Important Quotes - Page 35

• A writer can be compared to a well. There are as many kinds of wells as there are writers. The important thing is to have good water in the well, and it is better to take a regular amount out than to pump the well dry and wait for it to refill.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Water, Waiting

  Ernest Hemingway (2015). “Ernest Hemingway: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations”, p.14, Melville House

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• It's really important to just accept who we are, and find somebody who accepts us for who we are.

  Shiri Appleby

  Who We Are, Accepting

  Source: collider.com

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• The most important thing is to keep creating and following my inklings as they come into being and acting on them.

  Reggie Watts

  Creating, Acting, Following

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think the Supreme Court has, as an equal branch of government, the ability to overrule Congress and the president. But I also feel it's the role of the Congress and the president to push back. I mean I think it's important that they are understood as equal branches of government.

  Rick Santorum

  Mean, Thinking, Government

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Comedy is very important, yes. For one thing, it keeps you sane. But it's not really a conversion. I mean, it's marginally a conversion, because if people tune in or go to a nightclub or even watch television, and hear that a lot of other people are laughing at something you thought was not funny, at least it'll force you to reconsider.

  Tom Lehrer

  Mean, Laughing, People

  Interview with Stephen Thompson, www.avclub.com. May 24, 2000.

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• Growing up, the most important thing, after taking care of your family and getting a decent job of work, was having a laugh. That was the point to life.

  Ricky Gervais

  Jobs, Growing Up, Laughing

  Interview with Scott Gordon, www.avclub.com. January 10, 2007.

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• The most important thing about a child's education is to have a great teacher in front of the classroom and a lot of choice and accountability with parents.

  Carly Fiorina

  Teacher, Children, Choices

  "Can Carly Fiorina ride a 'defeat Clinton' strategy to the GOP nomination? Plus, Gen. Michael Hayden makes case for NSA terror tools". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. May 31, 2015.

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• Believing in yourself you gain confidence, which allows you to relax. Relaxation is one of the most important parts about acting.

  Emile Hirsch

  Believe, Relaxation, Acting

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• It's always very important to me to try to create a story that feels unpredictable. You can't jump ahead and see what's coming, but at the end, when you've watched the whole thing, it all feels inevitable.

  Noah Hawley

  Trying, Stories, Ends

  Source: collider.com

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• It's important to listen to lots of different genres because you never know when something will get born out of it.

  David Lynch

  Different, Born, Genre

  "David Lynch Talks New Music Projects". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. December 2, 2010.

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• I have really seen the best in people and I've absolutely seen the worst in people. And I'm happy to say that most of the time I have been seeing the best of people in the first congressional district and connecting with voters and seeing what's important to them hearing their stories and what they want to see happen.

  Rob Zerban

  People, Stories, Want

  Source: www.gq.com

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• People have a very proprietary relationship with Superman. It's important to respect the iconography and the canon, but at the same time, you have to tell a story.

  Zack Snyder

  People, Iconography, Stories

  Source: collider.com

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• I think it's more important to try and make a good film than give a good performance.

  Paul Dano

  Thinking, Giving, Trying

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't feel like I'm half as important as Elliott Smith or Kurt Cobain. And I'm not going to be somebody that became so unhappy that he succumbed.

  Christopher Owens

  Unhappy, Half, Cobain

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. December 5, 2012.

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  It is very important for young people keep their sense of wonder and keep asking why.

  Stephen Hawking

  Asking Why, People, Wonder

  "Q & A: Stephen Hawking and daughter Lucy". Today interview, www.today.com. November 2, 2007.

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• The most important thing regardless of my stats or anybody else's stats is the win-loss record. In the locker room people are always telling me, you're doing this and that. I don't really pay that much attention so long as we have a 'W' in that column; that's the kind of thing that makes me really happy. It blows all stats out of the water.

  Dhani Jones

  Loss, Blow, Winning

  "Dhani Jones: "I'm Gonna Be The First Black James Bond"". Interview with Daniel Riley, www.gq.com. December 10, 2009.

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• It's important that we recognize how extreme the Republicans are in almost every case and how against our self-interest it is to vote for them whether or not we are disappointed with the current crew. At least they believe in the Constitution. At least they have an idea of economic justice. The Republicans are devoted to creating more rich folks.

  Gloria Steinem

  Believe, Self, Ideas

  Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 28, 2010.

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• It's hard to overemphasize how important Ford's deregulation was. True, most of the benefits took years to unfold-rail freight rates, for example hardly budged at first. Yet deregulation set the stage for an enormous wave of creative destruction in the 1980s.

  Alan Greenspan

  Years, Creative, Firsts

  Alan Greenspan (2008). “The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World”, p.72, Penguin

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• In my opinion it is harmful to place important things in the hands of philanthropy, which in Russia is marked by a chance character. Nor should important matters depend on leftovers, which are never there. I would prefer that the government treasury take care of it.

  Anton Chekhov

  Character, Russia, Government

  Letter to A.S. Suvorin, December 17, 1890.

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• Success is seldom permanent, and failure is seldom fatal. The important thing is to keep trying.

  Anna Olson

  Failure, Trying, Permanent

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• It was important that I learn that what I wanted was no different from what other artists wanted: confidence that I could be my own censor, audience, and competition.

  Beverly Pepper

  Confidence, Artist, Competition

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• It is not important to convince people; they should convince themselves, they should look with their own eyes.

  Luc Tuymans

  Eye, People, Looks

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• It's a luxury to have so much time, especially with someone so important and busy. You have to get a feel for the person.

  Igor Babailov

  Luxury, Busy, Feels

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• Time is not important, but art is.

  Edward Betts

  Art, Importance, Art Is

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• Many contemporary painters feel that their landscapes come from within and are brought to the surface and given form as a result of various stimuli. The artist's internal world is waiting to be evoked by whatever means the artist finds most productive, and... this world is just as important as the outer, visible world.

  Edward Betts

  Mean, Artist, Waiting

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