It is better to be unfaithful than to be faithful without wanting to be.
Being a fan of the business for years and wanting to be an actor for years, I knew, if ever the opportunity came for me, I would already know what to expect. I know what comes along with it. The best thing I can do is take it all in and go with the flow.
If you’re going to be honest with yourself, you have to admit that you go into show business wanting people to talk about you and wanting everyone to know who you are. But that also means there are going to be a whole bunch of people who don’t like you. No matter who you are.
Wanting to be understood by an audience that didn’t know Russian, I tried to paint musical pictures by emphasizing the phrasing, using voice color more boldly, and varying the shade and nuance.
I’d be lying if I said, ‘No,’ to wanting a lot of kids.
I have a very addictive personality, so I’m even careful about wanting more of anything than I need – even chocolate.
Confidence was never in short supply in my case. If anything, I think I overshot the mark with confidence way too early in my career, and gradually, it’s about just getting more humble and wanting to sit down more.
There’s a special joy you get having a show on the air that people are interested in and wanting to know what happens next. You really want to enjoy that while you have it.
The video aside, ‘P.D.A’ is a song about when you really love somebody, you just can’t resist wanting to show that out in public sometimes.
Yes, obviously, there’s this degree of wanting people to accept other people faiths and philosophies.
The only way I would go back to hosting would be if it were something entirely new. It would prevent me from wanting to host a standard-fare kind of talk show.
Every time I see a good play or watch a good movie, I have the same feeling I had as a child of wanting to be that person on stage or wanting to run through the forest with a big dress on.
Knowing that I was potentially going to be the first black Bachelorette actually held me back from wanting to do it. With the first, there’s always so much pressure. And I knew I was going to be new to the audience as a lead for a number of reasons – being over 30, being a career woman, and also being black.
I loved reading Grimm’s fairy tales and Hans Christian Andersen, and I loved to dream about other worlds and other lives. Maybe that has something to do with having an incomplete family, being an only child. All I know is I loved to pretend, and all that was in tandem with my wanting to be an actress.
Can’t blame men for wanting him. And wouldn’t be surprised if Dad even mildly flirted back. Dad somewhat enjoyed being called gay. He said it made women want to prove the assertion wrong.
Who can blame desperate parents for wanting to escape the horror that their families are experiencing?
I think a comedian has a more specific job. Whereas a musician can fall into different categories, you know, of making background music or doing a soundtrack or wanting to be in a band or writing the song, or writing your own songs. And then comedy is a very black and white thing. You want to make people happy.
My transition from wanting to be a cartoonist to wanting to be a writer may have come about through that friendly opposition, that even-handed pairing, of pictures and words.
Gone are the days when the upper classes were terrified of the angry mob wanting to smash their skulls and confiscate their properties. Now their biggest enemy is the army of lazy bums, whose lifestyle of indolence and hedonism, financed by crippling taxes on the rich, is sucking the lifeblood out of the economy.
I think it’s foolish to interview someone who’s just promoting a movie that they’re in and ask if they consider themselves a feminist. That’s not about feminism; that’s about the journalist wanting to gauge how much this person is aware of the world or is aware of the feminist movement.
I just want to start conversations. I want to do films that prompt conversations – whether that is positive, negative, indifferent – just ones that you leave the theater wanting to know more, wanting to watch the film over and over again.
May we do good everywhere as we have opportunity, and results will not be wanting!
When I was younger, I could get that white-knuckle grip of holding on to an idea and not wanting to let it go.
I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s, and into my 30s, I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character.
I knew what I wanted to do for my entire life, from nursery to university. I’ve always been geared towards wanting to act. I’ve stuck with it, dedicated time to it.
I think the desire to be funny was a mixture of wanting to be liked but also wanting to throw your elbows a bit.
I know, deep down, that what makes my music what it is are my words. It always starts from me wanting to say something. Once I’ve run out of things to say, I’ll be done.
Before dance came into my life, I don’t really remember having any major goals or dreams of wanting to be anything.
If Michael Steele doesn’t make you sad, well, then there’s radio host Rush Limbaugh, no longer content with wanting the President to fail, Rush is now calling out Mr. Obama as a girly man.
My issue isn’t about physical aging; my issue is about wanting to remain vigorous and youthful in my spirit.
Having the ambition of becoming Olympic champion is a whole different ambition from wanting to be the greatest.
There is no shame in black athletes not wanting to be role models, but there should be shame when they don’t behave like one. It’s a free country and people can do whatever they want. But just because we can doesn’t mean we should.
It wasn’t like, ‘I’ma lose weight and start doing dramas.’ I wanted to be healthier, and that was the impetus for wanting to lose weight – it’s just about being healthy and feeling good.
We have, of course, all of our Oracle technologies in our cloud. But I don’t think you’re going to see customers wanting to deal with 50 clouds or 40 clouds or anything like that.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
I actually find it really hard to deal with people looking up to me or being interested in wanting a picture.
I travel so much that when I’m not traveling, I’m just kind of curled up in a ball here, not wanting to leave or see anyone.
I don’t live in the past at all; I’m always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.
The world has a huge number of trillion-dollar problems wanting to be solved, and biology is the only way to do that.
Certainly, those of us in the entertainment industry, we are part of creating fear in people – ‘fear’ for me stands for ‘false evidence appearing real.’ We create fantasy, and in certain ways that’s wonderful because it allows people to escape. But it can suck people into wanting to achieve something that isn’t real.
I was always interested in writing from an early age, but it seemed so far away and inconceivable, like wanting to be an astronaut or a pop star.
Toronto is exploding with cyclists, with more and more people wanting to cycle and being turned off driving because of the incredible congestion. Biking is a much more efficient way of getting around, and you get there faster.
I think I’ve always had these two currents, equally strong, of wanting to change the world and make the world better and fight injustices and fight violence, and then being an artist, which is a very different strain.
I don’t think anyone should grow up wanting to go around killing people. I don’t think anyone should grow up wanting to be a secret agent.
I think romantic passion is wanting a little something in return.
I’m a Midwestern girl, born and bred. It’s harder for some of us to write about things closer to home. It’s not so much a fear of telling the truth but wanting to do it justice.
As soon as I started writing, other writers stopped wanting me acting in their shows – maybe they thought I was going to rewrite them.
Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials of which it is composed, which is wanting in general history.
A lot of people who do drama say comedy is the hardest thing, but, not wanting to sound like a bighead, comedy is easy for me, as I’ve always been fairly funny.
I love books, I love art, I’m a fanatic nature and wildlife person. People assume I’m a political animal, power hungry, wanting to run for office. And anyone who knows me knows that none of that’s true.
After 40, you want to reverse the ageing process. That’s complicated for me because I spent so many years wanting to be older.
Part of the very impulse of writing for me is actually wanting to get away from myself.
The conventional wisdom with David Mamet is, you do not change a word. And that agrees with me. If you want to change any of David’s words, it’s like wanting to change the iambic pentameter in Shakespeare – you should do something else.
A lot of what I was wanting to do in my work and what I have been doing has been about the unexpected… that unexpected situation of wanting to be the heroine and yet wanting to kill the heroine at the same time.
