Important Quotes - Page 12

• It's very important, at least to me as a writer, that there be some rules on the table when I'm writing. Rules come from genres. You're writing in a genre, there are rules, which is great because then you can break the rules. That's when really exciting things happen.

  Lev Grossman

  Writing, Tables, Break

  Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. August 8, 2011.

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• There'll be some savings from preventing double dipping by public servants which are currently able to access not one but two fully tax payer funded schemes and of course there will be out paid parental leave levy. So all up not only is this an important economic reform, an important reform to have to grow our economy more strongly, it also will leave the budget better off which will help us fix the mess that Labor has created with the budget.

  Tony Abbott

  Two, Get Better, Reform

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• Part of my role, I suppose, is to run government business in the House of Representatives, and try to ensure that people know exactly what's going on in the Chamber is an important part of that.

  Tony Abbott

  Running, Government, People

  "Tony Abbott on the stem cell debate". "Insiders" with Barrie Cassidy, www.abc.net.au. August, 20, 2006.

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• It was important to me that the book didn't comment on being a teenager, but felt instead like a story told by a teenager.

  David Crabb

  Teenager, Book, Stories

  "'Morrissey's hair, bongs made of apples, MTV's 120 Minutes': Inside this month's hottest new books". Interview with Teddy Wayne, www.salon.com. May 20, 2015.

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• I think that the important point is we've got to have a president who understands the benefits of free trade but also is going to enforce unfair trade agreements and is going to stand up to other countries.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Thinking, Agreement

  "Breaking the Sound Barrier: Third-Party Candidates Ralph Nader & Cynthia McKinney Respond to Final McCain-Obama Debate". "Democracy Now!" with Juan Gonzalez and Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. October 16, 2008.

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• I think it's true that we shouldn't apply a strict litmus test and the most important thing in any judge is their capacity to provide fairness and justice to the American people.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Judging, People

  "McCain, Obama go head to head in last debate". edition.cnn.com. October 15, 2008.

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• I think that it's important for judges to understand that if a woman is out there trying to raise a family, trying to support her family, and is being treated unfairly, then the court has to stand up, if nobody else will. And that's the kind of judge that I want.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Judging, Support

  "McCain, Obama go head to head in last debate". edition.cnn.com. October 15, 2008.

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• I think it's very important to support your friends and to stay current with what's happening.

  Gideon Glick

  Thinking, Support, Currents

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated. So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.

  Agnes Denes

  Strong, Earth, Invisible

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• As far as how important the real-life resonance of the stories is, I think it must play at least a small role in the show's success, because it gives the show this sense of suspense from the fact that it seems at least plausible.

  Michael Loceff

  Real, Thinking, Play

  "The Worst Day Ever". Interview with James Surowiecki, www.slate.com. January 17, 2006.

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• I don't have a brief for every single reaction of Israel, but I think it is important that the political negotiations occur free of the threat of terrorism.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Thinking, Israel, Political

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• I'm definitely very careful about the things that I want to be a part of, but it's also important for me to get dance out there to more people.

  Misty Copeland

  People, Want, Careful

  Source: collider.com

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• I think it is really important to put out what you want so the world knows what to give you.

  Elizabeth Banks

  Thinking, Giving, World

  "Ester Dean’s EGOT Future". Interview with Elizabeth Banks, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 15, 2015.

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• Inspiration thing is important, to teach the kids that JFK is not an airport, RFK's not a stadium, Martin Luther King ain't a street

  Kinky Friedman

  Kings, Inspiration, Kids

  "Kinky Friedman Talks with Bill O'Reilly About Why He Wants to be Governor of Texas". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. March 15, 2005.

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• I support security at the borders. I think security is enormously important in the post-September 11th period. I think we have to know who's coming into this country. We have to be able to identify them; we have to be able to figure out who they are.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Country, Thinking, Support

  "He's Ready! Rudy Giuliani Talks with Sean Hannity". "Hannity & Colmes", www.foxnews.com. February 6, 2007.

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• I want to be in a good movie, and so the narrative is way more important.

  Charlize Theron

  Good Movie, Way, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• The tone is so important to a film, and that tone can really make something fall or succeed.

  Charlize Theron

  Fall, Succeed, Tone

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm just aware of what I'm thinking and feeling but I do obviously have to get that to the back of the auditorium. So there are things like projection and filling the room, and not dropping the ends of lines - technical things which are important, but I don't think they change the way I feel in a scene.

  Bill Nighy

  Thinking, Feelings, Lines

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I think... you know, collaboration, in general - no matter movies, television or Broadway - is offering of what you can bring to the table and also fighting what you think the important battles are. Not everything is going to make it in there. Not everything is going to work. You have to collaborate. And you have to be a good listener.

  Kristin Chenoweth

  Fighting, Thinking, Offering

  Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. October 2, 2010.

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• Military simulation is an important way of training people for an emergency

  Greg Gutfeld

  Military, People, Training

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I have found over the years that the most important way of getting people to relax is self-deprecating humor.

  Robert Reich

  Self, Years, People

  "Robert Reich: Making people laugh about economic inequality". Interview with Paul Solman, www.pbs.org. October 16, 2013.

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• It's important that the kids stay busy. It's important that they have something to focus on, and something that they feel good about.

  Chita Rivera

  Kids, Focus, Feel Good

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I do believe that separation can be a bit damaging at times. To be happy about yourself and your culture and all of that is necessary and fulfilling, but the whole tapestry is what's important.

  Chita Rivera

  Believe, Culture, Separation

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If for you the most important thing is to make a lot of money, then you don't want to take a certain type of risk. If, on another hand, the most important thing to you is to make people around you have a more fulfilled life, then there is a different set of things that are important to you. Unless you really know that about yourself, you will never be able to appropriately assess risk.

  Benjamin Carson

  Hands, People, Risk

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I don't worry about things that aren't important.

  Benjamin Carson

  Worry

  Source: www.pbs.org

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