"I always used to associate good directors as being ones who are totally extreme and have an answer for everything and there are no loose ends."
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"Which natural gift would you most like to possess? The ability to master other languages (which would have hugely enhanced the scope of these answers). How would you like to die? Fully conscious, and either fighting or reciting (or fooling around). What do you most dislike about your appearance? The way in which it makes former admirers search for neutral words."
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"It's normally agreed that the question 'How are you?' doesn't put you on your oath to give a full or honest answer."
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"I pretty much know that directing means that you have to answer about a thousand questions every day and you have to answer them quick."
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"I wonder if I'm being paranoid. I tell myself I'm not, and then ask myself how I can be so sure? I don't know the answer, so I go back to wondering if I am."
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"The question is not, could Utah compete week in and week out in the ACC, SEC, Big Ten, whatever, .. The question is, in a one- game setting, can Utah compete, can Utah get the market share, sell the tickets of one of those more familiar institutions. Nobody knows that answer."
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"And with that answer, he left me. I would much rather he had knocked me down."
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"You ask rather too many questions. I have given you answers enough for the present: now I want to read."
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"I mentally shake hands with you for your answer, despite its inaccuracy." Mr. Rochester"
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"The only way to keep a show alive is to stay loyal to your fans and not betray them creatively or ignore them when it comes to extra content. I'm on Twitter because I'm trying to answer their questions."
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"Anger should never be permitted to rise in our bosoms, and words suggested by angry feelings should never be permitted to pass our lips. 'A soft answer turneth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger'."
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"Any time a writer thinks he has all the answers to how someone should talk or react or end a scene, it's a spontaneity-killer."
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"If you want the answer to anything, go sit in Nature for awhile"
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"And along with indifference to space, there was an even more complete indifference to time. "There seems to be plenty of it", was all I would answer when the investigator asked me to say what I felt about time. Plenty of it, but exactly how much was entirely irrelevant. I could, of course, have looked at my watch but my watch I knew was in another universe. My actual experience had been, was still, of an indefinite duration. Or alternatively, of a perpetual present made up of one continually changing apocalypse."
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"You have to let other people be right' was his answer to their insults. 'It consoles them for not being anything else."
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"The problem with God - or at any rate, one of the top five most annoying things about God - is that he or she rarely answers right away."
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"At the very smallest wheel of our reasoning it is possible for a handful of questions to break the bank of our answers."
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"When a man attempts to deal with me by force, I answer him, by force."
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"Even the mood of a lot of people, my dad gets on me a lot because he's like people love answers but I'm more for questions, ask the right questions."
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"Everything I have to say has already crossed your mind." "Then possibly my answer has crossed yours."
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