You have two voices: the one you speak with and the one you think with. While the former is the one others hear, of greater importance is the one you hear.
Everybody certainly has the right to defend themselves. That's not to say that they should defy common sense by avoiding or diffusing confrontation. And that's very, very important.
Writers of novels live in a strange world where what's made up is as important as what's real.
With every breath, I breathe in so much of inspiration. I feel if there is one thing as free and as important as oxygen, it's inspiration.
I think it's important for me to show the world that sobriety hasn't made me soft. I'm on a mission to prove I'm still a nutcase.
It may be important to write a book that doesn't come up to what I would like to have rather than to write no book at all.
Memory works according to meaning, and when something is important to you, the Google in your brain brings it forward all of a sudden.
It's important for a leader to hear about his blind spots on a regular basis so working on them is periodically top of mind.
Planning a dinner party in a way that you're actually capable of getting it done without panicking is important. It's bad hospitality for the host to be freaked out.
I did a series called Ned and Stacey for two years for Fox back in the 90s. I was writer on it as well as a producer, and it was very important to me that there were no contemporary references.
Rethink Success: Most people will never achieve past their existing levels, because they don't understand the importance of changing their Mindset
Reading is important, because if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything.
Finland, and all the other European countries, we are too dependent on imported energy. We should be using a broader variety of energy resources.
I am always who I am, and anyone who's known me forever will tell you that. I guess there's enough of a child in me that that's important.
It is important that you never place limitations on learning, personal growth, traveling, reading and making a positive difference in your life and others.
None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important.
In a republican nation, whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance
All the important drawings I do myself. Every single character is also done by me.
Gay TV has been immensely important in transforming American culture in a more gay-positive direction.
I do believe that enduring geological features are important, though I don't think I can be clear about exactly why.
The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.
