My key interest in choosing scripts is character-driven stories, because there are so many stories that sacrifice character for plot.
Lasse Hallstrom

The key to tackling Islamist fundamentalism and terrorism from the Islamist community is in the hands of moderate Muslims.
Gijs de Vries

To listen to your own silence is the key to comedy.
Elayne Boosler

One of the key elements is the ability to be honest with yourself.
Bill Toomey

The rules are changed now, there's not any way to build a team today. It's just how much money you want to spend. You could be the world champions and somebody else makes a key acquisition or two and you're through.
Whitey Herzog

One of the key issues will be personal honour vs. the good of the many, and unforeseen consequences.
Raymond E. Feist

Reducing trade barriers with this key ally will go a long way toward increasing market access for American farmers, manufacturers and service providers.
Jim Ramstad

I think Secretary's funny, it is about sex, and there's a lot of sex in it, sex is the key, but you're talking about a lot of other complicated things.
Maggie Gyllenhaal

At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child's success is the positive involvement of parents.
Jane D. Hull

While I do commend the Administration on its commitment and focus on high school reform, I believe that we must focus on graduation as the key accountability measure.
Ruben Hinojosa

Most producers I've known were writers first, and writing is a vital part of any game show. You could easily argue that the writing is the key ingredient that makes 'Jeopardy!' so great.
Randy West

And there is no getting away from the fact - and this is a key point of discontent among many who are upset with the health care reform bill is it didn't go far enough. They say why isn't it in place now? Why don't I see some benefits now? All I see is the potential for losing insurance coverage, for premiums going up. That's hurting Obama.
Juan Williams

But the key thing is that Iraq, while it's got very large oil reserves, has marginalized itself as an oil exporter and these days its exports are only about one tenth that of neighboring Saudi Arabia.
Daniel Yergin

I believe the term modulation denotes in music the uninterrupted shift from one key to another: I do not know the term for change of rhythm without change of measure.
Allen Tate

I was strongly encouraged by a science teacher who took an interest in me and presented me with a key to the laboratory to allow me to work whenever I wanted.
Frederick Reines

One of our key strategies has been to restructure traditional high schools into small learning communities with personalized attention and a range of options.
Thomas Menino

A key to the mentality of the left is that it judges itself by its best intentions, and judges its opponents - America chief among them - by their worst deeds.
David Horowitz

Global warming is real. It is happening today. It is being charted by our satellites. It is being charted by our scientists. It is being charted by those of us in this body, and I think the real key is if we are ready to admit that fact and take the action to make the necessary conversion.
Diane Feinstein

Well, directing is doing the key drawings, not the key animation, mind you.
Chuck Jones

What I'm going to be given I gather is not the key to the city, which in many cities is the case. It's the freedom medal, and for me freedom has always been associated traditionally within the city.
George Woodcock