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Quotes 76 till 90 of 357.

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  Alice Munro
  Canadian short story writer 1931-

  

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  I feel that I've done what I wanted to do, and that makes me feel fairly content.
  
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  Bobby Fischer
  American chess grandmaster 1943-2008

  

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  I felt that chess is a science in the form of a game... I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be treated like a scientist.
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  Bryan Fuller
  American television writer and producer 1969-

  

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  I felt, selfishly, that if there was going to be a TV show about 'Hannibal Lecter' whether I was going to be involved or not, I'd rather be involved. I wanted to make sure it was something I wanted to watch.
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  Bryan Greenberg
  American actor and singer 1978-

  

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  I got the acting bug really young, when I was around, like, 10. I pretty much just wanted to be Michael J. Fox. He was in 'Teen Wolf' - that was, like, the coolest role, and then he did 'Back to the Future,' and that was the coolest role.
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  Buck Owens
  American musician, singer, songwriter 1929-2006

  

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  I got to realizing that I wanted to record, I wanted to experiment. And doing those same old songs the same old way - I said, 'I think it's time for me to have some fun.
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  Buck Owens
  American musician, singer, songwriter 1929-2006

  

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  I got to realizing that I wanted to record, I wanted to experiment. And doing those same old songs the same old way - I said, 'I think it's time for me to have some fun.'
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  Cormac McCarthy
  American novelist, playwright, short-story writer, and screenwriter 1933-

  

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  I got what I needed instead of what I wanted and that's just about the best kind of luck you can have.
  Source: The Sunset Limited (2011) 46
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  Adolph Green
  American lyricist and playwright 1914-2002

  

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  I had met a young lady who wanted to be in the theater. It was Judy Holliday. She had somehow fallen down the steps of the Village Vanguard, which still exists today.
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  Burt Shavitz
  American beekeeper and businessman 1935-2015

  

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  I had no desire to be an upward-mobile-rising yuppie with a trophy wife, a trophy house, a trophy car. I wasn't looking for any of those things. I already had what I wanted.
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  Alanis Morissette
  Canadian-American singer, songwriter and actress 1974-

  

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  I happen to be lucky in that I knew what I wanted to do as far as a career since I was nine years old.
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  Paul Gauguin
  French artist 1848-1903

  

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  I have always wanted a mistress who was fat, and I have never found one. To make a fool of me, they are always pregnant.
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  Lily Tomlin
  American Comedienne 1939-

  

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  I have always wanted to be somebody, but I see now I should have been more specific.
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  Bruce Sutter
  American professional baseball pitcher 1953-

  

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  I have an older son, Josh, and growing up, he just didn't care that much for baseball. And that was fine. But Chaddie, he always wanted to go to the ballpark. He just kind of took to it right away.
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  Joan Didion
  American Essayist 1934-

  

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  I have not been the witness I wanted to be.
  Source: A Book of Common Prayer (1977) 272
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  Jimmy Carter
  American statesman, 39e President 1924-

  

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  I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming.