Agents are deal makers, and they’re really, really good at making deals. But they’re also exceptionally helpful after the deal is made – agents act as a good intermediary between authors and publishers whenever disagreements come up.
What are these better deals the U.K. really wants from Europe and other countries? Some more clarity would be helpful.
Just from a psychological standpoint, it’s really helpful having films with a joyful message and positivity, so we try to do that with all our movies, really.
I have too many influences to name. I like a wide variety of stuff, which I think has been helpful. I liked every comedian I saw on TV growing up in the ’80s. Every comedian.
Periodically, at the end of a conversation, someone will ask me, ‘Is there something I can do for you?’ I used to answer with ‘Do something that is helpful to something or someone in my world.’
One of my favorite tools is ‘flip it.’ ‘Flip it’ can become your new favorite mantra when you are having one of those mean thoughts. You can choose to flip it and change how you are feeling about yourself in that moment. This is helpful at any age.
The mystery form was very helpful for me as a beginning writer because mystery novels and suspense novels have a beginning, a middle and an end.
It may be that my most helpful contributions to music aren’t my compact discs but my articles about other great singers of the past for American Heritage magazine.
Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.
It’s true that driving an F1 car in testing is helpful, it’s not that you learn everything.
Unfiltered venting to a friend about difficult situations can be helpful. But it can work against you if your life turns into complaining.
I remember when I was growing up, I always wore glasses and so if I was on-stage or just being able to move around playing sports, I was never really able to because I had glasses holding me back. Wearing contacts has just been very helpful.
The content I create reflects my personality: goofy, fun, positive, a bit clumsy, family-friendly, educational and helpful.
When trouble strikes, which it always does – bad economy, bad quarter, activists, takeover – when trouble strikes, those board members who don’t understand or are not committed are not helpful.
Grandparents who want to be truly helpful will do well to keep their mouths shut and their opinions to themselves until these are requested.
My mom is just someone who’s easy to talk to and hang with. My sister, it’s always cool to be able to help her out with things. My brother is fun when we’re just joking and messing around. And my dad is someone who’s helpful with my music and easy to talk to about that stuff because he understands me in that sense.
I have a tendency to overempathize with people, which gets me into tricky situations. I can get sucked in and feel like I need to get involved, which is sometimes helpful and sometimes not. It’s better to have more distance.
I don’t find it very helpful to know who else is going up for stuff, generally.
This amateurism however, can sometimes be helpful in forging a style; you have to work around your weaknesses.
I think if you go from show to show without doing that big PR blitz it’s helpful because people can get pretty sick of your face if you’re just out there all the time. And keep a low profile, hold in your stomach and be a good sport.
I don’t think it’s helpful to go dismantling the past, but you can refuse to honor aspects of it that you don’t believe in anymore.
While reflecting on past relationships and learning from them can be helpful, February isn’t the best time to try and gain insight.
Talking to other people about a part is not helpful for me. It’s such an internal and complicated and still kind of mysterious process.
It took me a long time to figure out that I didn’t have to do everything, that it was actually a lot more helpful if I did a couple things really, really well than a whole bunch of things really badly, or nothing at all, because the whole thing was overwhelming.
In times like these, it is helpful to remember that there have always been times like these.
I live in a town called Beerwah, right in the middle of Australia Zoo. It’s not hustle and bustle and busy, so that’s helpful. We travel all over the world, but I’ve always been able to come home and run around in the middle of the Australian outback.
One of the stated values at IronPort was ‘work/life balance,’ but I wasn’t living it. I was rarely home. And when I was home, well, let’s just say I wasn’t particularly helpful or cheery.
I am the most helpful and open up doors for everyone and I like to share.
I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.
Most of my job is out in the wild, miles away from the public and it’s nice to see people and hear what they like and don’t like about the shows. It’s really helpful.
I think I’m a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally. And the term ‘globalization’ I’ve never found all that helpful.
Love songs are helpful. We’ve always needed as much love as we could possibly need.
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.
And so I was very grateful that I didn’t do the British stiff upper lip, but I went straight to a therapist. And she was wonderful and helpful, and I went for about two years.
It is always helpful to us to fix our attention on the God-ward aspect of Christian work; to realise that the work of God does not mean so much man’s work for God, as God’s own work through man.
Anything that makes us take more seriously scientists – or economists or chemists or physicists or biologists – I think is helpful in times when things get distorted because of people not paying attention to all the facts.
We’ve done education nonprofit through our history, and maybe the profit motive will be helpful.
I so earnestly believe that prayer can be helpful and guide you and protect you and inspire you. I mean, I’m in awe.
I’m a big believer that inclusiveness is helpful because everyone brings a different perspective.
I think my biggest fear is trying to communicate in Spanish with someone I don’t know and them laughing at me or thinking it’s awful, but for the most part, people I’ve encountered just see that I’m trying, and they’re helpful. It’s helpful to me to communicate with people.
It is possibly not very helpful to our inner life to ponder a great deal on how the external world is reflected in our soul. By doing so, we do not get beyond a shadowy picture of the world of mental images in ourselves.
If you are stuck on a problem, go for a walk and think about something else for a little bit. Going for a walk is very helpful for a writer because if you are staring at a blank page of a computer screen there is all this pressure.
Writing is the process of finding something to distract you from writing, and of all the helpful distractions – adultery, alcohol and acedia, all of which aided our writing fathers – none can equal the Internet.
People like Bill Burr and Jim Gaffigan and Zach Galifianakis and Sarah Silverman – they were all amazing and helpful to me.
When I became the assistant, I was intelligent and helpful. I had patience. As the head coach I was completely the opposite. I made a good decision to get out.
I think social media tools are helpful, so long as you pick your social media wisely.
A helpful thing for me has always been – this is from a great acting teacher Declan Donnellan – is this beautiful way of expressing how and why people do things that other people may not do. It’s a simple sentence that says, ‘I understand you; you don’t understand me.’
I make sure to meditate at least twice a day. I have migraines, and transcendental meditation is hugely helpful in combating them.
I don’t want technology to replace teachers, but where there are no teachers, or the teachers are overwhelmed, it can be helpful.
I’m touched by the idea that when we do things that are useful and helpful – collecting these shards of spirituality – that we may be helping to bring about a healing.
The religious lifestyle keeps you focused. It’s helpful when trying to manoeuvre through the music scene.
One of the most important decisions you’ll ever make is choosing the kind of universe you exist in: is it helpful and supportive or hostile and unsupportive? Your answer to this question will make all the difference in terms of how you live your life and what kind of Divine assistance you attract.
It’s become this sort of strange competition about who’s in the coolest place, who’s in the coolest street. Suddenly we’re having to engage with all those social pressures. It’s helpful, I find, as a mother and a teacher, to say you’ve always got a choice.
I feel like I’ve figured out the way that I can talk about things that are important to me and have my music and the way of performance be healing and be helpful.
Everyone needs the right partner. Mario Mandzukic is very helpful for Dybala and for Ronaldo.
If we were to choose to do something on a console, the merger with Activision is going to be extremely helpful.
