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"An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them."
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"I like the idea of playing in unison with yourself."
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"I have no idea what readership is of written editorials, but it doesn't come anywhere close to the readership of editorial cartoons."
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"A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism."
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"You kind of alluded to it in your introduction. I mean, for the last 300 or so years, the exact sciences have been dominated by what is really a good idea, which is the idea that one can describe the natural world using mathematical equations."
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"The most important precedents deal with the whole idea of symbolic programming - the notion of setting up symbolic expressions that can represent anything one wants, and then having functions that operate on both their structure and content."
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"There's this idea that it has to be made in London. But we've got everything up here, and if you've got comics who are gifted because of where they're from, you shouldn't drag them away from that natural resource."
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"I mean, first of all, let me say whichever superhero first came up with the idea of wearing a cape, he wasn't really onto anything good. The number of times I'm treading on that damn thing or I throw a punch and it ends up covering my whole head. It's really not practical."
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"I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing."
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"The Jug Band was exactly what I wanted to do, and it wasn't my idea."
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"When I need the idea, I can find it immediately. I have a horror of rewriting or deleting; the parts of my composition are carried in my head 'till I can write them down, even to the last note. Then I do not alter a jot."
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"That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand."
Love
"I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself."
Art
"I think my view is that whenever you project into the future you're never likely to be accurate in the details, or the paraphernalia and style."
Future
"Having been an actor and a writer for so long - 20 years or so - I felt that it would be daft to go to one's grave without having directed. It's a natural extension of writing and acting, and so I knew it would happen one day."
Acting
"Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film."
Film
"Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties."
Old
"I have pushed the boat out as far as I should in terms of taking on too many things. I'm getting older and I just could not take it any more. I am now monitoring myself very closely and I'm just trying not to get into that sort of state again."
Now
"Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive."
Travel
"I'd probably want to teach at university, because children would drive me insane. I suspect it would be English literature, Shakespeare and so forth. I've always been deeply, deeply in love with that kind of thing."
Love
"But if one could go back in time, I'd love to have been directed by Howard Hawks, who's one of my great heroes. One of the greatest directors there ever was. He directed probably one of the greatest westerns of all time in Rio Bravo."
Love
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