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Never take no for an answer. It took me 20 years between the time I wrote my first screenplay and the time I actually got money to direct a movie.

As a teenager, I increasingly had questions about religion to which I found no good answers.

I don't like your tone," was Violet's standard answer when one of her children was winning an argument.

Man is a question; woman is an answer. The mistake women make today is to offer themselves as answers before being questioned.

Jews read the books of Moses not just as history but as divine command. The question to which they are an answer is not, "What happened?" but rather, "How then shall I live?" And it's only with the exodus that the life of the commands really begins.

I'm very good at what I do and there's not too many people in the world that have an answer for what I can do.

They say atomic rad-i-ation can hurt your reproductive organs. My answer is, so can a hockey stick. But we don't stop building them.

The answer, The answer, my friend, is not yours to invent or create. It will be decided for you. It is outside you. It is real and objective and firm. One day you will hear it. You don’t create it. You don’t define it. It comes to you, and sooner or later you conform to it—or bow to it.

Inquiry is more important than answers, for it is the questions we ask and the way in which we ask them that defines us.

Someday, as an exercise, you might ask a writer to give himself the questions he wants to answer. If you really want a writer's opinions, you have to ask for them. What you read might surprise you.

How could anything so sublimely complicated not be the simple answer?

To get the right answer, it helps to ask the right question.

Imagination is a place where all the important answers live.

It doesn't matter what answers you get if you ask the wrong questions.

When people asked Socrates, ‘What is wisdom?’ he always gave the same answer: ‘I don’t know’. In fact, Socrates never claimed to know much of anything except how to ask questions. And by asking questions, he would prove to other people that they didn’t know what they thought they knew.

Maybe it's ALWAYS the end of the world. Maybe you're alive for a while, and then you realize you're going to die, and that's such an insane thing to comprehend, you look around for answers and the only answer is that the world must die with you.

The sensuality of desperate lives. Only poets talk like that. But poetry has never had an answer for anything. All it does it bear witness. To despair. And desperate lives.

No one comes to your website to be entertained. They have questions they think you can answer. Content answers questions.

My truth - what I believe - is that there are no answers here and, if you are looking for answers, you'd better choose the question carefully.

I'm not Michael Moore. I think Michael Moore wants to tell you how to think. He wants to give you answers. I make movies to raise my own personal questions and not to give answers.

Transsexualism itself is a deeply moral question rather than a medicaltechnical answer.

Some of the large [municipalities] in Quebec can contain within them most of the answers to their own practical problems. And so lots of different possibilities for doing things in a practical and different way become available.

Selling is nothing more than asking questions and waiting for an answer.

He's into you, isn't he. Answer the question, Marissa. Flyboy with the superhero plasma... he wants you, doesn't he?" -Butch and Marissa

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