A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
想要
Wanted
I've never wanted to play bank managers and real people particularly.
我从来没有想过扮演银行经理,尤其是真实的人。
Then, for a hot three or four weeks I wanted to be a concert pianist.
然后,在接下来的三四个星期里,我想成为一名音乐会钢琴家。
I always wanted to be an actress. I always wanted to be a movie star.
我一直想当演员。我一直想成为电影明星。
Yes, they wanted me to sign a contract of exclusivity, and I refused.
是的,他们想让我签一份排他性合同,我拒绝了。
All I wanted was just what everybody else wants, you know, to be loved.
我想要的只是其他人想要的,你知道,被爱。
My parents wanted me to solace them for sorrows they denied having had.
我父母想让我来安慰他们,因为他们否认曾有过悲伤。
Doing my own album provided me the opportunity to say whatever I wanted.
做我自己的专辑让我有机会说我想说的话。
I have always wanted to be on Broadway, whether on ice or on the boards.
我一直想去百老汇,不管是在冰上还是在舞台上。
I was single-minded on what I wanted to do since I was like nine or ten.
从九、十岁开始,我就一心一意地做我想做的事。
Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
还有一些人想进入喜剧行业,只是为了得到一笔电视交易。
I wanted an electric train for Christmas but I got the saxophone instead.
我想要一辆电动火车作为圣诞节礼物,但我得到了萨克斯管。
As a matter of fact, we put it down because we wanted to be jazz pickers.
事实上,我们把它写下来是因为我们想成为爵士乐手。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination.
我一直想自己骑龙,所以我决定在我的想象中这样做一年。
I want freedom and I realize that the only way to get it is to quit breaking the law.
我想要自由,我意识到获得自由的唯一方法就是停止违法。
Actually, I've always wanted to be a professional skateboarder ever since I was about six.
其实,我从六岁起就一直想成为一名专业滑板手。
I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please.
如果我认为我父亲是我想取悦的人,我就不会做我曾经做过的事。
I told her I wanted a plastic surgeon to sew me up, and I wanted her to freeze my ovaries, so I could harvest the eggs and have a biological child through a surrogate.
我告诉她我想要一个整形外科医生为我缝合,我想让她冷冻我的卵巢,这样我就可以收获卵子,通过代孕生下一个亲生孩子。
It's been a transformative period and I really wanted to make music from what I've experienced.
这是一个变革的时期,我真的想从我的经历中创作音乐。