"Ideas never lack for words. It is words that lack ideas. As soon as the idea has come to its last degree of perfection, the word blossoms."
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"When you take on the idea of playing someone like Jimmy Bulger, it's a radically different process because you're going into make-up. The only way you can do it is to come out of make-up looking like the guy. If you don't look like the guy, it's going to bug you, all day."
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"I have toyed with the idea of playing it straight. But, like I say, I really believe we are all out of our minds at some level."
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"I love the idea of changing my look. I think one owes it to the audience, to go out there and give them something different each time, so as not to bore them to death."
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"God is a word to express, not our ideas, but the want of them."
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"I know tolerably well what Ireland was, but have a very imperfect idea of what Ireland is."
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"The English, of all ranks and classes, are at bottom, in all their feelings, aristocrats. They have some concept of liberty, and set some value on it, but the very idea of equality is strange and offensive to them. They do not dislike to have many people above them as long as they have some below them."
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"As in the instances of alchemy, astrology, witchcraft, and other such popular creeds, political economy, has a plausible idea at the root of it."
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"The more readily we admit the possibility of our own cherished convictions being mixed with error, the more vital and helpful whatever is right in them will become; and no error is so conclusively fatal as the idea that God will not allow us to err, though He has allowed all other men to do so."
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"I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart’s affections and the truth of the Imagination – What the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth – whether it existed before or not – for I have the same Idea of all our Passions as of Love they are all in their sublime, creative of essential Beauty . . ."
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"To the very last, he [Napoleon] had a kind of idea; that, namely, of la carrière ouverte aux talents, - the tools to him that can handle them."
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". . . Endlessness is a really strange idea in a universe that is defined by its endings."
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"I don't have a very clear idea of who the characters are until they start talking."
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"I had absolutely no idea how I had ballooned during my pregnancy. All I thought about was eating plenty of food to keep my baby healthy."
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"For lack of any clearer idea, I just started acting one day. It had been in the back of my head for a while, but I think in some ways I was afraid to do it, and finally I just stepped up."
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"There are only a few images that are not forced to provide meaning, or have to go through the filter of a specific idea."
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"It is exciting to hear one of your fondest ideas formulated in one fell swoop, better than you could have done yourself."
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"High Concept means a book or a film whose core idea can be stated in a single sentence, such as Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito are twins. Or, Arnold is pregnant."
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"The ultimate check against government tyranny is an informed electorate who will elect people who believe in limited government. I don't want to embrace the idea we want people to take to the streets with guns. I want people to go to the voting booth and check an out of control government by electing conservatives."
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"Philip says to fear me. Do you have any idea how afraid I am of him?"
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