"I’ll promise to think twice before I take any important step you seriously disapprove of."
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"Now, if you ask me, what’s going on is that we’re all up to here in it, and probably the most important thing is that we not yell at one another."
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"Images are probably the most important part of the poem. First of all you want to tell a story, but images are what are going to shore it up and get to the heart of the matter."
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"Jewels! Today each twig is important, each ring, each infection, each form is all that the gods must have meant."
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"The photo-journalist and the photo-poet are both important. The problem is to separate the major objectives of the various groups and not to attribute qualities and intentions where they do not belong."
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"Time and rhythm are the most important elements in music. If both aren't well conceived, organized, and executed, no amount of notes will make the piece a meaningful artistic experience."
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"I think that one-liners are very important and sometimes you don't even know when you're making the movie that it's going to be a great line. I remember when we did 'The Terminator' and I came to the line "I'll be back" I had no idea that it was going to be an important line."
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"It is, of course, a trifle, but there is nothing so important as trifles."
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"Global warming, the ongoing destruction of the planet, Third World debt, the uselessness of the railways, the takeover by the corporations, the scary George Bush person: all these things are important and should be animating me into outrage. Yet somehow they do not."
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"I think knowing you're not alone is important. This generation is already better at standing up for themselves, saying, "No! You're not going to treat me like that. My standards are higher." But we can provide more education through stories. Just because someone who is older or with more authority says you have to do something, there's no reason you need to. One good thing is that there are new rules about how old you can be on set - more regulations. I think those are good."
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"One person alone can't do anything as important as bringing genuine democracy to a country."
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"The important thing is Burma needs to end the civil war and for this to happen both sides must want to end the war."
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"I know when we were making the film [ Age Of Trump] that we knew that there was going to be some kind of radical change coming on the horizon. That's why it was important for us to get it out before the election."
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"You know, I think that only if one feels immensely important can one feel truly light."
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"As a person you want to be respected. Respect is always important to me."
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"Given the multiple crises we are living through, investigative journalism is all the more important."
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"The first and most important step is to realize that, as my mother used to say, fearlessness isn't the absence of fear, but the mastery of fear. It's not that you never have fear, but that you don't let your fears stop you."
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"Before checking that last email before you go to bed, say to yourself, No, I am important. This is important. My body is more important."
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"That's what I try to do as a writer and as the editor of HuffPost: cover important stories in an obsessive way that enables them to break through the din of our multimedia universe."
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"Wearing something that you're not comfortable in is the ultimate sin. It's important for each person to discover their own style, and find something that is not trendy or too revealing or anything that would get in the way of working."
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