Crucial Quotes - Page 23

• I have a lot of friends who were stand-ups, and they just stopped after a while, because they didn't like that battle, or they just couldn't do it. And then they would get on a sitcom and get visible and get back into it, because the audience was just way easier on them. But they lost those crucial years of learning to turn any audience into your audience.

  Patton Oswalt

  Years, Battle, Way

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. August 26, 2009.

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• Schools must not become the agencies through which propaganda advocated by any section of society is spread. The method of control always a crucial problem should be in harmony with the fundamental values and principles of the states and the entire e

  George Bernard Shaw

  School, Agency, Principles

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• Lawyers serve a purpose, and we couldn't operate as society without them. They can make things more complicated and difficult, but there are certain times where the need for them is crucial to an argument or an event or an issue.

  Gabriel Macht

  Issues, Events, Needs

  "Gabriel Macht Talks SUITS Season 4 Finale". Press conference, collider.com. March 4, 2015.

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• What's crucial about being an executive producer is that you stay in the loop, information-wise. They have to share all their major decisions with you.

  Emma Donoghue

  Wise, Decision, Information

  "Room" Author/Screenwriter Emma Donoghue on Her "Deeply Feminist" Film and Industry Sexism". Interview with Laura Berger, www.indiewire.com. October 16, 2015.

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• I think I read Susan Brownmiller's classic book called "Femininity" when I was about 16. So yeah, it's been part of my mindset since a very early age. To me, what's crucial is to tell women's stories but also to tell them in a way that is fearless.

  Emma Donoghue

  Book, Thinking, Fearless

  "Room" Author/Screenwriter Emma Donoghue on Her "Deeply Feminist" Film and Industry Sexism". Interview with Laura Berger, www.indiewire.com. October 16, 2015.

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• I am counting on the private sector, because it is crucial to Senegal's future.

  Abdoulaye Wade

  Counting, Private Sector

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• For a start, the salary begins to have an attraction and addictiveness all of its own. A regular paycheck and crack cocaine have that in common. In addition, and more to the point, working too long for other people can blunt your desire to take risks. This last factor is crucial, because the ability to live with and embrace risk is what sets apart the financial winners and losers in the world.

  Felix Dennis

  Long, People, Risk

  Felix Dennis (2008). “How to Get Rich: One of the World's Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets”, p.49, Penguin

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• Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.

  Roy Lichtenstein

  Color, Painting, Colour

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• If you're trying to convey a crucial emotional truth, you have to be in total control of the emotional pacing of the story, and if you can only strike one note in terms of tone then you're going to be quite limited as a writer.

  Kevin Keck

  Emotional, Trying, Stories

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Progress is not automatic, it depends on what we do every day. So any statement of ownership of our own bodies, however that occurs in our individual lives or our community or our collective lives, is crucial.

  Gloria Steinem

  Community, Progress, Body

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Any insistence on equal pay is crucial and any redefinition of work to include caregiving work so that it also has an economic value, at least at replacement level, that's crucial. So change does come from the bottom up, and it will come from girls and women and men who understand that for us all to be human beings instead of being grouped by gender is good for them, too.

  Gloria Steinem

  Girl, Men, Equal Pay

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I think the crucial thing about being an actor is to be doing it.

  Chiwetel Ejiofor

  Thinking, Actors

  Source: aalbc.com

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• Arts in education is especially important to me. Inspired teachers in our education system is crucial in developing inspired human beings.

  Madi Diaz

  Teacher, Art, Important

  "Madi Diaz: Loving the Process". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• There's going to be a lot of eating. My listeners have tweeted me and said "You've just got to keep eating, keep your energy up and have someone on duty to give you a massage if you need it." It will be a case of getting it done and making sure I don't get too cold, because that's crucial for the muscles. So that's all going to be taken care of. But really there's not much you can do - if you start cramping up you've just got to get on with it.

  Greg James

  Taken, Giving, Energy

  "Greg James' Gregathlon for Sport Relief". Interview with Stephanie Soh, in.askmen.com.

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• There was a precarious balance during those crucial months between composition and decomposition - what the world gained and what a great city lost. Even then, some part of Detroit was dying, and that is where the story begins.

  David Maraniss

  Cities, Balance, Dying

  David Maraniss (2016). “Once in a Great City: A Detroit Story”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• It is only within a free society that the crucial moral features of human life can be protected and preserved

  Tibor R. Machan

  Moral, Human Life, Humans

  Tibor R. Machan (2003). “The Passion for Liberty”, p.76, Rowman & Littlefield

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• It was so crucial to the Civil Rights Movement that on June 23, 1963, Martin Luther King came to town, walked down Woodward Avenue with more than 100,000 people and delivered the first major public iteration of his "I Have A Dream" speech, two months before he did it in Washington.

  David Maraniss

  Dream, Kings, June

  "Super Bowl Commercial Inspires Maraniss To Write About Detroit's Better Times". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. January 14, 2016.

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• You need to just understand where the ball is and how to use your body. Timing your jump the right way is crucial. Learn how to use your body to shield the receiver and box him out, again, much like a rebound. Trying to beat a receiver to a ball can be a lot like you're posting him up. Rebounding is great practice because you can employ those skills - body position, leverage, timing - a lot more than you might in a football game or practice if the quarterback doesn't look your way.

  Antonio Cromartie

  Football, Practice, Games

  Source: www.nfl.com

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• Certainly with The Crucible, what I love is that every role in that is so crucial.But there's something almost comic. I remember there's that line where she says, "I am 18 and a woman, however single," which killed me every time!

  Winona Ryder

  Love Is, Crucible, Roles

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Always have clear lines of communication and be open to trying new ideas. Being open to new ideas is crucial to growing as an artist. If you always have the same creative habits, how will you ever excel to the next level? The answer is, you won't. Taking those creative risks reaps the most incredible rewards.

  Wendy Starland

  Communication, Artist, Ideas

  Interview with Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com. March 1, 2015.

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• I tend to gravitate toward the "act two," or "act three," or "act four" stories - either things that are underreported, where we think we already know the common narrative, or things that are at the margins of an over-reported story, where we're all so focused in one direction that we're missing something crucial that's unfolding off to the side.

  Sarah Stillman

  Thinking, One Direction, Two

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• It's really crucial to achieve that balance with a film like this, cause it is unique and witty and then there's the tendency to force that. It becomes contrived and I know the feeling like, give me a fork that I can stab in my eye in those kinds of movies.

  Ellen Page

  Witty, Eye, Unique

  "Juno's Ellen Page and Michael Cera". Roundtable Interview, movieweb.com. June 12, 2007.

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• Being sick allows you to check out of life. Getting well again means you have to check back in. It is absolutely crucial that you feel ready to check back into life because you feel as though something has changed from the time before you were sick. Whatever it was that made you feel insecure, less than, or pressured to live in a way that was uncomfortable to you has to change before you want to go back there and start over.

  Portia de Rossi

  Get Well, Mean, Insecure

  Portia de Rossi (2011). “Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain”, p.233, Simon and Schuster

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• For startups, SM is now crucial: it has never been cheaper and easier to reach one's customers. Entrepreneurs should thank God for Twitter, Facebook.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Entrepreneur, Thank God, Sms

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• I've concluded that getting the categories right is an absolutely crucial step to building useful management theory, and unfortunately too few writers do this. You've got to engage in serious scholarship, and then figure out how to write it in a way that lots of people can understand.

  Clayton Christensen

  Writing, People, Way

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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