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For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.

Margaret Atwood

My mind's never gone very far away from what I wanted to accomplish.

Dan Gable

I wanted to be an outstanding player, that was my ambition.

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I'd always liked to read, but when I picked up books I wasn't getting the same kind of excitement from them that I was from going out clubbing. I wanted to get the same kind of feel.

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I wanted to be married at 26 but life had other plans.

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I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever - was write novels.

J. K. Rowling

I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity.

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I've always had this female-empowerment thing in the back of my mind - because I wanted my mother to be stronger, and she couldn't be.

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When I was nine, I had this girlfriend and we used to have running races in the park. I wanted to be like Superman and fly in and rescue her.

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I wanted to see the place where Margaret grew to what she is, even at the worst time of all, when I had no hope of ever calling her mine..

Elizabeth Gaskell

If I wanted to make spy movies for the rest of my life, that would be one thing, but I don't want to just make spy movies.

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I mean, my dad's a television producer, and I knew I could get a job as an assistant or a reader with one of his friends, but it wasn't exactly what I wanted to do.

J.J. Abrams

Besides me wanting to be an artist, I wanted to be a movie star.

Patti Smith

I wanted to go to Portland because it's a really good book town.

Patti Smith

I went to college and studied theater; I went to a theater conservatory. I live in New York because I wanted to do plays and still do plays.

Paul Rudd

But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know. There's no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.

Karl Lagerfeld

I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.

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I wanted to be bored to death, as good a way to go as any.

Peter De Vries

I wanted to be that quirky girl who writes funny songs that still have meaning.

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I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.

Keith Richards

I've never tried to achieve anything. I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.

Keith Richards

I went to Duke University in the medical track. And then I decided I wanted to do something more creative, so I switched to biochemistry at Nebraska.

Ken Wilber

When I was a boxer, I wanted to be champion of the world, not the richest man in the world.

George Foreman

Before finding music, I didn't have too many aspirations. I wanted to hang out, make a little money from whatever I had to do.

Kendrick Lamar

When I was working on my career, I was very aware of what I had done, what I wanted to do next. I'm having a good time just reading things that might be interesting to do.

Kurt Russell

Someone asked me what legacy I wanted to leave and all my answers were so long that I even bored him. I said I don't care. Why should I? I will die someday. So if you like, remember me.

Femi Kuti

I wanted to make a living, but I really was not interested in money at all. I was interested in being a great comedian.

Larry David

I was a girl and became a woman. Something about having the freedom at home to be in the position I wanted, to have the people I wanted, was empowering.

Ricki Lake

There were times, sure, I wanted my career to go better. But once it starts to go downhill, you can never get back, or only to some degree.

Lauren Bacall

Leonard Cohen

Lionel Messi

I wanted to be famous. I wanted people to talk about me.

Haile Gebrselassie

I wanted to show that crime doesn't pay. If you are saved and accept the Lord, you cannot use that as an excuse to avoid punishment.

Robert Duvall

For a while, I felt a little self-impelled to write Lou Reed Kind of songs. I should have understood that a Lou Reed song was anything I wanted to write about.

Lou Reed

I have definitely been curious and involved in the process; even as a young actor. I was always looking at where the camera was, what story it was telling. And as my experience grew, I wanted to know even more.

Keanu Reeves

I knew I wanted to sing when I was a very small boy. When I was probably 4 years old. My mother played a guitar and I would sit with her and she would sing and I learned to sing along with her.