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"I think, you know, as an actor we get these terribly sort of pretentious ideas in our heads. We try to take everything very seriously at first, you know, until we lighten up, we get onboard, and have a laugh."

"I think, you know, as an actor we get these terribly sort of pretentious ideas in our heads. We try to take everything very seriously at first, you know, until we lighten up, we get onboard, and have a laugh."

Rosamund Pike, British Actress

Ideas, Actor, First

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"A lot of the lyrical ideas do have a lot of meaning in a way, although it is somewhat abstracted."

"A lot of the lyrical ideas do have a lot of meaning in a way, although it is somewhat abstracted."

Thurston Moore, American Musician

4

"I think he's much funnier in many ways than some of the things that I've done. Because it's a little bit more layered. He's constantly trying to teach Luke what he thinks are really deep philosophical ideas, but they're really simple."

"I think he's much funnier in many ways than some of the things that I've done. Because it's a little bit more layered. He's constantly trying to teach Luke what he thinks are really deep philosophical ideas, but they're really simple."

Sean William Scott, American Actor

Ideas, Deep, Trying

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"I like to have books around to give me ideas-to get the verbal part of my brain to start working."

"I like to have books around to give me ideas-to get the verbal part of my brain to start working."

Sean Lennon, American Musician

4

"I've written more songs for this record than I ever have in the past so I'm trying to give it a lot of special attention to be sure my ideas really get translated right."

"I've written more songs for this record than I ever have in the past so I'm trying to give it a lot of special attention to be sure my ideas really get translated right."

Suzy Bogguss, American Musician

Ideas, Attention, Past, Right

4

"A barrier is of ideas, not of things."

"A barrier is of ideas, not of things."

Mark Caine, American Author

4

"When you're an actor, actually, you shouldn't come up with too many ideas."

"When you're an actor, actually, you shouldn't come up with too many ideas."

Jean-Louis Trintignant, French Actor

4

"I wanted to do Playboy to get across the same ideas I'm singing and writing about these days. It's all about proving that a woman can defy stereotypes."

"I wanted to do Playboy to get across the same ideas I'm singing and writing about these days. It's all about proving that a woman can defy stereotypes."

Jody Watley, American Musician

Ideas, Singing, Woman, Writing

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"Ideas are the root of creation."

"Ideas are the root of creation."

Ernest Dimnet, French Clergyman

Ideas, Creation

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"Whereas you have someone like Houdini, who works really, really hard to get really, really famous, and then has actual intellectual ideas that he puts into the culture that stay there."

"Whereas you have someone like Houdini, who works really, really hard to get really, really famous, and then has actual intellectual ideas that he puts into the culture that stay there."

Penn Jillette, American Entertainer

Ideas, Culture, Famous

4

"The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm."

"The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm."

Thomas J. Watson, American Scientist

Ideas, Enthusiasm, Accomplishments, Man

4

"I normally keep a series of draft in a catalogue type of book in which I scribble, sketch and draw ideas."

"I normally keep a series of draft in a catalogue type of book in which I scribble, sketch and draw ideas."

Jonathan Shapiro, South African Cartoonist

4

"It was a turning point in the sense that as a scene, we can up with a lot of new ideas."

"It was a turning point in the sense that as a scene, we can up with a lot of new ideas."

Arto Lindsay, American Musician

4

"I'll come in with a string of riffs and direct the musical ideas. But you still need a band and their input to make the ideas come alive. You can't underestimate band chemistry."

"I'll come in with a string of riffs and direct the musical ideas. But you still need a band and their input to make the ideas come alive. You can't underestimate band chemistry."

Billy Corgan, American Musician

4

"It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas."

"It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas."

Edward Bond, English Playwright

Ideas, Democracy, Violence

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"We have to do a film parody for Comic Relief. We can't decide which film to parody at the moment. Any ideas welcome, but not Spiderman owing to costume being too tight."

"We have to do a film parody for Comic Relief. We can't decide which film to parody at the moment. Any ideas welcome, but not Spiderman owing to costume being too tight."

Dawn French, British Comedian

Ideas, Being, Film

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"Together with script writers Syd green and Dick Hills, we worked on the comedy ideas for this series."

"Together with script writers Syd green and Dick Hills, we worked on the comedy ideas for this series."

Eric Morecambe, British Comedian

Ideas, Comedy, Writers

4

"In the past 3-4 years I've developed a habit of keeping numerous small cassette recorders in my house and in a bag with me so that I'm able to commit to tape memory song ideas on a constant basis."

"In the past 3-4 years I've developed a habit of keeping numerous small cassette recorders in my house and in a bag with me so that I'm able to commit to tape memory song ideas on a constant basis."

Dwight Yoakam, American Musician

Ideas, Habit, Memory, Past

4

"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."

"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

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"The Empress has been connected with the ideas of universal fecundity and in a general sense with activity."

"The Empress has been connected with the ideas of universal fecundity and in a general sense with activity."

Arthur E. Waite, British Occultist

3

"The Tube is a vehicle for selling things, not for exploring ideas."

"The Tube is a vehicle for selling things, not for exploring ideas."

Phil Donahue, American Entertainer

3

"They're stealing my ideas. They're imitating my shots."

"They're stealing my ideas. They're imitating my shots."

David O. Selznick, American Producer

3

"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."

"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

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"Cartoons have always been an enjoyment to me... a relaxation... I get my ideas from everyday events."

"Cartoons have always been an enjoyment to me... a relaxation... I get my ideas from everyday events."

Matthew Ashford, American Actor

Ideas, Cartoons, Enjoyment, Events

3

"Republicans have nothing but bad ideas and Democrats have no ideas."

"Republicans have nothing but bad ideas and Democrats have no ideas."

Lewis Black, American Comedian

Ideas, Democrats, Nothing, Republicans

3

"Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced."

"Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced."

Alfred North Whitehead, English Mathematician

Ideas, First, Foolishness

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"On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."

"On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."

Charles Babbage, English Mathematician

Ideas, Answers, Confusion, Machine

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"These are ideas. I could say that they just came to me, but it would be more accurate to say that I went to them. Ideas - and new connections between ideas - lead you away from commonly held perceptions of reality. Ideas lead you out here. Ideas lead you into the darkness."

"These are ideas. I could say that they just came to me, but it would be more accurate to say that I went to them. Ideas - and new connections between ideas - lead you away from commonly held perceptions of reality. Ideas lead you out here. Ideas lead you into the darkness."

Dave Sim, Canadian Cartoonist

Ideas, Darkness, Perceptions, Reality

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"As the middle begins to feel safe enough to accept some of the so-called radical thinking, ideas move to the middle and a new edge is created."

"As the middle begins to feel safe enough to accept some of the so-called radical thinking, ideas move to the middle and a new edge is created."

Jasmine Guy, American Actress

Ideas, Radical, Thinking

3

"Basically I started to jot notes, lots of faxes back and forth to my writer, we faxed ideas throughout the whole first draft, and started all over again."

"Basically I started to jot notes, lots of faxes back and forth to my writer, we faxed ideas throughout the whole first draft, and started all over again."

Bruce Boxleitner, American Actor

Ideas, Draft, First, Writer

3

"I don't see any reason to quit playing. I'll be doing this at least till I get to a hundred and something. You know, I ain't got far to go. But I'm still going to be playing, as long as I have good ideas, and can play as I do."

"I don't see any reason to quit playing. I'll be doing this at least till I get to a hundred and something. You know, I ain't got far to go. But I'm still going to be playing, as long as I have good ideas, and can play as I do."

Claude Williams, American Jazz Violinist

Ideas, Play, Reason

3

"Ideas are infinite, original, and lively divine thoughts."

"Ideas are infinite, original, and lively divine thoughts."

Karl Schlegel, German Philosopher

Ideas, Thoughts, Infinite

3

"It's really about living in your head... just looking out at the world, then going back into your head and tossing around a lot of ideas and coming out with something interesting to say."

"It's really about living in your head... just looking out at the world, then going back into your head and tossing around a lot of ideas and coming out with something interesting to say."

Lucinda Williams, American Musician

Ideas, Living, World

3

"Jack and I usually get together and sit around in the afternoons and start throwing ideas around."

"Jack and I usually get together and sit around in the afternoons and start throwing ideas around."

Johnny Rivers, American Musician

3

"In fact, I think that Governor Clinton, when he was running, and President Clinton, when he was serving, actually governed with a wide range of advisors and a perspective that blended the best of ideas from the center and the left."

"In fact, I think that Governor Clinton, when he was running, and President Clinton, when he was serving, actually governed with a wide range of advisors and a perspective that blended the best of ideas from the center and the left."

John Podesta, American Lawyer

Ideas, Fact, Perspective, President

3

"Until we perceive the meaning of our past, we remain the mere carriers of ideas, like the Nomads."

"Until we perceive the meaning of our past, we remain the mere carriers of ideas, like the Nomads."

Stephen Gardiner, British Architect

Ideas, Meaning, Past

3

"Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not."

"Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not."

G. H. Hardy, British Mathematician

3

"If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied."

"If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied."

Alfred Nobel, Swedish Scientist

3

"I don't let myself get carried away by my own ideas - I abandon 19 out of 20 of them every day."

"I don't let myself get carried away by my own ideas - I abandon 19 out of 20 of them every day."

Gustav Mahler, Austrian Composer

3

"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."

"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

3

"Even when I'm not directing, that doesn't stop Owen from having ideas for what I should be doing."

"Even when I'm not directing, that doesn't stop Owen from having ideas for what I should be doing."

Ben Stiller, American Comedian

3

"Ideas are one thing and what happens is another."

"Ideas are one thing and what happens is another."

John Cage, American Composer

3

"Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today."

"Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today."

Robert McAfee Brown, American Theologian

Ideas, Today, World

3

"The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas of enthusiasm."

"The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas of enthusiasm."

Thomas John Watson, Sr., American Businessman

Ideas, Enthusiasm, Accomplishments, Man

3

"Praising the Lord and passing the ammunition are mutually exclusive ideas."

"Praising the Lord and passing the ammunition are mutually exclusive ideas."

Phil Donahue, American Entertainer

3

"In the past, those who had ideas they wished to communicate to the public had the unquestioned right to disseminate those ideas in an open marketplace. called a mall, we should not abridge that right."

"In the past, those who had ideas they wished to communicate to the public had the unquestioned right to disseminate those ideas in an open marketplace. called a mall, we should not abridge that right."

Sol Wachtler, American Judge

Ideas, Open, Past, Public

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"But I don't sit down at dinner and have clever ideas."

"But I don't sit down at dinner and have clever ideas."

Mark Rylance, English Actor

3

"When I follow the finals of the European Cups, I look at all the aspects surrounding protocol, to get some ideas. I am interested in personalities, sponsors and the stands. But as soon as the whistle goes, it's all on the pitch."

"When I follow the finals of the European Cups, I look at all the aspects surrounding protocol, to get some ideas. I am interested in personalities, sponsors and the stands. But as soon as the whistle goes, it's all on the pitch."

Michel Patini, French Footballer

3

"The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas."

"The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas."

Miles Davis, American Musician

Ideas, Artist, Jazz, Man

3

"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."

"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

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