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"The idea of licking stamps seemed great fun for me."
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"Transparency is not the same as looking straight through a building: it's not just a physical idea, it's also an intellectual one."
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"You can always borrow ideas; but unless you improve them very significantly, never behave as if they are your own!"
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"In the jungle of ideas, it is hard to find the true direction! The paths of the wrong ideas often seem to be very alluring!"
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"To move the earth like Archimedes, one needs not a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it. There is an easier way: Give a genius a beautiful remote house in a green valley where he can think calmly, and he shall move the earth with ideas!"
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"Create a good idea and leave it in the darkness; you will then see that people will come with the candles in their hands to find it, because just like the bad, the good has also a special scent!"
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"It is very kind of you to consider the possibility of my working in Pasadena, an idea which certainly is attractive, especially since it would hold out the prospect of your cooperation or advice."
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"I couldn't do any of my other characters, you know? But I could have done the lady. Church Lady's Malibu Beach party is an idea I have for a movie, too. Yes."
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"From the port of ideas, not only the most clever ones put out to sea and conquer the world but also the most stupid ones do this!"
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"The idea was to make a movie ourselves with everyone playing a cameo role. Preferably before we all go, 'cos poor old Charlie Wilson was murdered, and of course Buster has gone."
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"Give people films, they will forget after a few weeks, but give people ideas, they will assimilate them into their consciousness."
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"If there's anything more mortifying than being famous at 14, it's being washed up right after."
Being
"It occurred to me, when I was old enough to make rules of my own, that they should be fair and simple."
Old
"I had a friend whose family had dinner together. The mother would tuck you in at night and make breakfast in the morning. They even had a spare bike for a friend. It just seemed so amazing to me."
Family
"Not many people know what their parents sound like having sex. It was noisy."
Sex
"My Dad was so open creatively that I was off in search of black turtleneck bathing suits with long sleeves."
Father
"Your own experience keeps taking you towards something. My book adds the hope that it's a better something."
Experience
"My mother did literally hitchhike barefoot to the country store."
Mother
"I made enough money to buy a house. That's crazy, but fame proved ephemeral."
Money
"I didn't have any concept of age or authority. I remember realising, Oh, the world has rules and we don't."
Age
"I've got a new relationship and I'm trapped in this old life."
Life
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