Obsession led me to write. It's been that way with every book I've ever written. I become completely consumed by a theme, by characters, by a desire to meet a challenge.
Anne Rice
ChallengeMeBookDesireMeetWay
I don't feel like I've ever done anything - even 'Big Momma's House' - that I didn't really have some desire to do.
Paul Giamatti
FeelHouseDesireDoneAnythingBig
And I hereby distinctly and emphatically declare that I consider myself, and earnestly desire to be considered by others, as utterly divested, now and during the rest of my life, of any such rights, the barbarous relics of a feudal, despotic system.
Robert Dale Owen
LifeMyselfRestMy LifeDesireNow
There are certain vulnerabilities and insecurities that go along with not being linked to another person in a contractual way, even if it's an unspoken contract. People in New York manage that pretty well. I prefer choice and desire over convention and limitation.
Jamie Johnson
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Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
Napoleon Hill
MomentWritingPlanYouDesireWill
For you see this scripture fulfilled this day and therefore I desire you as you tender the Lord and the church and commonwealth to consider and look what you do.
Anne Hutchinson
DayChurchYouLookDesireSee
I had a very strong desire to be successful at something.
Nelson DeMille
StrongDesireSuccessfulSomething
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Robert Frost
LoveLove IsDesireIrresistible
With this first novel, I am just above the foothills, but I see the path to the top, and it is my desire to write compelling stories about everything that I find of interest.
Guy Johnson
PathI AmFindDesireTopSee
If our hard-earned liberty, our desire to be irreverent of the old and to question the new, can be reduced to one, basic and indispensable right, it must be the right to free speech.
Maajid Nawaz
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Ever since we invented fire and the wheel, we've been demonstrating both our ability and our inherent desire to fix things that we don't like about ourselves and our environment.
Aubrey de Grey
FireEnvironmentDesireWheelFix
The basis for my own work during the years just before coming to America in 1915 was a desire to break up forms - to 'decompose' them much along the lines the cubists had done. But I wanted to go further - much further - in fact, in quite another direction altogether.
Marcel Duchamp
WorkDirectionAmericaDesireDone
In all of my films, there is a desire to testify, to interrogate the past.
Rithy Panh
PastDesireTestifyFilms
The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science of arithmetic itself.
Howard Aiken
ScienceTimeEffortDesireHuman
I think all players reach a point in their career where it's natural to lose some of that hunger, that desire, to sort of break out or be a star.
Landon Donovan
ThinkReachLoseCareerDesireOut
I think the acting satisfies the need and desire for approval.
William Shatner
ThinkActingDesireNeedApproval
I don't know what happened, but I lost the desire to acquire more things. It's very peaceful to have lost that desire.
Lee Radziwill
PeacefulLostDesireKnowMoreVery
You've got to have this burning desire in your chest to succeed.
Rod Stewart
SucceedYouDesireBurning Desire
A revolution is not a painless march to the gates of freedom and justice. It is a struggle between rage and hope, between the temptation to destroy and the desire to build.
Hisham Matar
HopeFreedomJusticeStruggleDesire
Unfortunately, the more chaotic the society, the greater is the desire for conservative, nonconfrontational art.
Kate Braverman
ArtSocietyDesireConservativeMore
Faith is not a notion, but a real strong essential hunger, an attracting or magnetic desire of Christ, which as it proceeds from a seed of the divine nature in us, so it attracts and unites with its like.
William Law
NatureFaithSeedStrongDesireUs
When the Soul that is sprung from God's Word and Will is entered into its own desire to will of itself, it will run in mere uncertainty till it return to its Original again.
Jakob Bohme
GodSoulUncertaintyDesireRunOwn
How many BMWs do you need? How many Rolex watches you gonna wear in your lifetime, for crying out loud? What is it about that kind of desire? I don't understand it.
Ry Cooder
WatchesYouDesireKindUnderstand
In Africa, listening is a guiding principle. It's a principle that's been lost in the constant chatter of the Western world, where no one seems to have the time or even the desire to listen to anyone else.
Henning Mankell
TimeListeningWorldLostDesire
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