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What I took back, because of my exposure to the Jewish music of the 30s and the 40s in my upbringing with my father, was that kind of theatrical songwriting. It was always a part of my character. This desire to make people laugh.
Pete Townshend
Music
Character
People
Father
Took
Back
Laugh
Kind
Part
Songwriting
Make
Because
Always
Upbringing
Theatrical
Exposure
Desire
Jewish
14th- and 15th-century drawings are almost unheard-of - and as a result, they generate jealous desire among dealers and curators. Museums in particular value rarity and pedigree more than attractiveness.
Peter Landesman
Jealous
Result
Value
Pedigree
Drawings
Rarity
More
Generate
Almost
Particular
Attractiveness
Dealers
Than
Among
Desire
Museums
Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health?
Petrarch
Health
You
Man
Blessing
Dangerous
Living
Stricken
Ailment
Would
Unreasonable
He
Suppose
Himself
Any
Regain
Found
Desire
I guess, to tell you the truth, I've never had much of a desire to grow facial hair. I think I've managed to play quarterback just fine without a mustache.
Peyton Manning
Truth
You
Hair
Think
Guess
Tell
Mustache
Fine
Facial
Never
Had
Without
Quarterback
Just
Much
Grow
Play
Desire
Once we as doctors are entrusted with the well-being of our patients and their children, it is our duty to take action, to be selfless, and fulfill our obligation to the service of others. I did so willingly, and it brought me great joy throughout my professional career. However, I always had a desire to do more.
Phil Gingrey
Service
Great
Me
Obligation
Joy
Doctors
Duty
Action
Others
Our
Once
Willingly
Great Joy
Brought
More
Throughout
Take
Entrusted
Had
Well-Being
Always
However
Selfless
Did
Patients
Children
Fulfill
Professional
Professional Career
Career
Desire
I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint? It might be things, thoughts, a memory, sensations, which have nothing to do directly with painting itself. They can come from anything and anywhere.
Philip Guston
Thoughts
Memory
Nothing
Painting
Sets
Directly
Come
Know
Knows
Off
Itself
Sensations
Anything
Which
Anywhere
Might
Paint
Who
Even
Things
Desire
In my experience a painting is not made with colors and paint at all. I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint?
Philip Guston
Experience
Made
Painting
Sets
Colors
Know
Knows
Off
Paint
Who
Even
Desire
To me, the drive for monumentality is as inbred as the desire for food and sex, regardless of how we denigrate it. Monuments differ in different periods. Each age has its own.
Philip Johnson
Food
Me
Age
Sex
Drive
Own
Monuments
Periods
How
Denigrate
Differ
Different
Regardless
Each
Desire
I have no desire to write fiction. I did what I did, and it's done. There's more to life than writing and publishing fiction. There is another way entirely, amazed as I am to discover it at this late date.
Philip Roth
Life
Writing
Late
Way
No Desire
Entirely
More
Date
Write
Another
Another Way
Am
Amazed
Discover
Than
Did
Done
Fiction
Publishing
Desire
Sometimes I'm uncomfortable with the level of fame I've got! It all depends on the day and what's going on. I don't desire any more fame. I don't need it.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Day
Sometimes
More
Uncomfortable
Got
Fame
Any
Going
Depends
Level
Desire
Need
I never had a massive desire to buy clothes. I liked to customise the clothes I already had or was given when I was younger. If I didn't like them that much, I made them how I wanted them to be.
Phoebe Philo
Buy
Made
Clothes
Given
Never
Had
Like
Liked
Massive
How
Wanted
Them
Younger
Much
Desire
I am surprised that I cannot recall whether my desire to become a minister transformed itself into a wish to lead the more militant life of missionary, by a slow process or suddenly.
Pierre Loti
Life
Slow
Wish
Become
Minister
Slow Process
More
Lead
Missionary
Am
Surprised
Itself
Cannot
Process
Whether
Transformed
Militant
Suddenly
Recall
Desire
The desire for freedom and equilibrium (harmony) is inherent in man (due to the universal in him).
Piet Mondrian
Freedom
Man
Harmony
Him
Equilibrium
Due
Inherent
Universal
Desire
My plans never progressed as far as a clear desire for a family.
Pope Benedict XVI
Family
Never
Clear
As Far As
Far
Plans
Desire
When you step away from doing something that you have always been doing and then you return to it, you have a different perspective. You get that desire and the will to strike at everything.
Preity Zinta
You
Perspective
Will
Strike
Everything
Something
Step
Return
Always
Doing
Been
Get
Different
Then
Different Perspective
Away
Desire
I always follow my heart and my guts. If I want to do something, I have immense belief in hard work and myself. I have it in me to do well anywhere and in anything I do. I have a deep desire to excel in everything I do.
Preity Zinta
Work
Hard Work
Myself
Me
Heart
Everything
Immense
Follow
Guts
Something
Excel
Well
Always
Want
Anything
Anywhere
Hard
Deep
Deep Desire
Belief
Desire
With moderate physical training, you can control anything in your body. You don't have to be an athlete to do it, and this isn't just about people with disabilities - it's about everyone. You just have to have the willpower, the mindset, and the desire to want to better yourself.
RJ Mitte
You
Yourself
People
Training
Better
Control
Everyone
Mindset
Willpower
Athlete
Physical
About
Disabilities
Moderate
Just
Want
Anything
Body
Your
Your Body
Desire
NASA asked me to create meals for the space shuttle. Thai chicken was the favorite. I flew in a fake space shuttle, but I have no desire to go into space after seeing the toilet.
Rachael Ray
Me
Space
Favorite
No Desire
Seeing
Fake
NASA
Go
Chicken
Thai
Space Shuttle
After
Meals
Asked
Create
Flew
Toilet
Shuttle
Desire
Indeed, many immigrants do not even desire U.S. citizenship, preferring a work visa that would allow them to work seasonally and to legally cross the border into their home country as needed.
Rachel Campos-Duffy
Work
Home
Country
Visa
Indeed
Immigrants
Border
Would
Citizenship
Cross
Allow
Legally
Them
Many
Even
Desire
Needed
In domestic life, the woman's value is inherent, unquantifiable; at home she exchanges proven values for mythological ones. She 'wants' to be at home, and because she is a woman, she's allowed to want it. This desire is her mystique, it is both what enables her to domesticate herself and what disempowers her.
Rachel Cusk
Life
Home
Woman
Value
Values
Herself
Both
Mystique
Exchanges
Mythological
Allowed
She
Because
Enables
Proven
Domestic
Domestic Life
Want
Wants
Inherent
Her
Desire
I don't pay attention to auction prices. Nothing interests me less. One of the benefits of not being an artist is I don't have to navigate the social hierarchies of the art world as a person of desire. I don't need anything. I live in a different way.
Rachel Kushner
Art
Me
World
Benefits
Nothing
Pay
Pay Attention
Live
Way
Hierarchies
Prices
Attention
Auction
Art World
Person
Artist
Being
Different
Anything
Social
Interests
Less
Navigate
Different Way
Desire
Need
I don't really desire things. I prefer to spend my money on experiences, on meals or travel.
Rachel McAdams
Travel
Money
Spend
Experiences
Meals
Prefer
Really
Things
Desire
So much of 'Mudbound' is about man's relationship to the land and to the elements. It's about the desire for control and how powerless we are against nature. We always knew we would shoot widescreen as a means to isolate a body in the frame and to highlight our own insignificance.
Rachel Morrison
Nature
Relationship
Man
Own
Control
Frame
Our
Would
Insignificance
About
Knew
Highlight
Powerless
Always
Isolate
How
Shoot
Against
Land
Much
Body
Means
Elements
Desire
The thing I can't figure out is why I have an undeniable compulsion to clean public spaces, airplane bathrooms, restaurant flatware, hotel gyms and Chapstick containers... yet I have no desire to make my own bed. Ever. Seriously, who made me, and where am I from?
Rachel Nichols
Me
Seriously
Made
Own
Airplane
Out
No Desire
Restaurant
My Own
Compulsion
Clean
Hotel
Undeniable
Make
Bed
Am
Where
Spaces
Public
Figure
Who
Why
Ever
Thing
Desire
I've always sung in choirs and acapella groups, but when I was in college, I finally started writing songs and playing with a band, and that ignited a desire to do it full time and pour everything I had into it.
Rachel Platten
Time
Writing
College
Pour
Band
Everything
Finally
Sung
Had
Songs
Always
Choirs
Full
Full-Time
Groups
Started
Playing
Desire
Of course the shrieking desire for the scoop can get really strong, but so is the desire to safeguard connections and keep everyone happy.
Rachel Sklar
Happy
Strong
Everyone
Safeguard
Course
Scoop
Get
Really
Connections
Keep
Desire
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