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I don't want to hurt you, Mistress Weatherwax," said Mrs Gogol. "That's good," said Granny. "I don't want you to hurt me either.

Money doesn't buy happiness, Gytha." "I only wanted to rent it for a few weeks!

Mort was hurt by this. It was one thing not to want to marry someone, but quite another to be told they didn't want to marry you.

In my experience, what every true artist wants, really wants, is to be paid.

I think," he said, "I think, if you want thousands, you have to fight for one.

Humanity's a nice place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live there.

Oh. I see. People don't want to see what can't possibly exist.

Ordinary fortune-tellers tell you what you want to happen; witches tell you what’s going to happen whether you want it to or not. Strangely enough, witches tend to be more accurate but less popular.

What your soldier wants - really, really wants - is no-one shooting back at him.

You've been killing me inside and I don't want to die like this.

I want to push the fast-forward button until I get back to happy.

Well, first I'd want a better vibrato.

If you want to be free, all you have to do is let go.

I respect someone's right to privacy and I want them to know it.

[Hillary Clinton] really wants to be president. She wanted to be president in '08. She's hardly left the spotlight.

I don't want to help a politician revise the truth.

After that, I came back every year. Everyone said, 'Well, when you retire you can move there.' But I said, 'Why should I live my whole life where I don't want to be.'

There was a perverse side of me, with things like Van Helsing coming out. I didn't want to go down that route.

The more money you have to work with, the more people you have to deal with that you probably don't want to be spending time dealing with.

My problem is I'm like a junkie. I want a good movie fix, and I never get that fix.

Nobody went to see Tideland! I was hoping people would get angry about it but those that saw it didn't want to talk about it. This is the world we're living in, people don't want to discuss things that are actually worth discussing.

Writers do the self-censoring before they even get to the studio executive, because they know the film will not run that gauntlet. They, because they want to get their films made, they censor it.

What I want to write about has changed somewhat, and the scope of the storytelling has changed accordingly.

The reader wants to see something happen between pages one and four hundred, and nothing happens if the characters don't change.

You have to study composition to understand that things can be done backwards and forwards and upside down, inverted, but it's mainly just an inner valid intuitive thing. Where do you want to go? Ok this is busy, or this needs some space, or this is too much space so now I want to put more notes in there or something. It's all about contrast. High, low. Fast, slow, thick or thin or what have you. And it's the same with improvisation.