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I guess I always have sort of general ideas, but the best stuff would be the stuff that comes to you in the moment, always.
Humans have a strong desire to be part of a group. That desire makes us susceptible to fads, fashions, and idea contagions.
He never complicates a desire by overthinking it, unlike Mirabelle, who spins a cocoon around an idea until it is immobile.
Usually, the best ideas come from other people's good ideas, which then, after a short gestation period, become your ideas.
The next time someone starts listing all the reasons an idea won't work or can't happen, ask them to give 3 reasons it can.
Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.
Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.
The idea of thinking of our relationships with people as also being structured by limitations and constraints can be useful.
Don't have a fixed idea in your head (that you have to use this or that technique). Use everything you've learned until now.
I've never understood the 'things to do before you die' idea. If I was ill, I'd be in no mood to have a swim with a dolphin.
Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.
I have been a lifelong Democrat. Like all ideas, though, the Democrat ideas need to be dynamic. It needs to be kept current.
The beaver told the rabbit as they stared at the Hoover Dam: No, I didn't build it myself, but it's based on an idea of mine
The idea of retiring is like killing yourself. It's almost like Hari Kari. I intend to live to a 100 and go down in history.
On rides you see things that trigger ideas. And most the time it's just not doing anything but riding ... letting it all go.
The notion that a human being should be constantly happy is a uniquely modern, uniquely American, uniquely destructive idea.
I see myself as not a typical theater person, but a person who uses the theater as a place to meet people and explore ideas.
Feelings are at the basis of all ideas. First you have feelings, and then, through those sensations, it develops into ideas.
The story goes that I first had the idea for The HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy while lying drunk in a field in Innsbruck.
Anticipatory plagiarism occurs when someone steals your original idea and publishes it a hundred years before you were born.
It is nice to be around people who think differently than you. They challenge your ideas and keep you from being complacent.
You've got a fairly good idea as to what the questions are going to be. But how to record the best answer is another matter.
It's like boxing a glacier. Enjoy that metaphor, by the way, because your grandchildren will have no idea what a glacier is.
The idea that all violence in movies is okay simply because it happens is bull. Directors and writers have a responsibility.
Queen Victoria, one of our more frumpy Queen's. They're all frumpy aren't they? Because it's a bad idea when cousin's marry.
You don't know what you're doing. You're just hoping that people won't make fun of you. I had no idea how it would turn out.
If I hear an amazing piece of music, I can't help but think of ideas, choreography, and everything that comes along with it.
I like to point out that people very often confuse the idea that truth is subjective with the fact that truth is perishable.
Actors have to protect each other in a way. The idea of humiliating another actor or being humiliated myself is devastating.
It's easy to live the expected and conventional. It's when you live the unexpected that you start having fun with your life.
Every single work of art is the fulfillment of a prophecy; for every work of art is the conversion of an idea into an image.
How you frame an issue shapes how it is viewed by others. Great advocates frame their ideas as problems that need solutions.
When I was growing up, my idea of Led Zeppelin was all epic lasers, castles, and ten-minute drum solos - that sort of thing.
When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life.
I don't wake up in the morning and say, wow I've got a great idea for a story. But I sit down, and I figure well, let's see.
I cotton to the idea that people are much closer to being flawed; they have problems and dont always make the right choices.
One thing has always been true: That book or that person who can give me an idea or a new slant on an old idea is my friend.
I grew up always wanting to be a dancer and when I went to New York, I fell in love with the idea of performing in all ways.
And what would our ideas of God, of religion, be like if they had come to us through the minds of women? Ever think of that?
Most poets are elitist dregs more concerned with proving their skill with a dictionary than communicating ideas with impact.
There must be a marsh in the brains of these men or there would not be so many frogs of wrong ideas gathered in their heads.
The kingdom of heaven is within us. The Jewish idea was a kingdom of heaven upon this earth. That was not the idea of Jesus.
Our youth must always be free, discussing and exchanging ideas concerned with what is happening throughout the entire world.
The evil which one suffers patiently as inevitable seems insupportable as soon as he conceives the idea of escaping from it.
Conflict is good in a negotiation process... it's the clash of two ideas, which then, all being well, produces a third idea.
The important thing is that you've got to have ideas in the first place. And you need to have the passion to implement them.
I was confident about America and the idea that in America people can become American without masking their ethnic identity.
You refuse to listen. Because, like every other man, you can keep only one idea in your head at a time-usully the wrong one.
Something I stand for is being brave enough to invest in creative ideas that I firmly believe in and bringing those to life.
We are very puritan in America. We still hold true to these really antiquated values, this idea of the sanctity of marriage.