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Related Good music is good music, regardless of where it comes from. I think that's a really important t... PATRICK STUMP If it's a good movie, it's a good movie. I don't care about the genres. ASTRO It's hard to get people at a record company to talk about music. They don't seem to want to ... HENRY ROLLINS You don't ever want to devalue music. Music is important; it's necessary product. I always t... ROBERT COPPOLA SCHWARTZMAN I want to continue to make beautiful movies. The most important thing is to be a part of beautiful s... MELANIE LAURENT Growing up listening to rap music, you almost feel like you should have haters. That's an import... EZRA KOENIG I don't care where I have to go for work. I just care that it's a good project. That's w... KATE DEL CASTILLO It is a great thing about having young children, is that they don't really care whether you'... JOHN ROBERTS I don't understand why people make me want to make music that's a join-the-dots thing by num... M.I.A. I don't distinguish the music I listen to from great music - it's just music. There shouldn&... MARCUS SAMUELSSON For me, the most important thing that I have to accomplish is to be a good father. That's the mo... ALEJANDRO GONZALEZ INARRITU I'm just into making quality stuff if I can, with interesting people and good scripts. But it... EWAN MCGREGOR You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ... SUFJAN STEVENS I love to get to that place where I don't know what kind of music I'm doing; I don't kno... ARIEL PINK I don't know where people think I'm from, but I'm from Chicago. It's really just tha... CHANCE THE RAPPER Music's been around a long time, and there's going to be music long after Ray Charles is dea... RAY CHARLES I really don't know anything about music, and it's no great experience for me. But I do thin... KRZYSZTOF KIESLOWSKI I'm just basically trying to make music that feels good. Right now in the music industry there... TRISTAN WILDS It's not that I have compromised or anything, but it's always been important to me to take g... PATTI SMITH To this day, just always treat people the way you want to be treated. Whether it's family or fri... BRENDA SONG I think live music is really, really important. And I think it's very important to do together. ... SANDRA TSING LOH Being a talented artist is good, it's nice, but it's not the most important thing. I think b... BILL PLYMPTON Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON I don't like music docs, usually. There's nothing to really say. What can you say about musi... MALIK BENDJELLOUL Money's not important to me. Movie star acknowledgement is not important to me. I don't want... MOIRA KELLY For me, it's important that the script is good. Then a good director will want to make it. DANIEL ESPINOSA Looking good has never been the most important thing to me. Maybe it's because I'm more conv... KIM CATTRALL It's a deliberate choice. I am a fervent supporter of the idea that you don't have to have w... GUSTAVO SANTAOLALLA It's important to me that a man is good at taking care of people. EMILY VANCAMP Separation is very important to me. I don't strive to be a celebrity. My music has nothing to do... VINCE STAPLES I'm into it, I'm into MP3's; I think there's no way you're ever going to be able... BRITT DANIEL I genuinely don't feel that anything that's been written or said about me has overshadowed m... NORAH JONES When it's time to make music, that's about getting lost for me. To be a control freak is not... JOSH HOMME It's about learning what's important and what's not important, and at the end of the day... AUBREY PEEPLES When people say, 'You have Alzheimer's,' you have no idea what Alzheimer's is. You k... NANCY REAGAN Certain kinds of people will always have an issue with my music. But that's fine; it's OK. I... KACEY MUSGRAVES I don't think music is my job - I don't think about it that way, because I don't really ... CASS MCCOMBS It's always been difficult to make a good record. To be perfectly honest with you, it's real... DR. DRE To me, country music's about life. It's about Monday through Friday. It's the blue-colla... GARY ALLAN A building is no good if someone's got to explain to you why it's good. You can't say yo... DAVID CHIPPERFIELD It's irrelevant who or what directed a movie; the important thing is that you either respond to ... KATHRYN BIGELOW I think music naturally wants to be played with more than one person. There's a surprise element... BAT FOR LASHES It's certain rappers that can really rap, that really spit all bars, so I understand why someone... TY DOLLA SIGN In improv, the whole thing is that it is a relationship between the two people, as a back and forth.... JOHN OLIVER It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON It's fun for me to try to write concise, compact things. It's a very good exercise for me. A... WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN Mentorship is really important. I really like to talk to people who have been in the music industry ... BAT FOR LASHES I don't want to be the cliche American Idol dude. I want to be different, you know - that's ... PAUL MCDONALD Violence is a part of America. I don't want to single out rap music. Let's be honest. Americ... SPIKE LEE The thing that's good about Hip Hop is that it has experimented with a lot of different sounds a... AFRIKA BAMBAATAA I don't think that a vote for Barack Obama is a symbolic thing. I think it's much more than ... AUNJANUE ELLIS I don't plan or schedule my career thinking first I will play a common man, then a police office... NIVIN PAULY On a day when you're tired, it's important to just say good morning to everyone so they'... LINDSAY LOHAN Producers want to put their music behind revivals but I don't think that's a good trend for ... HAROLD PRINCE You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good st... OCTAVIA BUTLER The important thing is not to be too comfortable when you're writing. Noise in the street? That&... E. L. DOCTOROW I'm always drawn towards the darker stuff, because I think it's just a lot more interesting.... IWAN RHEON Tobey's a mellow, cool guy. He's just a good guy. I know that's not the answer you want,... NEIL PATRICK HARRIS I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously. ERINN HAYES When I attack a role, be it TV, film or stage, the first thing I say is, I don't want to know an... CICELY TYSON That's the thing with all of us music geeks - music is the soundtrack to the things that happen ... MIKE D James Brown is important because he decorates the clock correctly and he's good with lower mathe... CAPTAIN BEEFHEART All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all j... OZZY OSBOURNE All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all j... NEIL YOUNG I'm not running about playing romantic leads. I don't know if that's a good or a bad thi... JACK LOWDEN I don't think it's more difficult for actors to have a good marriage than anyone. I think, i... CATE BLANCHETT It's important to me that I look good on television because, let's face it, I'm single, ... CAMRYN MANHEIM I've always believed in good music over bad music. I believe in two sorts of musics. And the lin... JAY-Z There's just a lot of stuff that really moves me, and I don't know how to express it, and I ... CAT POWER I'm not after fame and success and fortune and power. It's mostly that I want to have a good... DREW BARRYMORE Companies that pretend to care about music and really care about other things - whether it be hardwa... JAY-Z Mainly, I don't like it when music is made solely to impress people or in order to please busine... JOHN FRUSCIANTE Describing Woodstock as the 'big bang,' I think that's a great way to describe it, becau... DAVID CROSBY The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to sta... A. R. RAHMAN There's no way that music could ever go down the tubes. I can't imagine a civilization witho... CLIVE DAVIS I think it's important to remember that music supervision is not just about a fantastic record c... ALEXANDRA PATSAVAS One time I tried bangs, and people just weren't feeling it at all, but it's my hair. It'... JUSTINE SKYE I'm an advocate of music in schools. It's important to me that music is in as many schools a... CHRISETTE MICHELE It's important for me to let my fans know I really don't care. I'm confident. DRAKE I've reached a point in life where it's no longer necessary to try to impress. If they like ... CORAZON AQUINO I think it's important for an actor to see the work they've done because every time you revi... ABHISHEK BACHCHAN I'm very shy and awkward. I think the best thing is to embrace it. It's about accepting who ... HUNTER HAYES The best part is it's a dream come true. I've always wanted to be a working actor, and the g... SCOTT FOLEY In whichever way my music can get out there, I'm just like, 'Sure.' It's also throug... PRISCILLA AHN Smoking sucks! The one thing I would say to my kid is, 'It's not just that it's bad for ... KATHERINE HEIGL I really believe you'll get a music video one of these days that I shot with an iPad because it&... BRAD PAISLEY I have a tight family group that's really important to me. I don't want to work all the time... ED HARRIS I don't believe that there's such a thing as objectivity in much of journalism, but I think ... JANN WENNER 'I Know You Care' is really personal and fragile for me. For me, it's about losing a fam... ELLIE GOULDING Art is what can't be proven mathematically, right, it's where science ends. It's the par... JIM MCKELVEY It's what's missing, I think, from most music - the rebellious part. That rebelliousness is ... GLENN DANZIG It's really important for children to have good morals and good manners, and that they're th... JERRY HALL Every movie goes through that U-shape where you start with 'Oh that's a great idea. I love i... JENNIFER YUH NELSON I'm not the best at choosing what's good and what's bad. I wouldn't even know what... ASAP ROCKY It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON I want to make the music that people remember, and it doesn't need a trend; it doesn't need ... TESSANNE CHIN It's not the traditional promise ring. It's basically to always stay truthful. I think that&... BELLA THORNE I'm very physical. It's an important part of being a woman - feeling good about yourself and... SUMMER GLAU If I wake up one day and people tell me I'm not sexy, I'm not going to stop making good musi... LUKE BRYAN
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AIMEE MULLINS We all bullet point our triumphs, but I am who I am because of everything you don't see on my CV... AIMEE MULLINS If you're an athlete and you completely focus on the body, you're missing other components. ... AIMEE MULLINS Kids are naturally curious about what they don't know, or don't understand, or what is forei... AIMEE MULLINS It's society that disables an individual by not investing in enough creativity to allow for some... AIMEE MULLINS I'm not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me. AIMEE MULLINS Life is about making your own happiness - and living by your own rules. AIMEE MULLINS I haven't had an easy life, but at some point, you have to take responsibility for yourself and ... AIMEE MULLINS I think that everyone has something about themselves that they feel is their weakness... their '... AIMEE MULLINS I'm dating a very high-maintenance career. AIMEE GARCIA In 'George Lopez', I played Veronica who's a bratty 18-year-old, and so I feel like it... AIMEE GARCIA When I was a kid, it wasn't very often that I could go to the movies and see an entire movie car... AIMEE GARCIA To me, acting is like tennis. You're only as good as the person you're playing with, so if y... AIMEE GARCIA I have been a fan of Dexter since the pilot. Once I got the audition I just squealed, and you would ... AIMEE GARCIA I always promised myself if I ever got the chance to do a 'Flashdance'-type of movie, I woul... AIMEE GARCIA Latinos are the fastest growing minority, and we're obviously not going anywhere. We're extr... AIMEE GARCIA Education equals choices. I have been blessed with the choice to be anything I ever wanted to be, an... AIMEE GARCIA It's so exciting to headline a film. It's not every day you see a Latina carrying a full-len... AIMEE GARCIA 'Harry Potter' changed my life in more ways than one, and it helped me get through my mother... AIMEE CARTER Characters are incredibly important, but I tend to build them around the plot during the outline sta... AIMEE CARTER I think teaching keeps me honest because if I'm up in front of a class talking about what I thin... AIMEE BENDER For me, even in my first book, the pleasures of writing anything magical is that it has to be physic... AIMEE BENDER One thing I don't want to feel is marketplace pressure, so I'm really glad I enjoy teaching ... AIMEE BENDER As a kid, I often figured it was good to be patient to a fault. AIMEE BENDER I noticed, when I taught elementary school, how true the squeaky wheel thing is, and how endearing s... AIMEE BENDER I love the idea of numerology, but I don't really believe in it. But I like thinking about what ... AIMEE BENDER I'm obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s. It's such a fraugh... AIMEE BENDER Novels are so much unrulier and more stressful to write. A short story can last two pages and then i... AIMEE BENDER I don't eschew autobiographical writing, but I'm not interested in mine to be so straightfor... AIMEE BENDER Some creative writing programs seem evil, but my experience at Irvine was totally the opposite, wher... AIMEE BENDER I like the idea of a place that is dealing with painful, messy, frightening, and very human events t... AIMEE BENDER For me as a person, friendships are incredibly important to me, but in writing, they can distract me... AIMEE BENDER I really like feeling connected to people and feeling like I have a good, solid sense of empathy. AIMEE BENDER I liked Hans Christian Andersen because the tales were so dark and tragic. AIMEE BENDER True beauty is when someone radiates that they like themselves. AIMEE MULLINS Light is good company, when alone; I took my comfort where I found it, and the warmest yellow bulb i... AIMEE BENDER