Ideas Quotes
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Only an unhinged movie survives as a disconnected series of images, of peaks, of visual icebergs. It should display not one central idea but many. It should not reveal a coherent philosophy of composition. It must live on, and because of, its glorious ricketiness.
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I worked on it [ Too Much Tuna] for a little bit downtown and it was a great experience. I couldn't believe how enthusiastic the audience was for it. It was just extraordinary. It felt like you were at a rock concert, which was just unusual for shows at Cherry Lane, which are usually intimate plays about big ideas, you know.
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I'm not a super prolific creator, I don't make stuff everyday, and I don't have a soundtrack constantly playing in my head. I think I had years and years of pent-up aesthetic ideas that I wanted to express.
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The ideas come afterwards, when the picture is finished.
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Personal experience, therefore, is everything in Zen. No ideas are intelligible to those who have no backing of experience.
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It would be in pretty poor form for me to not be a big supporter of tech and computers because that is how I do my work and how I got involved. The advancement and the affordability of tech gear has made a level playing field where you can now have access to ideas reasonably and then it just comes down to extracting those ideas, which is great.
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The fashionable idiocy that haters must have justifications is one of those ideas that George Orwell said only an intellectual could believe -- because no one else could be such a fool.
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The Robertson family and bad ideas go together like biscuits and jam.
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I often read nonfiction, and some of my ideas begin there.
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I think we want to see new voices and new ideas emerge - that's part of the reason why term limits are a really useful thing.
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There is a vast difference between living according to one's idea of what it is to be good, and actually being that way.
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Potter is mocked by a faculty member for the idea that there is evil in the world from which even children need to learn to defend themselves by the actual practice of doing so rather than familiarity with theory.
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I never started from ideas but always from character.
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With this show [Stand-Up Revolution ], I loved the idea that I would be picking the talent that goes on, not the network. It was me handpicking people who might not have gotten the chance to be on TV. So, I thought it was real cool that I was putting people up there.
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Coolidge's preference for experience over ideas was a deeply rooted trait.
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Without a revolution of the inner life, however slow, all our big designs are worthless. The work we have to do is with ourselves if we're ever going to be at peace with each other...the good that flows from it will shape our societies in an unprogrammed, unforeseen way, under the control of no single group of people or set of ideas.
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The idea of being a professional actor never occurred to anybody, including myself, for a long time.
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Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there.
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I'm willing to work with anyone of either party who has a good idea and the commitment to see through. And we should all expect you to hold us accountable for our progress or our failure to deliver.
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The truth and the facts aren't necessarily the same thing. Telling the truth is the object of all art; facts are what the unimaginative have instead of ideas.
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Indians are very racist. It's deeply ingrained. But there is so much pressure by peer groups, magazines, billboards and TV adverts that perpetuate this idea that fair is the ideal.
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People, alas, are more impressed by statistics than they are by ideas.
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Love is easy, and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you're in love.
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Once you accept an idea, it's an idea whose time has come.
