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"I just don't think that I could be the kind of actor I want to be and not be honest with myself. Honesty is very important to me as an actor and as a person. I didn't even think about it."
"Personal’s not the same as important. People just think it is."
"Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don't have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere."
"We want Ollie to go to all the different events and see Republicans and see Bernie Sanders and just kind of experience it and be able to make up his own mind for what he wants, none of his friends know anything about politics. Granted, they're only 9, they don't vote for a while. They just completely don't understand why are all these people coming to New Hampshire, why this is so important."
"My mother is very ideologically based, and her ideology is much more important in many ways than her personal relationships."
"If the challenge we face doesn't scare us, then it's probably not that important."
"Doing something unimportant well does not make it important."
"Effectiveness is doing the things that get you closer to your goals. Efficiency is performing a given task (whether important or not) in the most economical manner possible. Being efficient without regard to effectiveness is the default mode of the universe."
"I'm living the exact life I planned on living when I was five. My life has taken some turns and changes that I didn't anticipate, and it has brought me different things. I thought material things would bring me happiness, which they didn't. But through this, I have learned what things are important and what aren't."
"I think what's important for myself and anyone else who wants to create a film, or art, is [to] make sure that they have something to say, that they want to share something important, express something important."
"Plot is very important to me, but I think my stories are stronger in character development."
"Sometimes what's right isn't as important as what's profitable."
"Intimacy is extremely important to me and I want it to be extremely important to the readers."
"I finally discovered that my life is more important than show business."
"What's very important from my point of view is that there is one web … Anyone that tries to chop it into two will find that their piece looks very boring."
"In the long run, doing work that's important leads to more happiness than doing work that's merely profitable."
"Busy does not equal important. Measured doesn't mean mattered."
"The most important thing is to have a more open and honest dialogue about gender issues."
"It is very important in life to know when your cue comes."
"What you think of me is none of my business. What is most important is what I think of myself."
