#wanting

Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials of which it is composed, which is wanting in general history. ↗

— Robert Hall

#biography #composed #composition #concentrated #delightful

In some ways it's taken me decades to come clean and make honest work - and still to this day, sometimes I find myself wanting to hide behind my work and deny the more biographical aspects. ↗

— David Knopfler

#behind #biographical #clean #come #day

There was a combination of not wanting to look a gift horse in the mouth, but also really not wanting to be stuck in Lord of the Rings for the rest of my life, and being desperate to kind of make sure that I could do something else with my life. ↗

— Sean Astin

#being #combination #could #desperate #else

I can remember running around at the age of 3, wanting to play golf, cricket and football. I was always active, one way or another, driving my parents mad. ↗

— Ian Botham

#age #always #another #around #cricket

Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship; it is always imperfect if either of these two are wanting. ↗

— Eustace Budgell

#either #esteem #first #friendship #imperfect

I had that thing of wanting to prove I was a tough kid. ↗

— Scott Caan

#i #kid #prove #thing #tough

People who aren't perhaps that into sport are going to be following me and wanting to be part of the Olympics. That definitely does bring added pressure but as an athlete the Olympics are the ultimate competition. ↗

— Jessica Ennis

#athlete #bring #competition #definitely #does

I took two fiction-writing courses in college and majored in literature. I felt that I had a knack though I wouldn't go so far as to call it a talent. But it scared me. I felt it was a childish thing wanting to write and that I would forget about it eventually. ↗

— Ben Fountain

#call #childish #college #courses #eventually

I'm a walker. I enjoy walking, which I think psychologically expresses my feelings of wanting liberation without exerting myself too much. ↗

— Janeane Garofalo

#exerting #expresses #feelings #i #i think

There's something I've been wanting to say for a long time. I'm a liberal, and I'm proud of it. In fact, I was probably a little more liberal than Hubert was. I just wanted to say that. ↗

— Muriel Humphrey

#fact #hubert #i #in fact #just