Important Quotes - Page 27

• I want to be in a good movie, and so the narrative is way more important.

  Charlize Theron

  Good Movie, Way, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm just aware of what I'm thinking and feeling but I do obviously have to get that to the back of the auditorium. So there are things like projection and filling the room, and not dropping the ends of lines - technical things which are important, but I don't think they change the way I feel in a scene.

  Bill Nighy

  Thinking, Feelings, Lines

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I think... you know, collaboration, in general - no matter movies, television or Broadway - is offering of what you can bring to the table and also fighting what you think the important battles are. Not everything is going to make it in there. Not everything is going to work. You have to collaborate. And you have to be a good listener.

  Kristin Chenoweth

  Fighting, Thinking, Offering

  Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. October 2, 2010.

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• It's important that the kids stay busy. It's important that they have something to focus on, and something that they feel good about.

  Chita Rivera

  Kids, Focus, Feel Good

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I do believe that separation can be a bit damaging at times. To be happy about yourself and your culture and all of that is necessary and fulfilling, but the whole tapestry is what's important.

  Chita Rivera

  Believe, Culture, Separation

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I don't worry about things that aren't important.

  Benjamin Carson

  Worry

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Not to discount my music, but I'm always suspicious of the music that I make on some level, as to how valid it is. Or maybe not "valid," but how important.

  Ryan Adams

  Levels, Discounts, Suspicious

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 28, 2007.

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• The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Art, Language, Importance

  "What is Art?". Book by Leo Tolstoy, 1897.

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• Life is serious all the time, but living cannot be. You may have all the solemnity you wish in your neckties, but in anything important (such as sex, death, and religion), you must have mirth or you will have madness.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Sex, Wish, May

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• Controlling my temper is important, ... Sometimes it's hard, but I try.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Trying, Sometimes, Temper

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• Energy and time are finite resources; conserving them is very important.

  Twyla Tharp

  Energy, Resources, Finite

  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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• Interest is the most important thing in life; happiness is temporary, but interest is continuous.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Things In Life, Life Happiness, Interest

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• Memory is very important, the memory of each photo taken, flowing at the same speed as the event.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Memories, Taken, Events

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• I believe that the sight is a more important thing than the drawing.

  John Ruskin

  Believe, Sight, Drawing

  John Ruskin (2012). “The Elements of Drawing”, p.13, Courier Corporation

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• We do not choose to be born.We do not--most of us, choose to die, or the times or conditions of our death. But within all this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we shall live--Courageously or in cowardice, Honorably or dishonorably, With purpose or adrift. We decide what is important and what is trivial. What makes us significant is what we DO, Or REFUSE TO DO. WE DECIDE and WE CHOOSE--and so we give definition to our lives.

  Joseph Epstein

  Giving, Adrift, Definitions

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• The point is that profound but contradictory ideas may exist side by side, if they are constructed from different materials and methods. and have different purposes. Each tells us something important about where we stand in the universe, and it is foolish to insist that they must despise each other.

  Neil Postman

  Ideas, Profound, May

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• Informal relationships are not mere minor interstitial supplements to the major institutions of society. These informal relationships not only include important decision-making processes, such as the family, but also produce much of the background social capital without which the other major institutions of society could not function nearly as effectively as they do.

  Thomas Sowell

  Decision, Social, Process

  Thomas Sowell (1996). “Knowledge And Decisions”, p.30, Basic Books

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• People say I think too much about women, yet, after all what is there more important to think about?

  Auguste Rodin

  Thinking, People, Too Much

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• The most important thing for you to do is see that in hoping to be affected by other things as fully as possible, you become more yourself.

  Eli Siegel

  Importance, Important Things, Affected

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• Whereas God, for reasons of His own, sometimes chooses to let the machine answer. 'The Supreme Being is unavailable to come to the phone at this time, but He wants you to know what your call is important to Him. In the meantime, for sins of pride, press one. For avarice, press two.

  Sherwood Anderson

  Pride, Phones, Two

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• The presence of a body of well-instructed men, who have not to labor for their daily bread, is important to a degree which cannot be overestimated; as all high intellectual work is carried on by them, and on such work material progress of all kinds mainly depends, not to mention other and higher advantages.

  Charles Darwin

  Men, Intellectual, Society

  Charles Darwin (1871). “The Descent of man”, p.163

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• It is important to remember always that the principle of egolessness does not mean that there was an ego in the first place, and the Buddhists did away with it. On the contrary, it means there was never any ego at all to begin with. To realize that is called "egolessness.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Buddhist, Mean, Ego

  FaceBook post by Sogyal Rinpoche from Sep 13, 2013

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• You know when I think about what I'm doing - what I'm doing and the way I'm doing it is more important to me than any amount of money or anything like that because it's my artistic work.

  Jimmy Wales

  Thinking, Way, Artistic

  "Q&A" with Brian Lamb, www.c-span.org. September 12, 2005.

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• A white lace curtain on the window was for me as important as a great work of art. This gossamer quality, the reflection, the form, the movement. I learned more about art from that than I did in school.

  Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

  Art, School, Reflection

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• We have millions of questions that need answers because there are so many things that the reasoning mind cannot explain. It is not important if the answer is correct; just the answer itself makes us feel safe.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Mind, Needs, Answers

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