My books are about ordinary people, like you, me, people on the street, people who really have an expectation of reasonable happiness in life, want their life to have a sense of security and predictability, who want to belong to something bigger than...
I guess what I'd like to say is that people in Sierra Leone are human beings, just like Americans. They want to send their kids to school; they want to live in peace; they want to have their basic rights of life just like everyone else. I think we al...
I absolutely don't write for women - far, far from it. It's so not what I want to do. Some of the writers, who have helped out at the beginning and end of the process - they're all men - have suggested quite feminine subjects they want me to explore....
Knowing what you don't want in life is almost as helpful as having a five year plan. Vision doesn't always mean you know exactly what you want to do or where you want to be in life; sometimes, vision is knowing where you don't want to be in order to ...
Aron Moss wrote a wonderful article on this topic in which he explains, ”We don't really want answers, we don't want explanations, and we don't want closure. … We want an end to suffering … but we shouldn't leave it up to God to alleviate suffe...
Wanting to be an actor and wanting to be famous are different.
One wants to be understood because one wants to be loved, and one wants to be loved because one loves.
...when I chose you, I didn't want the commonplace - I didn't want a 'partner' - I wanted a shrine...
I want you to walk away from a fight instead of run toward it, goddamn it.
If want a person wants is his life, he tends to be quiet about wanting anything else.
Women didn't want to be on the stage with other women because they didn't want their bodies to be compared. They didn't want another female act opening for them because of this weird competitive and tokenistic attitude.
Some of us don't want to be a housewife. When you live alone, you can do anything you want to do anytime you want. I really like it.
Young people, when they're left alone, always want to have compassion, and they always want to give. They always want to help people who are less fortunate.
I pride myself in being a deep thinker, and I want you to be one too.
I want you to channel Jessica Rabbit and give him a show.
I wanted someone to want me in all ways and someone who I wanted the same in return, And I'd found him.
I want you," she said. "I told you so," he said.
They've drummed the miraculous out of you, but you don't want it to be like that. You want the miraculous. You want everything to still be new.
I didn’t want to get burned. I didn't want to be the other woman, but I wanted him with all my might.
In the middle I want to be at the end, at the end I want to be in the beginning, and in the beginning I want to be in bed.
I want you to be weak. As weak as I am.
