#wanted

Shaving my head was a millennium ritual, to not let it pass as just another New Year's Eve. A lot has happened to me in the last couple of years, personally and spiritually. I wanted to mark it for myself. ↗

— Joan Jett

#couple #eve #happened #head #i

I wonder what it is that the people who criticize me for telling this story truly object to: is it that I have dared to tell the story? Or that the story turns out not to be the one they wanted to hear? ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#dared #hear #i #i wonder #me

I wanted to keep exploring... I'm not about to choose a series of movies in which I can use the same bag of tricks and style that I used in the first film. ↗

— Sam Mendes

#bag #choose #exploring #film #first

Kevin and Annette... I wanted them to do it together. They clearly wanted to work with each other. ↗

— Sam Mendes

#each #i #kevin #other #them

The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#commonly #evidently #wanted #welcome #which

I didn't want to do the whole, get the hottest person thing. I wanted to make sure every record felt right. ↗

— Pras Michel

#felt #get #hottest #i #make

I missed being considered an athlete and having that competitive drive, and missed having something to work for every day. I'd taken two and a half years away from the sport and was out of shape. I wanted to get back to where I was in 2008. ↗

— Shawn Johnson

#away #back #being #competitive #considered

While I didn't have everything that I wanted, I was still a happy kid. ↗

— Goran Ivanisevic

#happy #i #kid #still #wanted

I wanted to be less well-known in comedy. ↗

— Eddie Izzard

#i #less #wanted #well-known

I'd be happy to be taken as a woman - and that's what I was initially trying to do when I started throwing on dresses and stuff. But that wasn't going to happen because everyone kept calling me sir. So I thought I'd change the method and just start wearing what I wanted to wear. ↗

— Eddie Izzard

#because #calling #change #dresses #everyone