In my country, at that time, being a champion of chess was like being a King. At that time I was a King - and when you are King you feel a lot of responsibility, but there is nobody there to help you.
If you make a film normally it's all right, the distributors are helpful and cooperative. But if you make a film that's a little stange, a little bizarre, then all the time it's a struggle with them.
The thing about Vegas is, I don't have to fly anywhere, and that really helps. It means I stay in one place for three weeks at a time instead of flying backwards and forwards.
If I had one quality that really ruined me and at the same time helped me, it was the fact that I never stopped looking, and by that time I was really working at it.
T.I.'s my mentor; he's a really close friend of mine. I call him my brother like we talk on the phone all the time. He's helped me with my career.
On a daily basis there are some huge ones that are, sure, from time to time, but it is helping the reader sort through all this sort of gray stuff out there.
What you discover when you look at creativity from the perspective of the brain is that it is universal. We're all creative all of the time, we can't help but be creative.
Working as a musician, I have to constantly generate new material, so school keeps me sharp. Reading and writing all the time helps me to be a better songwriter.
So I try to re-invent my own eye every time I tackle a new subject. But it's hard, because everybody has style. You can't help it.
If I can write a book that will help the world make a little more sense to a teen, then that's why I was put on the planet.
I grew up in a neighborhood in Baltimore that was like a war zone, so I never learned to trust that there were people who could help me.
It's difficult to get started-when it comes to dealing with an unknown quantity, people are reluctant to trust their own opinion. It helps if two or three people give you a boost.
various characters: I know a doctor who might be able to help you.
Charlotte Phelan: Love and hate are two horns on the same goat, Eugenia. And you need a goat.
Hilly Holbrook: [check from Celia Foote] Pay to the order of: Two Slice Hilly, $200.00. [tears it up]
Charlotte Phelan: Your eggs are dying. Would it kill you to go on a date?
Max: What is wrong with you? 1900: I can't help it. Music makes me cry.
Jack Crabb: Lord help us, these young girls is deadly!
Sam Bell: Are you OK with that? GERTY: I'm here to keep you safe, Sam. I want to help you.
Elizabeth Bennet: Do you dance, Mr. Darcy? Mr. Darcy: Not if I can help it.
Emil: [dying after taking an acid bath] Help meeeee... Leon Nash: Don't touch me, man!
