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I've always wanted to write an airport book.
Elizabeth Hand
Book
Airport
Write
Always
Wanted
I've always wanted to be a spy, and frankly I'm a little surprised that British intelligence has never approached me.
Elizabeth Hurley
Me
Intelligence
Frankly
Never
Always
Surprised
Spy
Wanted
Little
British
My publishers are wonderful because they have let me write what I wanted to. They're wise enough to know that, with any author who's not simply writing formulas - who's trying to create something new - pressuring them to do something for market purposes almost always backfires. I can't imagine working under those circumstances, actually.
Elizabeth Kostova
Me
Wise
Writing
Wonderful
Enough
Market
Those
Circumstances
Something
Something New
Purposes
Write
Simply
Almost
New
Know
Because
Always
Author
Trying
Any
Wanted
Formulas
Them
Create
Working
Publishers
Actually
Imagine
I wanted to acknowledge that life goes on but that death goes on, too. A person who is dead is a long, long story.
Elizabeth McCracken
Life
Death
Long
Too
Life Goes On
Long Story
Dead
Person
Goes
Wanted
Acknowledge
Story
Who
At my first library job, I worked with a woman named Sheila Brownstein, who was The Reader's Advisor. She was a short, bosomy Englishwoman who accosted people at the shelves and asked if they wanted advice on what to read, and if the answer was yes, she asked what writers they already loved and then suggested somebody new.
Elizabeth McCracken
Library
Woman
People
Job
Somebody
First
Advice
Writers
New
Named
She
Read
Reader
Advisor
Answer
Shelves
Yes
Short
Wanted
Loved
Then
Worked
Asked
Who
Suggested
I never wanted anyone to think that I would use my family name to get me anywhere.
Elizabeth Olsen
Family
Me
Think
Would
Never
Name
Get
Wanted
Anyone
Anywhere
Use
I wanted to do plays. But then I got out of school and started getting jobs in movies and TV. And I seemed more suited to that. I like the intimacy of working for the camera, the size of performance it requires. I love getting into tiny moments.
Elizabeth Reaser
Love
School
Suited
Intimacy
Out
Jobs
TV
Seemed
More
Performance
Like
Got
Camera
Getting
Tiny
Size
Wanted
Movies
Then
Working
Requires
Moments
Started
Plays
I did a film called 'Puccini for Beginners,' which was a romantic comedy, and I always wanted to do more, but I kept doing drama.
Elizabeth Reaser
Comedy
Drama
More
Always
Doing
Beginners
Did
Romantic
Wanted
Romantic Comedy
Which
Film
Kept
As a novelist, I like the contained drama and complexity of the courtroom, though I don't watch those shows on TV. I prefer the hospital shows because I wanted to be a doctor.
Elizabeth Strout
Doctor
Drama
Those
Though
Complexity
TV
Hospital
Contained
Like
Because
Courtroom
Wanted
Prefer
Shows
Novelist
Watch
When giant companies wanted more tax loopholes, Washington got it done. When huge energy companies wanted to tear up our environment, Washington got it done. When enormous Wall Street banks wanted new regulatory loopholes, Washington got it done. No gridlock there!
Elizabeth Warren
Energy
Enormous
Our
Giant
More
Environment
New
Loopholes
Got
Huge
Up
Wall
Wall Street
Done
Tax
Wanted
Banks
Regulatory
Companies
Tear
Washington
Street
I've calmed down. Looking back, I was engaged more in dramas than I was in relationships. I've spent a lot of my life being in it for the plot, and I don't do that anymore. I'm satisfied. I'm not competing with myself. I accomplished things I wanted to do, so everything I do now is because I want to, not because I'm trying to prove something.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
Life
Myself
My Life
Looking
Looking Back
Down
Satisfied
Dramas
Back
Relationships
Everything
Spent
Plot
Something
More
Because
Calmed
Prove
Accomplished
Lot
Than
Trying
Being
Want
Anymore
Wanted
Engaged
Now
Things
Competing
I knew from the start that I wanted my life to be about music. I taught myself the notes of the piano aged three, and then I spent the next few years deconstructing chords to figure out how to play them. At 11, I researched online the sort of music school I wanted to attend, printed out the details, and handed them to my parents.
Ella Henderson
Life
Music
Myself
School
Three
My Life
Parents
Few
Spent
Out
Details
About
Online
Piano
Attend
Knew
Sort
Printed
How
Years
Handed
Taught
Wanted
Aged
Them
Notes
Then
Next
Figure
Chords
Play
Start
I wanted to show people that I don't just make love songs that are about purely being in love.
Ella Mai
Love
People
Love Songs
Purely
About
Songs
Make
Just
Being
Wanted
Being In Love
Show
Show People
From the beginning, I wanted to live my own life, and patiently I shored up that desire against wind and tide.
Ella Maillart
Life
Wind
Beginning
Own
Live
My Own
Tide
Up
Patiently
Wanted
Against
Desire
I wanted so badly to study ballet, but it was really all about wearing the tutu.
Elle Macpherson
Wearing
About
Badly
Study
Ballet
Wanted
Really
I used to wear heels because I wanted to show people I wasn't ashamed of being tall. But I don't wear them any more because you don't have to wear heels to be beautiful. I can't even remember the last time I wore heels.
Elle Macpherson
Beautiful
Time
You
People
Remember
Wear
More
Because
Tall
Any
Being
Wanted
Ashamed
Wore
Heels
Them
Used
Show
Show People
Even
Last
Last Time
I wanted to be a writer since I was in high school, but I never thought it was possible.
Ellen Bass
School
Thought
Possible
High
High School
Writer
Never
Since
Wanted
There was no such thing as child abuse. Parents owned their children. They could do whatever they wanted.
Ellen Burstyn
Parents
Whatever
Could
Abuse
Child
Child Abuse
Owned
Children
Wanted
Thing
I realized very young that I loved reading and wanted to do something related to books/reading for a living. I didn't think of publishing, really, until I was out of college.
Ellen Datlow
College
Reading
Young
Living
Think
Related
Out
Something
Until
Very
Wanted
Loved
Realized
Really
Publishing
Oh, she didn't schlep me. I schlepped her, actually. I was the one who wanted to be an actress.
Ellen Muth
Me
She
Oh
Wanted
Who
Actress
Her
Actually
I pretty much always knew I wanted to be a writer. I was writing goofy stories when I was 7 or 8. That was what I call 'wishful-thinking writing.' I grew up in the city and always wanted a horse, but there was no way I was getting a horse. So I wrote all these stories about kids who had horses. It's still fun entering these other worlds.
Ellen Potter
Writing
Other
Worlds
Way
Kids
Entering
City
Pretty
About
Horse
Horses
Writer
Had
Knew
Goofy
Wrote
Call
Always
Still
Up
Getting
Wanted
Grew
Stories
Much
Who
Fun
Before the advent of the Web, if you wanted to sustain a belief in far-fetched ideas, you had to go out into the desert, or live on a compound in the mountains, or move from one badly furnished room to another in a series of safe houses.
Ellen Ullman
You
Before
Mountains
Live
Furnished
Out
Compound
Web
Had
Badly
Advent
Ideas
Safe
Another
Houses
Go
Move
Sustain
Wanted
Room
Far-Fetched
Series
Belief
Desert
I wasn't able to relate to anyone on TV growing up, so I wanted to bring my own experiences to the screen.
Ellen Wong
Own
Relate
TV
Able
My Own
Up
Screen
Experiences
Wanted
Anyone
Growing
Growing Up
Bring
'Carrie Diaries' was one of the scripts that was sent my way, and it was instantly something I wanted to work on. It was very charming, and there's a lot of heart to it. It was touching and nostalgic and relatable, and it validates so many coming-of-age issues in an open and honest way. I think it speaks to real life.
Ellen Wong
Life
Work
Heart
Real Life
Think
Way
Carrie
Something
Charming
Touching
Open
Instantly
Real
Issues
Diaries
Lot
Very
Wanted
Nostalgic
Scripts
Sent
Speaks
Many
Honest
America saw me as a projection of me that I always wanted. That's why I love going to America so much. I feel like I started off in America exactly how I wanted to start everywhere.
Ellie Goulding
Love
Me
Projection
Saw
Everywhere
Exactly
Feel
Like
Always
How
Off
America
Going
Wanted
Much
Why
Start
Started
I'm quite private. And I never wanted to be the biggest star in the world, really. So in that sense I've got a good balance of doing great shows, of making an appearance every now and then and writing music, and I don't really have to do much else.
Ellie Goulding
Music
Good
Great
Balance
Writing
World
Sense
Every
Else
Never
Got
Making
Doing
Private
Quite
Wanted
Biggest
Then
Much
Really
Appearance
Shows
Star
Now
Now And Then
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