#wanted

I think, like a lot of other people who have been in the service, you'd been delayed in what you were doing. You wanted to catch up and the best way to catch up was to move as fast as you could toward a degree. ↗

— Daniel J. Evans

#best #best way #catch #could #degree

I was looking very much for a career. My second marriage to Stan Herman had ended, and I wanted very much to be independent, not take alimony from him, be on my own, do the right thing. ↗

— Linda Evans

#career #do the right thing #ended #had #herman

I felt like my parents were always involved with abstraction, and I wanted to do something very specific. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#always #felt #i #involved #like

I wanted to show that crime doesn't pay. If you are saved and accept the Lord, you cannot use that as an excuse to avoid punishment. ↗

— Robert Duvall

#avoid #cannot #crime #excuse #i

Obviously I always wanted to do a contemporary piece. ↗

— Orlando Bloom

#contemporary #i #i always #obviously #piece

I hate first drafts, and it never gets easier. People always wonder what kind of superhero power they'd like to have. I wanted the ability for someone to just open up my brain and take out the entire first draft and lay it down in front of me so I can just focus on the second, third and fourth drafts. ↗

— Judy Blume

#always #brain #down #draft #drafts

I wanted to write what I remembered to be true. ↗

— Judy Blume

#i #remembered #true #wanted #write

I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice. ↗

— Brian Eno

#considered #element #essential #get #had

When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it's done so I would recognise when I was being lied to. ↗

— Brian Eno

#being #being lied to #decided #done #eccentric

I told the record company I didn't feel the need to be at red-carpet events. I wanted a career. But I wanted to keep myself intact as a person. ↗

— Enya

#company #events #feel #i #intact