A writer can spend a decade working obsessively on a novel, but in the commerce of publishing, many of the most important decisions about any book will be made based on very short pitches - from literary agent to editor to sales rep to bookstore buyer to a potential reader standing in the bookstore, asking, 'What's it about?'
I always said that VAR is a very important tool on objective and important decisions.
As a producer, I think one of the most important decisions you make is not necessarily the material you are working on but the production apparatus that you choose to develop the project with, and that determines what funding you go to, it determines many factors.
Historians often find important decisions few knew were important at the time.
I think that it's important if you run for President that you have to make those important decisions. And your father, if he can help, probably, he helps just by being your father without getting intimately involved.
Wikipedia has experienced censorship at the hands of industry groups and governments, and we are - increasingly, I think - seeing important decisions made by unaccountable, non-transparent corporate players, a shift from the open web to mobile walled gardens, and a shift from the production-based Internet to one that's consumption-based.
Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success.
The arts have always been an important ingredient to the health of a nation, but we haven't gotten there yet.
The single most important ingredient in the recipe for success is transparency because transparency builds trust.
One thing I learn - I've been in practice now for half a century or more, and the most important ingredient for an architect to do a good building is to have a good client. I think a client counts for as much as fifty per cent.
Technology should be an important ingredient. It may be and should be a tool for social development.
If people are really excited about their music, and that's their primary motivation, then that comes through in demo tapes. That's the most important ingredient.
The most important issue for the killer is the ability to get a victim easily and successfully.
I'm not feeling undertaxed. Tax reform is an important issue. You have to have an inherent sense of fairness.
But ours was intended to be a citizen government. It is what of, by and for the people means. And when our most important issue in California is the creation of jobs, I think it's quite helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate or in the governor's seat who actually knows where jobs come from.
When our most important issue is the debt that we're piling on our children and grandchildren, I think it's pretty helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate who has actually managed billions of dollars and knows how to cut billions of dollars.
I knew that extremism in Luton was a really important issue to try and cover, even though it could be very awkward for me at times!
Norway is combating climate change. It's an important issue for us. And we are committed to the Paris Agreement.
Veteran causes are an extremely important issue, especially the transition from military to civilian life.
You cannot win the democratic nomination if you are not trusted on the most important issue to democratic voters.
