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No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life.
I've worked with a lot of first-time directors who kind of look to me for ideas and opinions and stuff, and I'm a team player.
My biggest fear always is that I’ll photograph an idea rather than a person, so I try to be quite sensitive to how people are.
...quantity is not necessarily synonymous with quality and brilliant ideas are not a function of the number of titles printed.
There was never an idea started that woke up men out of their stupid indifference but its originator was spoken of as a crank.
The Goldilocks Enigma is the idea that everything in the universe is just right for life, like the porridge in the fairy tale.
I think that the Internet - and I do love the free flow of ideas on the 'Net - is like the wild west of the information world.
If you watch lizards and lions copulating, then you will see that in 200 million years the male has not had a single new idea.
I grew up all around the world, and when I settled in a suburb in America, I didn't have any idea what I was supposed to wear.
The thing about movies is if somebody has an idea that works, it's in, and I say that as a screenwriter as well as a director.
In the last analysis, terrorism is an idea generated by capitalism to justify better defense measures to safeguard capitalism.
Ordinary people who have lots of good ideas want more than a suggestion box, and they need a union to represent that thinking.
New ideas are one of the most overrated concepts of our time. Most of the important ideas that we live with aren't new at all.
Really good original ideas are very hard to come up with. Good ideas - easy. Really good, original ideas - it can take months.
Big Cliff Lazarenko's idea of exercise is sitting in a room with the windows open taking the lid off something cool and fizzy.
People have this idea that if you're sexual and beautiful and provocative, then there's nothing else you could possibly offer.
I grew up not really having anything, so the idea that I can take care of my family and my friends now is a really cool bonus.
He realized something was going on between Logan and me. I wish he'd clue me in on exactly what it was, because I had no idea.
Sure, it was your idea and your fly, but he caught the big fish. Remember, fairness is a human idea largely unknown in nature.
Anybody who pitches a story or an idea for a film to an executive, whatever the latest hit is, is what you're comparing it to.
Leo had wanted to paint a giant message on the bottom of the hull-WASSUP? with a smiley-face-but Annabeth had vetoed the idea.
The idea that the GLC should be abolished at a stroke is ill though out, undemocratic and will cost the people of London dear.
Howard Hughes was this visionary who was obsessed with speed and flying like a god... I loved his idea of what filmmaking was.
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.
You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change.
If you have some idea you believe in, don't listen to the croaking chorus. Listen only to what your own inner voice tells you.
I'm on a lot of airplanes, so I just sip on red wine thinking of stupid ideas and, when I think of it, I wanna make it happen.
When I started, they told me I only needed 3 chords and the truth... It turned out I could manage with 2 and some vague ideas.
Whenever we accept an idea as authority instead of as instrument, an idol is set up. We worship the plough, and not the fruit.
I suppose they're confident. I think younger guys love the idea of a divorced woman who's going to teach them how to be a man.
We need to give credence to the nonsexual relationships...the idea of having significant others instead of a significant other.
Every idea appears at first as a strange visitor, and when it begins to be realized, it is hardly distinguishable from fantasy.
The birth of love is always accompanied by the idea of solitude. A single being appears, and the rest of the world grows empty.
If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love's reach.
You have no idea how much nastier I would be if I was not a Catholic. Without supernatural aid I would hardly be a human being.
I want to know which idea you're going to kill yourself trying to make successful, not which ideas have crossed your idle mind.
To be honest, and I may regret saying this, the idea of playing the same character for a very long time is very daunting to me.
If it was Europe that gave us on the coast some idea of our history, it was Europe, I feel, that also introduced us to the lie.
It's what you do to yourself when you go mad with rage. You have no idea how much you can hurt yourself with your own strength.
Focus on the core problem your business solves & put out lots of content & enthusiasm, & ideas about how to solve that problem.
We have grown so accustomed to the idea of divine love...that we no longer sense the awe that God's coming should awaken in us.
All decent parents want to do what's best for their children. The Chinese just have a totally different idea of how to do that.
I remember I wanted to be Zorro, but I also wanted to be a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle. I obviously had ideas above my station.
There isn’t going to be a ‘next lover,’” Grant said automatically, outraged by the idea. “I’m the only man she’s going to have.
The Heritage Foundation is the premier think tank, research organization. The premier idea group for the conservative movement.
Ultimately, we measure ourselves against our own ideas of idealism and perfection, and we don't always come very close to them.
If anyone has a new idea in this country, there are twice as many people who keep putting a man with a red flag in front of it.
If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: 'It seemed like a good idea at the time.'
We appear to be programmed with the idea that there are 'things' outside of our self, and some are conscious, and some are not.
My work is to reach people with ideas, hopes, dreams, encouragement, insight, and revelation. That's what an actor wants to do.