"I know certain roles are important to me. I know that I really want to play them. I know I can do a good job. But I can never put into words why."
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"I think life is the most important thing and you have to live that first and then you're art comes second."
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"I've been in a bad accident on I-95, as well as my friend. Having this kind of organization is important so that change can occur. I'll be around whenever they need me."
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"Clarity is the most important thing to me - in thinking - and so I try in the books to be as clear as possible."
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"I love cinema. It is the most important thing to me. Life is cinema. It has been this way since I was a child of about 14, and I was going every day to see the movies."
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"I don't think I've done anything important or magnificent. I'm a worker, and the thing I prefer in my life is cinema. When I'm working in cinema, I'm happy. And that's all, you know?"
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"When you practice meditation, the meditator becomes all-important and not the movement of meditation."
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"A dialogue is very important. It is a form of communication in which question and answer continue till a question is left without an answer. Thus the question is suspended between the two persons involved in this answer and question. It is like a bud with untouched blossoms . . . If the question is left totally untouched by thought, it then has its own answer because the questioner and answerer, as persons, have disappeared. This is a form of dialogue in which investigation reaches a certain point of intensity and depth, which then has a quality that thought can never reach."
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"When I started to realise how important the film was to people I thought there is a lot of negative stuff going on in the world, maybe they need these two people"
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"I think it's important never to look a gift horse in the mouth, never to overlook your talents [and] what you're good at."
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"As a comic and as a nurse, it's important to look calm on the surface when you're absolutely crapping yourself inside. So, if someone is waving a machete at you, which has happened to me when I was a nurse, it's important to make that person feel that you're in control."
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"Even when I wasn't overweight I was never one of those girls or women who wanted to look nice. I always thought it wasn't important."
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"You have to be with the right person. Its so much more important to meet the right person, whether youre married or not, than it is to get married and get a divorce."
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"This is why I turned down multiple $Million Dollar Offers for my website. Because the positive impact you have in other lives is more important than a quick cash out."
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"The important thing is not to know more than all men, but to know more at each moment than any particular man."
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"Basically [United States and France] said "We will use nuclear weapons whenever it suits our purposes to do so." So this expansion of doctrines regarding possible use of nuclear weapons makes them more, you know, sort of, salient and important and so it's increasing the perceived political value of nuclear weapons and therefore causing or contributing to possible proliferation."
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"You can feel an emotion; just don't think that it's so important."
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"It's important for me to have different tiers of value for the art. Some of the silk-screens are really affordable, but I do have some high-end silk-screens that are several color layers and a little more expensive, and then I have the paintings that can get way up there."
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"It is no contradiction - the most important single thing we can do to stimulate investment in today's economy is to raise consumption by major reduction ofindividualincometaxrates."
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"The ideas of directing attention outward, trying to imagine other people complexly, trying not to see myself as the center of the universe - these concepts have become important to me, and I hope they're at work in my life on a minute-by-minute basis."
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