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"but can everyone simply choose the path he loves? someone has to take the ordinary jobs. all i know is, that worked for me. and it didn't work for other people i know to get a so-called safe job, because there's no such thing anymore. the only thing that stays constant is the idea that people have to escape."
"So when I made some money, I didn't have any idea how one handled such a situation because no one in our family ever had any money."
"Thanksgiving opens up the windows of the opportunity for ideas to flow your way."
"The artist draws the people. The whole idea is for people to dig themselves, just mingle around meeting different other people. That's cool."
"Some people should just start ideas and other ones should carry them out."
"If there's a new idea, a new invention, or a new gas, or a new whatever you know, It should be brought at least into the open instead of carrying these same old burdens around with you."
"If you're doing a family movie, you don't want it to be stupid. Farting chihuahuas is not my idea of entertainment for kids or adults. So you try to make a movie that adults can see on one level, and kids can see on another."
"It bewildered Ig, the idea that a person could not be interested in music. It was like not being interested in happiness."
"When you are sitting in a room and somebody does something or says something and a thought comes, an idea or a melody - you have to just grab it while it's there because it will go away."
"Sometimes a serendipitous reaction occurs when a network asks you if you have any ideas for a series, at a time when your creative flow is working in that direction."
"I like the idea of doing something outside my comfort zone."
"I've been wanting for some time to find a way of stylizing cinema and trying to get closer to the emotional story I was telling and get rid of all the bumph that goes with it and allow the audience a more participatory experience. It was an attempt to do all of those things and to express the idea that all these people were just performing roles in their lives."
"With the growth of knowledge our ideas must from time to time be organized afresh. The change takes place usually in accordance with new maxims as they arise, but it always remains provisional."
"All of us have life; few of us have an idea of it."
"Idea and experience will never coincide in the center; only through art and action are they united."
"Every man must form himself as a particular being, seeking, however, to attain that general idea of which all mankind are constituents."
"Whoso shrinks from ideas ends by having nothing but sensations."
"Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of it again."
"When she sees the leaves fall, they raise no other idea in her mind than that winter is approaching."
"Every great idea exerts, on first appearing, a tyrannical influence: Hence, the advantages it brings are turned all too soon into disadvantages."
