What We Wanted Quotes

When you feel far from God and far from everything that you wanted to be for Him, realize that you still have your whole future to give Him.

I really wanted to work in the American industry because it's the leading industry. It's where film and television started.

I have always wanted to do an acoustic record from the very beginning of my career. I was a coffeeshop artist where everything I did was acoustic.

I dont have a problem with fame. I got into this business intending to be very successful, but I wanted it to be at my price.

If someone else made 'Up in the Air' or 'Thank You For Smoking' or 'Juno,' I would have wanted to rip their head off. I need that same sort of passion for every project I take on.

For a while, I just thought that I wanted to be an illustrator because that's all I wanted to do. I also did some sculpting. It was always very artsy and very feminine, everything that I did.

I wanted to become a painter for a while. I think it was because I was lazy.

That's why you did it. You wanted your world to collapse around you. You wanted everything to get as dark as possible.

How in the world was I alone? Because I wanted to be. That's all I can say. It's all that makes sense to me.

I would say that since I was nine years old I've always wanted to write and direct horror movies and action movies. There's never been a time in my life where that wasn't all I wanted to do.

I loved movies. They inspired me more than anything growing up and wanted to do for others what those movies have done for me. I do a lot of other creative stuff but am not very good at it.

I was born the day I got my license. When I was a kid, if I wanted to go somewhere and see things, you have to get in your car and actually go.

Bin Laden was once targeted by President Clinton. President Clinton wanted to kill him but couldn't get him. Of course not, we all know what kind of aim Clinton has.

We have always wanted to find the 'it-ness' of anything we shoot. We want to get as deep into the subject as we can.

People always grumbled. If things went well they wanted them to go better. Give them comfort and they wanted luxuries.

By dying I wanted to maintain my honor, and hide a flame so black from the daylight!

From the period when I wrote La Nausea I wanted to create a morality. My evolution consists in my no longer dreaming of doing so.

I never wanted children. If I'd been deeply in love with a man and he'd wanted children, it would have been difficult.

When I was born, my father wanted to drown me, but my mother persuaded him to let me live in disguise, to see if I could bring any wealth to the household.

I wanted to cause trouble, but I know now it stays with you.

Woolf wanted to say dangerous things in Orlando but she did not want to say them in the missionary position.

He’d wanted all of me and that’s what I’d given him. Did it mean I had nothing left? “No,” he muttered, voice thick with passion. “You have me, and I love you.

It was official. I now wanted to murder a ghost, a notion I'd discarded as unlikely only twenty minutes before. (Cat)

A man who doesn't make you feel special, wanted or important would make a very poor husband.

I always wanted to be a serious journalist.

You [Donald Trump] wanted it [casino in Florida] and you didn't get it. I was opposed to casino gambling before, during and after. And that's not - I'm not going to be bought by anyone.

Donald Trump he wanted casino gambling in Florida. Yes, you did.

Listen, if the people in my district wanted to live in France, they'd move to France.

I wanted to be in Rolling Stone number two with a tomorrow feel to it, like an experimental Rolling Stones with Jagger singing.

Many of the traits that make Amazon unusual are now deeply ingrained in the culture. In fact, if I wanted to change them, I couldn't. The cultures are self-reinforcing, and that's a good thing.

I'd done about 10 movies before I decided I wanted to make acting the main thrust of my career.

In my life, I have driven some crappy vehicles. But I have never been so desperate for a vehicle that I wanted a used rental car.

I let it ring. I wanted to breathe for a few minutes, and I could think of nothing that couldn't wait. Besides, I had paid almost $50 for an answering machine. Let it earn its keep.

I think from the age of thirteen, I really wanted to be a producer and I've always thought that the producer was the top of the tree.

We've done exactly what we've wanted. We never compromised to anyone and still managed to have a successful thing. I don't take that lightly. Yeah, we're really lucky to have had that.

Instead of just being a band that's constantly replacing members, we figured we'd done all of the stuff we wanted to do. It seemed to make sense to see if we could live our lives without the band.

I never graduated, but I was kind of floating between journalism and art, because neither one wanted to claim me, as a cartoonist.

She wanted out of the decorating scheme.

I wanted to be an actor. My parents were not too keen on that.

Do you think Bernie Sanders, for example, is citing Theodore Roosevelt as the progenitor of his critique of the banks when actually Roosevelt wanted to keep the banks together and regulate them.

I don't have any jokes about my divorce or my ex-husband, who is a lovely person. It really is about how I was an idiot trying to push this guy to get married when I wasn't even sure if I wanted to.

I sang in church at 5. When I saw the reaction, I knew what I wanted to do with my life.

[My mom] had always wanted to write a children's book. She was a children's librarian and an elementary school teacher, so of course she loves children and children's literature.

Since I was born I wanted to entertain and communicate. I wanted to communicate so badly ... My sixth-grade math teacher taped my mouth. I'm still out to get her [for that]. It was very traumatizing!

It is part of me; I could definitely be that if I wanted to, I just choose not to. I mean, I am an actress at my core, and I think we're all a little crazy.

I didn't want to go to college. I wanted to move to Los Angeles right out of high school.

I studied theater in college, and I really wanted to be an actress and play a lot of different roles. Then I made landing on a television comedy my main focus.

I wanted to be a vet when I was little, so it never really dawned on me that acting was my career, it sort of chose me more than I chose it.

Dad was the pitching coach, while Mom was the emotional supporter. Her unconditional love was great, and she wanted what was best for me.

I've always wanted to be a writer. Ever since I learned to read, I've wanted to share stories with others the way my favorite writers shared their stories with me.