#want

I wouldn't tell Jill how I felt. I behaved in such a way that was opposite to how I felt. I must have seemed strong to her. I didn't want to bring her down. ↗

— Charles Bronson

#bring #down #felt #her #how

The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection for him. He conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him. ↗

— Xun Zi

#animal #believe #boasts #conducts #deception

You can never betray the people who are dead, so you go on being a public Jew; the dead can't answer slurs, but I'm here. I would love to think that Jesus wants me for a sunbeam, but he doesn't. ↗

— Anita Brookner

#being #betray #dead #go #here

After getting out of the service and going into baseball I never wanted to do anything else. ↗

— Bob Uecker

#anything #baseball #else #getting #going

I'm supposed to be the director of a television company, but I've only ever seen that company as a vehicle for making the kind of programmes we wanted to make, getting our ideas on the screen. ↗

— Rory Bremner

#director #ever #getting #i #ideas

I always wanted to be an actor, but with a speech impediment it's kind of tough. I decided to roll the dice and take an acting class, which was very, very nerve-wracking... my stomach would just be in knots. ↗

— Nicholas Brendon

#acting class #actor #always #class #decided

Every citizen has to figure out what kind of government he or she wants. ↗

— Stephen Breyer

#every #figure #government #kind #out

Oscar night is a ridiculous night where you go to these parties and you see everyone that you've ever wanted to work with and admire. ↗

— Jordana Brewster

#ever #everyone #go #night #oscar

Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn't get serious with people. They don't expect it from you, and they don't want to see it. You're not entitled to be serious, you're a clown. ↗

— Fanny Brice

#being #clown #does #entitled #expect

No matter how famous and established they were or however blessed they were with great songs or long careers, if they lived alone, they lived alone. That's not the way I wanted to live prior to the tour or after. ↗

— Edie Brickell

#alone #blessed #careers #established #famous