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Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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We're not going to have the America that we want until we elect leaders who are going to tell the truth - not most days, but every day.
-- Ann Richards -
I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.
-- Ann Richards -
Sometimes when I hear criticism of my husband, I want to come out of my seat and clock somebody. But you learn to take a deep breath.
-- Ann Romney -
If you really want to know how a person will operate, look at how they've lived their life.
-- Ann Romney -
God doesn't want your leftovers. God wants your love overtures, your first-overs, because He is your first love.
-- Ann Voskamp -
I've always tried to do my very best, and I want to be the very best age, whatever age I am.
-- Ann-Margret -
If you tell me I can't have something then that just makes me want it more.
-- Anna Benson -
I want to do more television and I want to do more radio.
-- Anna Benson -
A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense.
-- Anna Brownell Jameson -
I think that the audience wants to see women being put into real situations where they can relate to them, rather than seeing some glamorous woman in a 'Bond' film.
-- Anna Camp -
People who are sick, or who have been sick, or have come close to death have a lot to say - and they want you to hear it.
-- Anna Deavere Smith -
I don't want to be cool. I want to be fashion!
-- Anna Dello Russo -
Create around one at least a small circle where matters are arranged as one wants them to be.
-- Anna Freud -
In our dreams we can have our eggs cooked exactly how we want them, but we can't eat them.
-- Anna Freud -
I wish to please the people, but I want to make them cry, perhaps. There, I have said it.
-- Anna Held -
I want to see people turn and writhe; make them feel things they cannot see and sometimes do not know.
-- Anna Held -
I don't want to get married, and I don't want to work after I'm 30, so I must manage my fortune somehow in the next seven years.
-- Anna Held -
I feel like people want there to be this mystery between film and theater, but I just kind of went where I got jobs, you know?
-- Anna Kendrick -
I want to do #‎ stage again, because there just aren't words for how great it is. People say that all the time, 'There's nothing like live #‎ theater , blah blah,' but it's really true. I see a show and I know how they feel, and it feels great.
-- Anna Kendrick -
Boyfriends have to understand me and my needs. They have to know what I want out of my life and about my strict regime. I go to bed at 10pm and not later. I separate my professional and private lives.
-- Anna Kournikova -
A court is like a scene, people want to see attractive people.
-- Anna Kournikova -
My manager wants me to dress like a nun and I want to dress like a teenager.
-- Anna Kournikova -
I hate my muscles. I'm not Venus Williams. I'm not Serena Williams, I don't want to look like they look.
-- Anna Kournikova -
I absolutely want to have children, whether I have my own or adopt.
-- Anna Kournikova -
Every time you spend money, you're casting a vote for the kind of world you want.
-- Anna Lappe -
Children are like puppies: you have to keep them near you, and look after them, if you want their affection.
-- Anna Magnani -
When I started, my teachers told me that I had to sing Mozart, Mozart, Mozart. I said, No, I want to sing all the other stuff. If you do not push yourself, you will stay the same. Maybe some singers are happy with that, but I have to move, I have to do something new always.
-- Anna Netrebko -
I just know I'm going to be an actress. I want it so bad.
-- Anna Nicole Smith -
I don’t know what it is that I’m doing, but I’m really enjoying myself. And I’m free to do it as much as I want.
-- Anna Paquin -
Whenever I have had a sudden urge to quit dancing, I just remember that moment I had when I was young and remember that dancing is what I want to do.
-- Anna Pavlova -
I'm one of those people who really wants to do everything. And if I had enough time, I really would.
-- Anna Popplewell -
When you really want to say no, say no. You can't do everything - or at least not well.
-- Anna Quindlen -
All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never be enough.
-- Anna Quindlen -
If you want something, it will elude you. If you do not want something, you will get ten of it in the mail.
-- Anna Quindlen -
I work in an industry where everyone is flawlessly beautiful, but I just want to be healthy.
-- Anna Torv -
I don't feel like I've hit my stride. So I wonder what the moment will be when I get to be who I want to be.
-- Anna Torv -
People respond well to those that are sure of what they want.
-- Anna Wintour -
There's a new kind of woman out there…She doesn't have time to shop anymore. She wants to know what and why and where and how.
-- Anna Wintour -
The notion that Anna would want something done "now" and not "shortly" is accurate.
-- Anna Wintour -
I want 'Vogue' to be pacy, sharp, and sexy - I'm not interested in the super-rich or infinitely leisured. I want our readers to be energetic executive women, with money of their own and a wide range of interests. There is a new kind of woman out there. She's interested in business and money.
-- Anna Wintour -
When I was younger, I didn't want to be on TV.
-- AnnaSophia Robb -
If I feel the part is right, and I know that the producers and the director want me, I'd go for broke. Always.
-- Anne Archer -
There are always good parts. They may not pay what you want, and they may not have as many days' work as you want, they may not have the billing that you want, they may not have a lot of things, but - the content of the role itself - I find there are many roles.
-- Anne Bancroft -
Zen is not interested in high-flown statements; it wants its pupil to bite his apple and not discuss it.
-- Anne Bancroft -
If you want to do something, try it! The worst anyone you ask for help can do is say no.
-- Anne Beatts -
Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.
-- Anne Carson -
To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.
-- Anne Carson -
I don't read reviews and I don't know what to do with opinions, so I just lose them. They take up space, they become a process of manufacturing a persona, which I want to avoid.
-- Anne Carson -
There are different gradations of personhood in different poems. Some of them seem far away from me and some up close, and the up-close ones generally don't say what I want them to say. And that's true of the persona in the poem who's lamenting this as a fact of a certain stage of life. But it's also true of me as me.
-- Anne Carson -
The prayer most pleasing to God is that made for others and particularly for the poor souls. Pray for them, if you want your prayers to bring high interest.
-- Anne Catherine Emmerich -
The truth. The dead want nothing else. It is the only thing that they require.
-- Anne Enright -
It's what we call a dolce pazzia... a sweet madness. Once you feel it, you will never want to leave it.
-- Anne Fortier -
I don't want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I've never met. I want to go on living even after my death!
-- Anne Frank -
In the Bible, ordination - I don't see that in the Scripture. In the Bible, it's whether you're filled with the Holy Spirit, whether you're anointed by God, whether you're called by God, whether you're obedient to Him. I want to be those things, but I don't see any purpose for me in being ordained.
-- Anne Graham Lotz -
Michelle Pfeiffer in Tim Burton's 'Batman' was one of the most inspiring - I saw that and I was like, 'I want to be her, I want to do that.'
-- Anne Hathaway -
Quite frankly, I didn't become an actor to become a movie star. I have never dreamed about being the most famous person on the planet. I just want to do really good work.
-- Anne Hathaway -
I grew up in a pretty large family. We were really close-knit, so I definitely want to have lots and lots of children.
-- Anne Hathaway -
I would never have gotten married if it weren't for him. You have to want to be married to someone. You have to feel that reciprocated. Marriage for marriage's sake doesn't make any sense to me, and I found someone with whom I could put my money where my mouth is, I guess.
-- Anne Hathaway -
But grace can be the experience of a second wind, when even though what you want is clarity and resolution, what you get is stamina and poignancy and the strength to hang on.
-- Anne Lamott -
I liked those ladies! They were helpers, and they danced.' These are the words I want on my gravestone: that I was a helper, and that I danced.
-- Anne Lamott -
I don't want something special. I want something beautifully plain.
-- Anne Lamott -
You just have to keep getting out of your own way so that whatever it is that wants to be written can use you to write it.
-- Anne Lamott -
Employees are a company's greatest asset - they're your competitive advantage. You want to attract and retain the best; provide them with encouragement, stimulus, and make them feel that they are an integral part of the company's mission.
-- Anne M. Mulcahy -
That's what writing is all about, after all, making others see what you have put down on the page and believing that it does, or could, exist and you want to go there.
-- Anne McCaffrey -
If love wants you; if you've been melted down to stars, you will love with lungs and gills; with feathers and scales; with warm blood and cold.
-- Anne Michaels -
I want a singleness of eye, a purity of intention, a central core to my life that will enable me to carry out these obligations and activities as well as I can.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh -
But I want first of all- in fact, as an end to these other desires- to be at peace with myself.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh -
The punctuation of anniversaries is terrible, like the closing of doors, one after another between you and what you want to hold on to.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh -
You make me miserable. You really do, I want you to know that. Much as I love you, much as I need you, much as I can't exist without you, you make me miserable.
-- Anne Rice -
But if you only knew how many things I want to say and don't.
-- Anne Shirley -
I never looked at a title and said, I want that.
-- Anne Sweeney -
If you want to see the future, watch 8 year olds
-- Anne Sweeney -
I write because I want to have more than one life.
-- Anne Tyler -
As I get older, I want to draw on my experience to make roles better. I see that in the older women who inspire me - their experience makes them better.
-- Anne-Marie Duff -
We want to be seen for who we really are, and each person has his own complex story and reasons for doing what they do.
-- Annette Bening -
I want to lay my kill at your feet.
-- Annette Curtis Klause -
If you want the rainbow, then you must have the rain.
-- Annette Hanshaw -
The creatures I seek do not want to be seen.
-- Annie Dillard -
The mind wants the world to return its love, or its awareness; the mind wants to know all the world, and all eternity, and God.
-- Annie Dillard -
I want to touch the world through my performances on screen but also off screen.
-- Annie Ilonzeh -
I didn't want to let women down. One of the stereotypes I see breaking is the idea of aging and older women not being beautiful.
-- Annie Leibovitz -
When you go to take someone's picture, the first thing they say is, what you want me to do? Everyone is very awkward.
-- Annie Leibovitz -
One wouldn't want to have the same dilemmas at 50 as one had at 15. And indeed I don't. I have a very different take on life.
-- Annie Lennox -
I only want to make music because I have a passion for it.
-- Annie Lennox -
I understand what it is for a woman to want to protect their children and give them the best they can.
-- Annie Lennox -
I didn't want to be perceived as a girly girl on stage.
-- Annie Lennox -
I don't want to be owned by a corporation and obliged to make a certain type of album. I want to be free.
-- Annie Lennox -
I enjoy multi-tasking, so I want to do a lot of different things. I want to keep all the plates spinning.
-- Annie Lennox -
Fame for fame's sake is toxic - some people want that, with no boundaries. It's unhealthy.
-- Annie Lennox -
I don't go to movies for redemption - if I want that, I'll go to church!
-- Anson Mount