Steve Martin Quotes
It's funny that some ideas start with a little "What if?" and then suddenly you're spending a million dollars to shoot the scene and hoping that it works.Steve Martin
Quotes to Explore
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In life, a lot of great ideas sound insane or absurd at first.
Nathan Fielder -
If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.
G. Willow Wilson -
When you challenge other people's ideas of who or how you should be, they may try to diminish and disgrace you. It can happen in small ways in hidden places, or in big ways on a world stage. You can spend a lifetime resenting the tests, angry about the slights and the injustices. Or, you can rise above it.
Carly Fiorina -
If you sing beautifully about nothing, no one will listen. If you sing badly about great stuff, no one will listen. Ideas are everywhere, but my theory is that a writer doesn't just think of an idea: they perform them.
Patrick Ness -
I'm not sitting around thinking of ideas for TV shows.
Damon Lindelof -
I will never retire from politics, the revolution, or the ideas I have.
Fidel Castro
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No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
I carry a small spiral notebook with me at all times and have been doing this for many years. There's a shoe box in my closet filled with these notebooks, each riddled with notes and impressions, ideas, schemes, and soup recipes.
Patrick deWitt -
They spend an awful lot of money on I-don't-know-what in Hollywood movies; I certainly didn't get any of it. But they sure do love spending money.
Adam Garcia -
I came up during the 'Star Wars' generation and that was sort of the thing I plugged into much more. It was a little before my time and I think it was sort of grappling with these intellectual ideas that were a little advanced for my young mind. At the time. But now I have a much deeper appreciation for it.
Zachary Quinto -
'The Sea Wolf' is the story of a man who believes only in brute force. He is so firm in belief in his own ideas that he despises all who disagree with him. He preaches the doctrine of intolerance. He flaunts the notion that democracy is anything but weakness.
Ida Lupino -
I'm going to make the claim that I'm stronger than Obama when it comes to civil liberties, and I'm going to make the claim that I'm stronger than Romney when it comes to dollars and cents.
Gary Johnson
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Ideas are infinite, original, and lively divine thoughts.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
If you start trying to communicate ideas, I think you don't allow the audience to see themselves.
Oscar Isaac -
The difference that a drama group or a cinema club can make to a small village or a town. It opens people up to ideas, potential about themselves that really, in a way, education often fails to. It's a way of drawing a community together.
Gabriel Byrne -
When Facebook famously moved out to Palo Alto, there were people in the same house Facebook was based in working on different ideas. It is vital to remember that.
Patrick Collison -
You may agree or not with Gaddafi's political ideas, but no one has the right to question the existence of Libya as an independent state and member of the United Nations.
Fidel Castro -
Our principal role as designers is to accelerate new ideas and the adoption of new ideas.
Yves Behar
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If one thinks that one is happy, that is enough to be happy.
Madame de La Fayette -
Going to the movies was a big event in my youth. My father would be the initiator – he'd have me put on a jacket to see a film.
Ralph Fiennes -
We're like the raw food movement in cinema - so determined to give people things that do some good, that they recognize as real.
Tilda Swinton -
When I wrote 'The Good Body,' I turned 40 and suddenly had this stomach. It seemed like the end of the world. Because I didn't value my body. I was constantly judging it, but I also didn't live in it.
Eve Ensler -
I think we're right up there with Herman's Hermits and the other greats. Maybe somewhere between Herman's Hermits and the Gershwins.
Walter Becker Steely Dan -
It's funny that some ideas start with a little "What if?" and then suddenly you're spending a million dollars to shoot the scene and hoping that it works.
Steve Martin