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"I read nonfiction almost exclusively - both for research and also for pleasure. When I read fiction, it's almost always in the thriller genre, and it needs to rivet me in the opening few chapters."
"Buddha had said: "Each of us is a God. Each of us knows all. We need only open our minds to hear our own wisdom."
"One does not need to have cancer to analyze its symptoms."
"We do not need more knowledge, we need more character!"
"Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need"
"He needs to go rub his soul against life."
"My morning begins with trying not to get up before the sun rises. But when I do, it's because my head is too full of words, and I just need to get to my desk and start dumping them into a file. I always wake with sentences pouring into my head."
"There is something about video marketing that helps it stay apart from the other online marketing tactics. When done correctly, all you need is one video marketing campaign to build up highly targeted traffic for a really long time."
"I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs."
"Cling to liberty and right; battle fro them; leed for them; die for them, if need be; and have confidence in God."
"But the proclamation, as law, either is valid, or is not valid. If it is not valid, it needs no retraction. If it is valid, it can not be retracted, any more than the dead can be brought to life."
"We need the breast and the brightest to- umm the best and the brightest."
"To talk to his children about God, a person needs to first talk to God with the impossible."
"Play needs direction as well as work."
"We need not fear any isms if our democracy is achieving the ends for which it was established."
"We need our radicals."
"Sometimes it is extremely good for you to forget that there is anything in the world which needs to be done, and to do some particular thing that you want to do. Every human being needs a certain amount of time in which he can be peaceful."
"Movie stars need to retain some of that mystique if you are a big movie star."
"Horror audiences don't need to see some TV actor they're familiar with."
"You do need an outlet to release all of those fears. You build it up and then, when you go to a movie theater, it's the last place that it's socially acceptable to be terrified. It's saying that, for the next 90 minutes, you're allowed to be afraid and you're not a coward for feeling that way."
