"If all you want to do is make money, the very last thing you need is imagination."
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"To make Democracy work, you need an aristocratic democracy. To make Aristocracy work, you need a democratic aristocracy."
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"The London music world isn't a particularly cohesive place. And when I'm composing, I'm not very friendly. I need isolation."
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"I'll tell you a little secret about the Blues: it's not enough to know which notes to play, you have to know why they need to be played."
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"I quit school in ninth grade, even though I was good at the studies. I knew I didn't need school for what I wanted."
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"If you have a legal problem, guess how you determine whether or not you need a lawyer. You see a lawyer. Isn't that weird?"
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"Even success needs its consolations."
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"If we need a true conception of the popular character to guide our sympathies rightly, we need it equally to check our theories, and direct us in their application."
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"I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman, unless it's bearing children, and they do that in a poor make-shift way; it had better ha been left to the men."
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"Time, like money, is measured by our needs."
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"What are you, child, that you need time to learn about yourself?"
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"If you need something to worship, then worship life - all life, every last crawling bit of it! We're all in this beauty together!"
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"I can tell you squat about Islam. I don’t know anything about it. But I know a goddamn lot about al Qaeda and I want them all to burn in hell."
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"'Knowing' is one of those movies where you're going to get the spectacle, and you're going to have the entertainment in the grand science fiction tradition. But also, it will perhaps stimulate some discussion to help you sort out on your own where you might choose to go in terms of your own needs. Now, I say that without preaching."
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"I invite the entire spectrum, shall we call it, of feeling. Because that is my greatest resource as a film actor. I need to be able to feel everything, which is why I refuse to go on any kind of medication. Not that I need to! But my point is, I wouldn't even explore that, because it would get in the way of my instrument."
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"I had a mother complex going on and I was projecting all my negative mother stuff onto her and all of my need for her to love me and to make me whole and to approve of me."
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"When you do a rewrite, it's really about serving the director's vision, and what the director needs to go into that script."
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"He that gains well and spends well needs no count book."
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"The effect speakes, the tongue needes not. [The effect speaks, the tongue needs not.]"
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"There needs a long time to know the worlds pulse."
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