Gillian Anderson Quotes

I cannot abide red tape. It never strangles bad ideas, only good ones.

Gillian Anderson

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• What gets people into trouble with records now is that they want to build something up without substantial musical ideas. Without that as a foundation, you can add all the layers of sound you want - it's still going to sound like a mess.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • People
  • Up
  • Ideas

• 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
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Fight

• I like using animals because they help suspend my reader's disbelief. We have certain ideas about dentists. We don't have many ideas about rhinoceros dentists.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Help
  • Ideas
  • Animals

• There's very little you're not exposed to in New York City, in terms of ideas and physical things - sights, sounds, smells, different kinds of people. But one good thing about growing up fast is you get over it fast, too.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• I have new ideas every day, and I always want to take on new challenges.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Day
  • Ideas
  • Challenges

• My company Independent Ideas worked with Gucci on a special edition Fiat 500.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Ideas
  • Independent
  • Company

• 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
  • Great
  • Think
  • Ideas

• When I first came to the Bay area, I worked in Silicon Valley in the early to mid-'90s, and I think what mattered then was our ability as designers to create a vision around people's ideas.

  

  Yves Behar
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Vision

• There was no Internet, not even many cookbooks except the old reference books. So we would sit down at night, a group of six chefs, and we'd exchange recipes and each talk about how we were doing things. It was the only way to learn new ideas.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Night
  • Ideas
  • Internet

• I'm not sitting around thinking of ideas for TV shows.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Thinking
  • Ideas
  • Sitting

• Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.

  

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Carrying

• I've made myself laugh from some ideas - but I've never scared myself.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Myself
  • Ideas
  • Laugh

• The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Ideas

• The Protestant Reformation had a lot to do with the printing press, where Martin Luther's theses were reproduced about 250,000 times, and so you had widespread dissemination of ideas that hadn't circulated in the mainstream before.

  

  Nate Silver
  • You
  • Ideas
  • Where

• No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Ideas
  • Idea
  • Born

• 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
  • Small
  • Me
  • Ideas

• A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.

  

  G. H. Hardy
  • Ideas
  • More
  • Patterns

• I don't think that the Left has a monopoly on bad ideas. I don't think the Right has a monopoly on good ideas.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Think

• Scientists and academics in particular focus on detail and the minutiae. When they talk to each other, they usually don't focus on the broad ideas; they don't focus on social interconnectedness. They focus on the task that they're doing.

  

  Aaron D. O'Connell
  • Focus
  • Ideas
  • Doing

• You know, people call mystery novels or thrillers 'puzzles.' I never understood that, because when I buy a puzzle, I already know what it is. It's on the box. And even if I don't, if it's a 5,000-piece puzzle of the 'Mona Lisa', it's not like I put the last piece in and go, 'I had no idea it's the 'Mona Lisa'!'

  

  Harlan Coben
  • People
  • Mystery
  • Puzzle

• As someone who's been covering presidential campaigns since the 1950s, I have no delusions about political reporting. Candidates bargaining access to get the kind of news coverage they want is nothing new.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Want
  • Political
  • Kind

• The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side... It has revealed to us much about man's shortcomings, his illnesses, his sins, but little about his potentialities, his virtues, his achievable aspirations, or his psychological health.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Science
  • Health
  • Positive

• I cannot abide red tape. It never strangles bad ideas, only good ones.

  

  Gillian Anderson
  • Ideas
  • Abide
  • Strangle