"Doubt in my tradition is something that is very helpful. Because of doubt, you can thirst more and you will get a higher kind of proof."
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"The honor to me has less to do with the award. To me that translates in the relationship that I have with the audience, and if my music is helpful to them, that's the award."
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"When you are aligned with the now internally, when you take responsibility for this moment, then life is helpful and tends to bring you what you need."
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"As a director you already have a script, you have actors... you have collaborators when you're a director. When you're writing there's no one to collaborate with, there's no material to look at. I haven't adapted something yet, so, I'm sure that would be helpful. When you're writing an original piece you have nothing."
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"It's always helpful to remember that in the grand scheme of things you are much more important than... um, wait, than... something, maybe."
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"I think seeing some of the past can be helpful, especially if you're into crime solving."
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"It was helpful to have the American troops there in great strength. They knew there'd be consequences if they didn't move back. Now, there has been some removal of the foreign forces."
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"There have been many occasions when I found it helpful to talk out loud to my own thoughts, ordering the unwholesome ones to go off somewhere and jump into the river."
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"I'm kind of perverse in that I think pessimism is helpful. My pessimism is my own kind of patriotism. My dissent."
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"It was helpful to have the confidence of youth that came from a lack of desperation. I thought, 'If I don't succeed, I'll go back to school and study.'"
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"I found the sections on aging, relationships, and procrastinating especially helpful. I really found the tips and suggestions very helpful, inspiring, positive, and motivating. Yes, I would definitely recommend it."
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"Truly, there is something to the idea that hero-worship is helpful, provided one worships a winner."
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"It's a good thing to feel like you have to prove something"
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"Mo Willems was so helpful. I had met him a number of times, and I knew from his books how funny he was, of course, but it was really neat to be able to have his feedback. He's so great with comic timing. Working with him was like taking a master class in comic timing, because he could pinpoint right away if a section wasn't working. I remember him saying once, "No, you need a beat between this page and this page," and it was like, oh yeah, of course. I hadn't seen it, but being so good at what he does, Mo noticed it right away."
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"More than ever, movies reveal themselves as healing, as helpful, as encouraging, as escapist - anything that makes someone get through their day in these times. It's the best form of entertainment, and it's still arguably the most inexpensive form of entertainment."
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"I always try to turn my personal struggles into something helpful for others."
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"In so far as it takes effect at all, pacifist propaganda can only be effective against those countries where a certain amount of freedom of speech is still permitted; in other words it is helpful to totalitarianism."
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"On intervention under the UN framework, I think that sometimes that's legitimate, in fact even helpful."
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"In general I don't think the image of the state as a divinity is very helpful."
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"Obama saying Gaddafi must go. Putting it upfront like that... it's not very helpful."
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