"Ask yourself in the most silent hour of your night: must I write [create]? Dig into yourself for a deep answer."
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"Ah, the old questions, the old answers, there's nothing like them!"
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"The soul answers never by words, but by the thing itself that is inquired after."
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"What is civilization? I answer, the power of good women."
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"An answer in words is delusive; it is really no answer to the questions you ask."
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"I admire answers to which no answers can be made."
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"Why should I hasten to solve every riddle which life offers me? I am well assured that the Questioner, who brings me so many problems, will bring me the answers also, in due time."
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"It's a relationship like to a crusty Zen master, or something like that. And it is really like another entity because you cannot predict the answers."
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"When I asked the president [Barack Obama], can you kill an American on American soil, it should have been an easy answer. It's an easy question. It should have been a resounding and unequivocal no. The president's response, he hasn't killed anyone yet."
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"Questions don't have to make sense, Vincent," said Miss Susan. "But answers do."
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"If someone sends you a love letter you've got to answer back."
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"My answer to your question'Does the writer have a social responsibility?' is NO.You owe me ten cents, sir."
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"...All my best words are deserters and do not answer the trumpet call, and the remainder are cripples."
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"We know violence isn’t the answer. When we take up our arms, we’re talking about our vote."
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"Before any movie of yours gets made, it will be vetted by the studio's marketing department. So, you do have to answer the question: Who is your movie for?"
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"Remember, ask and you shall receive. If you ask a terrible question, you'll get a terrible answer. Your mental computer is ever ready to serve you, and whatever question you give it, it will surely come up with an answer."
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"I don't have the delusion that I'm the best or have the right answer. Whenever someone is out there pissed at you or me, they don't even know you or I. What they are really pissed at is themselves. You might have total respect for them but they don't respect themselves."
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"I think it's OK to compose songs and sing them about questions that we don't have answers to yet."
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"The search for the right answer is the enemy of art."
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"Responsible is Able to respond, Able to answer for the way we choose to live. There's only one person we have to answer to, of course, and that is ourselves."
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