's all I want to see.

No one has ever thought this: Now that I'm out of therapy and have fixed my mental problems, I think I want to be a ventriloquist.

Why does everyone like this movie? And Americans kept going to the movie. So Hollywood figures out the market, and the market wants to know what happened in Benghazi.

Tell me it's forbidden, unthinkable, and that's where I want to go. Because the chances are it's complicated, and the complications are meaningful.

Usually there is a paradox in what a character wants. A conflict is built deeply within them. And then you put them in motion, throw everything at them until they reveal themselves further.

When I write characters, I need to hear their voice. As soon as I get them speaking, and I feel how they use language, I understand who they are and what they want.

Drive, ego and cocksureness are all essential elements in terms of getting exactly what you want but losing everything you've got.

I have new ideas every day, and I always want to take on new challenges.

If you live far away from a person you no longer want to date just let them know that they are geographically undesirable.

It's not for any purpose such as religion, health, or things like that, I just never felt I had the need or want to drink or do drugs.

The show has to be good because you want to be good. But if it's not good, it doesn't matter.

It's not gender-specific, but I do think it's women who tend to start having that sort of little whispering voice of "I want more here" and "I want more for my family."

I do keep a tiny little journal in which I write passages that I read and want to hold on to. This practice is sort of the opposite of Twitter.

My boyfriend loves golf and he is good at it but I am not that great at it. It drives me nuts, but I'm super competitive and I always want to win.

No one wants to hear my perspective on politics, but I think honestly as you get older, you get more interested in it.

For fiction, Im not particularly nationalistic. Im not like the Hugo Chavez of Latin American letters, you know? I want people to read good work.

Rich countries want unfettered access to poor countries' markets, which are often heavily protected by tariffs, but they don't want to give up all the protections for their own goods and services.

I love conducting. What I'm tired of is music administration. I don't want that. I just want to make music.

I think I have a very clear vision of what I want things to look like.

You need to be, like, turning down high-paying illustration work because you want to work on your comic. That's when you know you're doing something good.

If money comes along I will take it. I just want good scripts that try to make you think. I've been offered lots of money in the past but I just know that I would abuse it and get drunk.

I can't really dress rock 'n' roll any more because I'm the wrong side of 40, but I want that to be the fashion.

I don't mind what the role is at all; I just want to play cool characters.

Reason, it is true, is DICTATOR in the Society of Mankind; from her there ought to lie no Appeal; But here we want a Pope in our Philosophy, to be the infallible Judge of what is or is not Reason.

I'm not an inventor. I just want to make things better.

At the end of the day, I want the music industry to be larger than what it is today.

WikiLeaks serves as a back-up for those who want to tell the truth about the inner workings of government when the mainstream media is not willing or taking too long to publish.

Don't mistake the Russia you want to exist for the Russia that there actually is. Be realistic.

The sense the great democracies of the world - Europe, the United States, Japan, others - are going to set the agenda for the world. [Russians] want to bring that down.

The West in its modern form since 1945 is a miracle, and that's in our American interests. It's its good that the West is strong and at peace, and we should want more of that, not less.

I'm not a conservative or a free market advocate or a Republican because, you know, I want people to like me.

I think people get satisfaction from living for a cause that's greater than themselves. They want to leave an imprint. By writing books, I'm trying to do that in a modest way.

Human reactions to robots varies by culture and changes over time. In the United States we are terrified by killer robots. In Japan people want to snuggle with killer robots.

Complimenting someone in an exaggerated way is known as flattery, and flattery will generally get you anything you want.

She gave me a hug and for a second I was embraced by a body that makes me want to go home and never eat again.

I think we'll always miss our parents. But I think we can miss them without being miserable all the time. After all, they wouldn't want us to be miserable.

I've never had a social life, don't ever want one because it's boring.

Even a feeble-minded man wants to be like other men." --Charlie Gordan

Seems like everything people oughta know they just don't want to hear. I guess that's the big trouble with the world.

Ironing boards are a classic example of something I find horrible about modern society: the excitementation, for want of a better word, of mundane things.

You pick projects for the part, the director, and the script. I just want to do different, interesting stuff.

I have a book in the pipeline of short stories. You want to hear an agent scream, say 'I'm thinking about doing a collection of short stories set in the Ozarks.

Clearly, the Chinese need the resources, but I don't think they want to clash with the industrial world which happens to be the market for their goods.