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"I'm supposed to be the director of a television company, but I've only ever seen that company as a vehicle for making the kind of programmes we wanted to make, getting our ideas on the screen."
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"I'm supposed to be the director of a television company, but I've only ever seen that company as a vehicle for making the kind of programmes we wanted to make, getting our ideas on the screen."
Ideas
"I am just fascinated by this reassurance from a menacing figure. It is rather frightening."
Reassurance
"If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it."
Computer
"I had an Edinburgh, middle-class childhood and a public school education."
Education
"I remember driving home one evening while they were reviewing the papers on the radio. One of the articles was about me separating from my wife. It's a weird thing to listen to a news report about the break-up of your marriage."
Home
"Now I'm instantly nervous about the demands of doing a weekly column."
Now
"In a more intellectually rigorous age, I wouldn't be talked about as a satirist at all. I would just be a topical comedian."
Age
"But let's be clear. We're talking about a country where there's no opposition. As leader he can ignore Parliament and - sorry that's Tony Blair isn't it? Um, so he doesn't even have to ask the country before he goes to war - sorry that's still Tony Blair."
War
"People may say that what I do is very clever, but it's not really at all. It's not Swift."
People
"When I was growing up, there were just the three channels, so as a nation we all sat down to the same meal at the end of the day. Now there's been this explosion."
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"A solid idea is a firm foundation of a universe construction."
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"Sometimes I have a good idea, something I wish I could remember, and instead of writing it down, commit it to my memory only to disappear when I needed it. Write your ideas as they come, if you wait it will be too long and you may not recover it. It may get destroyed as it is to seed to and fro in the ever rushing river of our thoughts."
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"I'm definitely responsible for coming in with some basic chord changes, or ideas. Everybody in the band looks to me to come up with the basic seed, so it's not very productive to come in with nothing."
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"Jack and I usually get together and sit around in the afternoons and start throwing ideas around."
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"Ideas are infinite, original, and lively divine thoughts."
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"I'll come in with a string of riffs and direct the musical ideas. But you still need a band and their input to make the ideas come alive. You can't underestimate band chemistry."
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"A lot of the lyrical ideas do have a lot of meaning in a way, although it is somewhat abstracted."
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"One of the ideas behind doing this acoustic record is that I didn't want to have to produce it by committee."
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"Ideas are seeds of existence in absolute emptiness.Creative words are the building blocks of such ideas."
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"I like to have books around to give me ideas-to get the verbal part of my brain to start working."
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