I don't have a style. I just try to write what the story demands.

- Helen Oyeyemi

I would like to be Maria, but there is La Callas who demands that I carry myself with her dignity.

- Maria Callas

Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.

- Marquis de Sade

I just don't know that a TV show demands a movie ending.

- Lauren Graham

America demands invention and innovation to succeed.

- Kit Bond

Very often the law of extremity demands an attention to irrelevance.

- Janet Frame

People who face too many demands - two careers, two children - often scale back somehow. The Obamas scaled up.

- Jodi Kantor

It frustrates me about myself when I see I'm not taking the road that demands more of me.

- Judith Light

I have never had demands on me as acute as when I was a parish priest.

- Justin Welby

Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.

- Henrik Ibsen

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

- Albert Einstein

Those who are truly contemporary are those who neither perfectly coincide with their time nor adapt to its demands... Contemporariness, then, is that relationship with time that adheres to it through a disconnection.

- Giorgio Agamben

You're going to react to a painting in a way that the painting demands you react.

- Greil Marcus

A long-running TV series is a beast in that it demands you stick to one character over a long haul.

- Grant Bowler

I think a film noir demands a beginning and an end.

- Claire Denis

Every story has its demands.

- Clint Eastwood

Each role demands the right actor. To play an artist, one must be an artist.

- Bruno Dumont

Do the story in the way it really demands to be done, which may mean using several different styles or only one style; but it's still about respecting the story.

- Bill Sienkiewicz

Representative government demands an ongoing conversation between legislators and constituents.

- Alan Siegel

I've tried to take roles with great demands.

- Annette Bening