I think it's important to have your own individual style and sense of self. It's kind of what I do.
It's important for me to just be myself - in fashion. A lot of people overlook that side of me because they're scared of it, but that's just who I am.
I got fired when I was a dishwasher at Denny's. That set me back a little bit. You don't realize how important dishwashers are until you do the job.
It is often constructive to meet with a candidate for a particular office, but I believe what is most important is the candidate's track record.
I need to be looking at what's important in North Carolina, and you better believe that's what I will do.
It's really important to be active in your community, whatever community that is... find allies and find people who you relate to and who make you stronger as a group.
I am committed to ensure that our 2008 Republican presidential candidates forthrightly address issues of importance to the African-American community.
So the laughs had to come from the character, not because we had balloons in our shirts or were speaking in high voices. That was very important to us.
I don't know what I'm meant to do. I'm not important, am I? I'm not doing anything that makes a difference.
What good literature can do and does do—far greater than any importation of morality—is touch the human soul.
I've been really fortunate to be able to do different kinds of films in different scales, different genres, different kinds of roles, and that is important to me.
I try to make my heart beat out of my chest, hard-core, once a day for at least a half hour. I think that's very important.
In particular what is most important to me is the transformation of a sound by slowing it down, sometimes extremely, so that the inner of sound becomes a conceivable rhythm.
It is important that the audience should understand every syllable of every word, for only then can they grasp the meaning of the song.
I do it because I want to exercise people's compassion and I do it because I really believe that for some reason what I do is important and meaningful.
It is important for all of us to understand that free people are not governed by rules. Here at Hillsdale we are governed by goals, and then the rules are very broad.
Generally, when it comes to covers, I try and add elements that may not take your immediate attention but really become important the more you look at them.
I take things like honor and loyalty seriously. It's more important to me than any materialistic thing or any fame I could have.
Escapist literature gets a bad rap. But I think escape is important for a lot of people in a lot of places.
The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting people and places.
It's an important point to make that people can't just be invalidated, eradicated, because they don't fit tidily into a box. And more and more, the modern world is all about conformity.
