Top 100 Important For Me Quotes
#1. One, something emotional has to be at stake. There has to be something important for me that I'm writing about. And then two, I have to have a formal idea. Something has to be being worked out in poetry.
Edward Hirsch
#2. In some respects I'm quite easily led, so I have to make sure I've got my own space, and that I feel comfortable in my working environment. It's very important for me to work with the right collaborators, as I can easily get led into a corner where I'm not comfortable.
Steve Winwood
#3. It's important for me to be with a musician or someone who has a creative mind.
Amy Winehouse
#4. Reading is professionally important for me to keep tuned in to what's being written in my genre, let's not lie. But that's not the reason I read. I read for my own emotional and mental health. If I stopped reading, I'd probably just die.
Patrick Rothfuss
#5. It's important for me to live my life honestly.
Bode Miller
#6. Now that I've got kids, it's become really important for me on the health front to try to buy as much organic produce as possible.
Jamie Oliver
#7. Costumes say a lot about a character. When it came to 'Palo Alto,' it was important for me that the kids didn't look perfect. In most teen movies today, all of the clothes are expensive. I remember wearing a lot of dirty vintage clothes.
Gia Coppola
#8. It was important for me early on to find the voice of each character and figure out what was unique about them and their individual worldview that I could use for comedy or conflict.
Maria Semple
#9. It was important for me to remind people that there's no formula ... there's no boundary to R&B music.
Miguel
#10. What's important for me is staying healthy.
Eli Roth
#11. I am a public person and I have my private life. It's important for me that my private life stay private, that what I share with the people is my public personality.
Georges St-Pierre
#12. It was deeply important for me to understand where Mandela came from. Because we know where he was going, and that's a famous story, but who was he? Where did he come from? What was his upbringing?
Idris Elba
#13. It's important for me to make sure that the men see and recognize that that woman is their equal.
Reema Bint Bandar Al Saud
#14. I think it's important for me, for my crew and for the audience to bring something new to each show. I have friends who have done the same act, word for word for word, for 20 years. I have a problem with that. I think the audience should see something new in each show.
Carrot Top
#15. Connection is very important. It's extremely important for me to be connected and sharing with other people, giving them what I feel is important.
Joshua Roman
#16. I'm really looking forward to it because it will give me the opportunity to do the whole other kind of approach to the music live that I haven't had a chance to do. and I think is important for me to do.
Al Jarreau
#17. Trying to identify and understand, as opposed to judging, is very important for me, in approaching characters.
Michael Fassbender
#18. I'm quite compulsive about exercise. For two months, I'll exercise every day, then for three months I'll do nothing. I love food, so exercise is important for me.
Josephine De La Baume
#19. Some people they simply just want to hear you. And others actually have things they want to share and talk with you about. So it's important for me to be as strong as I can when I leave home so I can hold space for all of it.
Jason Mraz
#20. What is important for me is that the people who know me for real know Mario how he really is. People who don't know me, they read newspapers and they watch TV. TV is made to give a lot of opinions ... so I can't show the real Mario to everybody.
Mario Balotelli
#21. To just get in front of different kinds of audiences is important for me. I do think it's important for music to be a big family. Whether it's country or not.
Ashley Monroe
#22. I don't know my future. I don't know about tomorrow. I can just control for today or present, right now. I don't want to think about future too much, because present is most important for me.
Ayumi Hamasaki
#23. But probably this is helps to win, to win, to gold, more gold medals, and to win most my important medal, heart of people. This is most important for me.
Olga Korbut
#24. I also think it was important for me and Freddie to be able to have a lot of time to share our lives at the beginning of our marriage rather than my coming home at 9 or 10 at night from the set. Things have really worked out for the best for both of us.
Sarah Michelle Gellar
#25. Fans are really important for me. And if they take pains to write me, it's the minimum that I answer myself.
Daniel Radcliffe
#26. There are a lot of things about fame that are not conducive to being curious. It's been important for me to cloister myself off.
Jewel
#27. I am the type of girl with zero fashion sense, but I am getting into it now. It's becoming important for me. I saw a lot of girls were beginning to notice what I wear, and I feel a kind of responsibility because there aren't any women in Hollywood my size and age.
Rebel Wilson
#28. I don't want to be coy. It's so important for me to be as genuine as possible, so I don't want to stop when it comes to rendering sex the way that most people have it, which is unclothed.
Claire Danes
#29. There will always be ways to pay my rent, whether I wind up having to be a waitress on the side or whatever it is, but I think it's so important for me to do things that I'm passionate about.
Juno Temple
#30. It is important for me to truly understand the people I am portraying and their struggles, in order to give an honest performance.
Jake T. Austin
#31. It's important for me to treat a girlfriend with respect. My mum would be horrified if I behaved any differently - and I have sisters, and would hate for them to be treated badly by guys.
Louis Tomlinson
#32. It's important for me to show my children the richness of life and be a role model. I find that my organizational and management skills are tested more at home than at work!
Susan Wojcicki
#33. It's very important for me to try to relax when I'm travelling, and playing my flute helps me to unwind.
Andrea Bocelli
#34. A lot of people thought I got famous as a studio artist, then decided to cash in on it. But it actually was just a matter of survival for many years, and I felt it was really important for me to be able to say whatever I wanted with my street art and fine art.
Shepard Fairey
#35. It's important for me to sell a product that works.
Billy Mays
#36. The British tend to shy away from the spotlight. We don't like being singled out in any way, and I think that is something which is important for me to learn to do.
Damon Hill
#37. I hadn't had a perfect moment yet. And it's very important for me to have perfect moments in exotic countries like that ... it kind of lets you know when it's time to go home ...
Spalding Gray
#38. I love design, so it's important for me to have a creative outlet.
Mark Parker
#39. It's really important for me to live purposefully, and I feel that way putting music out in the world and having people connect with it. That means everything to me.
Steve Grand
#40. Besides finding a great place to stay, it's important for me to find at least one cultural destination to visit, other than that, I don't like to plan too much. I like to suss out the situation when I get on the ground and then go!
Megalyn Echikunwoke
#41. That's the most important thing to me - that if I'm gonna spend however long it takes to make a movie, give up 14 hours a day for however many weeks or months, then it's very important for me to know that I'm working with people who I respect and enjoy and that we're going for something together.
Brad Pitt
#42. It's very important for me to be distinguished in my own home.
Cristiano Ronaldo
#43. I'd be like, alright, I don't know anything about sales. So I would search for sales on Amazon, get the three top-rated books and just go at it. I did that for marketing, finance, product, engineering. If there was one thing that was really important for me, that was it.
Drew Houston
#44. The reception for 'Enemy?' I don't care. No matter what other people think, it was important for me. I will stand for that movie, even if I stand alone.
Denis Villeneuve
#45. I write fast. But it takes me a while to get going. It's very important for me to see my whole plot. I have to see the end first because I like a surprise in the end. Which is why I let characters and plot gestate in my mind.
Vikas Swarup
#46. It's really important for me to do the fundamentals of this job really, really well. And to let people know that I think the core responsibilities of a member of Congress aren't seeking the national headlines or being the spokesperson on this issue or that issue when you just get there.
Joseph P. Kennedy III
#47. The thing that's important for me to focus on is the balancing of the tension between satisfying myself and satisfying an audience, and making something that I think is good and funny, worthwhile, small-"i" important, versus something that's going to do well.
Andy Richter
#48. It's important for me to get back to my fans here and around the world. I feel very, very blessed that so many people have continued to write me and to pour out their love for me and my work.
Irene Cara
#49. Acting has to do with saying it as if you meant it, so for me the words are always very important. It's very important for me to know my lines, know them so well that I don't have to think about them.
Christopher Walken
#50. It's important for me to fight for principles. But I am not willing to cope with the nastiness of politics anymore and the endless destructive confrontations that it leads to.
Ingrid Betancourt
#51. It's more important for me to feel content than to be famous.
Samantha Morton
#52. I like to dry brush which is really detoxifying for the skin. Exercise is also really important for me for balance and to get those endorphins going.
Gwyneth Paltrow
#53. The faith-based thing is really important for me. There are certain situations that I would not have been able to make through without the promises He makes and gave for us.
Jordin Sparks
#54. It's important for me to let my fans know I really don't care. I'm confident.
Drake
#55. It's important for me to not historicize. I work to diffuse the issue of identity and to intensify identification. You have to lose your authority in the making of a film to achieve this. The film is about me being absolutely dislocated. I focus on the very personal to arrive at the very political.
Elia Suleiman
#56. I had been feeling that it was more important for me to understand how much Jesus loved me than it was for me to figure out how to love Him.
Jared C. Wilson
#57. It's important for me to eat really healthy because I have such a sweet tooth. I eat fish and vegetables for lunch and dinner, and I work out every day.
Dylan Lauren
#58. The motivation is important for me to act it, but I don't necessarily want the audience to know my motivation.
Oscar Isaac
#59. It is important for me that I represent a brand that reflects my personality.
Liya Kebede
#60. It is not important for me as a writer that you leave a piece of writing of mine with either an agreement or even a resonance with what I have said. What is important is that you leave with the resonance of what you have felt and what you thought in reaction to that.
Ben Okri
#61. It's important for me to put out things that I think are good - I want to be a fan of my own stuff. I also want my live shows to be really awesome, and dance is such an important element for me and my performances.
Tinashe
#62. It's important for me to have different tiers of value for the art. Some of the silk-screens are really affordable, but I do have some high-end silk-screens that are several color layers and a little more expensive, and then I have the paintings that can get way up there.
John Dyer Baizley
#63. And with each day that passed, the gulf broadened and my isolation became more accentuated. In such a situation, the discovery that my experience was not unique, that it had also been that of other Spanish intellectuals, became very important for me.
Juan Goytisolo
#64. It's important for me to win the fight, but it's not the most important thing. The most important thing is to show people who spend their hard-earned money that they can be entertained by the way I fight.
Manny Pacquiao
#65. It's important for me to see as many colors in the character as possible.
Kelly Lynch
#66. I always wanted it to be multi-cam from the beginning. In the first seeds of the idea, I wanted a live audience, multi-cam show. That was very important for me.
John Mulaney
#67. In the early days I had a very black-and-white view of everything. I think that's kind of natural for anyone who's just embraced Islam - or any religion - as a convert. It was important for me to duck out of the fast and furious life I'd been living as a pop star. I was in a different mood.
Cat Stevens
#68. When I do have choice I try to be very picky about ... or shall I say choosey about when I choose. I don't automatically decide that I must be the one to choose or that it's important for me to make every choice in my life.
Sheena Iyengar
#70. I'm not sure any narrative model has been more important for me than Benjamin Britten's chamber operas.
Garth Greenwell
#71. In order for me to write a scene, it's very important for me to see and experience everything with my own eyes, so yes, I was able to visit some remarkable houses and destinations while I was in China.
Kevin Kwan
#72. I'm definitely very careful about the things that I want to be a part of, but it's also important for me to get dance out there to more people.
Misty Copeland
#73. It's always been most important for me to figure out "my space" rather than trying to check out what everyone else is up to, minute by minute. Technology is making it easier to connect to other people, but maybe harder to keep connected to yourself
and that's essential for any artist, I think.
Jay-Z
#74. The Olympics is a special event and winning is very important. For me as a world record holder and world champion, the only thing I am missing is the Olympic gold medal and that is what I want to achieve in my career.
David Rudisha
#75. It was important for me as a theater artist to allow myself and my interests to evolve over time and allow my notion of what success meant to evolve over time. I've always had a day job and never been just acting. But it didn't make me feel like I wasn't doing what I was supposed to be doing.
Allison Tolman
#76. Whatever you do, have fun while doing it. That's important for me.
Ciara
#77. I love isolation. It's very important for me to have time and space to myself when I can sit and read or write as well as paint. It's all part of the process.
Stuart Pearson Wright
#78. Perhaps because my relationship with my father went through such a long, bumpy time, it's been very important for me to work to try to keep lines of communication open between my sons and myself to try to avoid my father's mistakes. At least if you're making mistakes, make different mistakes.
Salman Rushdie
#79. Today what is more important for me is performance. At the risk of sounding immodest, I have done it all - 61 movies over 12 years. But now I am looking for quality. It's easy to be a star. Now I want to be an actress.
Karisma Kapoor
#80. It's important for me who is at the table with me; the moment when everyone speaks to each other and everyone listens. If there's good food, it's much better.
Andrea Bocelli
#81. In Britain, you know there are people waiting to tear your stuff apart, so it's important for me to know that my music has subtleties and depth to it.
Calvin Harris
#82. It's important for me to go back into the ghetto, where I'm from. I still get my oxygen from there. I don't live in the ghetto anymore, but every time I go back, I'm still seeing the same things that I lived.
Jimmy Cliff
#83. You need to update your blog a couple of times a week. You need to post a Twitter here and there. It feels so dumb to say that stuff, but it's important for me to keep that presence going.
Nick Thune
#84. I do Pilates because it's important for me to have a healthy back when I'm 70 so I'm not hunched over and in pain.
Cobie Smulders
#85. I've gone to Yaddo many times, I've worked at the Rockefeller Foundation's Center for Scholars and Artists in Bellagio. That these are places of beauty and of changed landscape is helpful - but far more important for me is that they offer what I feel as a monastic luxury: undisturbed time.
Jane Hirshfield
#86. I guess I also see meditation as part of healthy living. It definitely is important for me to find some mental stillness.
Stephanie Ellis
#87. The audience's reactions are more important: if people believe in the love story, it's because they love how we've acted. That's the most beautiful award. It's very important for me, people appreciating what I do.
Kate Winslet
#88. We are transformed by what we read. Deepak Chopra, one of the leading thinkers of the world, in many ways has changed my life with his words It is important for me to share his words and pass on this good energy to my girls ...
Rachel Roy
#89. I was eight when I left Sarajevo, so I didn't really know very much about my culture and it was so important for me to go back to my roots and meet the people.
Zana Marjanovic
#90. It's very satisfying to promote science and education and see good results. Setting a good example for young people, being a role model, is very important for me.
Yuan T. Lee
#91. What's really important for me is, as an old man, I'm known by my own generation and the next generation know me, too.
Christopher Lee
#92. It's not really that I've been an advocate for hearing aids for a long time, it's just that I've been losing my hearing for a long time! So it's actually very important for me because I'm actually hearing impaired and I simply want to hear better!
Leslie Nielsen
#93. It's important for me to have strong hair in case someone pulls it and tries to rip it all out.
Troy Polamalu
#94. It's important for me to take very famous, well-known people and not have them play themselves and not have them be seen as themselves.
David Ayer
#95. I waited for each film to become important for me. If I had no ideas for a film, I didn't do a film. So I made not that many films for fifty-four years of working.
Agnes Varda
#96. I feel like it's been important for me to use my own personal experiences with food and money to help people to not feel ashamed. I felt so much shame about my own experiences.
Geneen Roth
#97. It's a reality that in this business there's an expectation of being thin. But having a baby is a reality too, and it's more important for me to make milk than to fit into those tiny pants. So that's just going to have to wait.
Emily Procter
#98. Limitlessness is important for me; I want to be able to use every opportunity to push me forward onto the next thing.
Laura Mvula
#99. It was important for me to have a partner who was ballsy.
Richard Gere
#100. It was very important for me to touch on things that haven't changed, like schools. I'm in Cleveland, Ohio. My lady's from Ohio, and the schools are being torn down, and they turned them into high-rise condos.
Anthony Hamilton
