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• Holly Black is the Real Thing: a gifted writer with a solid grounding in what matters. Her stories are dark and splendid blooms rising from roots sunk deep in myth and tradition.

  Ellen Kushner

  Real, Dark, Roots

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• What matters," said the prince at last, "is that you have a child's trusting nature and extraordinary truthfulness. Do you know that a great deal can be forgiven you for that alone?

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Children, Lasts, Said

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• What matters the party to me? I shall find enough anyhow who unite with me without swearing allegiance to my flag.

  Max Stirner

  Party, Flags, Enough

  Max Stirner (1995). “Stirner: The Ego and its Own”, p.210, Cambridge University Press

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• In politics intentions count for nothing; actions are what matter.

  David Horowitz

  Matter, Action, Intention

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• You see, the outcome of the battle is unimportant. What matters is the chaos, and the slaughter.

  Neil Gaiman

  Battle, Outcomes, Chaos

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• I guess in the end, it doesn’t matter what we wanted. What matters is what we chose to do with the things we had.

  Mira Grant

  Matter, Ends, Wanted

  Mira Grant (2011). “Deadline: The Newsflesh Trilogy:”, p.88, Hachette UK

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• Scripts are what matter. If you get the foundations right and then you get the right ingredients on top, you stand a shot... but if you get those foundations wrong, then you absolutely don't stand a shot. It's very rare-almost never-that a good film gets made from a bad screenplay.

  Tim Bevan

  Foundation, Directors, Scripts

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• There's something missing about how we're informing the youngsters coming along about what matters in the world. We teach them the numbers and the letters, but we fail to communicate the importance of our connection to the living world.

  Sylvia Earle

  Numbers, Missing, Connections

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• What matters is that you are doing what you think is right based on the standards which you hold.

  Walter Annenberg

  Thinking, Matter, Standards

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• We forget that what matters begins with the imagination.

  Terry Brooks

  Imagination, Matter, Forget

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• Not everybody paints what the public will pay for. The method in which an artist receives money is nobody's business, what matters is that paintings are produced.

  Jim Rowe

  Artist, Pay, Painting

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• This work of connecting our light to the world does not need to be done through a mass movement, or by millions of people. . . .The real work is always done by a small number of individuals. What matters is the level of participation: whether we dare to make a real commitment to the work of the soul.

  Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

  Real, Commitment, Numbers

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• I'm less interested in how we label ourselves. I'm more interested in how we treat each other. And if we're treating each other right, then I can be African-American, I can be multi-racial, I can be you name it, what matters is, am I showing people respect, am I caring for one, for other people.

  Barack Obama

  Caring, Names, People

  Source: outfront.blogs.cnn.com

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• An age is the reversal of an age:
  When strangers murdered Emmet, Fitzgerald, Tone,
  We lived like men that watch a painted stage.
  What matter for the scene, the scene once gone:
  It had not touched our lives.

  William Butler Yeats

  Men, Age, Watches

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol II: The Plays”, p.703, Simon and Schuster

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• A living man is blind and drinks his drop.
  What matter if the ditches are impure?
  What matter if I live it all once more?

  William Butler Yeats

  Life, Men, Blind

  William Butler Yeats (1962). “Poems of William Butler Yeats”, p.8, Hayes Barton Press

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• That we understand something perfectly, that we accomplish something better than anyone else around us, that is what matters.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Excellence, Accomplish, Something Better

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• What matters in art is not thinking but making.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Thinking, Matter

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• I lost some friends when I made the move, but if that's what matters to them, then they're not really friends at all.

  Jock Stein

  Moving, Lost, Made

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• What matters to me more than anything is that when all of this is over, football is the winner.

  Sepp Blatter

  Football, Matter, Winner

  "Sepp Blatter: Resignation speech in full". www.cnn.com. June 2, 2015.

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• Awards mean nothing to comedians. What matters is the audience, how you're doing - artistically, for the most part - at that moment.

  Steve Martin

  Mean, Awards, Comedian

  "COVER STORY : A Side Order of Steve Martin : He's had his ups and downs with L.A., but they're back together in his new movie". Interview with Elaine Dutka, articles.latimes.com. February 3, 1991.

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• What matters is performances, regardless of what the name is, whether it's The Rock - which is my nickname and people call me that all the time - it's no big deal. So, whether it's The Rock or Dwayne Johnson, in terms of being recognised I just think that the goal is to be recognised as a good actor. I don't put much thought or weight into the name, or the name change, or what it is, or what does it mean? It's just a nickname.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Mean, Thinking, Names

  Source: movieweb.com

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• What matters is not publication or success (success is bad for your prose) but the practice of the imaginative act. Our damaged values depend on it.

  Janet Burroway

  Practice, Imaginative, Prose

  "Janet Burroway talks about writing lives". The Chicago Manual of Style Interview, cmosshoptalk.com. April 4, 2014.

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• What matters more? What you said you'd do, what you hoped to do, or what you did?

  Ron Kaufman

  Matter, Said

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• If I quake, what matters it what I quake at? Our proper vice takes form in one or another shape, according to the sex, age, or temperament of the person, and, if we are capable of fear, will readily find terrors.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sex, Fear, Age

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.210

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• It doesn't matter how much you make, what matters is what you become. Stay hungry.. Learn.. you'll become world-class

  Azim Jamal

  Class, World, Hungry

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