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Idea Quotes
"To begin with, you must realize that any idea accepted by the brain is automatically transformed into an action of some sort. It may take seconds or minutes or longer - but ideas always produce a reaction of some sort."
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"The idea of transformation - playing something I'm not - is the bit I enjoy most about acting."
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"The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas."
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"Every suggested idea produces a corresponding physical reaction. Every idea constantly repeated ends by being engraved upon the brain, provoking the act which corresponds to that idea."
42
"Transparency is not the same as looking straight through a building: it's not just a physical idea, it's also an intellectual one."
Idea,
42
"The idea of copyright did not exist in ancient times, when authors frequently copied other authors at length in works of non-fiction. This practice was useful, and is the only way many authors' works have survived even in part."
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"I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli."
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"When shooting in the dark, it is a good idea to use a machine gun."
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"It's sort of what the Johnny and Devi stories are about, the idea of always being a slave to something."
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"As soon as someone tells me: 'You're rather sexy,' I wish I could disappear. If somebody says: 'You were voted the world's sexiest man,' I have no idea what that means. How do I respond? 'Thank you' is the best you can do. George Clooney is the world's sexiest man, anyway."
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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."
Idea,
41
"I write when I have to; I write when the song is done and I deal with the idea and I just go with it and I'll become what that song is all about until I have finished it. And when you do that, it makes the song more visual, it makes it more personal."
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"Then I came up with this crazy idea just to walk out on the stage with no band at all and just start singing whatever came to mind. I actually fought the idea for a while because it seemed almost too radical, but it became obvious what I was supposed to be doing."
40
"I was half asleep lying there writing this lyric in my head at about 3:30 in the morning. I woke Steve up with this idea and then we went into the living room where there was a little upright piano and finished the song. I wonder where that piano is now?"
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"As I got farther and farther along in the series I did less and less preparation. I didn't use outlines or sketches. I just had a vague idea of what I wanted to tell and then the dialogue just came to me as I was inking the page."
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"No idea is isolated, but is only what it is among all ideas."
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"The idea of infection began to be taken far more seriously than it ever had before. Hospitals transformed themselves in response to the new plague - sometimes for the better, but often for the worse, as when, in fear, they cast their ulcerated patients out into the streets."
39
"I was only 11 when we filmed the pilot. The idea of a rapper being a star on a sitcom just wasn't heard of."
39
"The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment."
39
"I never look forward, because I have no idea about how any of it happened to getting here. I've no idea how the next five years are going to be."
38
"It's the South that maintains the idea that they're different, which is interesting because nobody else really cares."
Idea,
38
"Darwin himself recorded the fact that he accepted the Malthusian idea."
38
"The idea of exploring character relations and their development over a decade has to be appealing for any actor who cherishes his craft."
38
"The idea of 'machine assemblage' is, especially, very alien to my sensibility, since it suggests a relative indifference of the strata to one another during the process of construction."
38
"I never accepted the idea that I was all through. I guess no person who has once been a star can do that, ever."
Idea,
38
"The idea of human rights as a fundamental principle can be seen to underlie throughout Islamic teachings."
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