#wanted

Around the time I turned 30, I wanted to publish a novel. ↗

— Sara Paretsky

#i #novel #publish #time #turned

I had wanted to write Ghost Country for a long time, but it wouldn't work. ↗

— Sara Paretsky

#ghost #had #i #long #long time

I wanted to be a doctor when I was young. I also wanted to be a paramedic, but I always wanted to be an actor as well. I didn't have kids or something that I needed to provide for. ↗

— Christopher Parker

#also #always #doctor #i #i always

Having a persona people recognize, it's the thing that probably gets you paid the most - but it's also the thing that virtually every actor in the world doesn't want. 'Cause, like, no one would believe me if I wanted to play something ultra-realistic, like a gangster or something. ↗

— Robert Pattinson

#also #believe #cause #every #gangster

My biggest fight has been between those who wanted to do something incremental and those who wanted to do something comprehensive. We won that fight, and once we kick through this door, there'll be more legislation to follow. ↗

— Nancy Pelosi

#between #biggest #comprehensive #door #fight

I'd loved to wear jeans and t-shirts, but everybody was in the peace movement back then. And that was my ploy. I had to be careful not to say things like 'I like meat.' Actually I just wanted to drink beer and to screw. ↗

— Ed O'Neill

#back #be careful #beer #careful #drink

Yes, I've listened to just a few audiobooks - but hope to listen to more. I've wanted to investigate how my own books sound in this format and find the experience of listening, and not reading, quite fascinating. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#experience #fascinating #few #find #format

I remember serving in Vietnam in that war, and many of us at the major Lieutenant Colonel, colonel level were frustrated that no one in the U.S. wanted to debate it that way. ↗

— William Odom

#debate #frustrated #i #i remember #level

It was, however, in the interest of Osama bin Laden for us to destroy a secular Arab leader; it was very much in the interest of the Iranians because they wanted revenge against Saddam Hussein for Iraq's invasion in 1980. ↗

— William Odom

#arab #because #bin #destroy #however

I have achieved what I wanted to achieve. I'm better off at some sort of independent place where they not only like what I produce but also trust me to be the one to produce it. ↗

— Keith Olbermann

#achieved #also #better #better off #i