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Like was not about getting what you wanted, it was about living with what you needed — R.K. Lilley

But I just think I was lucky enough to figure out early on that I wanted to do comedy, so that's what I put all my effort into. — Donald Glover

I was never afriad of what was under the bed. I wanted it but never got it. I became it. — Marilyn Manson

When I was coming up, I just wanted to play baseball and I'm doing what I love to do most. How can I feel pressure doing what I love to do? — Miguel Cabrera

I loved you enough to accept you for what you are, not what I wanted you to be. — Erma Bombeck

What I wanted most of all was to use sex as a weapon to allure, subjugate, and, if possible, destroy the personality of others. — Quentin Crisp

What did it matter? I was a young writer and I wanted to take off. — Jack Kerouac

I never knew what I wanted to do, but I knew the kind of woman I wanted to be. — Diane Von Furstenberg

It was quite obvious what she was to me, it was so clear why I always wanted her near. She was simply the air I breathed. As — Brittainy C. Cherry

The thing to do was to act just like others acted, live like they lived, and while they were not looking, do what you wanted. — Richard Wright

I decided that what I really wanted to do was go off and paint. — Jim Henson

How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand. — Gary Oldman

If you have ever prayed for something and received what you wanted, you engaged in Cosmic Ordering. — Stephen Richards

Dear though the reader might be, I'd be silly to cater to what the reader wanted. — Vikram Seth

What I actually wanted to do with my life is make a difference to the world. That led me into science very quickly. — Aubrey De Grey

I'm playing against great players, playing against the best in the world. The competition-that's what I've always wanted. — Kobe Bryant

You may not have realized what it meant, but somehow, you made the decision subconsciously ... that you wanted to keep me. — Shelly Crane

Life has a way of giving us what we need, not always what we want, but if we're smart, we'll realize that's what we wanted all along. — Jennifer Peel

I didn't want to be an actress. I wanted to be a dentist, but you never know what life will bring you. — Sofia Vergara

You can overcome your fears, you cange change, you can make life into what you've always wanted it to be. Maybe not tomorrow, but soon. So hang in. — Susane Colasanti

You're not supposed to dislike your own child. You were supposed to like them no matter what, even if they were not what you wanted. — J.K. Rowling

] I'm loyal to my thoughts, to my friends. This is what I really like the best. Loyalty. Sounds goody-goody. Maybe that's not the one you wanted. — Manolo Blahnik

Look, I don't mean to be rude, but you could never have a normal life, even if that's what you thought you wanted. You and me, we're not 'normal. — Christina Baker Kline

Freedom. Sometimes it isn't what you thought it was when you wanted it to start with. When you can do anything you want, choosing's not easy. — Lesley Howarth

I always knew what I wanted to do, I just didn't know I could do it. — Nina LaCour

It sounds like you sort of made that woman buy you the bear - " "Celeste." "Celeste, whether she wanted to or not. Do you see what I'm saying? — James Patterson

I wanted to kiss you," he murmurs. "Me. Not because of some vision I saw. Because of you. Because of what I feel. — Cynthia Hand

Did you ever get exactly what you want and find out it's not what you wanted at all? — Kit Reed

It was never about you not being what I wanted. It was me not knowing that what I had was everything I needed. — Corinne Michaels

I was just living my life, and that's what I wanted to do. — Fred Korematsu

I do not pity you. But I do know what it feels like. To be wanted only for what you are. — Samantha Shannon

I was 17 when I released my first record. I didn't really figure out what I wanted to say, how to get a message and put it together. — Sydney Wayser

I definitely wanted much more normalness than what was around me. — Miranda July

Of taking what life gave her, she should take what she wanted from life. — Brenda Novak

I wasn't concerned about the hardships because I always felt I was doing what I had to do, what I wanted to do and what I was destined to do. — Katherine Dunham

"You see," said Mr. Toots, "what I wanted in a wife was - in short, was sense. Money, Feeder, I had. Sense I - I had not, particularly." — Charles Dickens

Why make this call and not just say what you wanted?
His eyes. His blue eyes. His blue imperfect eyes. — Joan Didion

Apologize for what?" "For hurting you. For not trusting you and listening to Lily and Alex instead of staying strong and doing what I wanted. — Helena Hunting

Sadly, man recognises that the ideal, submissive woman he has created for himself is somehow not quite what he wanted. — Eva Figes

You know those moments, whether you're in them or not, you feel something more than what you intended to feel, what you wanted to feel. — Shey Stahl

That's what forgiving was: seeing someone for what they were, flaws and all, not what you wanted them to be, not what they should have been. — B.G. Harlen

In a relationship, it is not what you ask and receive that delights. It is receiving what you wanted but never asked — Srividya Srinivasan

I don't know what's worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you've always wanted to be, and feel alone. — Daniel Keyes

Not always what you expect is what you wanted — Ameya Agrawal

Of course you wanted your children to have it better than you had. But at what point was it not better at all? — Philipp Meyer

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. — Woodrow Wilson

I always wanted to know what it felt like to fall on stage ... now I know. It's not how you fall, but how you get up — Geoffrey Holder

They wanted to know why I did what I did. Well, sir I guess there's just meanness in the world. — Bruce Springsteen

I wanted everything. What could you not want when you are brown and Indian-looking in a society in which the white aesthetic is praised as acceptable? — Ana Castillo

Congress would give the people what they wanted if the people knew what they wanted, and if Congress could give it to them. — Evan Esar

I wanted to get out of Mississippi in the worst way. Go back? What I want to go back for? — Muddy Waters

It's what you would've wanted us to do. — James Dashner

Countries have lost their culture because what they wanted was money. Money became the running theme in every country and culture was sacrificed. — Yoko Ono

I always wanted to direct movies. That's what I set out to do. When I was a little kid I just dreamed of making movies, and I went to film school. — Zach Braff

All I wanted was just what everybody else wants, you know, to be loved. — Rita Hayworth

Her mother had failed the fat test and now she wanted whole milk? What was next, crack cocaine and peanut M&Ms? — Katie Graykowski

What I most wanted even at that early age, was to capture and hold the truth, with the certainty and love that it brings. — Neil Turok

And didn't time always slow, anyway, the closer you came to what you wanted? — Garth Risk Hallberg

My expectations of what I wanted in a man I learned from a dog: loyalty and kindness. — Alice Hoffman

Women had a tendency to see what they wanted to see i men, at least in the beginning — Nicholas Sparks

That's what's nice about being on Comedy Central. You can't show your boobs even if you wanted to. — Ilana Glazer

I cant hide what i feel inside adn jsut stop loving you even if i watned to i cant hold on but letting go is somethin i cant do even if i wanted to — Jason Aldean

I really wanted to go chunky-dunking tonight." Chunky-dunking is what Bella and her friends called skinny-dipping. — Melissa Foster

I just never stopped believing that what I wanted could be real. — Susane Colasanti

But, my dear, I knew when I was a baby what I wanted to do, and I'll tell you, kiddo, if you don't do what your heart tells you, you'll never be real. — Shirley Booth

What I want now is what I've always wanted. — Garth Stein

I wanted to ask her what the fuck was wrong but I had a date with a pack of skittish whores. — Andrew Vachss

I've always wanted to play a spy, because it is the ultimate acting exercise. You are never what you seem. — Benedict Cumberbatch

Oh God, Yes!" her depraved mind screamed to her. If this is what being a whore felt like, then yes. She wanted to be a whore! — Meg Ripley

He wanted them both, but there was no having everything, and love couldn't help him now. Nothing could help him but bravery, and what was that anyhow? — Paula McLain

I'm still astonished that somebody would offer me a job and pay me to do what I wanted to do. — Chuck Jones

My brand was always going to be based on my personality. I didn't want people hiring me for what I said. I wanted them hiring me for who I am. — Larry Winget

You know, I wanted to get married, and so I - but I, you know, I realize no matter what you want, it's kind of a fantasy. — Nellie McKay

I always thought eating what you wanted was one of those aspects of adulthood to be looked forward to when you were a child. — Graydon Carter

Home was where others had to gather grace. Home was what I wanted to flee. — Jerry Pinto

What I always wanted to do was to be a rock star. — Jason Robert Brown

This isn't what I wanted. This isn't what I would have chosen. You must know that. It's important you know that. — Karen Marie Moning

Just make sure if you fail, you did what you wanted to do. — David Letterman

The only people who ever called me a rebel were people who wanted me to do what they wanted. — Nick Nolte

Isn't this what you wanted? — Lilly Wilde