Wanting Quotes - page 7

Without individuals feeling safe and having an environment of safety, they then have reluctance of taking part in the city of being active. They wind up wanting to leave the city. That's more detrimental. (Dick Powell)
I didn't have big movie offers, or any big agents wanting to work with me. I had to go grassroots, start at the bottom and go on 150 auditions before someone finally gave me a shot. View quote
Donnie Wahlberg
It irritated me that my fans kept wanting me to retread old ground. View quote
Dario Argento
Once I grew from 6'1' to about 6'6', by that time I was going into 12th grade, and that's when I started wanting to play basketball, because, pretty much basketball players always got the girl. View quote
Eric Williams
Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship; it is always imperfect if either of these two are wanting. View quote
Eustace Budgell
Rock stars wanting to write is even worse than wanting to act in movies, right? View quote
Evan Dando
I developed a group of friends around me that were all as crazy as I was about wanting to make films. View quote
Evan Glodell
I went from not knowing anything to becoming really curious and wanting to know and respecting people in the industry, realizing how hard they work. I will always be thankful for 'Top Model' for that. View quote
Fatima Siad
In Malaysia, where Western culture was extremely influential, I'd grown up listening to Elvis and the Beatles and watching American movies. People wanted to be like Americans. In contrast, when I got here, I saw prosperous middle-class American college students wanting to somehow join the Third World. View quote
Feisal Abdul Rauf
We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely... change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now. View quote
George A. Sheehan
There is a tone of morality throughout the rural districts of England, which is unhappily wanting in the large towns and the centres of particular manufactures. (Henry Mayhew)
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. View quote
Ian Botham
I don't think anybody is wanting to put me back on the air. But I'm certainly out there trying. View quote
Jamie Farr
Heartbreak was the impetus to me writing poems and music in the first place. Over the years, I had my heart broken so badly that if I didn't find a way to get all the pain out, I was going to lose my mind. I was crazy! Like, wanting to slash tires and smash car windows. Crazy! I was so hurt that I had to write. View quote
Jill Scott
I think good actors - good, collaborative actors who see themselves as leaders in a given production - can and should offer ideas that have nothing to do with wanting to direct themselves. View quote
Joe Mantello
I go back and forth between wanting to be abundantly simple and maddeningly complex. View quote
John Baldessari
A writer starts out, I think, wanting to be a transfiguring agent, and ends up usually just making contact, contact with other human beings. This, unsurprisingly, is not enough. View quote
Joy Williams
It was all about wanting to get revenge. Pathetic, really, but it still is the motivation. View quote
Julian Clary
Sometimes I wonder if I got lulled into not wanting things because I grew up black in this country. View quote
Kevin Eubanks
Depression can kill you. It can also be a spiritually enriching experience. It's really an important part of my theology now and my spirituality that life is not perfect, and I grew up wanting it to be and thinking that if it wasn't, I could make it that way, and I had to acknowledge that I had all kinds of flaws and sadnesses and problems. View quote
Krista Tippett
You can't stop loving or wanting to love because when its right it's the best thing in the world. When you're in a relationship and its good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete. (Keith Sweat)
Anybody in the next centuries wanting to know what it was like to be a poet in the middle of the 20th century should read Kaddish. View quote
Leslie Fiedler
After an 18-year career, I left the film industry, not wanting to become one of those child-actor cautionary tales. View quote
Lisa Jakub
It's flattering if people think I'm attractive. If it helps, great, but it's not going to get in the way of me wanting to win. That's what I'm all about. View quote
Lorrie Fair
But, I swear, they're turning Donna into Annie Hall this season. More ties. More suits. But they're also keeping her really motivated, ya know? Like, wanting to be a rock journalist. Wanting to be the first woman president. View quote
Laura Prepon