It was important to focus on working-class women because we so rarely focus, particularly in period films, on the working people. The suffragettes brought together women of all classes, which was one of the striking things about the movement. Sarah Gavron bringclassfilm share on social
It was important to have a similar energy in my performance. To make the character too different would have just been about my ego because it didn't need to be drastically different. Brandon Routh characterdrasticallyego Change image and share on social
It was important to me to become day-to-day fluent and functional in another language, and about 10 years ago, I went to Rome for the first time and felt an instant gut connection and wanted to get to know the city. Jhumpa Lahiri agocityconnection share on social
It was important to me to believe, because if I don't believe, how can I expect them to believe? Isaiah Thomas expectimportant Change image and share on social
It was important to me to find a label that wouldn't back out after a first single. Everyone's so used to hearing me with Hootie, they're going to be skeptical. Darius Rucker backfindhear Change image and share on social
It was important to my father that I go to Hebrew school three days a week for two or three hours each time. To me, it felt endless. Think about it from a kid's perspective: I would finish my normal school day, then get on a bus and go to another school. That was tough to take. Steve Sheinkin busdayendless share on social
It was important to score points today and I went for them with my guts. Richard Virenque gutimportantpoint Change image and share on social
It was impossible for Hillary Clinton to have chosen a path to the White House that bypassed the loathing, jeering derision and gendered stereotyping built on two centuries of male power. What was interesting was how hard she tried to do just that. Rebecca Traister buildbypasscentury share on social
It was impossible for me to believe that conditions in Europe could be worse than they were in the Polish section of Chicago, and in many Italian and Irish tenements, or that any workshops could be worse than some of those I had seen in our foreign quarters. Alice Hamilton badlychicagocondition share on social
It was impossible to reason with a negro-that the only way to keep him in his place was to keep him under fear. Henry Carter Stuart fearimpossiblenegro Change image and share on social