- Everything
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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
I want to make stuff. I want to make movies and direct stuff and produce stuff and write stuff.
- Before
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was heartened that people everywhere want certain basic freedoms, even if they live in a totally different cultural environment.
- Possible
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- Nov 07, 2020
I felt that it was my duty not to senselessly waste my time. And since I didn't want to waste my time, I tried to accomplish as much as possible.
- Forever
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dissidents can't be dissidents forever; we are dissidents because we don't want to be dissidents.
- Patriotism
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want to see the military falling. I want to see the military rising to dignified heights of professionalism and true patriotism.
- Loving
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not married, nor do I want to be. I'm the loving kind but not the marrying kind, though I am romantic.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really want a pet, and I really love animals.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's why I made my record before I had a label. I put it out independently - in a way, out of fear - because I didn't want anyone to change it.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first was exposed to 'Porgy and Bess' many, many years ago, I was blown away by it - loved the music, overwhelmed by the production at the Met that I saw, and thought I want to play Bess someday. But I also knew they were stereotypes that were considered racist.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm only going to make investments with people that I'd want to spend time with anyway.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020