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One of the things I strive for is realism. I need to be as real as possible in the dilemmas my characters face.

I'm still very much in the apprentice stage of writing. I read somewhere that you need to write a million words before you know what you're doing - so I'm headed that way, but I'm nowhere near there.

If you rewrite a paragraph fifty times and forty-nine of them are terrible, that's fine; you only need to get it right once.

The world tilted slightly sideways. 'I think I need to sit down.' The floor seemed like the best option. It was close and he'd already proved that he could hit it. His legs folded.

Everyone needs a touch.

To write, you have to know how to act and know about directing. To act, you also need to know how to write and direct.

I just need time to catch my breath before you take it away again.

I'm going through a stage where the dumbest things make me bawl. I feel like I need to see a shrink.

I need that unexplainable spark. I need to see someone and feel 'oh-oh'. It's only happened a few times in my life.

I'm the kind of person who needs to feel like everything happens for a reason. When you date a guy and it goes badly, that's horrible. But if you can write a song about it, then it was worth it.

I'm not that complicated. My complications come out in my songs. All you need to do to be my friend is like me.

Being single is wonderful and I love it. I don't ever have a morning where I wake up and say, 'I really need to find a boyfriend today.'

I put out one album one week, and I'm already worried about the next one. I feel a lot of emotion throughout the course of a day. But not to the point where you need to be worried about me.

We need leaders who will stand unapologetically in defense of marriage and life.

We need to focus on radical Islamic terrorists and we need to stop them before they carry out acts of terror.

We need to be focused on defeating radical Islamic terrorists.

I think President's candidates need shock collars or something.

The poor are too busy working to need justice.

The challenge of nonfiction is keeping the attention of a reader over span of time, and to keep the quality of the writing as high as it needs to be to keep people's attention.

Some people never need to let up at all.

When all benefits are promised by the state, nobody need feel grateful for them.

We don't make the investments we need to make, the sector fails to innovate, and then we conclude that it can't innovate.

Skepticism about the potential to achieve the kinds of breakthroughs we need has been a self-fulfilling prophecy.

[Donald] Trump November 2016 could truly be the long-awaited wake-up call America desperately needs.

Lance Bass needs to quit worrying about outer space and celebrate life by learning how to kill his own food.

The greatest philosopher of all time was Dirty Harry. And if you remember, Dirty Harry took the words right out of my mouth: "A good man needs to know his limitations."

To save the planet, we do not need miraculous technical breakthroughs, or vast amounts of capital. Essentially we need a radical change in our thinking and behaviour.

In the wake of the current injustice we all need to remember to breathe, stay strong and know that God has a bigger plan. Through whatever Hold Ya Head.

I feel very strongly that we need to give beef cattle a really good life. When they go to slaughter, it needs to be painless.

And while we are on the subject of medication you always need to look at risk versus benefit.

Just entering into the dharma and taking refuge and bodhisattva vows is a tremendous amount of merit, but we need more and more and more.

On a relative level where we live, we need to have a sense of identity, otherwise we'd fall apart, wouldn't we?

Distraction is the main problem for us all - what the Buddha called the monkey mind. We need to tame this monkey mind.

I think, for East and West, the first thing we need is a good grounding in basic Buddhadharma.

We need a metaphor that can contain the daemon of the future that we have conjured into being.

We need a pharmacological intervention on anti-social behavior or we are not going to get hold of our dilemma.

I'm always amazed by writers who say, "Oh you know I had a half hour so I sat down and wrote a little bit." I just need a real big chunk of time to sit down and focus. That's my process.

I have a rule: I will not alter the basic history of a real-life character to suit our fictional needs in a big way.

I don't need the recognition and I did not expect it.

In the liner notes, music is fine by itself. It doesn't need any explanation.

People need an enemy to feel a sense of purpose.

money does not guarantee happiness or peace of mind, it can take your mind off things, distract you, but it can't replace the generic stuff a person needs!

You'll see! We're going to the palace. Fetch Angua. We might need her. And bring the search warrant. You mean the sledgehammer, sir? Yes.

People like that don't need a reason apart from "because I can". They have a nightmare and try to make it happen.

Humans need fantasy in order to be human.

Hopefully there will come a time when I have no words, when I can honor and hold that kind of stillness that I so need, crave, and desire in the natural world.

A home isn’t only defined by what you need, Bram. It’s also about the people who need you

We need to increase the capacity; we need to improve performance so that we are more effective at lending that kind of support.

The public service needs lots of people, South Africa generally, needs lots of people.

You do not need to do anything first to be enlightened.