"I don't have the energy or the mental security to get involved with all that. I think it's a good idea to be able to disappear into the story, so that the first thing the audience sees isn't you, but the part."

Idea, Energy, First, Security

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"I don't have the energy or the mental security to get involved with all that. I think it's a good idea to be able to disappear into the story, so that the first thing the audience sees isn't you, but the part."

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Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"Let each person do his or her part. If one citizen is unwilling to participate, all of us are going to suffer. For the American idea, though it is shared by all of us, is realized in each one of us."

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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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"An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them."

Stephen Fry, British Comedian

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"I haven't been out in the marketplace in a while. I'm thinking about going back into it. I've got some things set up over the next couple of months just to go and see. But I have no idea what the specific way to a solution is anymore. It's mysterious to me."

Michael Nesmith, American Musician

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"Shakespeare's idea of the tragic fact is larger than this idea and goes beyond it; but it includes it, and it is worth while to observe the identity of the two in a certain point which is often ignored."

Andrew Coyle Bradley, American Judge

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"I became hooked on the idea of being able to shoot an image and process it myself, and end up with a product."

Leonard Nimoy, American Actor

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"I think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read, and write."

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"When certain bootleg companies started off and they would take maybe ten per cent of whatever they got and help fuel new bands, which I'm cool with, I think that's a good idea. Most of the record companies are not doing that."

David Coverdale, English Musician

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"What draws me to the theatre, and what appealed to me about Too Much Light, is that you have no idea what's going to happen. That's the most exciting part of theatre, it's never the same. If it were, it would be like watching a movie."

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"Surely the job of fiction is to actually tell the truth. It's a paradox that's at the heart of any kind of storytelling."

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"It's taken me longer still to realize what a short span there is between those life experiences and the rest of your life. That's a job for the people who lived through it."

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