What We Wanted Quotes

That's what I wanted! I wanted to be an athlete, I wanted the girls to like me, and I wanted to be able to get good grades in school, and this man said I could do all that.

It [his brothers assassination] made Robert Kennedy, a man unprepared for introspection, think for the first time in his life, what he wanted to do, and what he stood for.

I thought of myself as part of the general filmmaking effort. And as my scope broadened, I began to think about directing. I wanted to be the guy who got to say whether the dress is red or blue.

There was a period when I just wanted to make what I wanted to make and I didn't care what lie I had to tell.

All I ever wanted to do was play competitive golf against the best players in the world.

I didn't push any of my kids into golf, and they played golf because they wanted to.

I did a lot of writing when I was in college, and that's what I thought I wanted to do; saying that I wanted to be a writer seemed more reasonable than saying I wanted to be a musician.

They were making a deal for a property that clearly was a property that we wanted to own, so we had to act, and act as quickly as we could, and make the offer more attractive.

Today, many people are coming to America from very unstable situations. A hundred years ago, people came to America because they wanted to be Americans.

Now, guitar was pretty cool. Everybody knew something on the guitar. So I wanted to play guitar, but I told my dad if he wanted me to keep studying something, Id like to study piano.

I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.

I have loved music since I was a little kid. I was always wanted to write the music I hear in my head and have it be shared with the world.

My idols were Michael Jackson and The Beatles and I would watch Justin Timberlake and John Mayer perform and I knew I wanted to do what they were doing!

I wasn't sure how people were going to take to the stories I was telling and the things I wanted to sing about.

I wanted to be a professional singer/actress, though I knew it would be hard.

Mama was always saying I was a brain snob, that I didn't like people who didn't think. I didn't know if that was snobby. Who wanted to walk around explaining everything to people all the time?

I am going to devour you, Magdelegna,” he promised her, the darkness of his cravings coming to bear on her fully at last. “You wanted to know my passions? Allow me to introduce them to you.

You wanted to know my passions? Allow me to introduce them to you.

Being wanted is the tender heel of everything human.

Contrary to what people say, my wife never turned me away from the presidency. She told me to reflect on it and do what I wanted.

I was always realistic about the fact I wanted to be involved with big films.

I knew that I always wanted to be a filmmaker, an actor, a writer and a director, that was always my plan.

We fell in love quickly. We got married very quickly. It didn't work out the way we wanted it to. There's nothing more to it.

I was very spiritual as a kid. I think I felt and thought about things a lot more deeply than most of the other kids my age. I wanted to help people.

I didn't know many classes where I could try and relate the thing that I really loved and wanted to do into an intellectual idea.

When I had a boxing match, all I wanted to do was put the guy on his back. That's why I chose to chase after MMA.

I loved Charlotte Bronte when I was little, and I wanted to be Charlotte Bronte the way people want to be a princess.

I come from the small island of Antigua and I always wanted to write; I just didn't know that it was possible.

When once I got to America I fell in love with hippie culture, and I've always wanted to live in the country and grow organic vegetables.

I also wanted to play with Peyton Manning because I thought he could teach me a lot, and he did.

I wanted to go amongst gangbangers, to understand this war they were fighting amongst each other. I wanted to document it, [also] to show the human side of it.

In the invincible and indescribable squalor of Harlem ... I was tormented. I felt caged, like an animal. I wanted to escape. I felt if I did not get out I would slowly strangle.

I was guilty and irritated and full of love and pain. I wanted to kick him and I wanted to take him in my arms.

I always wanted to be a Muppet.

I always wanted to be a Muppet. So when 'Sesame Street' approached me to guest star, I thought: 'I'm going to be on this!' It's pretty incredible stuff.

When I did 'Babe' I wanted to talk about animal rights without going through some convoluted justifications about using animal products.

If I wanted to make money I would have written another novel.

I wanted things. Whatever it cost and whatever it took, I would do it. And that's it.

How did I change my life? I wanted things. I wanted women and I wanted to write books.

I almost had an intransigent mental spirit. I always wanted things.

I was a WASP kid going to a high school that was 99 percent Jewish and I wanted attention and I wanted to make a spectacle of myself because I couldn't stand to be ignored.

More than anything, all I have ever wanted is to be close to someone. More than anything, all I have ever wanted is to feel as if i wasn't alone.

In Lilly's eyes her beautiful clear water eyes there is what I have sought and never found, wanted and never had, hoped for and never discovered. Love.

As long as I loved and served Christ I could be anything I wanted to be.

We'd record a song that people liked and wanted to hear on the radio, and the radio wouldn't play it because it was too long. Or they wanted to edit it, which we wouldn't allow.

There was no doubt about it: if you wanted to succeed you had to go away. You could do nothing in Dublin.

Outlets for the freed blacks are alone wanted for the erasure of the blot from our Republican character.

I always believed that I never wanted to be an actor. I only did it because I was allowed to do it and I had to do something.

I did 'Narnia' because it was a good opportunity and all that, but really? I wanted to play Mr. Tumnus because he's my favourite children's character. That was awesome.

We went back to the weird Institute building. At night there was a lot more activity. Erasers coming in non-stop. Nice cars, nice clothes, nice smug faces (that I wanted to smash!). -Fang's Blog