Idea Quotes
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Some might call my trepidation at the idea of motherhood “selfishness”—I would call it “agency”—but those people are probably either (1) dudes or (2) self-satisfied professional parents, and I’m not sure I care enough about their opinions that I wouldn’t just agree with them and shrug my shoulders in shared chagrin.
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But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we've been thinking about a problem.
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The hierarchy of relations, from the molecular structure of carbon to the equilibrium of the species and ecological whole, will perhaps be the leading idea of the future.
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I met Harrison Ford at Barney's Beanery. And I met Steve Martin at the bar at the Troubador. He said he wanted to be a stand-up comic. I thought that was the worst idea because he was so square, so Orange County.
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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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If I come up with rules or limitations it focuses me in a direction. And those rules can change if you realize it's a dumb idea. You start to mutate it to see what fits best.
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From my training I can get a good idea of what I'm capable of.
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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That's one of the troubles of photography; the implication that what you have in that photograph is the way it is, and of course a year later that's not the way it is. Life moves on and the picture stays. That can be a wonderful idea to be a part of history and on the other hand, you think pictures have a life that they don't have.
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Just because there's a trillion places to put an idea doesn't mean you don't need an idea in the first place.
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The essence of success is that it is never necessary to think of a new idea oneself. It is far better to wait until somebody else does it, and then to copy him in every detail, except his mistakes.
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A close inspection discovers an empirical impossibility to be inherent in the idea of evolution.
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I've been feminist for most of my life, it is a constantly evolving idea, not something static.
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One of the things you learn very early in writing for television, especially, is that compressing the story is always a good idea.
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I never card out a movie. You know how people will outline or card? I don't do that. I tend to start with an idea and go.
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I guess the hard part is more in the development stage when we're writing it. The logic is hard. You come up with a great idea and you get all excited that it's going to work and then you go down two hours and then one guy turns to everyone and goes, 'Wait, that makes absolutely no sense because if he was there, then this wouldn't have happened, then this,' and it completely implodes.
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You have no idea how fragile an actor's self-worth is.
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I am interested in power and in the idea of one country exerting power over another. The Soviets took this to an extreme.
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I just love architecture, and I just love the idea of being someone who sees the world differently and doing everything you can do in order to actualize that dream. And really sticking to your guns when everyone else is telling you that you're crazy.
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What you need is an idea.
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Focus on execution rather than just the idea.
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The idea came to me that I was, am, and will be, but perhaps will not become. This did not scare me. There was for me in being an intensity I did not feel in becoming.
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If, as Emerson wrote, every word was once an idea, every cliché was once a revelation.
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The idea of connecting all people to knowledge and each other is enduring.
