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"My idea of a real treat is Magic Mountain without standing in line."
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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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"All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening."
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"My parents certainly didn't have anything to do with the theater. I'm some kind of accident."
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"On film you put all your energies into a single glance."
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"I was 7, and I remember being given a part in a play and thinking, This is exciting."
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"Each character I play has different dimensions. I'm not interested in words that pull them together."
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"I think worrying things are going on in England - a real apathy."
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"Market forces impose certain rules before a film can actually get made."
Film

"One longs for a director with a sense of imagination."
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"Maverick is a word which appeals to me more than misfit. Maverick is active, misfit is passive."
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"What's interesting about the process of acting is how often you don't know what you're doing."
Acting
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