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There's always somebody older, richer, more desperate than you. Kirstie Alley | top
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There was a combination of not wanting to look a gift horse in the mouth, but also really not wanting to be stuck in Lord of the Rings for the rest of my life, and being desperate to kind of make sure that I could do something else with my life. Sean Astin | top
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I have a desire to create more film, more beauty, more art, more love, but I don't feel desperate. It's not about creating or building a career. Lisa Bonet | top
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We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation. Anthony Burgess | top
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'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.' Gilbert K. Chesterton | top
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So, how to stay inside the world of entertainment without actually getting another job? I felt the only logical answer was to become a novelist. So I wrote the first book - driven by some very real feelings of desperation - and it worked. Lee Child | top
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And if these be unprincipled agents who scruple at nothing, he will be a bold man who will deny that there are always to be found men at the bar who lend their services most cordially to back and support these agents in their most desperate cases. George Combe | top
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Growing up, I wanted desperately to please, to be a good girl. Claire Danes | top
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I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other. Laura Dern | top
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With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child's problems will never be important enough for a television movie. Nora Ephron | top
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I'm desperate to work again. I've often had those periods, but two years was the longest. Charlotte Gainsbourg | top
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I so desperately hate to end these movies that the first thing I do when I'm done is write another one. Then I don't feel sad about having to leave and everybody going away. John Hughes | top
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I nursed men back to sanity who were driven to despair. I solicited clothes for the ragged children, for the desperate mothers. I laid out the dead, the martyrs of the strike. Mary Harris Jones | top
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So, I think China desperately needs to legitimize some form of opposition. William Kirby | top
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I was really desperate. I don't know if you can remember back that far, but when I went to graduate school they didn't want females in graduate school. They were very open about it. They didn't mince their words. But then I got in and I got my degree. Shannon Lucid | top
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It doesn't matter if you have a desperate heart when you have to sing about joy; it doesn't matter if you're scared to death when the lights go on. Mireille Mathieu | top
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The tragedy of it is that nobody sees the look of desperation on my face. Thousands and thousands of us, and we're passing one another without a look of recognition. Henry Miller | top
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Well it's a drastic procedure by your standards and mine, but for the people who are living in desperation perhaps the best way to understand it is that it seems no more drastic to them than circumcision. John Money | top
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All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed. Sean O'Casey | top
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I'm desperate to start a career in music. Katie Price | top
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Giving a 10-year mandatory minimum for a second offense fist fight is not going to reduce the chance that someone will be stabbed 16 times when you are not funding any of the programs that are desperately needed to actually reduce juvenile crime. Bobby Scott | top
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I so desperately wanted to be Mr. Somebody. Instead, I was the little brother, included to a point. Charlie Sheen | top
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I think I'm probably a little too desperate to be successful. Howard Stern | top
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My experience has been in a short 77 years that in the end when you fight for a desperate cause and have good reasons to fight, you usually win. Edward Teller | top
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His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship. Edmund Wilson | top