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"I feel like it's almost a Renaissance thing, a painting, a modern version of a painting. I think it's important for Kim [Kardashian] to have her figure. To not show it would be like Adele not singing."
"Failure, failure is so important, it doesn’t get spoken about enough, we speak about success all the time."
"Ah, Harry, how often this happens, even between the best of friends! Each of us believes that what he has to say is much more important than anything the other might have to contribute!"
"Friday was an important day for Harry and Ron. They finally managed to find their way down to the Great Hall without getting lost once."
"Schooling is so important."
"You have to be willing to put everything you've got towards the project. That to me is very important. And it may not be part of the fad, being the clichéd kind of film that's going to be successful."
"You can't sit back. My husband and I have made the choice that our marriage is the most important thing to us. We respect what we have and understand how we need to feed it."
"For me, it's always been important to have the live band be one thing, and the recorded band be kind of another thing."
"I think that there shouldn't be an age limit to become a boss, so having that element is really important."
"It's important to know when to take your time and not overspend and overdo things, of course. That's why you get things that can be dressed in a thousand different ways."
"I still like to save up and splurge. That's an important thing to do."
"If you get basics that can be switched and piece it together, that is so important."
"When I'm working with another writer, I tend to make a lot of effort. When I collaborate with a writer, I'm not interested in credit, but I'm feeding him stuff all the time that I feel is important to shaping the script."
"I want my children to have access to something that looks beyond what I call the tyranny of now. You read the paper, everyone talks about that thing [in the news] that day, and all the subconscious really important stuff that's going on is being neglected. The beauty of history is that historians have the ability to find patterns, the big picture. When you make a movie, you try to find that. I'm doing in the cinema what historians try to do in their own media."
"I'm going to hold onto my Blu-ray collection because I really think it's hardware and it's important. I don't want to live in a cloud, all my life."
"I've learned that it's important to spend some time in a relationship with yourself and not being defined by your partner."
"I really needed to have something in my life, because I realized there were other things more important than my career. So I love having my children and my family."
"Why and how are words so important that they cannot be too often used."
"From triumph to downfall is but a step. I have seen a trifle decide the most important issues in the gravest affairs."
"A man occupied with public or other important business cannot, and need not, attend to spelling."
