"I have too many ideas for a lifetime."
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"The ideas keep going, you have the material, you cut because there's a limit to the space allowed to you. And the space is limited because of some other constraints that have to do with money or printing or whatever."
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"An orator or author is never successful till he has learned to make his words smaller than his ideas."
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"God screens us evermore from premature ideas."
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"Heaven often protects valuable souls charged with great secrets, great ideas, by long shutting them up with their own thoughts."
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"The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which we are suspended, and the attempt to bring out of it ideas."
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"The mathematicians are well acquainted with the difference between pure science, which has only to do with ideas, and the application of its laws to the use of life, in which they are constrained to submit to the imperfections of matter and the influence of accidents."
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"Words are daughters of earth but ideas are sons of heaven."
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"In the description of night in Macbeth, the beetle and the bat detract from the general idea of darkness - inspissated gloom."
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"I wish there were some cure, like the lover's leap, for all heads of which some single idea has obtained an unreasonable and irregular possession."
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"The idea that if you are very clever you shouldn't be an actor would be laughable in Russia."
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"With regard to the idea of whether you have a right to health care, you have to realize what that implies. It’s not an abstraction. I’m a physician. That means you have a right to come to my house and conscript me. It means you believe in slavery. It means that you’re going to enslave not only me, but the janitor at my hospital, the person who cleans my office, the assistants who work in my office, the nurses."
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"I don't like the idea of telling private business owners. I abhor racism. I think it's a bad business decision to ever exclude anybody from your restaurant. But at the same time I do believe in private ownership. I think there should be absolutely no discrimination in anything that gets public funding."
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"Noble dragons don't have friends. The nearest they can get to the idea is an enemy who is still alive."
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"The phrase "may you live in interesting times" is the lowest in a trilogy of Chinese curses that continue "may you come to the attention of those in authority" and finish with "may the gods give you everything you ask for." I have no idea about its authenticity."
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"The calendar of the Theocracy of Muntab counts down, not up. No-one knows why, but it might not be a good idea to hang around and find out."
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"Most of my stories are ideas in action. In other words, I get a concept, and I let it run away. I find a character to act out the idea. And then the story takes care of itself."
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"Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash."
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"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."
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"I had no idea that I could sustain a career as an artist. But, I loved music and wanted to be in the music business."
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