Quotes About Relevance

She moved through it carrying her fat book, attracted, unsure, a stranger, wanting to feel relevant but knowing how much of a search among alternative universes it would take.

I'm an American, our names don't mean shit.

I'm not dissing you, I'm ignoring you there's a difference. Dissing you implies I actually think you're important. Claire - Ghost Town

If you write what you yourself sincerely think and feel and are interested in, the chances are very high that you will interest other people as well.

I look forward to seeing more and more people willing to resist the direction the world is moving in, a direction where our personal experiences are irrelevant, that we are defective, that our communities are not important, that we are powerless, that our future is determined, and that the highest level of humanity is expressed through what we choose to buy at the mall.

One reason Elvis mattered, she said, was that in his prime, pop music had still been politically innocent, therefore deeply life-affirming, therefore relevant. By the time he died, most pop songs had become, usually without the conscious intention of those who wrote and sang them, anthems endorsing the values of fascism, which remains the case to this day.

Libby has always thought animals live in the moment, their past dismissed as irrelevant

Invest your time in what is personally meaningful and relevant

The real meaning of stories depends on where they're told, when and to whom.

I can't think of one reason big enough for them to lie and small enough for it not to matter.

Igual se estaba haciendo viejo; sabía que no entender la música de la generación más joven era la primera señal de que la tuya estaba de capa caída

Very few of us can or will be famous. But all of us can be significant.

Atonement is fundamental to the Torah, but much of the modern world has either forgotten its importance or deliberately rejected it.

It was in a way a comforting idea; if there was all the time in the world, then the happenings of a given moment became less important.

Don't let characters talk pointlessly—they only talk if there's something to say.

It was in a way a comforting idea; if there was all the time in the world, then the happenings of a given moment became less important. I

I don't completely understand why people in Aspen want to hear what I have to say.

Smiths songs certainly have an astonishing afterlife.

The women I'm attracted to playing I hope will mean something to someone.

You've got to write for your audience.

My audiences get younger all the time.

Christian audiences, I think, have grown very tired of movies that try to pander to them.

Arjun is very close to my heart, and even the audiences associate me with the character.

Almost all comedy is of its time. You can't expect audiences now to laugh at what amused people 60 years ago.