Want Quotes - Page 701

You really want to know your cofounders for a while, ideally years.

You cannot create a market that doesn't want to exist.

You want to sound crazy, but you want to actually be right.

You only get points when you make something the market wants. So if you work really hard on the wrong things, no one will care.

The longer we lived with it the more we wanted something less about process and more about life.

I now want to be a photographer of my time, and our common culture.

The reason I don't want to say anything about it is it has a strange power to take over the conversation. Just like it's doing with us. I was asked to participate in a documentary about Richard Prince, and be the voice of someone who was appropriated, and I declined. The reason I did is I don't want it to be the subject of the discussion of my work.

I want to write novels. I want to write stories. I want to do the stuff that I became a writer to do.

Literature is the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about everythingin every possible way. The reason for ensuring that that privileged arena is preserved is not that writers want the absolute freedom to say and do whatever they please. It is that we, all of us, readers and writers and citizens and generals and goodmen, need that little, unimportant-looking room. We do not need to call it sacred, but we do need to remember that it is necessary.

Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.

When you start writing about the stuff that is the central experience of your own life, you can talk about whatever you want, in whatever way you want.

I didn't want to become some embittered old hack getting his revenge for the rest of my life. And I didn't want to become some scared creature cowering in a corner. I remember telling myself not to carry the hatred around, although I know where it is. I have it in a trunk in storage.

Doris Lessing really doesn't care what the critics say. In fact, she orders her publishers not to send her the reviews and gets cross with them if they do because she doesn't want that in her head. She's going where she's going, and that's where she wants to go.

Don't you know girls have to fool people every day of their lives if they want to get anywhere?

If you're on a freeway and want to know if you're being followed, what you do is enormously vary your speed. You accelerate to 100 and slow down to 30 and then accelerate again. In a city, you make a lot of turns against the stream of traffic. You go around a roundabout twice.

I don't ever want to have to depend on anyone completely.

I like to eat. I'm always on the edge of how much can I eat without looking too - you know. If I eat something salty, it makes me want something sweet. I eat something sweet, then I want salty. And exercise is not my thing, though I do it.

Imagine if I'd said, 'I have to be the best actress - I want that and nothing else.' I never would have directed. I never would have produced. I never would have done a beauty line. I would have just worried about getting a job or been frustrated that I wasn't getting the job that I wanted. I was ready to be a businesswoman.

I don't want to be size zero and I'm glad I'm not.

I've always traveled with the films because I want the audience to be my teacher so that I can learn for the next one.

I never let anything stop me from doing what I want to do.

Fitness if like the blade of a knife; you want to sharpen it without ruining the blade.

You always want your films to go as far as they can.

I wanted to be Katharine Hepburn-ish - there was a bit of nobility about her.

I always wanted to be a great actor.