Important Quotes - Page 423

I hope I have important things to say.

Everyone's path is completely different. I could give an aspiring artist my timeline and every phone number and contact person along the way, but their experience would be carved out in a different way. It's the diligence to keep going in the face of obstacles that is your best ally. It's also important to know why you are doing this... attention, money, or because you got something to say, or at least in what order those things matter.

Education is not so important as people think.

I had to work out where I was going, what type of films I wanted to make. For that reason, I decided to choose independent productions, less important roles, and I tried theater, too.

How important things had become, now that they were gone! I felt a sudden panic that I would soon forget everything.

As far as I'm concerned, the most important thing you need when inventing characters is empathy.

I think it's important to sort of normalize male nudity on screen, because women are always naked. And none of the male nudity in the film, I think, is unnecessarily provocative. It's meant to be everyday.

It's important to understand that violent Islam is only one face of violent religion.

As long as I can make an audience feel something, I don't care whether it's a good thing or bad thing, just to feel something is important to me.

The most important things in a friendship didn't have to be said out loud.

I think President Obama could have handled politics and policies differently. But he has been decisive, strong, and consistent - important qualities in a president. Mitt Romney is indeed an Etch A Sketch, the antithesis of leadership.

Preventing terrorist attacks is of the highest important, but trashing the Constitution is not the right way to do it.

I certainly thought of who [Tony from "I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore"] was. He was so different from anyone I've played. And it was so important for me and Macon [Blair] - this was on the page too - to not make a caricature. There's a version of Tony that I think could be heightened.

The framers of the Constitution realized that . . . there needed to be some guardian of the sober second thought, and so they created the Senate to fulfill that high and vitally important duty.

Humor is really important to me. All my favorite writers are writers I consider to be funny, including Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, even though that's not necessarily their rap.

If you're writing a book where you want to make a positive truth claim, then you should absolutely call it nonfiction or memoir. If you don't want to make that claim - if that's not what's important to you; if you're more interested in storytelling and interiority and interpersonal relationships than in objective, checkable facts about the world - then why wouldn't you call it a novel, and take advantage of what that gets you, of the extra freedom, of belonging to the tradition of the novel?

The important graphs are the ones where some things are not connected to some other things. When the unenlightened ones try to be profound, they draw endless verbal comparisons between this topic, and that topic, which is like this, which is like that; until their graph is fully connected and also totally useless.

I think [Sacrifice of Isaac] is the most important event in the Bible except for Sinai.

It is important what a man still plans at the end. It shows the measure of injustice in his death.

What's important for me is staying healthy.

I am working on it but I don't thinking having a good serve is the most important thing. It is about a lot of things coming together that makes you a good player.

I learned then that practically no one in the world is entirely bad or entirely good, and that motives are often more important than actions.

The most important word in the English language is hope.

The only thing that is guaranteed in life is that we're all gong to die at some point, so it's important to make the most of now.

Family is always the most important part.