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  • Alec Baldwin I wanted to be president of the United States. I really did. The older I get, the less preposterous the idea seems.
    Alec Baldwin
    American actor, writer, producer and comedian (1958 - )
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  • Dolly Parton I wanted to be the first woman to burn her bra, but it would have taken the fire department four days to put it out.
    Dolly Parton
    American singer and songwriter (1946 - )
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  • Anne Dudley I wanted to make a classical piece that was actually designed to be a CD, not designed for performance.
    Anne Dudley
    English composer, keyboardist and conductor (1956 - )
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  • Busta Rhymes I wanted to make something that reminded people of the way albums used to feel. I wanted something as good as the stuff put out by the Bomb Squad, or Dr. Dre and his production crew, or 'A Tribe Called Quest.' I miss albums like those.
    Busta Rhymes
    American rapper, musician, record producer and actor (1972 - )
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  • Atom Egoyan I wanted to make sure that the environment of the shooting itself was not that controlled, and the way to go about that course was to work with as small a crew as possible.
    Atom Egoyan
    Armenian-Canadian stage and film director and writer (1960 - )
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  • Bruce Cockburn I wanted to play rock and roll when I started playing. Nobody at that time ever thought about songwriting. You sang songs, that's all. You sang other people's songs. That's all there were.
    Bruce Cockburn
    Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (1945 - )
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  • J. G. Ballard I wanted to rub the human race in its own vomit, and force it to look in the mirror.
    J. G. Ballard
    British author (1930 - 2009)
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  • Ang Lee I wanted to shoot straight, mainstream, somehow off-beat. Not only realistic West, which is quite unfamiliar to the world's population - even to a lot of Americans.
    Ang Lee
    Taiwanese film director, producer, and screenwriter (1954 - )
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  • Bruce Willis I wanted to sign up and fight with you guys, but they told me I was too old.
    Bruce Willis during a visit to the 101st Airborne Division in northern Iraq, September 25, 2003. [2]
    Bruce Willis
    American actor, producer, and singer (1955 - )
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  • Harper Lee I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.
    Harper Lee
    American writer (1926 - 2016)
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  • J. K. Rowling I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever - was write novels.
    J. K. Rowling
    British novelist, screenwriter, and producer (1965 - )
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  • Busy Philipps I was in New York and I went to a meatball shop with my friend and there was paparazzi there and I thought, 'How did you know that someone was gonna come to this meatball shop?' But I was pregnant and I wanted a meatball sub and let me tell you, it was delicious.
    Busy Philipps
    American actress and writer (1979 - )
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  • Aleister Crowley I was not content to believe in a personal devil and serve him, in the ordinary sense of the word. I wanted to get hold of him personally and become his chief of staff.
    Aleister Crowley
    British occultist, writer, and mountaineer (1875 - 1947)
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  • Alice Miller I was not out to paint beautiful pictures; even painting good pictures was not important to me. I wanted only to help the truth burst forth.
    Alice Miller
    Polish-born Swiss psychologist (1923 - 2010)
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  • Annie Leibovitz I was scared to do anything in the studio because it felt so claustrophobic. I wanted to be somewhere where things could happen and the subject wasn't just looking back at you.
    Annie Leibovitz
    American portrait photographer (1949 - )
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  • Brock Lesnar I wasn't happy at the career I was at and wanted to try something else, and so I tried fighting, and it's working out pretty well. I set my own schedule; I have my own training facilities. I'm not traveling as much, and I'm at home every night.
    Brock Lesnar
    American professional wrestler (1977 - )
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  • Rosa Parks I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free.
    Rosa Parks
    American activist in the civil rights movement (1913 - 2005)
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  • David Jenkins I wouldn't put it past God to arrange a virgin birth if He wanted, but I very much doubt if He would.
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  • Buzz Aldrin I wrote 'Reaching for the Moon' because I wanted to tell kids that all of us have a moon, a dream, that we can strive for. Even if you don't attain it, you can at least reach for it.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Toni Morrison I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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