- 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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother was a talker, but there are still so many things I want to ask her. She died when I was forty. But she did teach me to be a talker with my own children.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It become totally untenable to me that after acting for 25 years - I've played Juliet, Cleopatra and Anne Frank - there I was, sitting in Hollywood, just waiting for somebody to want me.
- Joy
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you are a Christian, you want to give as much as you can away. It sounds pious, but it's not a duty; it's a kind of joy.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
So many people want to be seen not just as a mom or a wife, but they want to be seen wholly.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
As the rich consume more and more, they are clearly not going to want to downgrade their own status.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of writers want everything put on screen, but it doesn't work like that. The screenwriter brings her own imaginative interpretation, just as the director and actors do.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
The one thing the Victorians really believed in was philanthropy. I think we've forgotten the obligation to be philanthropic. I think we need smaller government, but I want to make it clear I'm not the Sarah Palin of the Cotswolds.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
I write about the men you want to read about but don't necessarily want to be married to.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm pragmatic. I like efficiency. I want to read what's in front of me and not have my hands tied.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone has a conflict inside of them - the conflict between what you should do and what you want to do.
- Shot
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- Nov 07, 2020