My grandmother raised five children during the Depression by herself. At 50, she threw her sewing machine into the back of a pickup truck and drove from North Dakota to California. She was a real survivor, so that's my stock. That's how I want my kids to be too.
When I became a published writer, I said, 'Whatever I can do to help the libraries I want to do,' so all of my book tours since then have involved me coming to a library and talking about how important libraries are for a community.
When people come and see me, I want them to experience joy. I don't do any sad songs in my show. It's to lift the spirit.
I don't want to sit around by the pool luxuriating with a margarita. That's just not what I want to do.
I want to go on TV to perform. I'm not conceited, but I am good at what I do. It's just the vehicles are not there anymore.
I am the kind of person who hates the gym. I am allergic to the gym. I want to run away from it.
Of course I want to have a family, but there's a right time for everything. When my time comes, it will happen.
I was watching TV one day, and I'm like, 'How did those people get on TV? I'm gonna try that. Hey, mom, I want to be on TV!' And she's like, 'OK, let's get you an agent.'
I enjoy collaborating with creative people and trying to get the best image possible to convey a feeling or story. Plus, I get flown all over the world to exotic places. How can you lose interest in that? It's a great lifestyle. I can take vacations whenever I want, and no two shoots are ever the same.
I don't really care if you're a Republican or Democrat or you want to fight about the size of government. How about a government that just works? Put your tax dollar in and get a return out the other end.
Some comedians will tour and do these classic bits all the time. But now with YouTube and Comedy Central, people see your stuff, and they don't want to hear you do that again.
I might want to open a hotel and design all the rooms. Or maybe a museum that lets me curate all the events.
I just want to be a better actor. You can always get better.
All I really want to do is plays - and that's a New York thing.
Unfortunately, the higher you climb in social media, the more people will want to throw stones at you. But don't retaliate publicly.
I want to do with skates what Fred Astaire is doing with dancing.
The consumer is deciding what they want to see and when and how, and filmmakers are more aware and accepting of the fact that success is not predicated on your movie showing in a traditional theater for a certain amount of time.
I want women to get paid more. I want to teach them to negotiate so they get paid more.
Things aren't always clear at the beginning of a relationship. Be up-front. Don't play on her confusion or vulnerability. Women want and appreciate clarity.
I definitely understand what it's like not having family around when you want them there, but you don't live in the same city.
There's certainly a loss of connection with folks on the ground who I care for and love and I want to spend time with.
I want to be remembered as a poet, a peacemaker, and a philosopher who played.
I don't think LVMH will want to significantly change the strategy of Loro Piana, and I don't think that they would have bought it otherwise.
When I'm done fighting, I want to look to get some sort of driving career somewhere. My goal is to eventually get into the Mint 400 and do the trophy truck stuff.
I want to challenge the best, and I'm ready.
I miss Boston so much and want to get back there someday.
We know even from ordinary life that we have to achieve a sufficient degree of attentiveness if we want to concentrate on an inner picture or an object of some kind; we must also have it in our power, though, to turn our soul away from something we have been concentrating on.
I saw Damien Rice in Dublin when I was 13, and that inspired me to want to pursue being a songwriter... I practised relentlessly and started recording my own EPs. At 16, I moved to London and played any gigs I could, selling CDs from my rucksack to fund recording the next, and it snowballed from there.
If I can inspire some leaders, that would be great. I don't know if I want to be a leader.
When I think about Edmonton, Silver Street and Pymmes Park, the old people whose faces are so unhappy, it pushes me to be better. I want to be better to help places like this.
I never want to lose the audience's attention or break up the party, but at the same time, it would be weird not to do some new music.
For future Snowdens, we want to show there is an organization that will do what we did for Snowden - as much as possible - in raising money for legal defense and public advocacy for whistleblowers so they know if they come forward there is a support group for them.
I'm really proud to be Filipino. Filipinos are really supportive, and I want to thank all of them. I love them!
We're about getting all the people who want to compete with Samsung to be able to build devices. So we're kind of down at the guts level saying, 'Hey, we can give you the hardware, the sensor platform, the software you need to go build your own one.'
If you look at iPod, iPod wasn't viewed as a success, but today it's viewed as an overnight success. The iPhone was the same way. People were writing about there's no physical keyboard. Obviously nobody would want it.
I want to protect my vision, and that's the hardest thing.
