#wanted

I was a baseball fan myself, I wanted to play baseball. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#fan #i #myself #play #play baseball

Classical musicians do this all the time. They want perfection. So they piece things together. Eight bars of this and six bars of that. Glenn Gould said that with a recording he wanted to make perfect versions of pieces. ↗

— John Abercrombie

#classical #eight #glenn #make #musicians

I remember watching the Grammys and looking at the performances and crying to my mom, saying how much I wanted to be there. ↗

— Christina Aguilera

#grammys #how #i #i remember #looking

The Flower of My Secret is definitely more based in true emotions. I also wanted to make something more realistic, but not naturalistic or simple. ↗

— Pedro Almodovar

#based #definitely #emotions #flower #i

I also wanted to express the strength of cinema to hide reality, while being entertaining. Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness. ↗

— Pedro Almodovar

#being #cinema #empty #entertaining #express

After the enormous success of All About my Mother, all the awards and everything, I wanted to start a movie in exactly the same place that I used to be before. I wanted to show that all of the success had not changed my perception. ↗

— Pedro Almodovar

#after #awards #before #changed #enormous

After I did nine years of a television series, I didn't want to do anything really that involved going to a set and being in front of a camera for quite a while. And when I did start to want to do things, I wanted to focus more on film. ↗

— Gillian Anderson

#anything #being #camera #did #film

Besides all those whaling details, Moby Dick is about someone who's looking for something so huge, something they've wanted all their life, yet they know when they find it, it will kill them. ↗

— Laurie Anderson

#besides #details #find #huge #kill

There was a point in the late '90s where all the graduating M.B.A.'s wanted to start companies in Silicon Valley, and for the most part they were not actually qualified to do it. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#companies #graduating #late #most #part

I wanted to dress the woman who lives and works, not the woman in a painting. ↗

— Giorgio Armani

#i #lives #painting #wanted #who