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If you tried to make a show for every person's particular interest, it'd be impossible because everyone is going to consume it the way they want to. All you can do is try to do an hour that makes sense for all.

I fell far short of living up to the kind of public servant I wanted to be.

Train at your current fitness level, or slightly above — not where you want to be.

Good, bad mediocre or whatever it is, if a director wants me in his movie, I take it as a compliment.

I don't want to be looked at. I really want to be a home body.

I don't compromise. I only do the stuff I want to do.

That’s the thing about success and happiness. Every time I fall in love I become absolutely, pathologically obsessed. The moment that you have what you want, and you’re not totally ready for it, you become obsessed with the idea that you don’t deserve it.

I didn't want to kill anybody, but there comes a point when the only way you can make a statement is to pick up a gun.

Don't want to get tipsy and break a hip.

Compare where you are to where you want to be, and you'll get nowhere

I never know what something is going to be until it emerges from the womb and you see the crown of its head and then you see it pushing its way up. So in my life if another book wants to be born it's not for me to choose.

I have an expensive hobby: buying homes, redoing them, tearing them down and building them up the way they want to be built. I want to be an architect.

I need to know how the clock is made after you tell me what time it is. I want to know all the details so I can understand how it works.

Sometimes you want to say things, and you're missing an idea to make them with, and missing a word to make the idea with. In the beginning was the word. That's how somebody tried to explain it once. Until something is named, it doesn't exist.

All I want to do is sit on my ass and fart and think of Dante.

You don't want to be glib; you want to treat every story respectfully.

I don't like shows, I don't like to put on a show, I just really want to work intimately with my actors.

If you see life as an opportunity, or if you see helping others as an opportunity, then all of a sudden you become joyous. You want to go forward.

That is true plenty, not to have, but not to want riches.

You can be anything you want to be, and you can start today, instead of waiting for some opportunity.

Liberals want the government to get bigger, and they want you to drive smaller cars, and they want to dictate the way you live.

I don't want learning, or dignity, or respectability. I want this music, and this dawn, and the warmth of your cheek against mine.

There's courage involved if you want to become Truth.

Hear this if you can: If you want to reach him You have to go beyond yourself And when you finally arrive at the land of absence Be silent Don’t say a thing Ecstasy, not words, is the language spoken there

You must ask for what you really want.