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it never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls.

No one wants to read poetry. You have to make it impossible for them to put the poem down--impossible for them to stop reading it, word after word. You have to keep them from closing the book.

If you want to heal Heal others And smile or weep At this very happy reversal of fate

Tallulah [Bankhead] is always skating on thin ice. Everyone wants to be there when it breaks.

For four years, we didn't do any 'Halloweens,' ... But I believed in it. It's not a genius creation or anything. But whenever Halloween season comes around audiences want something like this.

Even if I wanted, I cannot do anything. When they die, we always send for their co-religionists. Muslims take the Muslim's body to bury it, Hindus come and take away the dead to be cremated and Christians come and bury their dead.

A conservative doesn't want anything to happen for the first time; a liberal feels it should happen, but not now.

You always want to make the best film you can. If anything I feel more relaxed after the Oscar. I feel like I have a chance to just tell the stories I want to tell and it's actually been really nice.

You want to retire from a job you're not that all enamoured with. I love what I do. I want to keep doing it till I can't get out of bed doing it.

All I want to do is to go to America, get married and start a new life.

I am at a stage in my life where I want to only do thing that I love. I only want to do things that make me happy. Making money is important, but it's not my ultimate driver.

I'm not playing myself. It's a symbolic situation, where I want to introduce a fascist behind the table. I couldn't have had anybody else do that; for it to be successful, I had to do it myself.

We’re so wrapped up with egotistical things, career, family, having enough money, meeting the mortgage, getting a new car, fixing the radiator when it breaks—we’re involved in trillions of little acts just to keep going. So we don’t get into the habit of standing back and looking at our lives and saying, Is this all? Is this all I want? Is something missing?

I'm definitely very careful about the things that I want to be a part of, but it's also important for me to get dance out there to more people.

I always get what I want. If I didn't get it, I didn't want it enough.

If you want to have a character who falls into crisis, all you have to do is turn the Internet off, and then we all understand how that feels, when you suddenly just have time and yourself.

I've had journals ever since I was really little. Sometimes I write poems and stuff, but for the most part I write down what happens to me during the day that I don't want to forget. So I have books filled with little things like that.

I want to question what the outside is and who defines it. I often find those that are considered to be on the outside extremely inspiring.

The world has entered a new era, evolving from an industrial into a knowledge-based society, and into a society that wants to live in harmony with nature.

I'm just about equality, period. It's not like, I'm a woman, women should be in charge! I just want there to be equality for everybody.

Being famous is like a dream come true but it's really difficult because you lose your freedom. I don't want to lose being a kid.

I don't wanna talk about Teo [Macero]. He's a helluva musician, a brilliant musician, but he's just not for me, that's all. I can elaborate on it, but I don't want to do that.

I have to lie, if I don't want to take madmen seriously and become a madman myself

Then it was like a genie out of the bottle and it began to walk all on its own and in directions I did not want.

Pretending is the grease of non-relationships. Pretending is how you and I get through the day without ever having to know each other. When I walk in the room, you say to me, 'How are you?' Well, you don't want to know. And, frankly, I don't want to tell you. So I just say, 'Fine,' and you go, 'Fine.' And off we go.