“I more seriously considered publishing it under a pseudonym than I considered publishing it as fiction. I think the decision to write it as nonfiction happened at the very outset of the process, because the overwhelming impetus for writing this book was to understand what the experience meant, and to override my own reductions and rationalizations, whatever story I had that was not true. It didn't sit well with me and I needed to answer that. That's sort of the reason I write everything.” ThinkingWritingWellsBookReasonStoriesProcessMy OwnDecisionAnswersFictionHappenedNeededOverwhelmingNonfictionPublishingReductionImpetusPseudonyms Author:Melissa Febos
“I didn't know enough as a writer to understand why I needed to do this, but I understood in a very gut way that I could not entertain those thoughts of pleasing people and write this book - that it would be a very different book. Without really sort of investigating that instinct, which I'm glad for, I just made a conscious decision to put blinders on and not think about anything and put it all in. And I did. I put everything in. I had to look at the whole picture to see what I needed.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayWritingLooksMadeBookDifferentEnoughWholeWould BeDecisionNeededConsciousUnderstoodInstinctGladGutsInvestigatingBlindersWhole PictureDifferent BooksPleasing People Author:Melissa Febos
“Gilles Deleuze believed that every society needed a madman so we could feel better about ourselves. I do my best to fill that role.” FeelsRolesNeededFeel BetterMadmen Author:George Singleton
“If you want a good handbag and glasses, it's hard to get something without the brand name on it because it's so important to have the charmed inscription. The only way you do it... This handbag was the only one in the shop without a charmed inscription. It's just an ordinary bag. I went into the department store in Sloane Square, because I needed a new bag, because my old one lost its handles. Then I found this one, and I said "Why is it so cheap?" and the seller said, "Because it doesn't have a name!"” IfsWayWantSaidImportantHardFoundNamesLostNeededOrdinaryGlassesStoresHandleBrandsDepartmentShopsBagsSquaresSellersCharmedInscriptionsHandbagsDepartment StoresBrand Names Author:Marina Warner
“Christie Brinkley told me that I needed to become a movie star because I have that something, and then we actually just became friends on set. She has such a young spirit, and is so vivacious. It was such a fun, fun shoot.” YoungSpiritFunStarsNeededMovie StarChristieVivacious Author:Ashley Graham
“For me the question that you have to ask, about any magazine, is whether it's needed, whether it's publishing things that no one else could publish, or publish equally well. So there's that.” WellsAsksNeededMagazinesPublishingPublish Author:Lorin Stein
“It was an identity crisis. I was born and raised in France, but I never really felt French, so I needed to find something that I was more connected to. I used to go back to Tunisia every summer, but I was more into the language, my Arabic roots.” UsedLanguageFeltBornIdentityNeededSummerRootsCrisisRaisedConnectedFranceIdentity CrisisBorn And RaisedTunisia Author:eL Seed
“FAQ regarding my book were not about my use of commas or how the images went berserk, but about the political situation in Bosnia, about guilt and shame, about victims and perpetrators, about reasons, arguments and beliefs that led to the conflict in the first place, etc. All of this needed and still needs answering and ongoing discussions, but I mostly felt overwhelmed and unqualified to articulate anything worth more than personal experiences of the siege, of fear and refuge - all the things which I wrote about anyway.” NeedsFirstsStillsBookReasonUsePoliticalBeliefFeltSituationNeededConflictArgumentShameVictimGuiltDiscussionEtcRefugeOverwhelmedOngoingPersonal ExperiencesPerpetratorsSiegeUnqualifiedBosniaBerserk Author:Sasa Stanisic
“I needed to put something together that would continually get me up at 4:30 in the morning, get me to work and get me excited to throw on those costumes - which clearly continue to excite me, if you are a viewer of the show - and circumstances that continue to surprise me and ask me to go places acting-wise that I haven't explored before.” IfsShowsTogetherAsksActingMorningWiseHavensNeededCircumstancesSurpriseExcitedAsk MeViewersCostumesSurprise Me Author:Gabriel Mann
“Being a high school teacher was wonderful, but unsustainable: I needed a way out.” WaySchoolTeacherWonderfulNeededHigh SchoolSchool TeachersHigh School Teachers Author:Garth Greenwell
“As governor I would have made sure that I bargained fairly but firmly, been able to get the changes that were needed to balance the budget, but done that through collective bargaining and making sure that our public employees had a voice at the table.” MadeDoneAbleVoiceNeededBalanceTablesBudgetsEmployeeCollectivesGovernorsBargainingCollective Bargaining Author:Mary Burke
“We definitely needed to spend a good solid year just finding ourselves before anyone would even notice us. We had our fan-base growing around here in Los Angeles, but I wouldn't even have wanted anyone to come out to see us that was from a record label or something like that at that time, because we really needed to feel ourselves out as a live band.” FeelsYearsWantedRecordsGrowingFansNeededBandFindingsLabelsLos AngelesRecord Labels Author:Theresa Wayman
“I think the most note-worthy part is that Stella [Mozgawa] had joined the band two weeks before we started recording, so that really influenced the way that the album was recorded. It was really important for Stella and Jen[ny Lee Lindberg] to lay down the drums and bass first for most songs, because they were determining how they needed to lock in together, and Stella was still kind of learning and figuring out her parts.” ThinkingWayFirstsKindStillsTwoImportantTogetherSongWeekNeededBandLaysNotesAlbumsWorthyLocksBassTwo WeeksStellaDrum And Bass Author:Theresa Wayman
“I hit my knees every morning and every night to give thanks for being alive and all the blessings I have. And in the middle of chaos, it's been suggested to me to stop and truly look around, notice the sky, the trees, the grass, and realize you're part of it all, which is hard when you really want to focus on what you think is bothering you. However, one of the smartest things I do is check in with my awesome wife, who is really good at screwing my head back on when needed.” ThinkingWantGivingLooksHardNightRealizingMorningFocusAliveWifeTreeSkyMiddleNeededBlessingChaosChecksThanksBotherGrassKneesEvery NightEvery MorningBothering You Author:Patrick Fabian
“Kenneth Rexroth took me under his wing for a brief period. I was fifteen years old, and I was smoking a lot of heroin and trying to be cool, man, and I really loved poetry. And Kenneth convinced me that destroying myself was not really the best possible solution, and that I needed to look at the world's literature, and not just my own life, in order to be hip, if you will. So he had a huge influence on what became of me thereafter.” IfsMenWorldTryingYearsLooksOrderLiteratureMy OwnInfluenceHugeNeededPeriodsSolutionsWingsConvincedHipsSmokingDestroyingFifteenMy Own LifeHeroinBeing CoolFifteen YearsKennethFifteen Years Old Author:Sam Hamill
“I spent the first years working in Jordan trying to learn as much as I could about what was taking place in the country, about where there were gaps in the development process that needed attention.” TryingYearsFirstsCountryProcessAttentionDevelopmentNeededGapsJordan Author:Queen Noor of Jordan
“Of course, in our country, developing in a region with somewhat conservative traditions, women were desperately needed to be more engaged - socially, economically, politically.” CountryCoursesNeededTraditionConservativeOur CountryDevelopingEngagedRegions Author:Queen Noor of Jordan
“I'm not sure what gave me empathy for animals, but I do know that I have always loved animals since I was a very young child. I always felt a need to nurture and protect them. Perhaps I could see they needed that, and caring for them made me happy.” KnowsNeedsChildrenMadeYoungFeltAnimalNeededProtectEmpathyCaringNot SureNurtureYoung Children Author:Alison Eastwood
“You start to stress yourself out about the people around you. You start to think, like, "What do you really want from me?" And then you forget that you, at some point, asked them for something. At some point you needed them to take you in because you ain't had nowhere to go. And now you turn around and question their loyalty to you, and those were the only people loyal to you. The only people that really loved you are still there, and you tanked on them. I'll never let that happen.” PeopleThinkingWantStillsHappensTurnsForgetNeededStressLoyaltyLoyalNowhere To Go Author:Fetty Wap
“I've had two jobs my whole life. I worked at FedEx for, like, two days, and I worked at Popeye's for a week. I just needed a check. It was a standard thing for people where I'm from. Well, people from there that did what I did for a living, you know what I'm saying? Go get you a quick check when you mess your money up.” PeopleKnowsWellsTwoWholeJobsWeekNeededStandardsWhole LifeChecksMessTwo DaysTwo JobsPopeye Author:Fetty Wap
“The love that I got when I finally did start performing again was all that I needed to just get back out there. Just to know that people were out there and they missed me. That made all the difference.” PeopleKnowsMadeDifferencesNeededPerformingGet Back Author:Jazmine Sullivan
“I get that some people just want to do work and keep their lives private. I think for me, it just felt like I needed to be open about who I am. It just felt like the right thing for me to do.” PeopleThinkingWantFeltNeededWho I AmRight Thing Author:Evan Rachel Wood
“The best way to deal with AIDS is through education. So we need a really widespread AIDS education program. In fact, what we need in Burma is education of all kinds - political, economic, and medical. AIDS education would be just part of a whole program for education, which is so badly needed in our country.” WayNeedsKindCountryWholeFactsWould BePoliticalDealsEconomicNeededProgramAidsMedicalBest WayAll KindsOur CountryBurmaParts Of A Whole Author:Aung San Suu Kyi
“Well, you know, going into any project, especially with a fan base as vocal and passionate as something as "Star Wars," you will have groups of people who will find issues with whatever it is you're doing. But our job was to tell the best story we could about characters that we loved, and we knew that we needed to go backwards to go forwards, and we needed to go back to a feeling and a place and a time.” PeopleKnowsWellsWarCharacterStoriesFeelingsJobsStarsIssuesGroupsFansNeededProjectsPassionateBackwardsVocal Author:J. J. Abrams
“I was writing tons of music in my spare time. I might be on location somewhere, and I'd go home and I'd have my guitar and my little keyboard or something and write music. Or if I was at home, on my piano. I've always been a late bloomer with a lot of things, just in general, so I think this was something that needed to come to fruition in this particular way.” IfsThinkingWayWritingLittlesHomeMightParticularNeededLateGuitarPianoSparesLocationKeyboardsFruitionSpare Time Author:Zooey Deschanel
“Eleanor Roosevelt had both her admirers and her detractors. And they admired her and detracted from her for many of the same reasons. People who liked her social activism, who thought that she was calling attention to problems that needed solving, were all for her.” PeopleReasonProblemSocialAttentionNeededCallingActivismEleanorAdmirerSocial Activism Author:William A. Rusher
“I don't think she ever had a single initiative at the United Nations that was not previously [vetted] by the people at the State Department, approved of, and authorized. She did manage to get around the world an awful lot, and find other parts of her vast slum project that needed repair. But I don't think that that was the main point. The main point was that she, after all, connoted Franklin Roosevelt, who by then was long dead, and had a certain prestige and power on that account.” PeopleThinkingWorldLongStatesCertainNationsUnitedNeededProjectsAccountsManageAwfulAround The WorldDepartmentInitiativeUnited NationsFranklinApprovedPrestigeSlums Author:William A. Rusher
“One of the places where research is needed is all the sensory problems. And you get sensory problems not just with autism, but with dyslexia, learning problems, ADHD, attention deficit, you know, things like sound sensitivity, problems with fluorescent lighting.” KnowsProblemSoundAttentionNeededResearchAutismSensitivityDeficitLightingSensoryAdhdDyslexia Author:Temple Grandin
“I was like 14 and decided I wanted to be a rapper, so I needed a hip rapper name. I was with one of my friends in class and literally went through a thesaurus. I saw "temper" and thought, "I like this, but it's too much." My friend was like, "What about Tinie for tiny," and that was that.” WantedNamesClassSawsToo MuchNeededMy FriendsDecidedTinyHipsTemperRapperThesaurus Author:Tinie Tempah
“I'm not worried about what part of their life they needed to massage in order to achieve something that I get to experience as transcendent. Because that's the point of literature, I think: to connect.” ThinkingOrderLiteratureAchieveNeededWorriedTranscendentMassage Author:John D'Agata
“It is clear that several countries, in the Balkans for example, need to be considered countries of safe origin. But others like, in my opinion, Eritrea, undoubtedly need to be considered a country of origin with a valid claim to asylum. And with a third group of states, like Nigeria for example, each individual case needs to be evaluated. Then there are also very controversial cases like Afghanistan. In any case, united European action is needed. This argument for Europeanization may sound utopian, but there is no alternative.” NeedsMayCountryStatesActionIndividualSoundUnitedOpinionCasesClearGroupsExampleNeededSafeArgumentThirdsClaimsAlternativesAfghanistanControversialNigeriaUtopianAsylumsBalkansEritrea Author:Paolo Gentiloni
“To my mind, if we do not get a handle on money in politics and the degree to which big money controls the political process in this country, nobody is going to bring about the changes that is needed in this country for the middle class and working families.” IfsMindCountryBigsPoliticalProcessClassMiddleNeededDegreesHandleMiddle ClassMoney In Politics Author:Bernie Sanders
“I'm excited for the new crop of gay comics who have never been closeted, who never thought that they needed to put on a dress to tell a joke, and it's exciting.” NeededGayJokesExcitingDressesExcitedCrops Author:Guy Branum
“I wanted to become an actor and I knew that if I was really going to do it, I needed the training. I was not one of those people that was like, "I got it." I was like, "No, I don't have it yet. I need work. I need help fixing myself."” PeopleIfsNeedsHelpingWantedActorsNeededTrainingFixingNeed Help Author:Condola Rashad
“As a director, I hoped that I was able to help the actors by giving them the space and the respect they need and the trust. I gave them what I always felt I needed when I was working.” NeedsGivingHelpingAbleActorsFeltSpaceNeededDirectors Author:Angelina Jolie
“Just like the Alamo, somebody damn well needed to go to their aid. Well, by God, I'm going to Viet Nam's aid!” WellsNeededAidsDamnAlamo Author:Lyndon B. Johnson
“I wasn't big in the party scene but I did have an excessive lifestyle. I had much more than I needed. I think that was a manifestation of a certain kind of mental illness.” ThinkingKindBigsCertainPartyNeededSceneIllnessLifestyleMental IllnessManifestation Author:Tom Shadyac
“When Scott and I started, every time we performed we wrote a whole new bit. We didn't know this wasn't the way things were done because we were just starting. But we needed the new material anyway. And it's nice, every time that Matt Besser does the show he does a whole new bit. And it's nice to offer up a place where people can be that experimental while offering some solid, proven comedy as well.” PeopleKnowsWayWellsDoeDoneWholeShowsBitsComedyNiceMaterialsNeededOffersStartingOfferingProven Author:B. J. Porter
“Scott and I had just worked with Jimmy Pardo doing a live show over the summer. And it was a lot of fun and we wanted to keep doing a live show. And as Scott said, we knew a lot of funny young people who needed a place to do stand-up. And we were in a place, where we were writing so much that we weren't around live comedy so much, so we kind of missed it.” PeopleWritingKindSaidShowsWantedYoungFunComedyNeededSummerJimmy Author:B. J. Porter
“When the president offered me this job, he told me that if there were situations in which I needed to speak to him or I needed his advice or I needed to ask him a question, that I could go into the Oval Office and I could ask him.” IfsJobsAsksSpeakPresidentSituationAdviceNeededOfficeOval Author:Josh Earnest
“However, for story reasons, we needed to represent them in certain ways. One of the things that sort of blew me away that I didn't know when we started is that memories are completely susceptible to change. And this is, you know, one of the many reasons why certain people are trying to get it taken out - eyewitness testimony in court cases because it's very unreliable.” PeopleKnowsWayTryingReasonStoriesCertainMemoriesCasesTakenNeededCourtReason WhyTestimonySusceptibleUnreliableEyewitnessesCourt Cases Author:Pete Docter
“We actually needed the memory - if you see the film - as a very different kind of a plot device of revealing some information to our main character. So we chose to represent it as these sort of beautiful little snow globes, which kind of, weirdly, that's the way we think of memories - at least, most of the folks that we talked to. You think of these memories as being very pure and absolute and unchanging. That's not actually real life.” IfsThinkingWayKindLittlesDifferentRealCharacterBeautifulFilmMemoriesInformationNeededPureAbsolutesFolksReal LifeSnowPlotDevicesDifferent KindsGlobesRevealingThink Of MeUnchangingMain Characters Author:Pete Docter
“I knew that there was an upcoming screening where not only were we going to show it to everybody else at the studio, we also needed to move into production... And yet I was sitting there in editorial going this is not working. I'm a failure.” ShowsMovingNeededSittingProductionsStudiosEditorialsScreening Author:Pete Docter
“Pledge Allegiance was a pretty generic name back in the day. In the 80's I was the promoter for all the punk rock shows and I'd book Black Flag, Dead Kennedy's, Minor Threat etc and I'd hook them up with places to stay if needed so it's hard to keep track of it all.” IfsBookHardShowsNamesBlackRocksNeededThreatTrackEtcFlagsPunkMinorsHookPledgeAllegiancePunk RockBack In The DayGenericPromotersGeneric Name Author:Reed Mullin
“The challenges we've had personally and globally have been the catalysts needed to let go of old ways of being that aren't the vibration of love.” WayHas BeensChallengesNeededLetting GoVibrationsCatalystOld Ways Author:Marci Shimoff
“Once we do fill the void and experience the expansion in consciousness, we realize there is enough and has always been enough. We've always had exactly what we've needed in every moment.” EnoughMomentsRealizingConsciousnessNeededVoidExpansionFill The Void Author:Isha Judd
“By learning to accept the small things immediately as they happen, you can be free of having to react to things at all. You still can respond when action is needed, but you can be free, internally, of events.” StillsHappensActionAcceptingEventsNeededSmall Things Author:Eckhart Tolle
“It's interesting because when David Fincher was making "Fight Club," he said, "It's a romance." And it really is. Almost everything I ever write is just a romance. And that needed to be sort of pointed up at the end of "Fight Club." The film has a very different ending than the book does.” WritingDoeSaidBookDifferentEndsFilmRomanceFightingInterestingNeededClubs Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“It is a work of psychogeography, albeit in a less explicit sense than Iain Sinclair's or Will Self's. It had to be fiction though, because I needed that freedom of including whatever belonged, and cutting out whatever didn't. The main fiction in it was matching Julius' generous and self-concealing character to New York's generous and self-concealing character. I think this also adds to my answer about New York's personality in the book.” ThinkingBookSelfCharacterAnswersFictionCuttingNew YorkPersonalityNeededAddIncludingGenerousExplicitMatchingJuliusConcealing Author:Teju Cole
“The real thing we tried to look at is what happens to a society when the state is absent. At that point, the state had really withdrawn from Lagos; the city was left to its own devices, both in terms of money and services. That, by definition, created an unbelievable proliferation of independent agency: each citizen needed to take, in any day, maybe 400 or 500 independent decisions on how to survive that extremely complex system.” LooksRealStatesHappensLeftTermDecisionCitiesNeededCitizensIndependentComplexesDefinitionsAgencyDevicesUnbelievableAbsentReal ThingsProliferationComplex Systems Author:Rem Koolhaas