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The media's job is to question a premise.
A lot of my books have started with an abstract premise.
It's not hard to get people to take a premise and accept it.
Nobody owns comedy. Nobody owns a premise. Nobody owns an idea.
I never accepted the premise that meetings themselves were bad.
Even the most complicated stories start with a very simple premise.
A detective story is just the premise for conflict, as a Western is.
God is therefore unknowable. This is the fundamental premise of the Bible.
I'm not an outliner. I come up with a premise and then take it from there.
The premise is simple: One economy and one environment, and they're interdependent.
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.
The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.
But with comedy it's a simple premise. If it's funny, people laugh. If it's not, they don't.
I don't really write jokes down. I tend to have a premise that I work out and test on stage.
Essential to the theory of evolution is the premise that everything has come into being by itself.
I think Junior is certainly a science fiction premise as is Twins, as is Dave, beyond Ghostbusters.
Humans are animals of habit - they convince themselves they can't change. And that premise is wrong.
There is a strong social premise in our country and I feel today freedom is being misused and not used.
I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
I don't think it's an incredibly radical premise to try and have sympathy for someone who has made a mistake.
To people like me, educated in post-war Britain, free speech has been a firm premise of the British way of life.
We subverted the entire premise of 'Westworld' in that our sympathies are meant to be with the robots, the hosts.
Advertising, the product of capitalism, can only justify itself on the premise that the market is a force for good.
I suspect there's a lot of validity to the premise that big companies aren't going to attract entrepreneurial talent.
If you start with the premise that whatever you want to be is going to happen, it changes the way you think about it.
'Eight-Legged Freaks' runs out of gas scarily fast - its one-joke premise lends itself more to a short than a feature.
I just don't accept the premise that we have any economic issue with voting to leave. I think it's absolutely balanced.
Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
I've played around with the notion of making a series on the premise of 'Alps' because it's one of the films no one saw.
There's almost no problem that can't be solved. That's important as a premise. History has proven it over and over again.
Top Gear' is all about the cars. We've got humour in it but the unique premise of the show is it all starts with the car.
What I love is getting a new joke, or a premise like a sketch idea or a movie idea. That's the best feeling for a comedian.
The premise of my book is that everyone is a bit ideological to some extent. Everyone comes from a ideological perspective.
If acting with other people is in your plans, then you need to learn how to work with other people to build a comedic premise.
My premise is not to tax to destroy the wealth of the wealthy; it's to increase the wealth of the bottom and the middle class.
Ultimately, the core premise of 'American Gods' is, 'What do you believe?' And how your beliefs can be manifested into reality.
The fundamental premise of sci-fi is not spaceships and lasers - it's that children can learn from the mistakes of their parents.
When the idea of 'We' came in, it started as a 'WeBlank: WeWork, WeLive, WeSleep, WeEat.' That was the premise at the very start.
An important and fundamental premise of the American judicial system is the presumption of innocence, that is until proven guilty.
I'm just drawn to something that has a good story. 'Outcasts' didn't do so well, but I really admired the premise behind the show.
I'm very flattered to be called a style icon! But it's simple, my style; it's just men's suits and shoes. That's the basic premise.
When 'Party of Five' ended I believed we had run our course. I believed the basic ideal and premise of the show had been fulfilled.
My company, East West, was founded on the premise that people need to group together and not be xenophobic, parochial, or provincial.
Before 9/11, our defense policy was based on a simple premise: The United States does not start fights; we will never be an aggressor.
You should not build your customer service system on the premise that your organisation will never question the whims of your clients.
'The Lobster' is very particular, and we did need to create a very specific world with specific rules so the whole premise would work.
America is built around this premise that you can do it, and there are an awful lot of people who are unlikely to have done it who did.
The basic premise that children must learn about emotions is that all feelings are okay to have; however, only some reactions are okay.
When people come and invest in India, they invest on a certain premise, and the fact that the very premise can change worries them a lot.
I found, especially with stand-up, that if a premise works, you can make the joke work. If a premise doesn't work, you can't force it to.