What We Wanted Quotes

The thing that I had saved up for myself and wanted most to bring off was a fully fledged professional production of Hamlet at the Royal Shakespeare Theater in Stratford.

I knew then that I wanted to go home, but I had no home to go to-and that is what adventures are all about.

With Crucible, any big changes I wanted to make I only had to run by Lucasfilm, not other authors whose stories I might affect.

I hated being a lawyer and I wanted to like myself and like my job.

I was afraid that if I surrendered my life over to God, God would tell me not to do those things that I desperately wanted to do.

At some points I wanted to give up on music still, because the business is just as bad as it was when I left in 2005. But I'm learning that I have purpose to be here.

I wanted to be in my daughter's life, and I decided I didn't want to do music anymore because I was compromising myself too much and I wasn't loving what I was doing.

I was never the one that really wanted to be a solo artist, I was always in groups.

The message I wanted to deliver to those battling with depression is to know that they are not the only ones, it is not easy, but you can come out of it and help someone else.

I loved playing baseball, and the only reason I played was to play professional baseball. I wanted that to be my career for a long time. I turned down multiple jobs and meetings because of it.

The only thing I wanted in free agency was an opportunity to continue to chase that dream and continue to win championships.?

I wanted to seem completely invisible but whenever you're saying someone else's words and relaying the story of someone else's life, it's not you.

I started to write [The Name of the Rose] in March of 1978, moved by a seminal idea. I wanted to poison a monk.

People were threatened, folks was put in jail just because we wanted people to try to register to vote.

I never hated my father. I would have named my child Usher regardless. I never hated myself because I carried his name, because I made it mean what I wanted it to mean.

In the beginning, before the arrival of the white men, I had considered myself neutral. I had wanted neither side to win, neither the army nor the rebels. As it turned out, both sides lost.

It was very serious and I wanted to do something really different so there was this comedy called TOP SECRET.

There was no one around called 'Val' when I was young, so I wanted to be John or Bill. Now I like it.

When I was a kid, I always wanted to go to Europe, to go to Africa, to go traveling.

Everything I chose, I had already played in concert. For the competition, I wanted to pick pieces I know that people like.

I just wanted to have a look at my whole musical career, get right back to when I started and why I started doing it in the first place.

I just wanted to stop and try to get some perspective. [ A Period of Transition] it was just a matter of wanting to review the whole thing...to try and get some relationship to what I was doing.

I wanted to find out why I wasn't getting off on what I was doing and try and make some sense out of the evolution of it.

I felt kind of bored at the prospect of writing some more of my own songs because I really wasn't saying what I wanted to say.

Writing 'This Is Who I Am...' I wanted to write a song about where I'm at, that I have accepted where I have come to and I wanted my fans to be able to connect to it too. I want them to stand proud!

A good amount of the guys wanted to date me. Even older guys looking at me. It took some getting used to.

Working for with someone who has no idea what they wanted... it would just be so all over the place, especially with something on this scale. You have to know what you want with this.

Since I started playing at the Olympics in 2000, I have always wanted to do a dress based on Wonder Woman. It should be interesting to wear. And hopefully, it will get me a gold medal.

This is what I wanted most to avoid: for my rises and falls to become Tobias's rises and falls. That's why I can't let him step in to defend me now.

I'm surprised you know that," I say quietly, " since you left halfway through my one and only fight." "It wasn't something I wanted to watch." he says. What's that supposed to mean?

I came to running late. It was something I had always wanted to do, but I always end up getting hurt. It didn't occur to me that I could actually slow down and walk a little bit!

I wanted to try marathon running, but something always came up: I had a baby and a C-section or I got injured or I just didn't think I could run that far.

I kinda wanted to play receiver more.

I knew I wanted to work in Cinemascope because I find it much more beautiful just in terms of the shape of the screen, the wider image, and it's also less like television, which is important.

I really wanted to work and become independent.

I've always wanted editors that actually edited my poems.

I always wanted to be on a sitcom.

There are two things in life that I really wanted to do: be an actress, and to be in skin care, and I've gotten to do both of them.

I grew up thinking that whatever I wanted to do, I could do.

It used to be you wanted to marry up.

If wanted to play a sport, I played a sport. If I wanted to do things that many girls born in 1950 didn't do, I did it

Dear though the reader might be, I'd be silly to cater to what the reader wanted.

I was really shocked that Madison Square Garden sold out in a day. It was very amazing. But the reason we got back together is because the fans wanted us to get back together.

Music was never really something I wanted to do, so I never thought about it as a kid.

I feel like I accomplished everything I wanted to accomplish in college.

I was thinking of going to London drama schools or to New York, because France didn't accommodate the things I wanted to do in film.

When I was growing up, the really, really cool super heroes were all male - so I wanted to be them.

I've spent the last few years just really actively pursuing comedy and that's something I always wanted to know how to do.

Ransack the language as he might, words failed him. He wanted another landscape, and another tongue.

When I was writing, I wanted every word to be not only deliberate, but musical. Precious.