"Johnny Cash has only passed into the greater light. He will only become more important in this industry as time goes by."
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"People are my most important asset. Faith in the supreme being, trust, credibility and performance are the things that have brought me to the top."
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"Just supposing," he said, "just supposing" --he didn't know what was coming next, so he thought he'd just sit back and listen--"that there was some extraordinary way in which you were very important to me, and that, though you didn't know it, I was very important to you, but it all went for nothing because we only had five miles and I was a stupid idiot at knowing how to say something very important to someone I've only just met and not crash into lorries a the same time, what would you say..." He paused, helplessly, and looked at her. "I should do."
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"One of the most important things you learn from the internet is that there is no 'them' out there. It’s just an awful lot of 'us.'"
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"It's important to learn the right lessons from the past."
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"What's a star when his most important fan is missing?"
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"It's really important to me that the actors bring a lot of elements of the characters to the process so they own it, so it's personal to them, so it's not just me saying, "You stand here, you say this, you do this, you feel this." No, you bring it up from in here and then let's work with that."
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"My kids are the most important people in the world to me."
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"I think the most important thing for an actor is to stay current and stay relevant, and those are probably the hardest things to do."
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"L.A. is so much about ratings and box office; that defines everything. And here, of course it's important, but it's not part of the culture - there's too much else going on in New York. They're not going to let one industry monopolize your attention, you know? You're likely to have best friends who are architects or newspaper reporters."
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"If the abortion issue is important to me, this is how you tackle that issue."
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"Fundamentally, the most important thing is to get the film made for me and to get as many people to see it as possible. And if I help that, then - I know I help that, let's put it that way. I do know that I help that. It is called show business."
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"It's very important to transcend places that hold us."
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"The important thing is how much consciousness you add to the whole of human existence, for that is how eternity expresses itself."
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"The intention behind our giving and receiving is the most important thing. When the act of giving is joyful, when it is unconditional and from the heart, then the energy behind the giving increases many times over. But if we give grudgingly, there is no energy behind that giving. If we feel we have lost something through the act of giving, then the gift is not truly given and will not cause increase."
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"Sometimes we laugh to keep from crying, but the important thing is to laugh, every chance we get."
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"It's more important for me to have a good record with good music and be part of a movie that's good and where the music is used in a really great way. That's the important thing. The other stuff you want to say about it, I don't care."
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"I need to tell the things that are important but which don't make sense in terms of the narrative, things that would destroy symmetry or narrative pace. This is my personal belief about what it means to write nonfiction."
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"Ernest Hemingway has been the most important influence on me as a writer. But at a certain point as a writer, I realized that he was writing about good people doing good things. This did not match my experience of life and so I found my sentences stretching and becoming less plain."
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"You see in the Muslim traditions, it's very clear: maintaining law and consultation, not being arbitrary and oppressive. Consultation. And also in the Muslim tradition, the power comes from within the group. I think that's very important."
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