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The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depen...

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As we think of power in the 21st century, we want to get away from the idea that power's always zero...

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Virginity is such a personal thing. You can't judge anyone on it. A lot of young women feel they wan...

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I think you want to try every sport possible just to experience life.

The team is completely close. Anything you say outside, there is no chance it will go inside. So the...

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I tell my workshop students, 'I want you to think of yourselves as artists. Then, when you're writin...

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In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than t...

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You can be true to the character all you want but you've got to go home with yourself.

Journalism should be more like science. As far as possible, facts should be verifiable. If journalis...

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If you want to achieve things in life, you've just got to do them, and if you're talented and smart,...

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The best part about being alone is that you really don't have to answer to anybody. You do what you ...

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I think Canadians want to get a feel for the people who will serve them... and, for me, I think that...

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Promising something that seems popular at the time that you know you're never going to deliver - tha...

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I want to host a religious show. I'm sure nobody will be wanting the 11 o'clock spot on Sunday morni...

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Besides, who ever asked you what you wanted in this world, girl?The answer to that question, reader,...

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No one cared what she wanted. No one had ever cared. And perhaps, worst of all, no one ever would ca...

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It is quite amazing what I didn't feel after a while. I didn't really want to feel things.

I want to keep my health and my sanity and be well and feel happy. Plus, I want to have fun.

Women didn't want to be on the stage with other women because they didn't want their bodies to be co...

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INTENSE SEXUAL DESIRE IS THE GREATEST THING IN THE WORLDJaney dreams of cocks. Janey sees cocks inst...

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Kathy AckerEurydice in the Underworld

I'm actually not a big fan of the word hope. I think it's a depressing word. I don't want to hope - ...

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I see it as more of a teenage activity than, you know, she's only 11, but you know, I think it's gre...

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I really want to do a film in another language. My dad's from Germany, so it'd be really cool to do ...

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'I don't need brains,' says the billionaire contemptuously. 'I'm brainy enough myself!' The broker c...

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I don't want to make movies for kids, and I don't want to make movies for adults either.

No press, no television. If my mom calls and says, 'Did you hear about?' I don't want to know nothin...

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We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we ...

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I don't need anybody to market or promote me. If people don't want to hear this music, then it's not...

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I want to light the lights of patriotism.

I try not to diet because it never really works for me, if I tell myself I can't eat something then ...

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But while we all pray for peace, we do not always, as free citizens, support the policies that make ...

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You call to a dog and a dog will break its neck to get to you. Dogs just want to please. Call to a c...

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I didn't always want to be a dad.

And it certainly did seem a little provoking ('almost as if it happened on purpose,' she thought) th...

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Lewis CarrollAlice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

I'm just not a private person. It's not like I do things because I want things to be public; it's ju...

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I have done what they expected of me. I have curtsied for my Queen and made my debut. This is what I...

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I want to make sure my family's straight.

If I have a rap album I'm dropping, then I want it to be the best rap album.

Yeah, I like to be the maker of the art. And I like and want the money. But I don't really dig being...

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The old know what they want the young are sad and bewildered.

The phrase 'teen hottie' literally makes me want to throw up.

Mommy smoked but she didn't want us to. She saw smoke coming out of the barn one time, so we got whi...

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My philosophy in life is, Decide what you want to do. You have to have something to hope for.

Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.

I like to travel in jeans because I don't want to wallow around in my suit, you know? They cost too ...

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It does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants

I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.

One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course ...

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I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women.

If you lead with the anger, it will turn off the audience. And what I want is the audience to engage...

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Nike is the uniform for kids all over the world, and African design has been killed by Nike. African...

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Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.

I want to make this world perfect.

All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.

When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

If I want to get work done, that's usually about 3 in the morning.

Newspapers with declining circulations can complain all they want about their readers and even say t...

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I just want to sing, I want to work on my music, I want to make my movies, that's all I want to do.

One is a painter because one wants so-called freedom one doesn't want to go to the office every morn...

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I don't want to lose my fitness. I'm 45. I have two babies. I've got a long way to go and I want to ...

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I became hugely overweight and then hated myself because it was a form of self-abuse, something over...

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If I pick up a book with spaceships on the cover, I want spaceships. If I see one with dragons, I wa...

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I want, I don’t want.How can one live with such a heart?

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Margaret AtwoodSelected Poems II: 1976 - 1986

I want everything back, the way it was. But there is no point to it, this wanting.

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Margaret AtwoodThe Handmaid's Tale

Interventions are really emotionally exhausting and I would never ever want to have one. In the same...

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Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.

If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.

I love giving gifts. It's almost like I don't open my gifts until, like, three days after Christmas ...

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As someone who has faced as much disappointment as most people, I've come to trust not that events w...

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I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made...

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Having a child, that's always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child.

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do wh...

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Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one r...

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Almost everything has been stolen from us by the patriarchy. Our creativity has been stolen, our cre...

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People want poetry. They need poetry. They get it. They don't want fancy work.

These are people who haven't gone through the legal means to becoming citizens like our forefathers ...

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I was a guy who wanted to become famous. There was steam coming out of my ears, I wanted to be famou...

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I've got a great sense of humor, and if I'm able to say or do something in a movie that people feel ...

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I know when I grew up, it was, if it was daylight outside, get outside. Well, now, with the technolo...

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There's a gap between what I want to do, what I do on camera, and what gets edited. Right? So the go...

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I personally don't like to go see romantic comedies. But people do want to see them, and they seem t...

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I remember I used to come up to my teacher crying because I couldn't read. She would say: 'You can d...

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I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice t...

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Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your a...

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People like scary stories. There's a fascination with fear themes, and we want to face those things ...

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I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, bu...

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Eating is so intimate. It's very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want ...

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Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacr...

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It's easier to force feed people than it is to give 'em what they want. It makes more money.

Because I'm the author of my screenplays I know what I'm looking for. It's true that I can be stubbo...

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I rememeber one time we were getting ready to go to South America and everything was packed up and i...

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He's nice enough not to want to be associated with a nasty remark but not nice enough not to make it...

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I respect the fact that people have worked hard all week and want to go to the movies on the weekend...

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If you want to be the best, you have to do things that other people aren't willing to do.

I want to be able to look back and say, 'I've done everything I can, and I was successful.' I don't ...

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I eat pretty much whatever I want. I don't have a strict diet. It's all about cramming in as many ca...

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I think sometimes I guess you see records, say you want to get there and use that as motivation. In ...

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I don't want the United States to be in a global economy where our economic future is bound to that ...

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The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its p...

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