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I wanted to write about the Trump era, but I didn't want to write, 'Fascism sucks' or 'Trump sucks.' That doesn't get you anywhere.
Tom King
You
About
Write
Era
Trump
Get
Want
Wanted
Anywhere
Fascism
Sucks
On my income tax 1040 it says 'Check this box if you are blind.' I wanted to put a check mark about three inches away.
Tom Lehrer
You
Three
Mark
Says
About
Put
Check
Blind
Box
Tax
Wanted
Inches
Income
Income Tax
Away
One of the reasons I chose Tufts is that they have one of the best veterinary schools in the country. Since I was six years old, I wanted to be a veterinarian.
Tracy Chapman
Best
Old
Country
Since
Schools
Years
Veterinarian
Six
Wanted
Reasons
Chose
My father was the role model I looked up to. My dad was an entertainer, too. I patterned my life after him. He wanted me to do better than he did. He never sold a record in his life, but to me, he was still a rock star.
Tracy Morgan
Life
Me
Better
Father
My Life
Too
Sold
Entertainer
Record
Never
He
Looked
Him
Rock
Still
Rock Star
His
Up
Than
Model
Role
Role Model
Did
Wanted
After
Dad
Star
I've had an ambition to be somebody since I was 13 years old because I wanted to help my family. I wanted to hurry and grow up so I could make enough money to buy my father a big car and my mother a beautiful home with an electric washing machine and all those things she used to see in the newspapers.
Trini Lopez
Beautiful
Buy
Home
Family
Money
Mother
Old
Car
Father
Somebody
Big
Ambition
Enough
Enough Money
Machine
Those
Hurry
See
Could
Had
Beautiful Home
Since
She
Make
Because
Years
Up
Wanted
Newspapers
Used
Electric
Help
Washing
Washing Machine
Grow
Grow Up
Things
I wasn't handsome. I didn't have good clothes. I used to wonder why people would hire me when they could get college graduates and Oxford scholars. Then it became apparent that when I got up on a stage, people actually wanted to look at me.
Walter Matthau
Good
Me
People
College
Clothes
Stage
Would
Could
Scholars
Look
Became
Got
Hire
Up
Wonder
Get
Handsome
Graduates
Oxford
Wanted
Then
Used
Apparent
Why
Actually
When we first met, I was trying to put a band together. I asked around at school for other guys who wanted to play in a band. Someone told me about a juvenile delinquent they knew who played bongos.
Wayne Kramer
Me
Together
School
First
Met
Band
Other
About
Someone
Guys
Delinquent
Put
Knew
Around
Trying
Wanted
Juvenile
Asked
Who
Play
Played
President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone.
William Westmoreland
War
Alone
President
Broaden
Brothers
Johnson
He
Leave
South
North
Did
Want
Wanted
Vietnam
Vietnam War
Vietnamese
When I was 21, I wanted to write like Kafka. But, unfortunately for me, I wrote like a script editor for 'The Simpsons' who'd briefly joined a religious cult and then discovered Foucault. Such is life.
Zadie Smith
Life
Me
Religious
Joined
Write
Simpsons
Like
Wrote
Editor
Cult
Discovered
Wanted
The Simpsons
Unfortunately
Script
Kafka
Then
In 2005, I got an email from Belarus Free Theatre. They were emailing playwrights in America and England announcing their existence and saying they would like support from us. I wrote back and asked if they wanted us to visit. They said, 'Yes, we'd love that.'
Tom Stoppard
Love
Saying
Theatre
Free
Playwrights
Back
Email
Visit
Would
Support
Like
Announcing
Wrote
Said
Got
Were
Existence
Yes
America
Wanted
Us
Asked
England
People would ask me to autograph their bodies and then the next time I'd see them on tour they'd have my autograph tattooed. I decided I wouldn't write on people anymore, but I'd give them arms and legs and if they wanted those autographed I'd do that.
Chuck Palahniuk
Time
Me
People
Those
Would
See
Give
Write
Tour
Arms
Tattooed
Autograph
Anymore
Wanted
Legs
Decided
Them
Ask
Then
Bodies
Next
Next Time
I have an idea for a Godzilla movie that I've always wanted to do. The whole idea of Godzilla's role in Tokyo, where he's always battling these other monsters, saving humanity time and again - wouldn't Godzilla become God? It would be called 'Living Under the Rule of Godzilla.'
Quentin Tarantino
God
Time
Humanity
Become
Living
Other
Saving
Monsters
Rule
Battling
Would
Would-Be
He
Idea
Always
Role
Godzilla
Where
Movie
Wanted
Again
Tokyo
Whole
My buddies wanted to be firemen, farmers or policemen, something like that. Not me, I just wanted to steal people's money!
John Dillinger
Me
People
Money
Something
Steal
Firemen
Buddies
Like
Policemen
Just
Wanted
Farmers
Dad's Jewish and Irish, Mom's German and Scotch. I couldn't say I was anything. My last name isn't even Downey. My dad changed his name when he wanted to get into the Army and was underage. My real name is Robert Elias. I feel like I'm still looking for a home in some way.
Robert Downey, Jr.
Home
Mom
Army
Looking
Changed
Way
Say
I Feel
I Feel Like
Some
He
Feel
Underage
Name
Like
Robert
Real
Still
His
German
Irish
Scotch
Real Name
Get
Wanted
Anything
Even
Dad
Last
Jewish
I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life.
Henry David Thoreau
Life
Live
Out
Marrow
Put
Wanted
Suck
Deep
I gave up writing children's books. I wanted to escape from them as I had once wanted to escape from 'Punch': as I have always wanted to escape. In vain.
A. A. Milne
Writing
Vain
Gave
Punch
Books
Once
Had
Always
Up
Escape
Children
Wanted
Them
When I first wrote 'Papa Hemingway,' there were too many people still alive, and the lawyers for Random House didn't want to OK it. But now all that's been filtered away by the passage of all these people. And having the fortune of surviving, I now feel that I am the custodian of what Ernest wanted the world to know about him and these women.
A. E. Hotchner
Women
People
World
Too Many People
Random
First
Too
Filtered
Papa
Alive
OK
About
Having
Lawyers
Feel
Know
House
Wrote
Him
Passage
Am
Still
Were
Been
Surviving
Want
Wanted
Custodian
Fortune
Many
Hemingway
Now
Away
But, somewhere in there, I did have the thought that this really fits in with my thinking about what I wanted to do; with what has to be done by a writer in order to stay alive as a writer.
A. E. van Vogt
Thought
Somewhere
Thinking
Alive
Stay
About
Writer
Fits
Did
Done
Order
Wanted
Really
While my mother wanted me to be a musician, I wanted to become an electronic engineer.
A. R. Rahman
Me
Mother
Engineer
Become
Musician
Wanted
While
Electronic
After 'Lindbergh,' my publisher asked whom I wanted to write about next. I said, 'There's one idea I've been carrying in my hip pocket for 35 years. It's Woodrow Wilson.'
A. Scott Berg
Carrying
Wilson
About
Pocket
Write
Idea
Said
Hip
Been
Years
Woodrow
Woodrow Wilson
Wanted
After
Asked
Next
Whom
Publisher
I announced my retirement from international cricket in May 2018 because I wanted to reduce my workload and spend more time with my wife and young sons. Some have insisted I was motivated purely by money. They are wrong.
AB de Villiers
Time
Money
Wife
Young
Cricket
Spend
Some
Purely
Insisted
More
Wrong
Sons
Retirement
Announced
Because
Reduce
Motivated
May
Wanted
International
With 'Dope Walk,' I wanted to bring back kids dancing and having fun again. That's how it used to be in Harlem. I remember everybody Harlem-shaking and 'Chicken Noodle Soup'-ing. Those were some of the most fun and memorable times in my life.
ASAP Ferg
Life
Remember
Walk
My Life
Dope
Everybody
Back
Dancing
Those
Kids
Memorable
Some
Having
Having Fun
Most
How
Noodle
Were
Chicken
Times
Wanted
Again
Used
Fun
Bring
Harlem
I wanted to appeal to people who've never really listened to hip-hop or really given it a chance before. I've also tried to incorporate all my favorite lifestyle things in the music. Of course, 'Fashion Killa' is one of peoples' favorites because it just expresses how much I like fashion.
ASAP Rocky
Music
Fashion
People
Before
Favorite
Favorites
Tried
Given
Lifestyle
Never
Like
Also
Course
Because
How
Hip-Hop
How Much
Listened
Just
Wanted
Much
Really
Appeal
Expresses
Things
Chance
Incorporate
I wanted to model when I was younger.
ASAP Rocky
Model
Wanted
Younger
I'm not the best at choosing what's good and what's bad. I wouldn't even know what's a good pop song and what's a bad one. With that said, I wanted to say what's true to me. Some people might say that the Skrillex record was pop, but that was just about the chemistry between me and my boy.
ASAP Rocky
Best
Good
Me
People
Song
Some People
Chemistry
Say
Bad
Record
Some
About
Bad One
True
Between
Know
Boy
Said
Just
Wanted
Might
Pop
Pop Song
Choosing
Even
My mom says that when I was a little kid, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I don't remember that.
Aaron Douglas
Mom
Remember
Say
Kid
Says
Always
Wanted
Little
Little Kid
Used
Actor
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