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Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.

In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?

Jessamyn West

If you want a baby, have a new one. Don't baby the old one.

We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions.

I think that this liberal progressive agenda is not the thing that the American people want and it's antithesis to who we are as a constitutional republic.

I didn't want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months.

Imagination which comes into play in falling in love is different from any other. Certainly in my case, and I've fallen in love all my life, one imagines the person to be as you want them to be. They frequently turn out to be someone different, for better or worse.

You know what it's like to persuade a pigheaded child to do something they don't want to. If they hear the same suggestion from someone else, they'll go right off and do it.

Mary Wesley

Right

Want

I spend so much time on the screen when I am writing, the last thing you want to do is spend more time on the Internet looking at a screen. That's what I hate about all this technology.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

I blame myself more so because I hung a curve. If you want to point a finger, point it at me.

David Wells

Blame

Want

I don't pray because I don't want to bore God.

Orson Welles

God

Want

Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

Orson Welles

Ending

Want

I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.