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...she starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see...

Face People See
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She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.

Life Elude Struggle
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I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

But Found Sure Only
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My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I was nine and a half, but if she had lived, I probably wouldn't be trying to play guitar. She wanted me to be known, but as something else. Not a guitar player.

Very Beautiful Good Play
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I'm not successful in Hollywood, and I probably would never be. I think Hollywood has such an interesting model for success, and it creates those successful people. I'm not in that chosen category, but what is successful for me is that, in spite of that, I've been able to work and do the things that I wrote down that I wanted to do and be.

Success People Wrote Down
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A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted.

Man Go Who Living
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It hurts to let go. Sometimes it seems the harder you try to hold on to something or someone the more it wants to get away. You feel like some kind of criminal for having felt, for having wanted. For having wanted to be wanted. It confuses you, because you think that your feelings were wrong and it makes you feel so small because it's so hard to keep it inside when you let it out and it doesn't come back. You're left so alone that you can't explain. Damn, there's nothing like that, is there? I've been there and you have too. You're nodding your head.

Away Hurt Hard Someone
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And my interest in history was, and remains, very strong: what I wanted was to understand certain things better by understanding them psychoanalytically.

Interest Strong Understand Certain
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Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

Clever World Today Myself
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I didn't feel like I was putting anything good into the world, even though it was funny. I wanted to do something more positive that would have an impact. So even when I'm doing naked push-ups or whatever, it's astounding to see how people respond to it.

Impact People Naked Astounding
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I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.

Famous Could Remember Long
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I wanted to hide away and write. I wanted to meet characters who would climb up my pen. I wanted to create a completely new world, inventing everyone and everything.

Hide Write Climb Create
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I didn't necessarily have a total idea when I was writing the movie of where everything was going. I just wanted to have really realistic dialogue and write like people I knew talked. I tried to keep it very real.

Writing Movie Total Dialogue
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Actually when I gave out the script, I gave it with a CD of all the music I wanted to put in the movie, and again, we never thought we'd get all that music.

Music Script CD Movie
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If men wanted to look good in a skirt, they would need the body of an African. And the colour. A skirt with white, skinny legs. Horrible!

African Body Colour Good
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I wanted women to have the same basic wardrobe as a man. Blazer, trousers, and suit. They're so functional. I believed women wanted this and was right.

Basic Believed Blazer Functional
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I never wanted to be a statistic. I never wanted to be that cat who tried and never made it.

Cat Made Never Statistic
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I'm getting in the studio with everybody I've always wanted to work with. That's the amazing thing.

Studio Work Getting Amazing
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I'm from the south side of Nigeria, a place called Port Harcourt City... No one ever makes it out of there. I wanted to put it on the map.

City Ever Makes Map
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I've always wanted to make a career in the arts, and I think that my only hope at doing that is to make it more about the work.

About Always Arts Career
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Among a large class, there seemed to be a dependence upon the government for every conceivable thing. The members of this class had little ambition to create a position for themselves, but wanted the federal officials to create one for them. How many times I wished then and have often wished since, that by some power of magic, I might remove the great bulk of these people into the country districts and plant them upon the soil – upon the solid and never deceptive foundation of Mother Nature, where all nations and races that have ever succeeded have gotten their start – a start that at first may be slow and toilsome, but one that nevertheless is real.

Large Dependency Ambition Creat
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I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.

Arts Back Felt Just
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Art was, seriously, the only thing I'd ever wanted to own. It has always been for me a stable nourishment. I use it. It can change the way that I feel in the mornings.

Always Art Been Change
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Scripture is filled with examples of men and women whom God used late in life, often with great impact - men and women who refused to use old age as an excuse to ignore what God wanted them to do.

Example Excuse Filled God
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I wanted to end my career still at the highest level, and Bayern is the highest level.

Career End Highest Highest Level
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That's one thing that I've always wanted: to make my own decisions and not to be pushed. That has happened in my career, and I wanted to leave football, not football to leave me. I wanted to enjoy it as much as I could and to leave it a little bit earlier than too late.

Always Bit Career Could
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But, somewhere in there, I did have the thought that this really fits in with my thinking about what I wanted to do; with what has to be done by a writer in order to stay alive as a writer.

About Alive Did Done
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I kept wanting to push my image as validity; I wanted to see my portrait on a wall and know it was okay.

Image Portrait Kept Push
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I wanted to connect all people who are thinking about peace on Earth.

About Connect Earth Peace
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You could make any song sound creepy if you wanted. It's all about the inflection.

About Any Could Creepy
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Since I was a kid, music was what I wanted to do. I thought I could make it by my own talents. That's what I wanted to prove.

Could Kid Make Music
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What would your life be like if you found out you had 3 weeks left? And you know that you had not begun to live? And you had all these dreams and all these possibilities. And all these things you wanted to do and things you wanted to say and now time’s up?

Live Dreams Possibilities Time
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I just want to make music, I don't want people to talk about me. All I've ever wanted to do was sing. I don't want to be a celebrity. I don't want to be in people's faces, you know, constantly on covers of magazine that I haven't even known I'm on.

Just Want Music People
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I don't want people confusing what it is that I'm about. I just stand there and sing. And I don't do stunts or anything. if I wanted to do all that, I don't think I'd get away with it.

People Confusing That About
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I've never wanted to look like models on the cover of magazines. I represent the majority of women and I'm very proud of that.

Never Wanted Like Models
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As a young person, I was on the road playing music, so I was getting new environments shoved in my face whether I wanted them or not.

Road Playing Music Shoved
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The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book when he saw it. I was the typical African woman, I'd done this privately, I wanted him to look at it, approve it and he said he wouldn't read it.

African Approve Book Bride
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With United, we'd all grown up together, we all wanted to win the biggest trophy in football. We did it togther.

Biggest Did Football Grown
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I have always found it an honor that people have wanted to buy my shirt and an honor that fans turn up to watch the team I am playing in. I have always found that a huge honor.

Always Am Buy Fans
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I tend to gravitate to the darkest or most obscure part of any venue in an effort to have my own space to experience the music on my own, free from unwanted conversations and other distractions.

Conversations Distractions Unwanted Gravitate
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If God wanted me to be quiet he would’ve never showed me what he does.

God Quiet Show Never
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When I was younger, I always wanted to impress, to be good for my country, to make them feel good, and sometimes that meant I didn’t focus on myself enough. I learned I had to put myself first. And it’s fine because I want for me the same thing that they want for me, which is to win.

Impress Country Focus Younger
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What I wanted to express very clearly and intensely was that the reason these people had to invent or imagine heroes and gods is pure fear. Fear of life and fear of death.

Express Reason Invent Imagine
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A big part of what I wanted to do with this character was go from when I was a boy and try and develop into a man, really try and play him as a man who is on this search, on a journey of personal, spiritual, political, social discovery.

Character Boy Develop Play
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Altering a gene in the gene line to produce improved offspring is likely to be very difficult because of the danger of unwanted side effects. It would also raise obvious ethical problems.

Gene Offspring Effect Obvious
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For me it came from the material. It was so well written and brought the opportunity to work with great actors. And of course the opportunity to 'mince about' was an added element that I wanted to take advantage of!

About Actor Added Advantage
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Wanted, a man who will not lose his individuality in a crowd, a man who has the courage of his convictions, who is not afraid to say

Man Individuality Courage Conviction
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I have never wanted to give up performing on stage, but one day the tours will be over.

Day Give Never One Day
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I came into music just because I wanted the bread. It's true. I looked around and this seemed like the only way I was going to get the kind of bread I wanted.

Around Because Bread Came
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I wanted to be a professional dancer for a period of time, and I did a lot of dancing and choreography and got paid for it.

Choreography Dancer Dancing Did
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