Ideas Quotes
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I have nothing but scorn for all weird ideas other than my own.
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Merely repeating ideas means nothing. You must act—and think—accordingly.
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I was about 16 when punk started to happen... It felt like you had this naive idea that you could change things just by wearing something.
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I love the theater as much as music, and the whole idea of getting across to an audience and making them laugh, making them cry - just making them feel - is paramount to me.
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I get very, very anxious on the set. I have a thousand ideas and I don't censor myself. I wind up cutting some of them out in the editing room... I shoot needless footage and then don't use later on in the process.
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I really think that the psychedelic realm is the realm of ideas, and that ideas which change the world come first from that place.
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Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.
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It's not bringing in the new ideas that's so hard; it's getting rid of the old ones.
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In a book you can really talk about ideas and themes and characters in a deeper way than you can even on the screen.
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Ideas are easy. Execution is all that matters.
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A sold-out house my first night back. Do you have any idea what kinda pressure that is? I could have been at home in my warm bed, playing Nintendo.
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When you hit a groove, it's not you; it's the spirit world. The spirits whisper the ideas in your brain and prod you along. They're the ones that are really happy.
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I knew I could only play Cyrano if he were Americanized. I had no intention of writing the script myself. I was afraid of it. You're playing with fire when you tamper with a classic. So I went looking for a writer. But it was such a personal idea, and anyone I would give it to would make it his own. It's hard to ask Neil Simon to write your idea.
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The secret of not having worries, for me at least, is to have ideas.
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Writing cannot express all words, words cannot encompass all ideas.
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I think sometimes I get overly excited about adding things and having new ideas. You forget that more isn't always better.
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I discovered philosophy in my youth when I read wildly, and thus I was exposed to the world of ideas.
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There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.
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I want to explore new ideas and put myself in a place where I can finish a project that is more unusual or that doesn't seem doable.
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Ideas, like individuals, live and die. They flourish, according to their nature, in one soil or climate and droop in another. They are the vegetation of the mental world.
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The shape the words end up taking are themselves the meaning of the words, they are retrospectively what we meant to say. There's no way of knowing this until you register it in visible form. But the other side of this is that you do have some idea of where you are going.
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My idea of what's good and bad and right and wrong is maybe greyer than most, and I like writing about that.
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One is more certain to influence men, to produce more effect on them, by absurdities than by sensible ideas.
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To be original one needs to learn the ideas of other painters in order to be different from them.
