"Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away."

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"Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away."

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"While a lab Director can get done the things that he regards as important, he has the more important job of bringing out the best ideas of the broader scientific community."

Burton Richter, American Scientist

Ideas, Community, Job

"Don't disregard your so-called "stupid ideas." They may be inspired thoughts and high-potential opportunities. Whatcha gonna do?"

Richie Norton, American Author

Ideas, Idea, Inspirational, Opportunity, Potential

"Although all new ideas are born in France, they are not readily adopted there. It seems that they must first commence to prosper in a foreign country."

Sarah Bernhardt, French Actress

Ideas, Country, First, France

"Filmgoers are starved for new ideas, voices and visions."

Robert Redford, American Actor

Ideas, Visions

"I think he's informing himself, reaching out and getting ideas and information and advice. I haven't the slightest doubt that internally taking shape in that marvelous brain of his is a philosophy of foreign affairs. But it would be premature to say that one is fully formed."

Theodore C. Sorensen, American Lawyer

Ideas, Advice, Doubt, Information

"I have a lot of stuff I want to talk about and offer up. It would be odd not to have ideas about something."

Ralph Fiennes, British Actor

Ideas, Talk, Want

"I thought you could beat, pummel, and thrash an idea into existence. Under such treatment, of course, any decent idea folds up its paws, turns on its back, fixes its eyes on eternity, and dies."

Ray Bradbury, American Writer

Ideas, Idea, Creation, Death, Persistence

"I'm supposed to be the director of a television company, but I've only ever seen that company as a vehicle for making the kind of programmes we wanted to make, getting our ideas on the screen."

Rory Bremner, British Comedian

Ideas, Company, Television

"Once we start collecting, the more you have, the more it gets valuable and that will stop us from responding to the present and taking on new ideas what the artists are doing now."

David Elliott, British Celebrity

Ideas, Artists, Now, Present

"I have always watched the rushes, and have learned more because I have done so, because you can have all manner of ideas in your head, but they have to end up on the screen."

Jacqueline Bisset, English Actress

Ideas, End

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