Important Quotes - Page 379

My career is really important to me, but there have to be other great, important things in your life besides work.

Obviously my career's important to me and I'm really, really passionate about trying to keep it.

This is about Floridians saying whats most important to them and making sure that we create an agenda that we can drive and deliver back in Washington, D.C. So its very exciting.

...if a child waited to speak until all the grown-ups settled down and gave her some room to say her piece, the most important things would never get said.

I think that it's really important to go away and come back.

It's more important to be interesting, to be vivid, and to be adventurous than to sit pretty for pictures.

In my kind of reporting work, you don't parachute in after some big, terrible event, which is important and has to be covered, but offers only a glimpse. It's the kind of work in which you ask, what is my understanding of how the world works, and where can I go to see these questions get worked out in individuals' lives? That was really the question for me: whether I had anything to add to what had already been written.

I don’t have to be a "gazillionaire;" what’s important to me is to just being able to work.

Yes, very often! But at the same time I realize that I can't live without rhythmic gymnastics. It's the most important thing in my life

My writing has always been considered extremely important, even though I make slim-to-no money at it.

After Titanic it would have been completely foolish for me to go and try and top that. I'm an English girl, I've always loved England, I've never felt the desire to leave it for any particular reason. And whilst I'm ambitious and care very much about what I do, I'm not competitive. I also don't want to act every day of my life. () So it was important to me after Titanic to just remind myself of why it was that I was acting in the first place, which is of course because I love it.

There wasn't very much time between wrapping Revolutionary Road and starting The Reader. It was about five and a half months, which, for me, isn't that long. Some actors are very good at just going from one thing to another but I've always been a bit useless at that. The preparation time is important for me.

I knew it was going to be important that if I had an audience understand who she was, then all those things had to come from a place that was grounded, as opposed to being tics and manners and twitches. I didn't think it was going to be as rich, perhaps, as if I was going to make it more emotional.

I know I've abandoned the Amish lifestyle, but I still keep a lot of those beliefs ... I know I've stepped outside the boundaries a lot of times, but I still try to remember what's important to me.

I think it's really important to always own up to the things that you're not good at and the feelings that you have which are ugly.

Given the conditions under which you're a young person in this society, many things would be at least as important to you as your sexuality.

Death is dreadfully personal, terribly important to oneself, and so unimportant to the rest of the world.

Tough women who don't take sh*t are also put in positions that are really scary for them. It's important that they feel supported, but it's also important that we allow people to come to things on their own time. It's a very scary thing when you're a woman who's been assaulted or harassed to come forward. And it takes a lot of courage.

Right now everyone is able to have a real voice and have it be nice and loud. Being loud is a really important thing right now. It's an amazing thing to watch. It's important because making noise makes change.

Normally I don't compromise at all but it felt important to give that song the chance to be heard.

When I first started working, I was very aware of the fact that I'd been to university and studied Russian and French and not acting. So when I started working, I'd started working quite young, I felt like it was important to treat myself kind of like an apprentice and do as many different types of things as I could.

People can totally tell if you adjust notes even slightly, and I know how important it is to be able to wear the exact fragrance you're attached to. So for me, it was all about reinventing the bottle. I've grown so much in the last 10 years - emotionally, spiritually, and artistically - and I wanted that to show in the new design.

For women especially, its important to be financially independent.

I'm surprised that people think they're important. To me they're not.

Really important books to me are the classics. I try very hard to read them well - you know, especially once I got serious about writing.