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You try so hard to make something that's fun and exciting, then all anyone wants to talk about is how no-one likes you. It gets very grinding. I had to let the chip I have on my shoulder about that go.

I always want to teach things that help people with their personal lives, their financial lives and their legacies, so this was a huge thing for me.

Anytime God wanted to reach people he always used people to do it. So, anytime the Holy Spirit wants to reach other people, it is always through people.

In storytelling, the audience actually wants to work for their meal, they just don't want to know that they're doing it.

People … don't want to be cured or changed or eliminated. They want to be whoever it is that they've come to be.

If you want to be productive, follow leads and dig. Whether it is for oil, gold or information, it requires action - your action. Question authority. Do it yourself.

If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself. This especially includes your health care.

Change your life. If you want to get better, that is what you have to do.

I am a vigilant monarchist. I want to see things evolve. The direction the monarchy seems to be moving in - towards a more mainland-European model - is one I would feel sympathetic about.

Apart from the positive woes of perdition, an eternity of wretchedness grows from the want of love to Christ as naturally as the oak grows from the acorn, or the harvest from the scattered grain. It is not that love to Christ merits heaven; it does far better, it makes heaven. It is, as it were, the organ of sensation that takes note of heaven's blessedness.

I believe if you want to build up to something, you have to start somewhere - you have to start today and maybe tomorrow won't exist.

I want to lead a nation where anyone who aims high can achieve their dreams.

I find it kind of weird that directors want to put themselves in their films.

Tennis was always sort of a - a learning. It was a vehicle for me to discover a lot about myself. And the things that I sort of discovered at times I not only didn't want to see it for myself but I certainly didn't want millions of people to see it.

In novels, I said, people are transfigured by love. They’re elevated, made different, lifted out of their ordinariness…It’s not so much to ask, I said. I just want love to live up to its publicity.

I want to be a writer who reminds others that these moments exist; I want to prove that there is infinite space, infinite meaning, infinite dimension

What is a secret wish?" "It is what you want but cannot ask.

That's why I love improvisational theater so much - you do it [scene] once and then it's done. You don't get bogged down with a lot of preplanning and repetition. If I do something and it gets a laugh, I don't want to do it again. Why bother? I'm just repeating myself. It's boring.

I want to work with kids. I would love to be a teacher.

I believe I can do anything. If I decide I want to be a doctor tomorrow, I'm going to be a doctor.

Books allow you to be whoever you want to be, to escape yourself for a while.

It's hard to come to terms with the fact that you aren't going to be loved the way you want to be loved.

I can relate to soul, R&B... whatever people want to call me is fine. I just hope it makes them feel something.

If you want to ask one question, ask yourself, what are you giving to the universe and only that will be returned.

I want to be the next Walt Disney, only a little more wicked.