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What have you always wanted to do but been afraid to attempt? Whatever it is, it may be your greatest opportunity in life.
I never expected to be a star, never counted on it, never even wanted it. Not that I didn't enjoy it all when it happened.
I'm sorry," I say. "I didn't give you everything you wanted. I wasn't everything you wanted. You were everything I wanted.
Even at my lowest point, when I've wanted to give up, I know that I have to believe in myself because I'm all that I have.
Your family are people you lean on and learn from. When I told my family I wanted to do music, they were really supportive.
I guess I went into journalism to save the world. I always felt through writing that I wanted to rotate the world slightly.
Maybe it's a generational thing, but I never wanted to be the best black dancer in the world. I just wanted to be the best.
The drama thing was something I've always wanted to do, but the opportunities are rare, and they have to be the right ones.
There's always something to suggest that you'll never be who you wanted to be. Your choice is to take it or keep on moving.
I always was a writer, but then I wanted to do stand-up because I thought that was a way that I could perform what I wrote.
Ronald Reagan fought for America. He loved America. He feared where the left, based on history, wanted to take the country.
I really wanted to work in the American industry because it's the leading industry. It's where film and television started.
It occurred to her suddenly, sharply, that she wanted to be in love... She wanted not to feel so damned alone in the world.
But Doc had one mental habit he could not get over. When anyone asked a question, Doc thought he wanted to know the answer.
When I was younger, I never wanted to rehearse because I thought that someone would figure out I don't know what I'm doing.
I have never wanted special attention. I was only willing to do what was asked of me and what seemed necessary at the time.
I knew from my youngest age I wanted to be a fashion designer. I was always draping fabric and working with color palettes.
If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.
Back in 2008, when we were first preparing to launch Tor.com, I knew I wanted Jo Walton to be a regular writer for the site.
Most women get pregnant and even though it's a challenge physically and uncomfortable, they generally wanted to be pregnant.
I always wanted to do my solo album in English, because I grew up listening to a lot of pop artists and English-based songs.
I came up in battling and just wanting to compete. Even if you had no real problem with someone, you just wanted to compete.
Oh I love horror movies, yeah. I think my favorite movie growing up was 'The Omen.' I actually wanted to be that little kid.
I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.
I didn't know I could sing until I auditioned for 'Les Miserables.' My friend was auditioning, and I wanted to audition too.
I wanted to be a complete person and realised that the well-being of mental health is extremely important in achieving that.
With Marguerite, he wanted only time—more and more time—and he was granted it, nighttimes and daytimes and nighttimes again.
I took pictures of the objects and artifacts that Patti [Smith] would show to her friends because I wanted to document them.
I wanted [photography] to be more than a document, to be something that is as close as you could possibly be to the subject.
I have been touched by extreme violence, and I have been robbed of the life I always wanted by someone who chose to do evil.
Doing what you wanted to do was the only training, and the only preliminary, needed for doing more of what you wanted to do.
The freedom that I wanted as a kid would - probably would not have been good for me and not in the way in which I wanted it.
I've done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price - which has been the case most of the time.
I really wanted to take 'Dilbar' to Africa and the Middle East in Arabic because it was also a perfect way to launch myself.
I did not want to avoid service. I did realize reservists could be called up, and that it was something that I wanted to do.
I've always wanted to be a star. I've always wanted money and wanted to travel. So I knew there was a price to pay for that.
When I was 12, all I wanted for Christmas was a trampoline or a four-wheeler. I ended up getting both presents for Christmas.
We didn't have another choice but to do what we did, if we wanted to be accepted, because we weren't counted as human beings.
Once I started performing I knew that's what I wanted to do with my life. But you have to work really hard to be a performer.
It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.
If the North wanted to hack anything in the world, anything in the world, really, they are going to go hack a movie? Really?!
I used to play the piano when I was younger, and I loved Alicia Keys. I wanted to be Alicia Keys; she was such an idol to me.
I wanted to continue to be active on those things that I cared about when I was president where I could still have an impact.
I never knew that the things I wanted to do would come this fast, but this is the route that God took me, and so I'm excited.
Part of him wanted to weep... but his purpose was rigid within him. He felt he could not bend to gentleness without breaking.
She knew she shouldn't feel that way about a monster, but right then, she wanted nothing more than a monster of her very own.
No one had ever called her wild before. She wanted to be wild now, for him. Wild seemed more enticing then a bowl of berries.
I always believed that I never wanted to be an actor. I only did it because I was allowed to do it and I had to do something.
I waited at the counter of a white restaurant for eleven years. When they finally integrated, they didn't have what I wanted.
Though part of me had always wanted to be a comedian, another part of me had always wanted to be Bryant Gumbel or Dan Rather.