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"I live in a small apartment in London, not some big house with a lot of security. I don't like too much security. There's no freedom. I'm a person, not some precious diamond that needs guarding every second."
"We have to be able track the ways in which fear, for instance, is monopolized by state and media institutions, ways in which fear is actually promoted and distributed as a way of bolstering the need for greater security and militarization."
"Surgical intervention can be precisely what a trans person needs - it is also not always what a trans person needs. Either way, one should be free to determine the course of one's gendered life."
"People need to know who I am and where I'm coming from."
"A fluent writer always seems more talented than he is. To write well, one needs a natural felicity and an acquired difficulty."
"I don't need faith. I have experience."
"You don't have to get high or need drugs to experience the Juggalo freshness. But you do need to get high to experience the whole Phish freshness."
"Story-telling is subject to two unavoidable defects,--frequent repetition and being soon exhausted; so that, whoever values this gift in himself, has need of a good memory, and ought frequently to shift his company."
"I have an ego like anybody else, but I don't need to be stoked by going before the public all the time."
"If you had to chose one half of your son, which one would it be?" What kind of a question is that?!" No need to snap. It was just a question."
"The spirit needs several sorts of food of which knowledge is only one."
"Every good thing great and small needs defense"
"We didn't talk much. But we didn't need to."
"I don't need to compromise my principles, because they don't have the slightest bearing on what happens to me anyway."
"Once I get over maybe a hundred pages, I won't go back to page one, but I might go back to page fifty-five, or twenty, even. But then every once in a while I feel the need to go to page one again and start rewriting."
"I need an hour alone before dinner, with a drink, to go over what I've done that day. I can't do it late in the afternoon because I'm too close to it. Also, the drink helps. It removes me from the pages."
"When you usually are not ready to chance the standard you'll need to settle for the standard."
"Everything you need is within reach, the key is whose going to reach"
"If you need a guide for your ongoing relationship with God, read Psalms."
"As I got into the animation, as I learned more about the business, I learned that you need a lot of people to do anything animated - even a short, let alone a feature film. And you need a lot of money."
