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I wish my mother had left me something about how she felt growing up. I wish my grandmother had done the same. I wanted my girls to know me.
Carol Burnett

Mother, Done, Same

I decided I was sick of trying to figure out what everybody else wanted, and I should just decide what I want, and be honest, and not spend all my time guessing.
Katherine Heigl

Time, Trying, Sick

My mother always wanted me to be glamorous. When I thought about that, it really fired me up, and once I lost all those pounds, I started to feel really good about myself.
Etta James

Good, Mother, Lost

I wanted to take up music, so my father bought me a blunt instrument. He told me to knock myself out.
Jay London

Music, Father, Instrument

The real estate agent had to go door-to-door in the apartment building we wanted to rent, asking if it was OK for this interracial family - my mom is white and I was a 1-year-old half-African kid - to live in the apartment building.
Tom Morello

Family, Mom, Live

When I heard Aretha, I could feel her emotional delivery so clearly. It came from down deep within. That's what I wanted to do.
Whitney Houston

Emotional, Deep, Down

What tribes are, is a very simple concept that goes back 50 million years. It's about leading and connecting people and ideas. And it's something that people have wanted forever.
Seth Godin

Simple, Ideas, Goes

I wanted the players to feel like they were part of a family, to be conscious of that controlled togetherness as they made that slow entrance onto the field. It had a great psychological effect on the opposing team, too. They'd never seen anything like it.
Hayden Fry

Family, Great, Made

I knew at an early age I wanted to act. Acting was always easy for me. I don't believe in predestination, but I do believe that once you get where ever it is you are going, that is where you were going to be.
Morgan Freeman

Age, Acting, Easy

Actually, I wanted to act even when I was still playing football.
Eric Cantona

Football, Playing, Act

I always wanted to play against the best.
Eric Cantona

Best, Play, Against

All directors are storytellers, so the motivation was to tell the story I wanted to tell. That's what I love.
Spike Lee

Love, Tell, Motivation

I was perceiving myself as good as a man or equal to a man and as powerful and I wanted to look ambiguous because I thought that was a very interesting statement to make through the media. And it certainly did cause quite a few ripples and interest and shock waves.
Annie Lennox

Good, Powerful, Through

If you wanted to torture me, you'd tie me down and force me to watch our first five videos.
Jon Bon Jovi

Down, Force, Five

I wanted to make noise, not study theory.
James Hetfield

Study, Theory, Noise

I've wanted to be a writer since I was a boy, though it seemed an unlikely outcome since I showed no real talent. But I persevered and eventually found my own row to hoe. Ignorance of other writers' work keeps me from discouragement and I am less well-read than the average bus driver.
Garrison Keillor

Work, Ignorance, Real

All I've ever wanted, since I was a child, was to do something wonderful.
Patti Smith

Wonderful, Child, Since

Everything worthwhile, everything of any value, has its price. Everything anyone has ever wanted has come neatly wrapped up in its penalties.
Loretta Young

Everything, Anyone, Value

My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding and the baby at every christening.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Wedding, Father, Baby

I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.
Doris Lessing

War, Mother, Write

I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.'
Doris Lessing

Success, Nothing, Book

I wanted to express myself. I wanted to be creative and I didn't want to worry about someone bossing me around in the process. You have to struggle no matter where you are to get to where you're going, so I'm like, working it honey!
Michelle Rodriguez

Struggle, Someone, Working

My motivation for running for Senate was not for the stature of being a senator, but because I wanted to make a difference on issues I feel passionate about.
Herman Cain

Motivation, Difference, Running

I started singing in church and I was probably around seven and I started singing anywhere that I could. I used to sing at my school. I was in musicals and then it kind of got to a point where I started to - wanted to do my own songs.
Avril Lavigne

School, Around, Used

I always knew that I wanted to be an artist.
Maynard James Keenan

I always knew that I wanted to be creative, that I wanted to create something.
Maynard James Keenan

Creative, Knew, Create

When I was a kid and I bought a record, I ripped that thing open, I wanted to know who was playing what, what studio it was cut at, who was the string arranger, who was the engineer.
Lenny Kravitz

Playing, Open, Kid

I really wanted to work with David Lynch. I was a big fan of The Elephant Man and Eraserhead.
Sting

When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?
Sam Levenson

Father, Problem, Used

I did study the art of being a barber because I wanted to figure out what my routine would be. Do you start in the front or back? Top or bottom? Swivel the chair or walk around? What I did discover is there's no such thing as the perfect haircut!
Sean Patrick Thomas

Art, Perfect, Study

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