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"The really good idea is always traceable back quite a long way, often to a not very good idea which sparked off another idea that was only slightly better, which somebody else misunderstood in such a way that they then said something which was really rather interesting."
Idea,
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"You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change."
Change
"Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it."
People
"When the target audience is American teenage kids, you can have problems. My generation prized really fine acting and writing. Sometimes you have to go back to the basic principles which underpin great visual comedy."
Acting
"Don't let anyone tell you what you ought to like... Some wines that some experts think are absolutely exquisite don't appeal to me at all."
Experts
"For me, the great problem growing up in England was that I had a very narrow concept of what God can be, and it was damn close to an old man with a beard."
God
"If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play."
Time
"It seems astounding to me now that the video games are perhaps as important as the movie themselves. And people will spend 2 or 3 years obsessing about the video game in exactly the same way that they'd be obsessing about the movie if they were working on that."
People
"But then acting is all about faking. We're all very good at faking things that we have no competence with."
Acting
"If life were fair, Dan Quayle would be making a living asking 'Do you want fries with that?'"
Life
"Comedy always works best when it is mean-spirited."
Comedy
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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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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"Through your ideas, you open the window of your mind and say a hello to the world."
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Personal Development
"There is no battle or engagement with any institution, company or government; it is always an engagement of ideas."
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Personal Development
"A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism."
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Personal Development
"An idea can change your fate in a wonderful way but you must first let the idea to touch your mind and your heart! No closed book can ever be your hero!"
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Personal Development
"Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads."
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Personal Development
"Unless you close your door to other ideas, you will never remain idealess!"
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Personal Development
"It terrified me to have an idea that was solely mine to be no longer a part of my mind, but totally public."
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Personal Development
"I never accepted the idea that I had to be guided by some pattern or blueprint."
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Personal Development
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