"What I really need is to get clear out about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as knowledge precedes every act."
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"Success means crossing a limit. To cross a limit you need to assume that you have a limit. Assuming a limit is underestimating yourself. If you have no boundaries then where is your success?"
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"There's always that moment when you realize what it's going to be. You might have an overarching theme and you need to fill in the blanks - and then there's this "Aha" moment when you see where it's going. That's the most satisfying part of writing."
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"He whose book of the heart has been opened needs no other books."
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"Managing wildlife? It's wild! It don't need managing, leave it alone."
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"Those who need nothing attract everything."
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"It's very rare in our lives that we're like "Ooh, I'm going to really screw this family up." You just don't. You work from a place of need, like I want to finish this movie or I want to feel loved at that moment or I need empathy right now. And then, you do things that are questionable."
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"I don't necessarily need 400 pounds on my back in the squat rack, and then take a picture of myself and send it out to my Twitter followers, 'Part of the 400 pound club today.'"
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"...a book need never die and should not be killed; books were the immortal part of man."
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"I feel that people need to be jolted out of their comfort zones."
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"All you need is a bad angle and suddenly youre 30 pounds overweight."
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"When a man has a problem very thoroughly and can't solve it, he really has too few problems. He needs more."
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"It is not possible to 'spoil' a child with love and affection...a child needs all the love and affection it can possibly get."
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"I like to find things in real life that let me get involved. Or if you need a break, go hang out with your family."
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"We don't need a head of state who guts our defenses and draws phony red lines with a pink crayon."
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"It's so important to have that independence. You know it yourself: Everyone needs evenings of their own."
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"Who needs the sun, when the rain is so full of life?"
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"A good calculator does not need artificial aids."
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"Where there's life there's hope, and need of vittles."
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"If you go out looking for friends, they'll be scarce. If you go out looking to be one, you'll have all the friends you need."
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