#wanted

I wanted so badly to be straight like my friends. But I couldn't change it any more than I could change having brown eyes. And I knew I would never fit into what kids thought was normal. ↗

— Cat Cora

#badly #brown #change #could #eyes

I thought if I wanted people to take me seriously, I needed to act serious and not reveal too much of my private life so people could seriously accept me in different things. ↗

— John Corbett

#act #could #different #different things #i

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something. ↗

— Andrew Carnegie

#because #born #day #ever #every

I wanted this album to sound like a big crocheted blanket - to be warm yet to have a lot of space. ↗

— Deana Carter

#big #blanket #i #like #lot

Like Canada, we very much wanted the United Nations to be a relevant and effective body. But once those efforts failed, we no longer saw things from a multilateral perspective. For us, now, it is much more basic than that. It is about family. ↗

— Paul Cellucci

#basic #body #canada #effective #efforts

I wanted to make a film about stupid people that was very vulgar and deeply stupid. From that moment on I can hardly be reproached for making a film that is about stupid people. ↗

— Claude Chabrol

#deeply #film #hardly #i #i can

In fact, if they didn't let me commute, I would not have taken the role because I wanted to graduate high school with my classmates. I remember my agent's jaw dropping when I told him if I couldn't commute I didn't want the role. ↗

— Sarah Chalke

#because #classmates #commute #dropping #fact

I think, then, that man, after having satisfied his first longing for facts, wanted something fuller - some grouping, some adaptation to his capacity and experience, of the links of this vast chain of events which his sight could not take in. ↗

— Alfred de Vigny

#after #capacity #chain #could #events

Number one, it was a chance to thank my parents, because they passed away a couple of years ago. They gave me so much by giving me the opportunity to play soccer, and I wanted to share the story we had together. ↗

— Brandi Chastain

#away #because #chance #couple #gave

I wanted readers to be genuinely unsure as to whether she's telling the truth or lying. It meant making her partly sympathetic, and partly unsympathetic, which wasn't easy. ↗

— Lee Child

#genuinely #her #i #lying #making