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If you want money more than anything, you'll be bought and sold. If you have a greed for food, you'll be a loaf of bread. This is a subtle truth: Whatever you love, you are.

a good writer should draw the reader in by starting in the middle of the story with a hook, then go back and fill in what happened before the hook. Once you have the reader hooked, you can write whatever you want as you slowly reel them in.

I've never wanted to be anyone other than who I am.

I knew I wasn't a baseball writer. I was scared to death. I really was afraid to talk to players, and I didn't want to go into the press box because I thought I was faking it.

Some of us just don't want to be famous ... anonymity cannot be bought for any price, once you have lost it.

To be truly happy is a question of how we begin, and not how we end, of what we want and not what we have.

I'm open to love. But guys should have to earn it. Because the minute they get it, they want something else.

Here is a fact: someday you will die. What will you do with this incredible gift that is your life? Do you want to get to the end of the road and wish you had strived more, accomplished more, and loved more? To do these things you will have to take chances, demonstrate courage, and commit in a way that allows you to be flexible but never allows you to quit on yourself.

One wants to see the artifice of the thing as well as the subject.

When you want to change your circumstances, you must first change your thinking.

I don't want to express violence or anger or hate in my art. I want to express forgiveness.

The intellectual who no longer feels attached to anything is not satisfied with opinion merely; he wants certainty, he wants a system. The revolution provides him with his opium.

You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.

I was very sure I did not want to be the stereotype of what Indian people are seen as, which is Bollywood, and henna. That’s all great! It’s what we are, and I love it. I love saris; I love music; I love henna; I love dancing, but that’s not all we are.

I'll take anyway to get into the Hall of Fame. If they want a batboy, I'll go in as a batboy.

Of all the arguments against voluntary euthanasia, the most influential is the slippery slope: once we allow doctors to kill patients, we will not be able to limit the killing to those who want to die.

I want to be remembered as somebody that tried to respect her integrity as an artist and as a person. And I don't want to be in any box. I don't want to be one thing.

I travel every single day, but I make it a point to hit the gym. I want to look good for the summer.

You don't want to make a steady diet of just lettuce. You don't want to make a steady diet of fried chicken.

I want to keep meeting new people, enlarging my circle of friends. I have great friends now... really good people. But I'm always ready for what comes next

When you're a plebeian you want success, and when you're successful you want to be a plebeian again

I meet so many people that just sort of say, "I want to thank you for your music. It really helped me" or "It changed my life."

Everybody wants to be good, but not many are prepared to make the sacrifices it takes to be great.

Good morning, God, I love You! What are You up to today? I want to be part of it.

That's the whole point of good propaganda. You want to create a slogan that nobody's going to be against, and everybody's going to be for. Nobody knows what it means, because it doesn't mean anything.