"I'm always looking for the idea in a scene or the philosophy that makes a scene worth existing beyond exposition."
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"I remember being in Hollywood at the age of 16 and marveling at the stars. The idea of being part of it never entered my mind. It was too far-fetched."
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"In a highly critical, scarcity-based world, everyone's afraid to fail. As long as we're afraid to fail, we'll never come up with the big, bold ideas we need to solve these problems."
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"The life of Zen begins, therefore, in a disillusion with the pursuit of goals which do not really exist the good without the bad, the gratification of a self which is no more than an idea, and the morrow which never comes."
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"To remain caught up in ideas and words about Zen is, as the old masters say, to stink of Zen."
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"L'absurde est la notion essentielle et la premie' re ve? rite? . The absurd is the fundamental idea and the first truth."
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"It is important to foster individuality, for only the individual can produce the new ideas."
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"An idea is, in the end, always stronger than circumstances."
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"But merely accepting authoritarian truth, even if that truth has some virtue, does not bring skepticism to an end. To blindly accept a truth one has never reflected upon retards the advance of reason. Our world rots in deceit. . . . Just as a tree bears the same fruit year after year and at the same time fruit that is new each year, so must all permanently valuable ideas be continually created anew in thought. But our age pretends to make a sterile tree bear fruit by tying fruits of truth onto its branches."
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"The Christian idea of a perfect heaven that is something other than a non-existence is a contradiction in terms."
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"I know very dimly when I start what's going to happen. I just have a very general idea, and then the thing develops as I write."
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"Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself."
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"The discovery of radioactivity created a momentary chaos in chemistry and physics; but it soon led to a fuller interpretation of the old ideas. It dispersed many difficulties, harmonized many discords, and yea, more! It shewed the substance of Universe as a simplicity of Light and Life, manners to compose atoms, themselves capable of deeper self-realization through fresh complexities and organizations, each with its own peculiar powers and pleasures, each pursuing its path through the world where all things are possible."
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"Destiny is an absolutely definite and inexorable ruler. Physical ability and moral determination count for nothing. It is impossible to perform the simplest act when the gods say no. I have no idea how they bring pressure to bear on such occasions; I only know that it is irresistible."
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"I like the idea of infiltrating an area that is not really exposed to me or my work."
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"From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought."
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"If the ancients left us ideas, to our credit be it spoken that we moderns are building houses for them -- structures which neither Plato nor Archimedes had dreamed possible."
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"Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks."
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"It is perfectly possible to be a professional director or a professional writer and not to be an artist: merely a sort of executor of other people's ideas."
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"Our relationship to reality and to our experience is all based upon the ideas in our mind that we're always trying to live up to."
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