I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children.
When you look at the 'Roseannes' and the 'Will and Graces' - when those reboots or sequels or whatever you want to call them are well-executed and have a fresh angle that's relevant, it's a big, warm comfort hug to the audience.
I finished up my graduate degree in quantum mechanics, but underwent a bit of a personal crisis, recognizing that I didn't want to do that for the rest of my life. It was too abstract, too far removed from human concerns.
I want to be able to pick up a list of names of graduates from high schools and colleges in the city and to see that that list is longer than it was when I started in 2009.
Relevance is a search engine's holy grail. People want results that are closely connected to their queries.
I want every Grammy.
If I'm going to be out there, I want to be in the top 10 and really have a chance of winning a Grand Slam.
I don't want to be known as the granddaughter of the Hiltons. I want to be known as Paris.
My granddaughter's birth has made me want to create things she will love.
My grandma was a very traditional woman but, at the same time, would want me to have kids.
I have been described as the grandfather of climate change. In fact, I am just a grandfather and I do not want my grandchildren to say that grandpa understood what was happening but didn't make it clear.
The fundamental weakness in the Tea Party machine is the stark difference between what the leaders of the Tea Party elite - plutocrats like the Koch Brothers -want and what the average grassroots Tea Party follower wants.
I think my generation is obsessed with instant gratification. We want everything now, now, now.
I don't smoke and I don't want to smoke. I am not a fan of gratuitous smoking in films.
I don't ever want to be gratuitous, for the sake of being gratuitous, but when it serves the stories and the characters, it's nice to be able to do that, realistically and with credibility. You don't want to do it for the sake of it, or shoe-horn it in. But, it's a good tool to have in the toolbox.
I went abroad to Malaya and came back and tended naturally to gravitate towards the south, I suppose, near London where things seemed to be going on; but I'm still a Lancashire man, and what I want to write someday is a novel about Manchester. Very much a regional novel.
I don't want people saying, 'Should we get a female director?' I want to hear, 'Should we get a great director for this movie?'
I just want to be a great example to younger kids.
There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.
If we want a great nation, we have to change it ourselves.
