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- Nov 07, 2020
Want Quotes
On desire, ambition and the pull of what we want.
These quotes cover a range of wants: professional ambitions, creative goals, and the pressure to keep meeting requests from others once some success arrives. For more on ambition, see our Just quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Nov 07, 2020
You want to hear an agent scream, say, 'I'm thinking about doing a collection of short stories set in the Ozarks.'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was 'Shaolin Temple,' Jet Li's first movie. That was the movie that got me to want to learn martial arts. Then I became a huge Jet Li/Jackie Chan fan after that.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
At Diversion, we want to do genres that people are not doing - or, if we're doing genres that people are doing, to do them in a fresh way.
- School
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- Nov 07, 2020
The teacher is commodified, the school is a shop, the subjects are consumer goods. To read, to think, to reflect, isn't a question of want, it's a question of need.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's clear that policymakers and economists are going to be interested in the measurement of well-being primarily as it correlates with health; they also want to know whether researchers can validate subjective responses with physiological indices.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just want to tell black stories.
- Nov 07, 2020
The obvious rule of efficiency is you don't want to spend more time organizing than it's worth.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
Larry wanted us to reposition the tower. We wouldn't, and won't. He's been holding back our fees. We want to get paid. And that's it. It'll get solved and we'll carry on with planning Ground Zero.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
The people running Silicon Valley are not making the show because they want to do a satire of Silicon Valley. They are just comedy writers, and they want to make a funny show.
- Information
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- Nov 07, 2020
Facebook's position with rival tech companies boils down to this: if you want access to all the information we've collected, strike a deal with us.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anything where I get to write a lot of jokes and have a lot of creative control - that's all I want.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is sort of a hobbit-like element to a lot of British people. They don't want to be told something until they have worked it out for themselves.
- Unique
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even if you are vegetarian, you do want to have a stuffing for Thanksgiving. The stuffing is not so much about the vegetables, but it's very unique to the season.
- Point
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really got to a point where I thought maybe I would want to be involved politically.
- Nov 07, 2020