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• I’ve never been desperate to please my father.

  Rebecca Hall

  Topics in Father

  Tags in Desperate, Please

• The first thing you have to understand is that I was not desperate to be a writer. I was never a closet writer filing away notes in a cupboard.

  Vikas Swarup

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Closet, Desperate

• When you’re young and desperate to hold on to a place in the team you do whatever is asked of you.

  Peter Storey

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hold, Desperate

• When I am not desperate, I am worthless.

  Ivo Andric

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Desperate, Worthless

• When you come from desperate poverty, and that’s exactly what I come from, you know that nonsenses are not to be tolerated. I’m not sure who gains from chaos, but I know it’s not the poor folks in the council flats. The politics of vindictiveness is never, ever anything like a solution.

  John Lydon

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Chaos, Desperate
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  Writers are desperate people and when they stop being desperate they stop being writers.

  Charles Bukowski

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Desperate, Writers

• Haiti is in desperate poverty.

  Pat Robertson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Poverty, Desperate

• I do not believe the picture that some people paint of Scottish towns dependent on welfare. Every time I come here, I meet people who are determined to get into work. Who, with the right help are desperate to get off benefits, support their family and set an example for their children.

  Iain Duncan Smith

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Believe, Desperate, Example, Support

• I think Desperate Housewives is a pretty good show, I watch it, I like it and I don’t love reality tv that much. I do watch some, I’ve got three daughters so we’ll watch the good stuff, the fun stuff.

  Bob Saget

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Pretty, Desperate

• Mankind at its most desperate is often at its best.

  Bob Geldof

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Mankind, Desperate

• I was desperate to go back to New York and when 9/11 happened, I feared moving to the bulls-eye and that was very hard because I have a lot of family there and I really had to question what I didn’t like about this community.

  Téa Leoni

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Desperate, Back

• Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you’ve made is worth the misery of having to review it.

  Federico Fellini

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Desperate, Attempt, Convince

• Beckham is unusual. He was desperate to be a footballer. His mind was made up when he was nine or ten. Many kids think that it’s beyond them. But you can’t succeed without practising at any sport.a

  Sir Bobby Charlton

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Desperate

• Electoral contests have nothing but polls, which is why people have grown so obsessed with them; we’re desperate for an objective rendering of what is happening and what may happen.

  John Podhoretz

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Electoral, Desperate

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Desperate

• I got to that desperate place where nobody could help me but God.

  Cheryl James

  Topics in God

  Tags in Help, Desperate

• Money, again, has often been a cause of the delusion of the multitudes. Sober nations have all at once become desperate gamblers, and risked almost their existence upon the turn of a piece of paper.

  Charles Mackay

  Topics in Money

  Tags in Again, Desperate

• I like, though, that people have a hunger to connect with other people. They’re desperate to know that you’re not lying to them or misleading them.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Desperate, Hunger, Lying

• I’m less desperate now to express what’s inside me, that’s true – I act these days because it keeps me awake and interested, an eternal student.

  Emmanuelle Beart

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Desperate, Student

• You got it back in hugs, you got it back in tears, you got it back in words of thanks that only a person who is desperate can express.

  Aaron Broussard

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hugs, Thanks, Person, Desperate