Important Quotes - Page 29

• I don't watch TV. I think that tends to polarize us and diminish important issues.

  Daryl Hannah

  Thinking, Issues, Watches

  "SENSE8: Daryl Hannah Reflects on Performing in the Wachowskis’ Latest Project". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 10, 2015.

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• Working is very important to me. Probably because as a child I was taught that work was good. I don’t believe it intellectually but I identify with that idea. So it’s probably just like a habit.

  Jasper Johns

  Children, Believe, Ideas

  "New Again: Jasper Johns". Interview with Philip Smith, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 9, 2015.

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• It's important to listen to lots of different genres because you never know when something will get born out of it.

  David Lynch

  Different, Born, Genre

  "David Lynch Talks New Music Projects". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. December 2, 2010.

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• I have really seen the best in people and I've absolutely seen the worst in people. And I'm happy to say that most of the time I have been seeing the best of people in the first congressional district and connecting with voters and seeing what's important to them hearing their stories and what they want to see happen.

  Rob Zerban

  People, Stories, Want

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I guess the important thing for young writers is to read.

  Paul Auster

  Young Writers, Young, Important Things

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 5, 2009.

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• People have a very proprietary relationship with Superman. It's important to respect the iconography and the canon, but at the same time, you have to tell a story.

  Zack Snyder

  People, Iconography, Stories

  Source: collider.com

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• I think it's more important to try and make a good film than give a good performance.

  Paul Dano

  Thinking, Giving, Trying

  Source: collider.com

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• As an actor, it's always important to understand what the director is after. That, to me, is my job. When I'm acting, I like to ask a lot of questions and understand exactly why the director is doing what they're doing, so that I can provide him or her with the ingredients that they need to get the scene that they want. It's not to challenge them, in any way. It's just so that I can do my job best.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Jobs, Challenges, Acting

  "Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Dania Ramirez Talk PREMIUM RUSH, DON JON’S ADDICTION, Hit Record and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 21, 2012.

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• As a kid, I was obsessed with the Who. They were the most important band to me. Songs like "I'm One" helped me get through high school.

  Judd Apatow

  Song, School, Kids

  Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. December 11, 2012.

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• Every time I'm in editing, there's always a moment where you think, "Maybe this should be six or seven minutes shorter, but I'm losing character and story that I think is important." When I like things, I'm not in a rush for them to end.

  Judd Apatow

  Character, Thinking, Editing

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 21, 2012.

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• The thing I love most about being famous is people listening to me when I have something important to say.

  Madonna Ciccone

  People, Listening, Things I Love

  Source: www.usmagazine.com

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• Health is so important now, it's ridiculous - the body has become frightening, this thing that will kill you if you don't keep really healthy. The body is the enemy now.

  Jenny Hval

  Healthy, Enemy, Body

  "Jenny Hval's Soft Dick Rock". Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. June 15, 2015.

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• I don't feel like I'm half as important as Elliott Smith or Kurt Cobain. And I'm not going to be somebody that became so unhappy that he succumbed.

  Christopher Owens

  Unhappy, Half, Cobain

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. December 5, 2012.

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  It is very important for young people keep their sense of wonder and keep asking why.

  Stephen Hawking

  Asking Why, People, Wonder

  "Q & A: Stephen Hawking and daughter Lucy". Today interview, www.today.com. November 2, 2007.

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• I think one of the most important investments an organization like TNC (The Nature Conservancy) can make is in helping build local capacity - supporting the growth of a global network of small community-based entities. Help people who live within critical ecosystems help themselves and their neighbors to design a better future relationship between themselves and their natural resources.

  Edward Norton

  Thinking, Ecosystems, Organization

  Source: bigthink.com

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• The most important thing regardless of my stats or anybody else's stats is the win-loss record. In the locker room people are always telling me, you're doing this and that. I don't really pay that much attention so long as we have a 'W' in that column; that's the kind of thing that makes me really happy. It blows all stats out of the water.

  Dhani Jones

  Loss, Blow, Winning

  "Dhani Jones: "I'm Gonna Be The First Black James Bond"". Interview with Daniel Riley, www.gq.com. December 10, 2009.

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• It's important that we recognize how extreme the Republicans are in almost every case and how against our self-interest it is to vote for them whether or not we are disappointed with the current crew. At least they believe in the Constitution. At least they have an idea of economic justice. The Republicans are devoted to creating more rich folks.

  Gloria Steinem

  Believe, Self, Ideas

  Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 28, 2010.

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• There were decades I didn't play sober. I thought, Who would want to? But at some point, I decided that if it was important enough to me to keep doing it as art, I should do it with all my tools.

  Kris Kristofferson

  Art, Play, Tools

  "Q&A with Kris Kristofferson". Interview with Andy Langer, www.esquire.com. February 27, 2006.

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• The gut-feel of the 55-year old trader is more important than the mathematical elegance of the 25-year old genius.

  Alan Greenspan

  Years, Genius, Elegance

  1995 In the NewYork Times, 6 Mar, shortly after the collapse of Barings in Singapore brought about by a young derivatives trader.

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• It's hard to overemphasize how important Ford's deregulation was. True, most of the benefits took years to unfold-rail freight rates, for example hardly budged at first. Yet deregulation set the stage for an enormous wave of creative destruction in the 1980s.

  Alan Greenspan

  Years, Creative, Firsts

  Alan Greenspan (2008). “The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World”, p.72, Penguin

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• In my opinion it is harmful to place important things in the hands of philanthropy, which in Russia is marked by a chance character. Nor should important matters depend on leftovers, which are never there. I would prefer that the government treasury take care of it.

  Anton Chekhov

  Character, Russia, Government

  Letter to A.S. Suvorin, December 17, 1890.

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• The older I become, the more I realize that drawing is the most important of all the problems of picture-making.

  Joaquin Sorolla

  Drawing, Problem, Realizing

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• Success is seldom permanent, and failure is seldom fatal. The important thing is to keep trying.

  Anna Olson

  Failure, Trying, Permanent

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• It was important that I learn that what I wanted was no different from what other artists wanted: confidence that I could be my own censor, audience, and competition.

  Beverly Pepper

  Confidence, Artist, Competition

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• I learned from Seurat this important thing about colour and light, that 'a light' can be built from colour. I learned a great deal about interaction, that 'a blue' in different parts will play all sorts of different roles.

  Bridget Riley

  Play, Light, Blue

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