Needs Quotes - Page 226

I turned down 'Some Like It Hot.' See how smart I am? I felt I couldn't bring anything funny to it. The outfit was funny. I don't need to compete with the wardrobe.

But hey, when you live in Watts, you need a little smack to get by, you know what I mean? You need something soft and comfortable in your life, 'cause you're not going to get it from what's around you. And society isn't going to give it to you.

When I bite you, it'll be because I want to make your toes curl and your hair stand on end. And you won't need stitches afterward. You'll need crutches.

I need to just find my own peace.

When you work alone, you need to socialize at some level.

This Congress is out of control and in desperate need of adult supervision.

A comedian needs to have his own filters, needs to know his audience, how far he can push things.

Americans need to face the truth about themselves, no matter how pleasant it is.

If it's achievement that you place your value in, you're never going to achieve enough. If it's power, you always need to wield power over others. If it's money, you'll never be rich enough. But if you do something and are a part of what is happening, then you're always in it and it's always enough.

I have that thing in my stomach where I just need to keep striving for things. In my mind, I want the fairy tale

No one ever outgrows the need for a mother's love.

Make sure your main characters are likeable. They can be flawed, but your readers need to be able to root for them.

Get up from your desk and wander outside occasionally. To be a good writer one needs to be a good observer, and there isn't a lot to be observed at desk level.

We can't leave people in abject poverty, so we need to raise the standard of living for 80% of the world's people, while bringing it down considerably for the 20% who are destroying our natural resources.

Thoughts are like bullets. They go right to you. You're like the target. When you walk around and you are depressed or there is fatigue or a behavior which you're not used to, that can be someone else's energy on you. You need to know how to clean that off. Also people want to contact loved ones who have passed over.

Remember laughter. You'll need it even in the blessed isles of Ever After.

When the truth is spoken, it doesn't need to be adorned. It just needs to be simply stated, and often it only needs to be said once.

It's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it, you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have. Some women, the few, have charm for all; and most have charm for one. But some have charm for none.

Second, if you're the boss, just because they don't ask doesn't mean your employees don't have needs.

People who lose money always need someone to blame.

I tried [being a mogul]. It bores me. I don't really want to produce other people's movies. Because they're either grown-up filmmakers like Steven Soderbergh or Kathryn Bigelow that didn't really need me - and I've produced both of them. It's fun to sit around with them and be collegial, but they don't need me. They can make the film without me. I make my own stuff. There are tons and tons of other things I'm interested in that have nothing to do with movies or are documentary projects.

Among the language of the American Indians, there is no word for 'art'... For Indians, everything is art... therefore needs no name.

Women need to attack those negative voices they have in their head.

There is only a policeman in front of something you have need for and don't have access to, so you put a guard there... But if orange trees and apple trees grew all over the place, you couldn't sell them.

Hammond is insisting SG-1 needs a sociopolitical nerd to offset our overwhelming coolness.