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I felt that chess... is a science in the form of a game... I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be treated like a scientist.
Bobby Fischer
I mean, I knew I wanted to do this kind of thing in school, but to actually have somebody that would bring you into that world, that was really exciting, you know?
Catherine O'Hara
Tags: You Really Know
If not for music, I would probably be a very frustrated scientist. It's one way to answer the question, 'What is the meaning of life?' I feel music answers it better.
Paula Cole
Tags: Music Life Very
When I graduated, I was director of my school's sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to be writing and performing my own sketch comedy. It kind of made me want to do my own one-person sketch group.
Rachel Bloom
Tags: Me Want Own
I always wanted to work with Spencer Tracy, which never happened, although I knew him well. And I never worked with Cary Grant.
Lauren Bacall
Tags: Work Always Never
With 'Sherry,' we were looking for a sound. We wanted to make the kind of mark that, if the radio was playing one of our songs, you knew who it was immediately. But I didn't want to sing like that my whole life.
Frankie Valli
Tags: You Like Who
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I knew I always wanted to sing.


David Ruffin
I was terrible at maths, but I could grasp science, and I used to love to read about the lives of the scientists. I wanted to be a scientist or an inventor.
Francis Ford Coppola
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I always knew I wanted to be in a band.


Hayley Williams
I always knew that I wanted to live with books, even as a child, because we traveled a lot. Home was the book to which I came back every evening.
Alberto Manguel
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I knew I wanted to act when I was around 14.


Daniel Stern
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I always knew that I wanted to be creative, that I wanted to create something.


Maynard James Keenan
As a kid I wanted to write science fiction, and I was never without a book. Later I really got into being a scientist and never thought I'd be writing novels.
Daniel H. Wilson
Since I stayed in a colony where either one was an engineer or a scientist, everybody thought I would be a scientist. This was the expectation everybody had apart from my parents. Honestly, I, too, wanted to be a scientist. I think it was the way Dad would explain us scientific theories and concepts that made the subject more intriguing.
Shreya Ghoshal
Tags: Dad Think More
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I always knew I wanted to run a business someday.


Michael Dell
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.


Anthony Trollope
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I knew what I wanted to do from the time I was 5.


Lenny Kravitz
Tags: Time Wanted Knew
I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn't want to do what my dad did, which was work in an office.
Harrison Ford
Tags: Work Age Dad
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I knew I wanted to be creative but didn't know how.


Gia Coppola
Tags: Know How Wanted
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I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed.


Dan Simmons
Tags: Being Even Wanted