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"I keep very weird hours. I never know when I'm going to get an idea."
Sergio Aragones
"I keep very weird hours. I never know when I'm going to get an idea."
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"It's got to be weird to sit in an office all day and deal with these creative types without having any idea of what they do or how they do it."
Ron Livingston
"It's got to be weird to sit in an office all day and deal with these creative types without having any idea of what they do or how they do it."
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"An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them."
Stephen Fry
"An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them."
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"Paris is always a good idea."
Audrey Hepburn
"Paris is always a good idea."
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"Before the group left, Gary asked for my phone number, and the next day he called to ask me to dinner that night. I had no idea he was married, but I found out that night."
Donna Rice
"Before the group left, Gary asked for my phone number, and the next day he called to ask me to dinner that night. I had no idea he was married, but I found out that night."
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"Why should the composer be more guilty than the poet who warms to fantasy by a strange flame, making an idea that inspires him the subject of his own very different treatment?"
Franz Schubert
"Why should the composer be more guilty than the poet who warms to fantasy by a strange flame, making an idea that inspires him the subject of his own very different treatment?"
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"I am so busy doing nothing... that the idea of doing anything - which as you know, always leads to something - cuts into the nothing and then forces me to have to drop everything."
Jerry Seinfeld
"I am so busy doing nothing... that the idea of doing anything - which as you know, always leads to something - cuts into the nothing and then forces me to have to drop everything."
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"There's a mass of places, really, where the idea started."
Siobhan Davies
"There's a mass of places, really, where the idea started."
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"My idea of a real treat is Magic Mountain without standing in line."
Alan Rickman
"My idea of a real treat is Magic Mountain without standing in line."
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"Well, I try not to think about the general public since I have no idea what the general public is and I don't think anybody does."
Elliott Smith
"Well, I try not to think about the general public since I have no idea what the general public is and I don't think anybody does."
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"If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It's much easier to apologize than it is to get permission."
Grace Hopper
"If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It's much easier to apologize than it is to get permission."
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"We decided we didn't want to do a musical for TV because the idea of writing a musical that would be seen on television once seems insane."
Neil Tennant
"We decided we didn't want to do a musical for TV because the idea of writing a musical that would be seen on television once seems insane."
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"I was doing Hamlet in the off-season, and I had a specific idea in my mind about what I wanted that character to look like, and because it's going to lead into the next year, I knew that it was going to have to be established somewhere in the show."
Michael Shanks
"I was doing Hamlet in the off-season, and I had a specific idea in my mind about what I wanted that character to look like, and because it's going to lead into the next year, I knew that it was going to have to be established somewhere in the show."
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"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."
Brian Ferneyhough
"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."
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"Yes, in fact, it's hard to believe this, but it was almost 18 years ago when I first got the idea."
Tim LaHaye
"Yes, in fact, it's hard to believe this, but it was almost 18 years ago when I first got the idea."
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"Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously."
Norman Vincent Peale
"Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously."
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"I had a very bad torn groin, my abdomen right through my legs. I was finding it really hard to get in the ring and run around and function at a decent rate. Then they had the idea that it might be better to do a retirement thing."
Owen Hart
"I had a very bad torn groin, my abdomen right through my legs. I was finding it really hard to get in the ring and run around and function at a decent rate. Then they had the idea that it might be better to do a retirement thing."
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"I usually have an idea of how I want a song to sound, but I don't always know how to get there."
Lucinda Williams
"I usually have an idea of how I want a song to sound, but I don't always know how to get there."
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"We toyed with the idea of making it a double album, but I think that would only have confused everybody even more, so we decided to stick with the songs we picked."
Thom Yorke
"We toyed with the idea of making it a double album, but I think that would only have confused everybody even more, so we decided to stick with the songs we picked."
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"I can't even say I've begun yet, but I'm trying on the idea that there is a book in my future."
Kathy Mattea
"I can't even say I've begun yet, but I'm trying on the idea that there is a book in my future."
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"I have no idea what makes a director believe in me that I can sell these kind of roles."
Izabella Scorupco
"I have no idea what makes a director believe in me that I can sell these kind of roles."
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"I think that curiosity happened on these reviews where I was just a guest of the reviewer, because it introduced me to new cuisines and to the idea of cooking as a mechanism for studying other cultures and understanding other parts of the world."
Ted Allen
"I think that curiosity happened on these reviews where I was just a guest of the reviewer, because it introduced me to new cuisines and to the idea of cooking as a mechanism for studying other cultures and understanding other parts of the world."
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"Pier Angeli was in the movie called Sea of Sand that Guy Green directed where this idea came up."
Richard Attenborough
"Pier Angeli was in the movie called Sea of Sand that Guy Green directed where this idea came up."
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"I've no idea what Eddie Irvine's orders are, but he's following them superlatively well."
Murray Walker
"I've no idea what Eddie Irvine's orders are, but he's following them superlatively well."
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"There's this idea that if you take your clothes off, somehow you must have loose morals."
Demi Moore
"There's this idea that if you take your clothes off, somehow you must have loose morals."
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"The video game culture was an important thing to keep alive in the film because we're in a new era right now. The idea that kids can play video games like Grand Theft Auto or any video game is amazing. The video games are one step before a whole other virtual universe."
Vin Diesel
"The video game culture was an important thing to keep alive in the film because we're in a new era right now. The idea that kids can play video games like Grand Theft Auto or any video game is amazing. The video games are one step before a whole other virtual universe."
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"'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else."
Ugo Betti
"'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else."
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"A revolutionary idea is usually one with its sleeves rolled up."
Navjot Singh Sidhu
"A revolutionary idea is usually one with its sleeves rolled up."
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"This simple idea served to provide information on the geometrical shape of reacting molecules, and I was able to make the role of the frontier orbitals in chemical reactions more distinct through visualization, by drawing their diagrams."
Kenichi Fukui
"This simple idea served to provide information on the geometrical shape of reacting molecules, and I was able to make the role of the frontier orbitals in chemical reactions more distinct through visualization, by drawing their diagrams."
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"I had a marketing idea that everybody hated, decency is sexy."
James L. Brooks
"I had a marketing idea that everybody hated, decency is sexy."
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"The idea of the live-virus vaccine is to produce in a continuous way some viral antigens."
Luc Montagnier
"The idea of the live-virus vaccine is to produce in a continuous way some viral antigens."
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"Every reiteration of the idea that nothing matters debases the human spirit."
David Mamet
"Every reiteration of the idea that nothing matters debases the human spirit."
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"No doubt these rocky islands have suggested the idea worked out in gardens, and they have been well imitated."
Robert Fortune
"No doubt these rocky islands have suggested the idea worked out in gardens, and they have been well imitated."
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"Punk rock really came out of N.Y. as a philosophy before the groups were ever recorded. I had a kind-of intellectual interest in the idea of creating a new scene that could be a grassroots thing."
Greg Ginn
"Punk rock really came out of N.Y. as a philosophy before the groups were ever recorded. I had a kind-of intellectual interest in the idea of creating a new scene that could be a grassroots thing."
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"I find the idea of today's icons being teenagers incredibly uninspiring."
Kathleen Turner
"I find the idea of today's icons being teenagers incredibly uninspiring."
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"I've always liked the effect of having somebody in there who hadn't the faintest idea what was going on."
Derek Bailey
"I've always liked the effect of having somebody in there who hadn't the faintest idea what was going on."
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"Well, gauge theory is very fundamental to our understanding of physical forces these days. But they are also dependent on a mathematical idea, which has been around for longer than gauge theory has."
Roger Penrose
"Well, gauge theory is very fundamental to our understanding of physical forces these days. But they are also dependent on a mathematical idea, which has been around for longer than gauge theory has."
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"I think for anybody reading the book they're going to get an idea in their heads of all those characters, and I think that once that gets fixed, it's quite hard to shake."
Hugh Dancy
"I think for anybody reading the book they're going to get an idea in their heads of all those characters, and I think that once that gets fixed, it's quite hard to shake."
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"The atheistic idea is so nonsensical that I cannot put it into words."
Lord Kelvin
"The atheistic idea is so nonsensical that I cannot put it into words."
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"I find I have to walk a little faster in public these days, but it's very easy to remember when nobody had any idea who I was."
John Lithgow
"I find I have to walk a little faster in public these days, but it's very easy to remember when nobody had any idea who I was."
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"The Jug Band was exactly what I wanted to do, and it wasn't my idea."
John Sebastian
"The Jug Band was exactly what I wanted to do, and it wasn't my idea."
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"I had no idea this thing was televised. Boy, is my face red."
David Letterman
"I had no idea this thing was televised. Boy, is my face red."
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"Somehow he became certain the he himself possessed the skills of a hypnotist. How he reached this judgement, I have no idea, but never convinced the rest of us."
Audrey Meadows
"Somehow he became certain the he himself possessed the skills of a hypnotist. How he reached this judgement, I have no idea, but never convinced the rest of us."
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"I wanted to be president of the United States. I really did. The older I get, the less preposterous the idea seems."
Alec Baldwin
"I wanted to be president of the United States. I really did. The older I get, the less preposterous the idea seems."
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"The basic idea in case-based, or CBR, is that the program has stored problems and solutions. Then, when a new problem comes up, the program tries to find a similar problem in its database by finding analogous aspects between the problems."
Marvin Minsky
"The basic idea in case-based, or CBR, is that the program has stored problems and solutions. Then, when a new problem comes up, the program tries to find a similar problem in its database by finding analogous aspects between the problems."
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"Sometime I write a song off a central idea, instead of emotion."
Ken Hill
"Sometime I write a song off a central idea, instead of emotion."
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"In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style."
Sydney Smith
"In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style."
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"I think it's even harder because I think as always, Hollywood is sort of glamour central for the world, and the entire world looks to it for not only entertainment, but the whole idea of the youth factor and youth being sold to our culture via young actors and actresses."
Anthony Michael Hall
"I think it's even harder because I think as always, Hollywood is sort of glamour central for the world, and the entire world looks to it for not only entertainment, but the whole idea of the youth factor and youth being sold to our culture via young actors and actresses."
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"I studied with the idea of becoming a Catholic priest."
Peter Jurasik
"I studied with the idea of becoming a Catholic priest."
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"If you write songs you have an idea how they're going to sound."
Fred Frith
"If you write songs you have an idea how they're going to sound."
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