Aaron Dessner
Aaron Dessner

Music for me is an emotional necessity. It's therapy. It's what I live and breathe.

Adam Cohen
Adam Cohen

The remarkable thing about 'Avatar' is the degree to which the technology is integral to the story. It is important to show Pandora and its Na'Vi natives in 3-D because 'Avatar' is fundamentally about the moral necessity of seeing other beings fully.

Agnetha Faltskog
Agnetha Faltskog

When I'm living in the world of luxury and celebrity, which is where I found myself for a large part of my life, it's a walk-on part. Not a vital necessity, like it is for so many people. I enjoy it but I can see right through it!

Albert Brooks
Albert Brooks

You know, I became a director out of necessity. I was writing comedies, and I couldn't find anybody to deliver it correctly.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

To question your own process is a necessity. If you don't question yourself, it's impossible to improve.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

First would be the literary side, then the spiritual and philosophical. The political side is required principally because of the necessity of the current Russian position.

Alex Campbell
Alex Campbell

I, Alexander B. Campbell, make this statement of the cause of my death to relieve the coroner of the necessity of an inquest, and also let my friends know the motive that led me to take my own life.

Alexis de Tocqueville
Alexis de Tocqueville

In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own.

Alfred Russel Wallace
Alfred Russel Wallace

To the mass of mankind religion of some kind is a necessity.

Alison Gopnik
Alison Gopnik

Because we imagine, we can have invention and technology. It's actually play, not necessity, that is the mother of invention.