What's Important Quotes - Page 4

• When literature becomes overly erudite, it means that interest in the art has gone and curiosity about the artist is what's important. It becomes a kind of idolatry.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Art, Mean, Curiosity

  Isaac Bashevis Singer, Grace Farrell (1992). “Isaac Bashevis Singer: conversations”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

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• What's important about poetry in the context of leadership is that most of the time, power has to do with dominance. But poetry is never about dominance. Poetry is powerful but it cannot even aspire to dominate anyone. It means making a connection. That's what it means.

  June Jordan

  Powerful, Mean, Poetry

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• What's important on a comedy show, or any show, is that some stories have to go somewhere. There have to be ends to the beginnings and middles you create. But sometimes it's like a way station on the highway, then the actual thing doesn't have to be this giant, climactic, life-changing, game-changing thing.

  Michael Schur

  Life Changing, Games, Important

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think the mistake people make with horror movies and what makes them successful is a lot of horror movies get made by people who don't really like them, so they don't respect them. And when you like horror and have admiration for it, that community knows that what's important for a horror movie is important for every other kind of movie.

  Jason Blum

  Mistake, Successful, Thinking

  "Producer Jason Blum on The Lazarus Effect, Paranormal Activity, and loving horror". Interview with Alex McLevy, film.avclub.com. June 30, 2015.

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• There's no doubt that I'm a better president now than when I first took office. This is not a job where there's a manual, and over time you get a better sense of what's important, what's not, how to see around corners and anticipate problems, as opposed to just managing problems once they've arrived.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Office, Doubt

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• To be honest, I don't necessarily think you have to be an actor to act. You don't have to be a musician to make great music. If it comes along and you put your all into it, the outcome is what's important.

  Andre Benjamin

  Thinking, Important, Musician

  Source: collider.com

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• Those who practice deserve your respect. If you respect them, you respect yourself. It's easy to be critical, but it does no good. What's important is to be supportive of all who practice.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Practice

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• Journal what you love, what you hate, what's in your head, what's important. Journaling organizes your thoughts; allows you to see things in a concrete way that otherwise you might not see. Focus on what you think you need to find in your art.

  Kay WalkingStick

  Art, Hate, Thinking

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• You know, once you give birth, once you have kids, you realize what's important in life, and you realize it's really not difficult to be a good person. And so when people aren't good around me, I tend to move away from that. There are so many good people in the world, and you want to surround your children with that.

  Pamela Anderson

  Children, Moving, Kids

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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, Important, Stories

  Source: www.gq.com

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• The risk of working with people you don't respect; the risk of working for a company whose values are incosistent with your own; the risk of compromising what's important; the risk of doing something that fails to express-or even contradicts--who you are. And then there is the most dangerous risk of all--the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet that you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.

  Randy Komisar

  People, Risk, Important

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• The only advice I can give you… is to examine who you are… Figure out what’s important to you. Know yourselves. Know what’s in your heart. Don’t be swayed by fear or history or the opinions of outsiders. Find your own truth. It will lead you to the things you love.

  J-Ax

  Heart, Giving, Advice

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

  Katharine McPhee

  Important, What's Important, Able

  "13 Questions With Katharine McPhee". AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com. February 27, 2007.

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• The older you are, I think you realize what you enjoy and what you don't need, what wears you out and what's important.

  Alan Jackson

  Thinking, Important, Needs

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I was a child, I dreamt of being a big star. I truly believed that I would be world famous someday, but that doesn't seem so important. What's important to me is getting to live my life as an artist, and making my passion my work. I have never wanted to be anything other than an actor and performer, and each day that I get to do that is a day well spent.

  Jinkx Monsoon

  Stars, Children, Passion

  Source: seattlegayscene.com

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• As a child, I didn't know what I didn't have. I'm thankful for the challenges early on in my life because now I have a perspective on the world and kind of know what's important.

  America Ferrera

  Children, Perspective, Challenges

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• What's important is that twice two is four and all the rest's nonsense.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Two, Important, Four

  Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Richard Freeborn (1998). “Fathers and Sons”, p.230, Oxford University Press, USA

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• It's interesting to work with what's important today, which is meaningful for our everyday lives.

  Patricia Piccinini

  Meaningful, Interesting, Everyday

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• And what’s important to you?” I asked. Marshal thought while we maneuvered around Darth Vader, who was struggling to keep from hitting the wall with his helmet blocking his vision. “Success at work. Having fun doing it. Caring for someone and supporting their interests because you like to see them happy. Having them care about and support yours simply because they want to see you happy.

  Kim Harrison

  Wall, Fun, Block

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• For a short time, I hated them. But when you think about it, what good does that do?It takes so much to hold on to hate—you lose your grip on what's important, you know?

  Harlan Coben

  Hate, Thinking, Important

  Harlan Coben (2010). “Caught”, p.226, Penguin

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• I want you to always hold your head up and follow your dreams wherever they take you. Don’t you ever listen to the people out to hurt you or make you cry. Listen to your heart and be better than them. No one gets ahead by hurting others. The only real peace anyone will ever have is the one that comes from within. Live your life on your own terms and make it a happy life. Always. That’s what’s important, Torimou. (Theo)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Dream, Hurt, Real

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• Remember this... develop a sense of nostalgia for something, or you'll never figure out what's important.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Important, Nostalgia, Remember

  Gary Shteyngart (2010). “Super Sad True Love Story”, p.21, Granta Books

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• Someone is spending their life and their passion and their ingenuity on something that's seemingly potentially trite. But it's what they're doing, and it's what's important to them and what's beautiful to them.

  David Krumholtz

  Beautiful, Passion, Important

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• What's important to me is that there's a necessary alienation between me and the subject. I don't want to know them well. I don't want to have any intimate contact with them.

  Gregory Crewdson

  Important, Want, Intimate

  Source: theamericanreader.com

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• You've got to do things that promote what's important.

  Russell Simmons

  Important, What's Important

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