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"Perhaps it would be a good idea, fantastic as it sounds, to muffle every telephone, halt every motor, and stop all activity someday to give people a chance to ponder a few minutes on what it is all about, why they are living, and what they really want."
"I had no idea what time I’d left, how I’d gotten home, who’d been up here, and how long he, she, or they had stayed. Another night, added to the hundreds that had gone before, shrouded in mystery. Really, when you thought about it, it was creepy. My own life was a secret to me."
"Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity."
"An idea that no one believes can not be proved too often."
"No one is more himself than the moment when he's laughing at a joke. It's at those moments that people's defenses go down, and that's when you can slip in a good idea."
"The whole problem with this idea of obscenity and indecency, and all of these things - bad language and whatever - it's all caused by one basic thing, and that is: religious superstition."
"Never give up on an idea simply because it is bad and doesn't work."
"If a piece requires some specific inflection, I'll record it. I take a lot of notes, and later categorize them, combining them alongside existing ideas, and eventually put a piece together."
"If you are to rule men, you must rule them through their own ideas."
"The moment of finding a fellow-creature is often as full of mingled doubt and exultation, as the moment of finding an idea."
"Ideas rise with new mornings but never die."
"Actors, their greatest tool, their greatest resource is imagination. You can take things, power objects, you can recruit your dreams, you can access your memories and get there. So the idea is not to act but to just be."
"I like the idea of being involved in pictures that can entertain the entire family and can stimulate youngsters into looking at picture books. There's nothing wrong with that."
"I love working with younger actors because they always come into the game full of energy and ideas that challenge me and keep me learning and stimulated."
"Is society debasing the idea of heroism by using it to describe anyone who makes people feel good about themselves?"
"Great men may die, but there ideas won't."
"Ideas without action are useless."
"I like the idea of seeing Krishna as a baby, the way He's often depicted in India. And also Govinda, the cowherd boy. I like the idea that you can have Krishna as a baby and feel protective to Him, or as your friend, or as the guru or master - type figure."
"The idea that you wake up and it happens that you're Queen, it's amazing but you could all be Queens if you imagined it."
"We used to send up the idea of getting to the top. John would shout, "Where are we going, fellas?" We'd shout back, "To the top, Johnny!"
