Important Quotes - Page 274

I think it is terribly important to have opinions, and to think. We live in a world of action without thought.

We with [ Marjane Satrapi] always work together on the script which is very important. We even film each other and we start to imagine things so that we are ready, because when you start shooting, it's pretty stressful.

Do I pray? Yes. Prayer is very important to me.

The three most important rules in selecting the right piece of real estate are location, location, location (and when we have periods of tight money I would add terms, terms, terms).

What a script says that isn't dialogue is as important as the spoken word.

It's very important to feel foreign. I was born in England, but when I'm being a writer, everyone in England is foreign to me.

Never waste any amount of time doing anything important when there is a sunset outside that you should be sitting under! - C. JoyBell C.

The one you can get mad at only for a short period because you have important stuff to tell them.

My grandfather had a particularly important influence on my life, even though I didn't visit him often, since he lived about three miles out of town and he died when I was six. He was remarkably curious about the world, and he read lots of books.

The question of manuscript changes is very important for literary criticism, the psychology of creation and other aspects of the study of literature.

Any fact becomes important when it's connected to another.

In most of the world, breakfast is an important meal.

Material things aren't important to me.

The most important thing to me as a songwriter is the breath. The most important thing I could say to somebody is, 'Sometimes I just breathe you in.'

It's important to remember that World War II was experienced very much as a continuity in that sense. Most of World War II in most of Europe wasn't a war; it was an occupation. The war was at the beginning and the end, except in Germany and the Soviet Union, and even there really only at the end. So the rest of time it's an occupation, which in some ways was experienced as an extension of the interwar period. World War II was simply an extreme form, in a whole new key, of the disruption of normal life that began in 1914.

Women are extremely important shapers of my own life.

It's important to me to be a complete player.

The older I get, the more things change as to what is important.

I've come to realize that the thing in life that's important, the reason we're all here, is to love and do well for each other.

NATO's got a vital role to play. It's very important that we protect NATO.

Most of the really good literature I've read in my life was political, meaning it was important - about something going on in the history of the world - or contemporary.

As a director, I have to feel realism from actors, and they can't be plastic. The words for me are secondary, but the chemistry between the actors is most important. However, you have to go by the script because it's related to production, otherwise you will not finish your project. My background are acting, film production, directing, and I studied them for many years. Keep in mind that you need many other skills when you are starting any film project related to real life.

You know, we just buy music now. We don't make it any more. And that goes for just about everything. I think it's so important that people develop and subscribe to and have confidence in their own ability to make music, however rough it is.

The delivery and presentation media are important, and each format has its advantages and disadvantages, but ultimately I just want to read what I want to read, when and where I want.

Brand inside is more important than brand outside for sustained success.