Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Quotes
Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.
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Good music is good music, regardless of where it comes from. I think that's a really important thing to carry with you.
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It's important for cinema to keep on evolving: for people, and not only teenagers, to be able to go to a movie that has huge epic scope but has an intellectual and real story to tell.
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I just feel it's important to make sure that behind the scenes is as filled with diverse voices as in front of the scene is.
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The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law.
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Having been on tour in countries that are extremely eco-friendly, we automatically end up doing the things that normal people do in other countries.
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I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try to hone in on that.
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I've always been interested in how people think, how they react to challenges in their lives - what makes people tick. I've also always been passionate about social issues and causes, and I wanted to make films that addressed important issues in very human terms.
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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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In the jungle, every day is like the other. So you need to have a special discipline to make things different and to keep in your memory the dates and the days. And I think that's something that's very important when you are held hostage.
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I am not saying Russia is not important, but Trump's base is very well defended against that: 'the liberal media is out to get him', 'it's fake news', and all the rest.
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Sticking with your vision and what you believe in is so, so important.
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I had wanted to place the Eye-in-the-Sea at an oasis on the bottom of the ocean, in some site rich with life that was likely to be patrolled by large predators. The first time I got to test the camera at such a place was in 2004, in the north end of the Gulf of Mexico, at an amazing location called the brine pool.
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'Seize the Story' takes readers all the way through the process of writing fiction, from beginning to end. Every element, from dialogue to setting, plotting to character creation, is laid out and illustrated with examples. But the tone of the book is not that of a dry writing manual - it's definitely written for teenagers.
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At the end of the seven years, 'Family Ties' voluntarily went off the air. And, we went off as the #1 show on TV that week. We cut down the nets on stage 24 and moved on with the rest of our lives. Always to carry with us the blessing of what we had gone through together.
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My mother raised us to think that if we worked hard, and if we put our end of the bargain in, it would work out OK for us.
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Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.
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Marketing is more important than it has ever been. But I'm trying to tear the layers back and make it not so contrived. I think people just want entertainment.
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A lot of my friends back home are boys, so I do well with boys I like.
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My dad makes food with very few delicate flavours.
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Agents will read unpublished work because they might make money, and that's their job. It isn't mine.
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I got my start in lefty journalism as a labor reporter at 'In These Times', and it's in my blood.
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You have to fight against all the things that will keep you out of writing, because life doesn't go with writing. You will always have something more important to do: you will have to take your children to school, you will have to cook something, you have to meet friends. But you have to fight if you want to write.
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Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.
