The 'free-floating intellectual' may occupy himself with problems because of their inherent interest and importance, perhaps to little effect.
Even in comedy it's important to get your body acquainted with what you're going to do.
As a television actor, there's a power you're given to use your image to do something valuable. As a parent, these messages are particularly important to me.
Making mistakes is important because it makes you wiser.
I've always had the same values. Family for me has always been important. When I shoot, everybody comes.
I know what it's like to have a young child at the weekend and feel like there is nothing to see in the movie theatre. Family is so important.
I do still have some of the experience from playing, but it's been so long since I've been out in those quarters, semis, finals, the important final matches, just against the top players.
I think what's important is to give space to the range of human experience.
Like other important immigrant communities, the Jewish experience in the United States represents the ideal of freedom and the promise and opportunity of America.
In my experience, in bringing coercive diplomacy to bear against Slobodan Milosevic, no bomb strike was more important than maintaining NATO's cohesion.
It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last.
It's really important to teach people how to get food, how to grow it, how to pick it, how to prepare it and what's safe to eat.
It is obvious that the greatest and most important service that is required of our agriculture under existing conditions is an enlarged production of the staple food crops.
Fast food is hugely important in the life of a comedy writer. All we do is order in, and what we're going to eat is hotly debated.
Health food shops can make people feel very important; it's like a brand new religion with people trying to convert you to quinoa.
In a relationship, it's important to make each other laugh. To give each other freedom, support each other and be proud of each other.
Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual.
I think it's important to remember that Christianity was based in love and tolerance and forgiveness and acceptance.
It's very important to have the right clothing to exercise in. If you throw on an old T-shirt or sweats, it's not inspiring for your workout.
I think it's more important to be fit so that you can be healthy and enjoy activities than it is to have a good body.
I keep everything that is most important to me close to me: my family, my bible, my X-Box - just kidding.
