The lilac branches are bowed under the weight of the flowers: blooming is hard, and the most important thing is - to bloom. (“A Story About The Most Important Thing”)
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Related Well, a lead is the most important thing about the story. KURT LODER When I approach a story or movie, the story is the most important thing. ALEXANDRE AJA Prayer is the most important thing that I do. WAYNE HUIZENGA The room is the most important thing about recording. ADRIAN SMITH Family is the most important thing in the world. PRINCESS DIANA The most important thing is to stay positive. SAKU KOIVU The most important thing to do is really listen. ITZHAK PERLMAN My family is the most important thing to me. KIMORA LEE SIMMONS The most important thing is story-telling. It's as singular and old-fashioned as that. DAVID SOUL The most important thing to me is that it's all really raw. BEBE REXHA I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES The most important thing is to not waste your money. GARETH BALE The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said. PETER DRUCKER The most important thing in the world is family and love. JOHN WOODEN Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the righ... JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER Love is the most important thing in the world. Hate, we should remove from the dictionary. JOHN WOODEN I'll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me. BELA LUGOSI Next to courage, willpower is the most important thing in politics. PAUL JOHNSON The most important thing for me as an artist is having an identity. ERIC CHURCH The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it. R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it. EDWIN LAND Yeah, I'm a thrill seeker, but crikey, education's the most important thing. STEVE IRWIN The most important thing as a leader is your relationship with God. MANNY PACQUIAO The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible. T. S. ELIOT It's nice to look good, but the most important thing is to be you. NANA MOUSKOURI The most important thing when ill is to never lose heart. VLADIMIR LENIN Learning is the most important thing, no mater how you do it, or where you do it, or who you do it w... SAOIRSE RONAN People in their 70s can still have incredible lives. Health is the most important thing. CALVIN KLEIN Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good, too. YOGI BERRA Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, JR. What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, no... EDDIE ALBERT To be a great motorbike racer, the most important thing is passion for the bike. VALENTINO ROSSI If you talk to any pitcher, consistency is the most important thing. JAMIE MOYER I think that casting is probably the most important thing in television production. DAN HARMON The most important thing is winning, not breaking the world record. CESAR CIELO The most important thing about my life is this integrity, and you can't lie to yourself. CHRISTOPHER GUEST I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape. THOM YORKE Sports betting is all about money management, so the most money won on one event is not the most imp... BRUCE DERN The most important thing is to get better at your craft, and concussions and head impacts are a setb... ABBY WAMBACH The MVP award was very satisfying in terms of personal accomplishments, but the championship was the... BOB COUSY There's an idealization of being an entrepreneur, but the most important thing is to have a real... DUSTIN MOSKOVITZ I think the most important thing for me in a relationship is honesty. ZAC EFRON The most important thing in the face is the eyes, and if you can make the eyes talk, you're half... IAN HOLM The most important thing is to enjoy yourself and have a good time. C. Z. GUEST The thing that I want to do, the most important thing to me is winning. How we do it, I really don... MIKE SINGLETARY The most important thing is you should not be split or fighting each other. BHUMIBOL ADULYADEJ The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they wan... KOBE BRYANT The bikini is the most important thing since the atom bomb. DIANA VREELAND The most important thing for me is to have real friendship between Egyptians and Americans. MOHAMMED MORSI The most important thing in the kitchen is the waste paper basket and it needs to be centrally locat... DONALD KNUTH I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about... PHIL JACKSON For me, love is the most important force. It moves the universe. LAURA ESQUIVEL Success is the most important to many, to me it's just a bonus. LUCAS GRABEEL As a queen, I speak about unity and respect. I think that is the most important thing. GABRIELA ISLER The most important thing about skating is that it teaches you to do the things you should do before ... BARBARA ANN SCOTT The most important thing to me is how hard we go after the ball and take care of it. DAN QUINN The most important job I'll ever have is spelled D-A-D. MIKE PENCE Lingerie is one of the most important pieces of your wardrobe. You can have a wardrobe malfunction i... ADRIANA LIMA People say the most important thing is building a world-class team. BEN HOROWITZ The most important thing for staying in shape is having fun with your workouts. ERIN HEATHERTON The most important thing when you do a movie is that you find an audience that really understands wh... ALEXANDRE AJA Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths. ETTY HILLESUM The most important thing is posture: when you get old, it's the way you walk, the way you stand,... CARINE ROITFELD The most important thing for me as an actor playing a character is to make you laugh. That's my ... ERIC STONESTREET The most important thing I want to get across is that maintaining weight loss is just hard. It takes... TRISHA YEARWOOD I believe the most important thing for the media is to be objective, fair, and balanced. We should n... JACK MA Real Madrid is the most important thing that happened to me, both as a footballer and as a person. ZINEDINE ZIDANE I always work with a goal - and the goal is to improve as a player and a person. That, finally, is t... RAFAEL NADAL The most important thing in life is, if you have a dream, I mean a real good dream, follow it. EVEL KNIEVEL The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters. AUDREY HEPBURN When people ask me what the most important thing is in life, I answer: 'Just breathe.' YOKO ONO If you have kids, it is the most important thing to create good times. TOM CRUISE The majority of the research I do is archaeological research, but to me, as a professor, the most im... SARAH PARCAK The most important thing to say is that Sinn Fein isn't going back to anything. We are a party o... MARTIN MCGUINNESS The most important thing for a good marriage is to learn how to argue peaceably. ANITA EKBERG Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the ... ZIG ZIGLAR Without question, the Red Ryder BB gun is the most important gun in the history of American weaponry... TED NUGENT The most important thing is that sometimes you have to go through hard times to get to the good stuf... ABBY WAMBACH Magicians will always tell you the trick is the most important thing, but I'm more interested in... MARCO TEMPEST I realized that health is the most important thing and that all the other things come with time if y... BLANKA VLASIC The most important things in life aren't things. ANTHONY J. D'ANGELO The most important tool of my trade was a mirror. LANA TURNER Hope is the most important four-letter word in the language. ED MARKEY Winning - that's the most important to me. It's as simple as that. CRISTIANO RONALDO The most important influence in my childhood was my father. DEFOREST KELLEY One of the most important roles of our journalists is to be watchdogs. DAN RATHER Winning is the most important. Everything is consequence of that. AYRTON SENNA Of course, I want to be number one. But being happy and healthy is the most important thing. VENUS WILLIAMS Golf is a game of ego, but it is also a game of integrity: the most important thing is you do what i... TOM WATSON The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit... a reputation, character. JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability. GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ I think an education is not only important, it is the most important thing you can do with your life... DEAN KAMEN If you want to decrease housing costs in Norway, the most important thing is to build more. ERNA SOLBERG The most important thing people did for me was to expose me to new things. TEMPLE GRANDIN We are not jumping on the austerity bandwagon. A healthy economy is by far the most important thing ... HELLE THORNING-SCHMIDT The search for the truth is the most important work in the whole world, and the most dangerous. JAMES CLAVELL To investigate the history of man's development, the most important finds are, of course, homini... RICHARD LEAKEY Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument - learning to do your craft - that'... DAVE GROHL The most important thing you need to know about the Pentagon is that it is not in charge of today... THOMAS P.M. BARNETT When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know... OSCAR WILDE
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