Idea Quotes
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I choose work that is hard to pull off. And it's scary how things can go wrong. But if there's no risk involved, it's not challenging. A good idea will survive any process.
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Sometimes when people look at the work I've done with my family, they think it's autobiographical. But it really isn't. It's more about the idea of family.
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My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.
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There's no good idea that cannot be improved on.
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I love the romantic idea of there being a Creator, a God, that created all of these lovely things – children and falling in love and all that whole thing
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Theater, art, literature, cinema, press, posters, and window displays must be cleansed of all manifestations of our rotting world and placed in the service of a moral, political, and cultural idea.
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When you take on the idea of playing someone like Jimmy Bulger, it's a radically different process because you're going into make-up. The only way you can do it is to come out of make-up looking like the guy. If you don't look like the guy, it's going to bug you, all day.
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Entrepreneurship is not really building a product, it's not having an idea, it's not being in the right place at the right time. It's fundamentally company building.
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You don't idea your way into a plot but plot your way into an idea.
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I will always remember you, even though you had no idea I was even in the room. My words wouldn't come, I could only dream. A crush or a love?
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Focus on execution rather than just the idea.
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Every time you think all the technology that had been created already, all you have to do is look around and then there's someone new who's born with a new idea.
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Harnessing steam power required many innovations, as William Rosen chronicles in the book 'The Most Powerful Idea in the World.'
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The idea of science fiction, mythology, and creating a world is my favourite thing. I do love the reality of dramas and playing that, but being able to start from scratch, to completely build the character and this world, I love that.
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An idea doesn't count if you can't use it.
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What you need is an idea.
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Court an idea as long as you like, but be careful before marrying it.
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Originality is always a strange thing. There's nothing original anymore. It's all something based on something in some way - even if it's not intentional. So that idea has been done.
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Finding new voices with fresh ideas is the hardest and most rewarding part of a television executive's job.
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When the idea of permaculture came to me, it was like a shift in the brain, and suddenly I couldn't write it down fast enough.
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There is usually less romance in marriage than in any other relationship of life. But the general idea concerning marriage is that it is all or nearly all romance.
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The authentic thing is to follow your heart, your instincts, your emotions. If you located yourself in an idea, your life would be lived very sadly.
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I have toyed with the idea of playing it straight. But, like I say, I really believe we are all out of our minds at some level.
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From then on, my idea of grace is fulfilling your talent completely, and my only idea of sin is misusing that gift. The dread of not becoming completely what you can be is so strong that sometimes later in life it will paralyze me. How horrible to do the wrong thing, the thing that doesn't express your essence - and how horrible to fall short of your powers, or to discover that they might be more meager than their seemingly limitless potential!
