"It probably says something really clinically terrible about my character that I need to get up on a stage and go 'Ra ra ra' in front of people."
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"I think the only thing that we know how to do is look at our characters and ask what is the character doing right now and what do we need to do, and tell it from that place. If we really make it character driven and theme driven, I think we're going to offer up something new for the audience."
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"By accepting God's love for us, we fall in love with Him, and only then do we have the fuel we need to obey."
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"To change the world you'll need a pen."
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"I need for there to be something bigger than me. I need someone to put awe inside me; I need to come second to someone who has everything figured out."
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"What do markets do? They consolidate, they breakout, they extend, they overextend, they back and fill, they consolidate, and repeat the process. That's all you need to know about the markets."
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"I think the things we want most in life, the things we think will set us free, are not the thing we need."
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"I think writers can get a little melodramatic sometimes about their work, and it helps me not to do that, to just say, "Well, this is how I make a living, and I need to become a very good craftsman.""
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"Give the needs you lack and they will be returned to you one hundred fold."
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"We are born with everything we need for a life of fulfilment and success."
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"When your creative expressions match the needs of you fellow humans, then wealth will spontaneously manifest."
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"Put yourself in the hands of the universe-then you will have no need for control."
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"There is a social need within our lives as human beings to have harmony."
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"For the longest time I have had so much belief and confidence in myself, which as an actor you need, because the entertainment industry is incredible competitive, brutal, and unpredictable just when you start to think you know what's going on."
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"Superstition is the need to view the world in terms of simple cause and effect."
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"All that I need now is someone with the brains and the know-how to tell me what I want."
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"We use and need to use both systems in complex political societies, and we oscillate in our commitments, because both oligarchy and rule by the will of masses have their bad points, as the ancient philosophers all knew."
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"I've realised I need a gnawing, nagging, anxious doubt when I wake at 4 A.M."
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"We Americans write our own history. And the chapters of which we're proudest are the ones where we had the courage to change. Time and again, Americans have seen the need for change, and have taken the initiative to bring that change to life."
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"Consider a clock thermostat, and set it so that you're not using energy when you don't need it, when you're out of your house."
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