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Now, what tends to happen is that the stories get hyped. And the medicines are not quite as revolutionary and as dramatic as they seem to be. But, certainly, various phases of this problem are being attacked by the pharmaceutical companies.

Need is not quite belief.

My mother was a dominant force in my life. She had a very specific idea about education, which was: you should know everything about everything. It was quite simple. There was no exclusivity, and there really was no judgment.

For me now, it's about what you would write and what you wouldn't write, and that's how I select what I am going to do. It can be quite nice being brought a concept by a studio for me to work on.

I get letters from kids, teenagers and young girls who just want to be Mac. I've had quite a few people actually say that they're going to become a Marine or a JAG lawyer because of me... the character. I think that's pretty cool!

If I go to a party I don't feel like I have to be in the centre. But I do find myself quite often being placed in that position. Even when I was younger at school, I would be asked to make a speech. I don't remember putting up my hand and all that often but I'd just find myself there.

I have been working in television for quite a long time. In television, the writer is the constant, and the director is rotated in and out. I am very use to dealing with people's methods. And perspectives.

I've always liked Muir without knowing quite why.

Please do not ask me to talk about my divorce. Mr. Ziegfeld and I are such very good friends. It is only a little matter quite between ourselves.

A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

And I think that even today, New York still has more of this unexpected quality around every corner than any place else. It's something quite extraordinary.

I realized there was something I didn't quite like in myself that I didn't want to hear about.

Women are frightening. If you get to 41 as a man, you're quite battle-scarred.

Football management is such a pressurised thing - horseracing is a release. I'm also learning to play the piano - I'm quite determined - it's another release from the pressure of my job.

I did send a girl a plane ticket asking her for a visit, I guess that's quite romantic.

My son Wesley has just turned 13. He was 12 during the recording of this record and he is quite a drummer already and has been studying drums since he was four, but he's also very interested in African percussion and studies percussion.

I think most Americans understand that we went through a period in which American leadership was judged quite critically internationally.

I'm a conservative kind of person. I don't think rightwing is quite the same thing. But I acknowledge my conservatism of temperament.

We would have been happy if we could have assigned just three categories, large, medium, and small; the point is, we wanted to avoid personal judgments. It actually turned out to be quite a finely tuned scale.

To disappear your complete self into a character is quite difficult. I've tried it 85 times, and I've succeeded two or three times.

I was coerced into taking piano lessons in the early '50s. It was a quite unpleasant experience.

Sometimes it's difficult directing yourself on film because you can't quite separate yourself from the subject.

With stand-up you've just got that one chance. Audiences can be quite fickle.

We've managed to have a long career that is still quite vibrant, yet we've never had to kow-tow to record companies who said we weren't commercial enough.

Every President I think I've ever known, except Truman, has thought they didn't quite get done what they wanted done. And toward the end of their Administrations, they were disappointed and wished they had done some things differently.

I am really quite fascinated by echo-locating bats and dolphins and have always wondered how sound affects the unconscious brain.

I confess it, I love the camera. When it's not on me, I'm not quite alive.

I was always a big fan of the books and over the years I've become quite attached to Ron and we've meshed into the same person, really.

I really love clothes, but I think I have a style of my own which is quite eclectic.

You never want to be the grumpy guy, although I do have quite a grumpy face.