All Quotes

I needed a concept of God that worked for me, and I wound up giving my life to Jesus Christ. I thought I was always going to have to wear skirts over my knees, not be able to listen to music, and have no personality. Fortunately, it's so completely opposite.
‐‐ Justine Bateman

I needed a place to put the dogs. The prisoners ruined the jail, so I put the prisoners in the tents and I had a nice place to put the dogs. We treat the cats nice too, and horses. I have the inmates take care of the animals. It's therapy too, you see.
‐‐ Joe Arpaio

I needed a way to have the platter continuously spinning while I'm moving the record back and forth. I went to a fabric store. When I touched this hairy stuff - felt - I found it. I rubbed spray starch on both sides and ironed it until it became a stiff wafer. After that, I was able to stop time.
‐‐ Grandmaster Flash

I needed a writing space to get out of my house with the little guy. Because any time I try to write or sit down and do things, he wants to be there with me and play the guitar.
‐‐ Sturgill Simpson

I needed an opportunity to get back in the studio and get my recording chops back together.
‐‐ Pat Travers

I needed an outlet in high school and came across painting. I've actually been painting longer than I've been acting. A movie is a collaborative effort, and with painting you just have yourself.
‐‐ James Franco

I needed freedom to really express myself. That's really what Justified is about.
‐‐ Justin Timberlake

I needed more knowledge in rigging and knotting. I started collecting books on knots and really learning more and more. That's how it started. And also in magic, of course. With a piece of rope, you can do magic.
‐‐ Philippe Petit

I needed my life as a springboard for my fiction. I have to have something solid under my feet when I write. I'm not a fantasist. I bounce up and down on the diving board, and I go into the water of fiction. But I've got to begin in life so I can pump life into it throughout.
‐‐ Philip Roth

I needed my own territory, and I didn't know how I was going to get it. And so I took my frustrations and plugged them into someone entirely different from me. I wanted to see if I could slip into someone else's skin.
‐‐ Jane Hamilton

I needed New Orleans so badly back in 2006, just somebody to believe in me, somebody to care about me.
‐‐ Drew Brees

I needed real help in New York and I had no friends. I looked up at those buildings, I couldn't see the sky or nothing, and I said, 'Well, there ain't no mountain high enough,' and I just started - the words just fell out of my mouth, really.
‐‐ Nickolas Ashford

I needed some stability, which is why I chose not to change from HRC for this season, which was an option that we had. Apart from being the best team in the world, I also needed some consistency.
‐‐ Sete Gibernau

I needed somebody to love me, and the people that I chose were my coaches. I would sacrifice my body to be successful for my coaches because I wanted them to love me, to respect me, to have positive feelings about me.
‐‐ Steve Largent

I needed the 'Chuck' phase to appreciate the 'Captain Awesome' phase because otherwise I don't think I would have realized the flip side of that coin. I think I needed to see the world through Chuck's eyes before becoming Captain Awesome.
‐‐ Ryan McPartlin

I needed the time to go to college and spend years with people who aren't in the business and become a person on my own in order to be the person that I am and the performer that I am. I wouldn't give that up to be in blockbusters or have more money.
‐‐ Sarah Steele

I needed to be accepted, not humored. I intended to act.
‐‐ Gene Tierney

I needed to be in the bush. There I find solitude and beauty and purity and focus. That's where my heart lies.
‐‐ Mark Burnett

I needed to be myself and find my own identity.
‐‐ Bill Skarsgard

I needed to be pushed as an artist and as a person.
‐‐ Kenny Chesney

I needed to become something besides the star everybody had built me up to be.
‐‐ LeAnn Rimes

I needed to carve out my own place and find out what I was going to do.
‐‐ Rosanne Cash

I needed to create something I could take with me wherever I went.
‐‐ Toyin Odutola

I needed to explain that Louisiana's coast accepts the drainage from two-thirds of the United States and, while the necessary levees constructed upstream have prevented floods, they have also contributed to problems downstream.
‐‐ John Breaux

I needed to explore my talent and versatility and see if I had another side to me, another sound.
‐‐ Brandy Norwood

I needed to feed my family. I read a couple of the episodes. How can you keep on doing the same thing?
‐‐ Lloyd Bridges

I needed to find my own worth and shake the image after having done 'Showgirls' at age 21.
‐‐ Elizabeth Berkley

I needed to give back, give back, give back. I felt guilty about my success. I felt uncomfortable about how easily I had been delivered this extraordinary life that I had.
‐‐ Pete Townshend

I needed to grow up and do things all adults do. It was time to stop having everything spoon fed to me. It was about being independent.
‐‐ Paula Creamer

I needed to join the Navy. If you ask the people in Europe who won World War II, they don't say the Allies, they say the United States won the war and saved the world.
‐‐ Bob Feller

I needed to make the buyer happy: I needed to provide a price point and sort of a model that was attractive to them. But I also needed to make the contributor happy.
‐‐ Jon Oringer

I needed to move, but I haven't had the time to find a place to go.
‐‐ Elisabeth Rohm

I needed to pay for my horses in Warwickshire, and I couldn't do that off a waitress' wage.
‐‐ Edie Campbell

I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me - I wasn't neglected enough as a child.
‐‐ Captain Beefheart

I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.
‐‐ Kacey Musgraves

I needed to run away in order to come home.
‐‐ Patti Davis

I needed to step away from music because the truth was I couldn't be the dad I wanted to be to my kids. My truth was that I could not reconcile the two worlds - the entertainment world and being the dad I wanted to be in the present. You can't substitute time, you just can't.
‐‐ Corey Hart

I needed to take a break from performing, and from the Peas, to be happy. I craved female time, and time with my husband to feed my soul. My life now is about being balanced. I'm passionate about work and working out, seeing friends and family, and letting my hair down once in a while.
‐‐ Fergie

I neglected my health, and I was reluctant to have medical check-ups. It was a fundamental mistake for a revolutionary, to the Venezuelan people and the international public opinion.
‐‐ Hugo Chavez

I neither drink nor smoke, because my schoolmaster impressed upon me three cardinal virtues; cleanliness in person, cleanliness in mind; temperance.
‐‐ John Burns

I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.
‐‐ Fidel Castro

I never abandoned either forms or freedom. I imagine that most of what could be called free verse is in my first book. I got through that fairly early.
‐‐ Howard Nemerov

I never, absolutely never, keep people waiting.
‐‐ Graham Kennedy

I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.
‐‐ J. Robert Oppenheimer

I never accepted the idea that I had to be guided by some pattern or blueprint.
‐‐ Little Richard

I never accepted the idea that I was all through. I guess no person who has once been a star can do that, ever.
‐‐ Ethel Waters

I never accepted why there should be some invisible, wavy cutoff line separating Great Fiction from phosphorescent beauties and dollhouse miniatures, novels that contain a whole world in a snow globe.
‐‐ James Wolcott

I never achieved my first goal in the National Actors Theatre, which is to have a permanent Acting Company.
‐‐ Tony Randall

I never act my characters - I am them.
‐‐ Drew Barrymore