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In junior high, I really wanted to be popular. Suddenly there were parties with boys, and I wanted to be part of that. There was a group of girls, and I wanted to be friends with them.
Amy Heckerling
Girl
Group
High
Part
Parties
Boy
Were
Friends
Junior
Junior High
Wanted
Them
Really
Popular
Suddenly
I attended Art & Design High School, and at one point, you had to write about what you wanted to be when you grew up. I wrote that I wanted to be a writer for 'Mad' magazine.
Amy Heckerling
Art
You
School
Design
Mad
High
Magazine
High School
About
Point
Write
Writer
Had
Attended
Wrote
Up
Wanted
Grew
I wanted to do something about a really optimistic character: a character who was so optimistic, no one could burst her bubble.
Amy Heckerling
Character
About
Something
Could
Bubble
No-One
Optimistic
Wanted
Burst
Really
Who
Her
I wanted to be a veterinarian, but slipped up when I hit organic chemistry.
Amy Hempel
Chemistry
Organic
Up
Hit
Veterinarian
Wanted
I wanted to be a veterinarian until I saw a video of a vet performing surgery on a dog. Then I decided I wanted to be a pianist.
Amy Lee
Dog
Saw
Pianist
Performing
Until
Surgery
Vet
Veterinarian
Wanted
Decided
Video
Then
I realized early on that I always hated girls who used their femininity to get what they wanted.
Amy Locane
Girl
Hated
Always
Femininity
Get
Wanted
Realized
Used
Who
Early
Growing up in the hot Last Vegas desert, all I wanted was to be free. I would daydream about traveling the world, living in a place where it snowed, and I would picture all of the stories that I would go on to tell.
Amy Purdy
World
Free
Picture
Living
Tell
Would
About
Vegas
Hot
Daydream
Go
Up
Where
Wanted
Stories
Place
Desert
Growing
Growing Up
Traveling
Last
Of course, there are benefits to having prosthetics. I can make myself as tall as I want. I can wear flip-flops in the snow if I wanted to. There's benefits.
Amy Purdy
Myself
Benefits
Wear
Having
Make
Course
Tall
Snow
Want
Wanted
I've never wanted sympathy votes in anything I do in my life.
Amy Purdy
Life
My Life
Sympathy
Never
Votes
Wanted
Anything
There are so many choices I made simply for health insurance. Is it the ideal role I wanted to play, or the TV show I wanted to be a part of? No, but it let me afford to go to the doctor.
Amy Ryan
Health
Me
Doctor
Made
TV
TV Show
Part
Simply
Ideal
Health Insurance
Insurance
Go
Role
Afford
Wanted
Choices
Show
Many
Play
I stayed in New York City for the first time, I'd always wanted to do that.
Amy Sedaris
Time
First
City
Stayed
New
First Time
Always
York
New York
New York City
Wanted
I was at all-white schools from kindergarten to twelfth grade, so I wanted to feel what it was like just to be me and not, like, Black Amy.
Amy Sherald
Me
Black
Kindergarten
Feel
Like
Schools
Grade
Just
Wanted
Twelfth
Amy
I wanted to be in museums. I don't do things to be small.
Amy Sherald
Small
Wanted
Things
Museums
I wanted to write stories for myself. At first it was purely an aesthetic thing about craft. I just wanted to become good at the art of something. And writing was very private.
Amy Tan
Art
Myself
Good
Writing
First
Become
Purely
About
Something
Write
Aesthetic
Private
Very
Craft
Just
Wanted
Stories
Thing
Until the age of five, my parents spoke to me in Chinese or a combination of Chinese and English, but they didn't force me to speak Mandarin. In retrospect, this was sad, because they believed that my chance of doing well in America hinged on my fluency in English. Later, as an adult, I wanted to learn Chinese.
Amy Tan
Sad
Me
Age
Speak
Parents
Fluency
Later
Adult
Spoke
Combination
Until
Retrospect
Well
Force
Learn
Because
Doing
Five
America
Wanted
Chinese
English
Believed
Chance
Sociology is really in trouble as a field. I can tell you, because I've known young people who have wanted to go into it, and they have been uniformly advised, if you are a free thinker, stay away from sociology.
Amy Wax
You
People
Free
Trouble
Young
Field
Tell
Stay
Known
Advised
Because
Go
Been
Wanted
Young People
Really
Who
Away
Thinker
Sociology
My parents pretty much realized that I would do whatever I wanted, and that was it, really.
Amy Winehouse
Parents
Whatever
Would
Pretty
Wanted
Realized
Much
Really
I'm my own worst critic, and if I don't pull off what I think I wanted to do in my head, then I won't be a happy girl.
Amy Winehouse
Happy
Girl
Own
Think
Worst
Critic
My Own
Head
Off
Wanted
Then
Pull
There are things coming from me that I felt I wanted to talk about. My search for my own blend of spirituality, my acknowledgement of my sexuality, my being the single mother of a young man.
Ana Castillo
Me
Man
Mother
Spirituality
Single
Own
Young
Sexuality
About
My Own
Blend
Talk
Felt
Single Mother
Coming
Being
Wanted
Acknowledgement
Young Man
Search
Things
I wanted everything. What could you not want when you are brown and Indian-looking in a society in which the white aesthetic is praised as acceptable?
Ana Castillo
You
White
Society
Everything
Brown
Could
Acceptable
Praised
Aesthetic
Want
Wanted
Which
I always wanted to be part of the media. I knew I wanted to work as a journalist.
Ana Kasparian
Work
Journalist
Part
Knew
Always
Wanted
Media
The Constitution has become a convenient tool and talking point for politicians that get paid by the NRA. The same goes for Americans who just love their guns, so suddenly they're Constitutional scholars who care about what our founding fathers allegedly wanted.
Ana Kasparian
Love
Constitution
Care
Become
Politicians
Tool
Fathers
Our
Guns
Constitutional
About
Allegedly
Point
Scholars
Talking
Get
American
Same
Goes
Just
Convenient
Wanted
Paid
Who
Suddenly
Founding
Founding Fathers
I wanted to be a journalist. The other thing I wanted to be was a spy.
Ana Patricia Botin
Journalist
Other
Spy
Wanted
Thing
I wanted to be a journalist. I used to write articles at university about politics.
Ana Patricia Botin
Politics
Journalist
About
Write
Articles
Wanted
Used
University
When I moved to L.A. and had my first meeting with my agents, they asked me what I wanted for my career. And I didn't speak English at the time, but I did say, 'I wanna be Ryan Gosling as a woman.' So I got very excited to play opposite him.
Ana de Armas
Time
Me
Woman
Speak
First
Meeting
Say
Had
Excited
Him
Got
Opposite
Very
Did
Moved
Wanna
Wanted
Agents
Asked
English
Play
Career
I'm ambitious in a good way. I've never wanted to settle as long as I've thought there's more.
Ana de Armas
Good
Thought
Long
Settle
Way
More
Never
Good Way
Ambitious
Wanted
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