Idea Quotes
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We don't hold anything back. We go for broke, and if we have a good idea for a story line, we just use it because you never know and because the dynamics of the show are going to change.
Josh Schwartz
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The practical success of an idea, irrespective of its inherent merit, is dependent on the attitude of the contemporaries. If timely it is quickly adopted; if not, it is apt to fare like a sprout lured out of the ground by warm sunshine, only to be injured and retarded in its growth by the succeeding frost.
Nikola Tesla
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Assume nobody else has any idea what they're doing, either.
Aaron Swartz
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The idea of the show is that it's active and that children will become involved and watch the show, but also participate in the show. And I didn't know if that would work.
Steve Burns
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You can have an idea that everyone else thinks is dumb, and it's still a good idea.
Ryan North
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This idea of compassion comes to us because we're made in the image of God, who is ultimately the compassionate one.
Jackie Tabick
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I've never liked the idea of working for other people.
Ted Ligety
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After so many books and so many years of writing, I have a good idea of my strengths and weaknesses. I love the process of writing and, if I allowed myself, I would write far too much every day. One weakness which I've struggled to overcome is my tendency to having my characters ruminate for pages.
Walter Dean Myers
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I always say, and I truly believe this, that my work is three steps ahead of me. I have an idea for something, and I tend to feel like it's leading me, and I'll follow the process through, and it's not until after I've seen it that I truly understand why I'm doing this.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
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The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction.
Yann Martel
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I think it's very rare, as an actor, that you get to a script, or an idea of a script, and you go, "Oh, I just have to do that!" It fell into place very quickly.
Oliver Jackson-Cohen
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(As) a director who is a writer, I have respect for writers, so I'm less likely to step on an idea or a line.
Ben Affleck
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When you're dealing with new and emerging diseases, you have no idea and you can't predict in advance what would happen.
Margaret Chan
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I love the idea of giving up the vengeful nature that so many of us have.
Mandy Patinkin
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I've always tried to defend the idea that the blues doesn't have to be sung by a person who comes from Mississippi, as I did.
B. B. King
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It's always fun to agree to be in a movie when you have no idea what it's actually going to be!
T. J. Miller
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The creativity of childhood was often surrendered amid feelings of unworthiness. So the idea that others are demanding to be given it back - to be 'taught' - is disturbing.
Rachel Cusk
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When you have a good idea, the money flows.
Gavin Newsom
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I don't know if I'll ever make rap music, but I just like people who are like, 'I am going to just find the medium that's best for this idea and master it and do that.'
Tavi Gevinson
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I never understood the idea of canceling a show when you don't like the politics of a specific state.
Jack Antonoff Fun.
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The Church has little idea how unorthodox it is at any given moment. If a church can't yet be perfectly orthodox, it can, with the Holy Spirit's help and by the grace of God, be perpetually reformable.
Brian D. McLaren
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If I'm hesitant at all about an idea, then that's not the right idea.
M. Night Shyamalan
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The idea of writer as sage is pretty much dead today. I would certainly feel very uncomfortable in the role.
J. M. Coetzee
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I liked that idea. Someone who's trying to perform herself and not succeeding.
Maggie Gyllenhaal