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I never wanted to stay in one genre; I never wanted to be pigeon-holed or defined as the actor who only worked in one genre. I want to be able to work in all different genres. For me it's fun, and that's how I grow as an actor.

Able Actor Defined Different
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When I left Maine, I always wanted to be a working actor. I never cared too much about being the star. I just wanted to do the work and get on with it.

Left Maine Always Working
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I was 17 when I left the small Maine town where I'd grown up. I wanted to do something I thought was important with my life, so I headed to California and didn't look back.

Was Left Small Maine
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I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.

Found Know Out Slave
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I never wanted to be on any billionaires list. I never define myself by net worth. I always try to define myself by my values.

Always Any Billionaires Define
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My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.

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From the moment I wrote 'Leaf Storm' I realized I wanted to be a writer and that nobody could stop me and that the only thing left for me to do was to try to be the best writer in the world.

Best Could Leaf Left
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I was never interested in being a rock star. I always wanted to be Boris Karloff.

Always Being Interested Never
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Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.

Becoming Marry Men Some
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What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Neglected Child What Planned
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I would never allow anyone to give me money, no difference how badly I needed it. I wanted literally to earn my living.

Allow Anyone Badly Difference
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I first wanted to be a psychiatrist. I decided against that in medical school when I discovered that psychiatrists didn't, in reality, do what they did on TV.

Against Decided Discovered First
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The simplest and most psychologically satisfying explanation of any observed phenomenon is that it happened that way because someone wanted it to happen that way.

Any Because Explanation Happen
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My younger brother's death in Vietnam was both sobering and cause for reflection. In 'Fallen Angels' I wanted to dispel the notion of war as either romantic or simplistically heroic.

Angels Brother Cause Death
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In dance you use every party of your body except your voice. I wanted to start acting because I wanted to use my voice.

Acting Because Body Dance
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I wanted to better inform the world.
Better Inform Wanted World
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When I was in school, I conceptually didn't want black people to have context, to take it out of all that history. I wanted nothing to indicate where they are or what time it is, to place them anywhere.

Anywhere Black Context History
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As far back as I can remember, my mother would have me down by the bed at night with her, praying. I can still hear her voice calling my name to God and telling him that she wanted me to follow him in whatever he called me to do.

Mother Name Night Praying
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Finally, everything that has been part of my life, whether I wanted it to or not, has expressed itself in my dresses.

Dresses Everything Expressed Finally
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I wanted to be considered a good craftsman. I wanted my dresses to be constructed like buildings, molded to the curves of the female form, stylizing its shape.

Buildings Considered Constructed Craftsman
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I always wanted to have my own album released before I graduated from high school.
Album Always Before Graduated
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Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.

Act Because Born Day
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And it turns out that tribes, not money, not factories, that can change our world, that can change politics, that can align large numbers of people. Not because you force them to do something against their will. But because they wanted to connect.

Against Align Because Change
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I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.

Bird Man More Never
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I didn't know what types of movies I wanted to do. I want to do things that are different. I want to take my time with each role.

Different Each Know Movies
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I wanted to make the album I always needed to make. I had to say the things I never could.

Album Always Could Make
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I always sang. I wanted to be in a band with my sister, and I was, at 11. At 12, I started writing seriously, and that was my pacifier all through high school - that and painting.

Always Band High Painting
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I would never diminish the quality of Hermes. Hermes can be an even rarer and greater quality business, if they ever wanted to work with us.

Business Diminish Ever Greater
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The only thing I ever wanted to be was a professional football player.
Ever Football Football Player Only
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I was single-minded on what I wanted to do since I was like nine or ten.

Like Nine Since Single-Minded
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I'm picky, very picky. I wanted to be an actor since I was nine years old, and I figured that was only one way to ever have any longevity, and that's to be careful about what kind of work you do.

About Actor Any Be Careful
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The two things that I wanted in my life were to have a movie career and to be married, to have a family. And it's an embarrassment of riches that I've got both.

Both Career Embarrassment Family
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I really never had any thought about being a legitimate actor, like a stage performer. I wanted to make movies. I wanted to do television and make movies.

About Actor Any Being
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I tried to manipulate and control people, and I harbored resentment. I wanted to be forgiven, but I wouldn't forgive others.

Control Forgive Forgiven I Tried
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I always wanted to be honest with myself and to those who have had faith in me.

Always Faith Had Honest
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My first year making music was very experimental. I was trying to find my sound. My second year, I was more in my element. I knew what type of production I wanted to go over and the topics I wanted to address.

Address Element Experimental Find
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I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny.

Anybody Because Else Emulate
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I've always wanted to be an actress, ever since I was a little girl. I've always played the mom and I play my sister as the daughter. I wanted to be an actress on television and movies instead of just around the house.

Actress Always Around Daughter
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I have always wanted to act ever since I was a little girl. I would put a blanket under my shirt and pretend that I was pregnant. Then, I would go through childbirth.

Act Always Blanket Childbirth
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I've spoken in every state in the union, meeting and hugging the people who later bought my books. I spoke to anybody who wanted to hear me, including 1,000 nuns who could pay me only with homemade bread.

Anybody Books Bought Bread
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I can remember the frustration of not being able to talk. I knew what I wanted to say, but I could not get the words out, so I would just scream.

Able Being Could Frustration
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As a young kid, I really wanted to be rich.

Kid Really Rich Wanted
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I've always wanted to live above my means because it inspired me to work harder.

Always Harder Inspired Live
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Modeling is basically 'Buy more stuff! Don't you want some more stuff? It will make you look ten years younger and men will like you!' If I'd wanted to be a salesperson, I would have got a job selling.

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Motherhood definitely took the focus off of my work. And I didn't mind. I had a few panics when I thought that if I wanted to work I couldn't get a job anymore and then I would get one once in a while and it would make me feel better.

Anymore Better Definitely Feel
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The longer you stay out of this sport, the less sharp you are, and I've been aware of that; that's why I've stayed and haven't wanted to retire and come back - because you skip a beat.

Aware Back Beat Because
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In my senior year of high school, I read an article in 'Newsweek' about child soldiers in Sierra Leone. I felt a sense of shock - this was happening in the region where I'm from, and people don't know about it. I wanted to understand.

About Article Child Felt
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I've always wanted to play Maria in West Side Story. My idol is Natalie Wood, and I love the movie, so I think a modern-day twist on it would be really neat.

Always I Love I Think Idol
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My first real kiss came when I was 10, and it was in an acting class. I had to do a scene from a movie where someone gets kissed under a tree, and I did not want to do it! But my acting partner wanted me to feel comfortable, so he bought a picnic basket with all these snacks. He made such an effort - and it was cute.

Acting Acting Class Basket Bought
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A good amount of the guys wanted to date me. Even older guys looking at me. It took some getting used to.

Amount Date Even Getting
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