Quotes About Relevance

Purchasing items made in the U.S. for our stores here or Canadian goods for our stores in Canada makes good business sense because it allows us to ensure greater customer relevance and reduce delivery times.

I had left the runway because I had come to believe that it was questionably relevant and appropriate, because we were creating clothes that, to a large degree, never ended up making it to the stores. And the runway was being seen in markets where those clothes weren't available.

Big stories need human stakes.

To me, it doesn't really matter how big the part is as long as the part is important to the story.

Anyone can write an academic piece directed at other academics. To write something that delivers an argument and a gripping storyline to someone's granny or eight-year-old takes the highest quality of your powers.

Be it in Malayalam or Tamil, I got to play characters who had plenty to do in the storyline and not just be a prop.

As a storyteller, dates and time equal context.

It takes a perverse determination to drain that instinctive curiosity away and make history seem just remote, dead and disconnected from our contemporary reality. Conversely, it just takes skilful storytelling to recharge that connection to make the past come alive in our present.

I think people love having a person behind a brand who lives it. The idea of storytelling is really important.

If you're in a hit movie, it's good to be in another hit movie straight away.

You don't look at a painting and ask if the artist was gay or straight. I think it's irrelevant in any situation - I don't care if my garbageman is gay or straight as long as he picks up the garbage.

It's strange how extras have become such a big part of the business. I don't know what I think of it. I mean, some of them are great, most of them are filler.

I don't dislike 'It' or 'Stranger Things,' but I'm just not as super into it, because, like, I've seen 'E.T.' a lot. And I've watched 'The Goonies.'

There is a lot of good television out there, stuff that is better for you than 'Stranger Things,' that, critically, people would be like, 'This is an important show,' but I would press you to find a show that's more watchable. That's hard to do.

To the general public in America, the lifespan of Deep Purple probably finished with our 1984 album, 'Perfect Strangers.'

I think the great sketch shows, like 'Python' and 'Mr. Show ' they didn't stick around for very long. There's something kind of cool about that.

The facts miss the heart of the matter; to give us a clear picture, the facts need a vehicle, the anecdote

Nothing is more obsolete than yesterday's vision of the future.

The past isn't dead. It isn't even past." —William Faulkner

Books seem a little old-fashioned, but hey, I can do old-fashioned if it's good.

Information is useless if it is not applied to something important or if you will forget it before you have a chance to apply it.

Doing something unimportant well does not make it important.

Most information is time-consuming, negative, irrelevant to your goals, and outside of your influence. I challenge you to look at whatever you read or watched today and tell me that it wasn't at least two of the four. I read the front-page headlines through

Most information is time-consuming, negative, irrelevant to your goals, and outside of your influence.