#wanted

Having reached a point in which I was so bitter and exhausted from being a quote unquote public figure, I wanted to return to a more childlike relationship to writing. ↗

— David Leavitt

#bitter #childlike #exhausted #figure #having

My parents wanted me to solace them for sorrows they denied having had. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#had #having #me #parents #solace

By the time I entered college, I had decided not to have children, a decision that was never regretted. Accordingly, I was careful to court only girls who wanted to have professional careers. ↗

— Donald Cram

#by the time #careers #careful #children #college

You get on the radio by writing your own songs. But we had the dilemma of not being able to play anywhere because we weren't able to play anything that anyone wanted to hear. So we learned songs that we thought that we could do without puking. ↗

— Wayne Kramer

#anyone #anything #anywhere #because #being

When I came to the Food Network, I didn't want to do a cooking show. I told Kathleen Finch for nine months I didn't want to do a cooking show, I wanted to do a home-and-garden show. ↗

— Sandra Lee

#cooking #cooking show #food #food network #i

So I wanted to explore all points of view of that, not just the girl's but his point of view as well. Only by directing it could I explore all the points of view. ↗

— Andrew McCarthy

#directing #explore #girl #his #i

If I wanted to pitch that bad, I probably would. But I don't think I'm in that stage. ↗

— Pedro Martinez

#i #pitch #probably #stage #think

The best thing on translation was said by Cervantes: translation is the other side of a tapestry. ↗

— Leonardo Sciascia

#film #films #grew #i #involved

I never let prejudice stop me from what I wanted to do in this life. ↗

— Sarah Louise Delany

#life #me #never #prejudice #stop

The West wanted to avoid an Islamic state in Europe. ↗