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A staple of my personality is that I want what I want - and I'm willing to do without until I get it.


Mara Brock Akil

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TOM CRUISE I'm going to continue doing what I want to do. And if it means I want to go and make a big movie...
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CATE CAMPBELL I'm the kind of person, if I see something, like a funny video, I want to share it. With Twitter...
AZIZ ANSARI If I have to degrade myself or do something that I'm not willing to do as a Christian to get som...
QUINTON AARON I have never called myself an opera singer. Other people do, but I always call myself a classical si...
KATHERINE JENKINS I'm doing exactly what I want to do, and I'm having fun doing it.
DAVID JOHANSEN I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure ...
EMMA WATSON Do it right or don't do it at all. That comes from my mom. If there's something I want to do, I'm on...
RAY CHARLES I only want to do what I really want to do; otherwise, I'm content to sit here and play my guita...
EDDIE MURPHY Because I'm the author of my screenplays I know what I'm looking for. It's true that I c...
MICHAEL HANEKE The older I get, for me it's about fear. If I read something and it scares the hell out of me, t...
ALAINA HUFFMAN Every time I think I know what's right and wrong, I end up being wrong. All I want to do is expl...
CAROLYN CHUTE I mean, my music career and my acting career - if I want to do them to the extent that I eventually ...
PALOMA FAITH I'm lucky I had parents willing to be open and believe that an 11-year-old might know what she w...
CLAIRE FORLANI I'm not a politician. I don't want to be a politician, because politicians do what is politi...
BEN CARSON I have always said I've had a big personality, and I've always said I'm a pushy broad, a...
CHRISTINE QUINN It wasn't until I could get out of Stanford that I could sit down and think about my life, to do...
DANNY PINTAURO Singing is my passion and something that I still love to do and I'm always going to want to do i...
NATURI NAUGHTON It's really not about me. At the end of the day, God willing, I'll have another 40 or 50 yea...
MACKLEMORE I don't want to do something that's watered down. I don't want to take what I'm know...
BILLY EICHNER I'm one of those people who when I go over a bridge, I want to jump. It's just this intense ...
WILLEM DAFOE What I want???
I just want silence I can afford it, it doesn't need to pay for it or does it?
DEYTH BANGER I want to get up and ride my horses, do what I love doing. I don't want to be recognised.
CHARLOTTE DUJARDIN I Don't Like What I Do, I Love What I Do!
JOHN PETERS For me, I'm focused on what I want to do. I know what I need to do to be a champion, so I'm ...
USAIN BOLT I know there is a stereotype that I am naive, but I know what I want, and I know what I'm doing ...
DAN SHECHTMAN 'Free' is more of that 'familiarity breeds contempt' kind of thing. It's about s...
JON CROSBY I'm not one to be like, 'What is everybody doing? Let me do that!' I just do what I want...
BEBE REXHA I have three things I really, really want to do. I want to do aerial trapeze, I want to do martial a...
NATALIA TENA I just want to win. I'm a team guy. I just want my team to do well.
BEN SIMMONS Mara, that's the life I want to give you. That's what I'm offering you. I want to fill you life with...
FRANCINE RIVERS It's best that I hide my real personality. I cannot tell you what it is because I don't want to go t...
GIANFRANCO ZOLA I definitely want to have a family without a doubt. I want to know that kind of love, and I'm de...
JESSIE BAYLIN I don't want to think about what I'm doing in 20 years. All I want is I want to be happy, an...
SAM SMITH My family claims I think I'm always right, although I'm always willing to be proven wrong. I...
ERIC WALTERS I'm touched by the Beatles. I want some of the music I do to reflect that. Here I am. I love Sly...
AL JARREAU I'm always studying my craft because I want to be the best at what I do.
AARON CARTER I'm a screamer and a yeller. When I want something, all I do is yell, and I get responses.
ALEX SPANOS Baking is my pastime. I just love creating things. But it's not what I want to do for a living. ...
ED OXENBOULD I love what I do. I don't do it for the money. I work on behalf of investors that I like and wan...
BILL ACKMAN I'm just this committed dilettante. I think what I've found is that I've tried to do a l...
GRAHAM MOORE I'm not a super-actorly actor, my-body-is-an-instrument type of person, but I do want to do fun,...
PAGET BREWSTER I get a lot of action scripts. I get low-budget vehicles that will end up right on the video shelf. ...
DEAN CAIN If I'm being forced to do something I don't want to do, my real self comes out. But whether ...
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE I always imagined that having a baby is something that I'm going to keep in a private place, but...
LENA DUNHAM I'm free. I just do what I want, say what I want, say how I feel, and I don't try to hurt no...
ERYKAH BADU I want to negotiate what I'm worth. I want to put my analytics forward, man-to-man, and to be li...
CONOR MCGREGOR I'm trying my best with what I want to do, which is modelling. I think I'm on my own career ...
KENDALL JENNER I didn't get into music to become a blues musician, or a country musician. I'm a singer-song...
JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE I'm always calculating what I want to do, who I want to be, what I want to accomplish. I don'...
CHRIS PINE I'm restless. I'm all the time here and there and trying to get myself busy and creative. It...
EDGAR RAMIREZ I'm going to go back to the Bay Area, this is my thing, and I'm just going to open my own sc...
BARRY BONDS The greatest luxury is not driving. I didn't own a car until I was 30, and that was a Rolls-Royc...
MICHAEL CAINE I don't want dogs that have had the personality trained out of them. It's a partnership. I w...
MICHAEL KEATON I'm very focused on what I do professionally, and I'm very focused on my family, and I don&#...
VICTORIA BECKHAM I'm not a supermodel. That's not what I do. What I do is music. I want my fans to feel the w...
LADY GAGA I love conducting. What I'm tired of is music administration. I don't want that. I just want...
DANIEL BARENBOIM I never want to get a job because I'm female. I want to get it because I earned it and I deserve...
MARY BARRA I definitely only want to do charity work that I'm hands-on involved in. I don't want to get...
ERIN HEATHERTON When I'm an audience member I do not want to go and see something that I already know, I want to...
MEREDITH MONK I don't want to run around and look at a shot through a monitor. That doesn't improve what I...
JOHNNY DEPP I'm stubborn; I know what I want. I'll dedicate all my efforts to achieving it.
CARLO RUBBIA I don't ever worry about whether I'm being true to my country roots. My country roots were a...
EMMYLOU HARRIS Life is short, so I'm knowing exactly where I'm putting my time. I don't want to do thin...
MIRA NAIR It is my job to sell these fighters. I'm now a business partner of the UFC. What I do directly a...
DANIEL CORMIER I know what I believe, I know what I want to do, and I'm just comfortable saying it, and laying ...
JOE BIDEN I really feel all my adult life has been spent in that little black box. If a wonderful part on TV c...
BEA ARTHUR I'm supporting the charities that I supported during my lifetime, and I want to continue to do t...
SAM SIMON I don't want to leave, I don't think I'm going to leave and if I do, I'll be as shocked as anybody. ...
WARRICK DUNN I kind of want to see Mara Crucio their asses.
MICHELLE HODKIN What you just had is nothing compared to what I want to do to you. I want my head between your legs ...
J.R. WARD I'm an escapist. I'm not a planner; I've never made a decision about anything in my life...
PETER BEARD Eventually I just want to live a normal life. I want to get married and have children and cook, wash...
VICKY MCCLURE When I'm playing Big Momma, it's so much work that all I want to do, when I'm finished, ...
MARTIN LAWRENCE Yes, I do come with certain reservations, and I'm not OK with certain things, but rather than fo...
YAMI GAUTAM I will always want to do whatever it is that my heart is in, and whether I get paid for it or not me...
CAMERON DIAZ I went to a theater arts school, so I'm interested in many different projects, whether it be fil...
DEREK HOUGH The world that I am coming from, hip-hop, is so regurgitated and repetitive that some people are use...
KID CUDI My inspiration is always what I think my fans want to listen to. I often write about social problems...
JENNI RIVERA Why do I want somebody to tell me what to do, tell me what I'm doing wrong? I want to be the bos...
BUBBA WATSON Actually, in my advanced, high-falutin' frontier economics, I often work with what I define as &...
PAUL SAMUELSON When I'm focusing on what's important to God, I live differently. I invest my time differently.
CRAIG GROESCHEL I just don't like to do a lot of the normal things expected of other artists. I'm not trying...
DAMIEN RICE It's an honor to have people follow you and watch you. I do get a lot of fan mail and I read eve...
HELENA MATTSSON Family, to me, is most important, and I can't wait to have one of my own, but I am not going to ...
DREW FULLER I'm extremely fascinated by marriage. I want to study marriage. I want to learn about it. I want...
ADAM LEVINE I'm quite contrary. If people agree on something, I tend to gravitate the other way by my nature...
ANDY SERKIS Whatever I think of, that's what I do. I wake up and think, 'I want to buy a car', I buy...
YOUNG THUG I cannot save the world; that's not what I'm trying to do. I guess I'm just trying to wa...
MARY J. BLIGE I'm a real person, and I'm angry. I'm trying to use this celebrity thing to get people s...
JAMIE FOXX I have my life on a track that I want it on, and I don't want to get off.
KARL MALONE I'm going to be true to what I want to do, because if I care what people think about me, I'm...
DONNY OSMOND I have kept a diary,
WITHNAIL AND I I don't know what I want to do. There are people who want me to do things. There's a possibl...
VALERIE SIMPSON I'm happy being single but I definitely want someone in my life. I want to eventually get marrie...
MATTHEW MORRISON A lot of people want to make films and do photography and things, but I'm quite happy doing what...
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ISAAC BROCK I want to have a media platform that is an honest broker and not just a mouthpiece for a political p...
DAVID BROCK Shalom is the medicine I’d prescribe for Jerusalem—a deep, God-breathed indwelling of peace and ...
JARED BROCK You get so brainwashed. You're on the road 300 days a year, and that's why guys get so messe...
BROCK LESNAR Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.
LOU BROCK Jim Crow was king . . . and I heard a game in which Jackie Robinson was playing, and I felt pride in...
LOU BROCK You can't be afraid to make errors! You can't be afraid to be naked before the crowd, because no one...
LOU BROCK When I was a kid, I used to imagine animals running under my bed. I told my dad, and he solved the p...
LOU BROCK Competition is what keeps me playing the psychological warfare of matching skill against skill and w...
LOU BROCK Sometimes the lies you tell are less frightening than the loneliness you might feel if you stopped t...
BROCK CLARKE I have always been the tallest guy in my class, going back to first grade. Announcers have always ha...
BROCK OSWEILER I'm just concerned with winning, not individual accolades.
BROCK OSWEILER I didn't mean to live in Portland. It was kind of an accident - I mean, the equivalent of my car...
ISAAC BROCK Stay open-minded; stay focused. Train hard and train smart. For me, the older I get, the smarter I h...
BROCK LESNAR I admit to wasting my life messing around with fast cars and motorcycles.
BROCK YATES We have to make some radical move to get the attention of everyone. Cheaters can't win and stero...
LOU BROCK Trump apologized for nothing, including the horrible tape, right? No apology.
DAVID BROCK Stealing bases was put to me almost as a prerequisite for staying in the game. They didn't give ...
LOU BROCK It takes some balls to live life to the fullest.
BROCK LESNAR There is a definite loneliness in the game. Most people stay away from you since they think they'...
LOU BROCK I became a conservative for the first dozen years of my professional life in Berkeley, Calif., and i...
DAVID BROCK