As everyone, you do end up becoming your mother, but also as you're acting, I find out you become every member of your family, bits come out without you really wanting them to come out.
The longer you stay in the job that you do the more you learn about what those around you do. As an actor I've always nosed around apologetically about: "oh wouldn't it be interesting if I could do that?" I can't imagine not wanting to do this everyday.
Where love is, what can be wanting? Where it is not, what can possibly be profitable?
Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had.
Maybe I'm sad about wanting you. I'm not too comfortable with wanting someone.
There questions of wanting to be an artist, and what does that mean, what makes you an artist? Are you an artist if you're in a gallery in New York and not an artist if you're doing it at home? Do you need legitimation to count? If you've been acculturated to believe that you have certain obligations - familial, social, human - if multitasking has been your forte and that's what's been praised and rewarded, where do you find the single-mindedness, the selfishness to do something like art? I think those are questions that arise differently for women and for men.
There is as much greatness of mind in the owning of a good turn as in the doing of it; and we must no more force a requital out of season than be wanting in it.
Whom can I ask what I came to make happen in this world? Why do I move without wanting to, why am I not able to sit still? Why do I go rolling without wheels, flying without wings or feathers, and why did I decide to migrate if my bones live in Chile?
Where confidence is wanting, the most beautiful flower in the garland of love is missing.
Genius and great abilities are often wanting; sometimes, only opportunities. Some deserve praise for what they have done; others for what they would have done.
Some people seem born with a head in which the thin partition that divides great wit from folly is wanting.
A reporter is never put off by somebody not wanting to be interviewed.
Your children are not your children, they come through you, but they are life itself, wanting to express itself.
When I'm attached, I find that I don't see the other person as clearly because I'm more caught up in what I'm wanting.
beware the average man the average woman beware their love, their love is average seeks average but there is genius in their hatred there is enough genius in their hatred to kill you to kill anybody not wanting solitude not understanding solitude they will attempt to destroy anything that differs from their own not being able to create art they will not understand art they will consider their failure as creators only as a failure of the world
Writing was the soul of everything else. . . Wanting to be a writer was wanting to be a person.