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"Some music, it's meant just to make you dance and be able to celebrate and get away from all that kind of thinking. And so, I think it is important if you think your music can do that - to keep doin' it."
"Most importantly fighters in my day knew the most important art in boxing - feinting."
"At no point, at a very important point: that of having convinced the Indians that they can do things."
"James L.Brooks is just a very original person. So that was definitely the luckiest, most important thing that happened to me [meeting him]. Then I guess also meeting Ben Stiller. He cast me in the only thing I think I ever auditioned for and got: Cable Guy [1996]. And that led to us becoming friends."
"I think for Wes [Anderson] and me, the most important thing was James L. Brooks producing our first movie and giving us a chance to come to Hollywood, because without him, we might never have gotten the chance."
"In all my documentaries, I have great respect for the people I work with. Really, I love them. And it's very important for me that when I finish a movie, they stay my friends. It's important that they won't feel that I in any way manipulated them or showed them in a bad light. I want to show them in all their reality - not as subjects but as people with flesh and blood - but I want to do this with all my respect."
"But we agree with the NTSB that if we eliminated the thrust- reverser calculation, it would be an extra margin of safety. Airport capacity and airline efficiency are important, but safety is the most important thing."
"The preparation for conception to me is one of the most important things, if we are we interested in the general progress of our species."
"You can focus your mind. You can respect your body. All of that is important."
"I look at two things while angel investing. Are you solving an important problem? Do you care about the end users."
"In Mississippi the important thing is hooch, not bar equipment."
"Children's fiction is the most important fiction of all."
"The really important thing to be was yourself, just as hard as you could."
"It's a given that we exist in a world where we have to live in continuity every day; no one is immune to that, in life or romance novels. By the same token, it's not something I find terribly important."
"Chantal is having a relationship with a sentence. Just one of those things. A chance meeting that grew into something important for the both of them."
"Emotional truths woven by lawyers in the court of law are apparently more important than the truths of actual events. I have grown to fear for those whose innocence became trapped within the legal system."
"As important as the civil rights movement was, I think what will rise to the top is that we left Earth in that time."
"I used to get my best ideas from being bored, and now, if I even think I'm being faintly bored, I have two million Twitter followers I can engage with. It's great, but I also think it's important to be able to let your thoughts flow and percolate."
"Some of the greatest directors never got an Oscar, like Kubrick, or Hitchcock. For me, personally, I think the body of work is more important than winning an Oscar."
"It is much more convenient not to be a public company. As a private company you don't have to give information to the public. Secrecy is an important factor of success in the commodity business."
