Important Quotes
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One very important aspect of art is that it makes people aware of what they know and don’t know they know... Once the breakthrough is made, there is a permanent expansion of awareness. But there is always a reaction of rage, of outrage, at the first breakthrough... So the artist, then, expands awareness. And once the breakthrough is made, this becomes part of the general awareness.
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Artistry is important. Skill, hard work, rewriting, editing, and careful, careful craft: All of these are necessary. These are what separate the beginners from experienced artists.
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All the modern verse plays, they're terrible; they're mostly about the poetry. It's more important that the play is first.
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When you go to war, it's important for everybody to know that they're going to come home in one way or other.
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After the training session, video analysis. You can see the good and the bad, show players how to improve. Not because I want to find blame. Sometimes 20 or 30 minutes of video is more important than three training sessions.
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I was glad that I could be used as a focal point to possibly bandy around some ideas, and maybe people would open their eyes to Obama's socialist ideology. However, there were so many important issues to be discussed other than the 'Joe the Plumber, Joe the Plumber.'
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I'm not going to tell people how to write, but we do have a skill set, and the more we put ourselves out into the world as poets, as a sort of poet of the tribe, as representatives of metaphor, and try to claim space for metaphor in the inner life, that's going to be important and be helpful to poetry and bring a tension for poets writing about whatever they choose.
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I think 'The Giver' is such a moral book, so filled with important truths, that I couldn't believe anyone would want to suppress it, to keep it from kids.
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We always feel there are 3 parts to the song. The most important part is the reason it should exist. Our process usually consists of me sitting at the piano & Bob hovering over it. We throw ideas out...I start to play something...he'll hum something to make it better. He'll throw a line to me, I'll twist it to make it better and we scramble around like that for sometimes hours and days, 'til we both agree we've got something to show! That's how it works!
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What may look like a small act of courage is courage nevertheless. The important thing is to be willing to take a step forward.
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The thing is, Jesus died for us so we should be able to die for Him. It is an important question to ask yourself.
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Poetry isn't just different from prose, it's more important for the human species.
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Woolf is an important writer for me, someone I read often and who forms part of my ideal of what literature can do.
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It's a matter of choosing what is most important to you and putting that first. Once you have recognized your true purpose in life, this becomes much easier.
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I think my faith is important. Being young as well, sometimes it's difficult, but I've got a good family behind me as well.
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The most important thing I feel in the acting profession is to create a community that reflects you back to you.
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What I've seen in my own life is that when I get something important done it's because of a lot of other people - some who get credit, some who don't.
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Skin is really important; after all, it's my business.
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You really have to try hard to create space and, at least for a time, stop the political world from rushing in. The important thing is to remain sane.
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I definitely think it's important to share my process when it comes to the bottom surgery, because that information really isn't out there.
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Set your goals-without goals you cannot measure your progress. But don’t become frustrated because there are no obvious victories. Remind yourself that striving can be more important than arriving.
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The men and women of America's homeland security apparatus do important work to protect us, and Republicans and Democrats in Congress should not be playing politics with that.
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When I became a mother, there was no doubt in my mind that it would be the most vital and important job I would ever have because I knew firsthand what it was like not to have a mother.
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I think it is important to pass on the message to young people who are going through a difficult time with friends that it will pass.
