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  • Buck Owens I got to realizing that I wanted to record, I wanted to experiment. And doing those same old songs the same old way - I said, 'I think it's time for me to have some fun.'
    Buck Owens
    American musician, singer, songwriter (1929 - 2006)
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  • Cormac McCarthy I got what I needed instead of what I wanted and that's just about the best kind of luck you can have.
    The Sunset Limited (2011) 46
    Cormac McCarthy
    American novelist, playwright, short-story writer, and screenwriter (1933 - 2023)
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  • Adolph Green I had met a young lady who wanted to be in the theater. It was Judy Holliday. She had somehow fallen down the steps of the Village Vanguard, which still exists today.
    Adolph Green
    American lyricist and playwright (1914 - 2002)
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  • Burt Shavitz I had no desire to be an upward-mobile-rising yuppie with a trophy wife, a trophy house, a trophy car. I wasn't looking for any of those things. I already had what I wanted.
    Burt Shavitz
    American beekeeper and businessman (1935 - 2015)
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  • Alanis Morissette I happen to be lucky in that I knew what I wanted to do as far as a career since I was nine years old.
    Alanis Morissette
    Canadian-American singer, songwriter and actress (1974 - )
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  • Paul Gauguin I have always wanted a mistress who was fat, and I have never found one. To make a fool of me, they are always pregnant.
    Paul Gauguin
    French artist (1848 - 1903)
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  • Lily Tomlin I have always wanted to be somebody, but I see now I should have been more specific.
    Lily Tomlin
    American Comedienne (1939 - )
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  • Bruce Sutter I have an older son, Josh, and growing up, he just didn't care that much for baseball. And that was fine. But Chaddie, he always wanted to go to the ballpark. He just kind of took to it right away.
    Bruce Sutter
    American professional baseball pitcher (1953 - )
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  • Joan Didion I have not been the witness I wanted to be.
    A Book of Common Prayer (1977) 272
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Jimmy Carter I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming.
    Jimmy Carter
    American statesman, 39e President (1924 - )
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  • Stephen Hawking I have wanted to fly into space for many years, but never imagined it would really be feasible.
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Bryan Adams I like to be able to present myself in two or three different ways because I've never really wanted to rest on my laurels and be something that people expected.
    Bryan Adams
    Canadian singer, songwriter, record producer and guitarist (1959 - )
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  • Groucho Marx I married your mother because I wanted children, imagine my disappointment when you came along.
    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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  • Atom Egoyan I mean, if you are directing actors to do one thing and then directing them to do something else entirely because the one thing you wanted them to do may not work, then you are just shattering their confidence in the project.
    Atom Egoyan
    Armenian-Canadian stage and film director and writer (1960 - )
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  • Buck Owens I never expected to record again. I knew I had done everything I ever wanted to do. I was satisfied. But... all the time I'm watching the country music horizon. And I'm sayin' 'Lord, is there anybody gonna come?
    Buck Owens
    American musician, singer, songwriter (1929 - 2006)
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  • Buck Owens I never expected to record again. I knew I had done everything I ever wanted to do. I was satisfied. But... all the time I'm watching the country music horizon. And I'm sayin' 'Lord, is there anybody gonna come?'
    Buck Owens
    American musician, singer, songwriter (1929 - 2006)
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  • Anthony Trollope I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Anita Diamant I never wanted Mary Poppins to be my nanny. I wanted to be her when I grew up.
    Anita Diamant
    American author (1951 - )
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  • Gore Vidal I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that's the last thing I wanted.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • Ray Charles I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great.
    Ray Charles
    American singer, songwriter, pianist and composer (1918 - 2015)
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