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• The House Republican leadership has simply run out of ideas.

  Jan Schakowsky

  Leadership, Running, House

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• When Stark isn't off sulking somewhere, or whatever he's doing when he won't return my calls, I alternate between the two. That usually works well, though occasionally an idea for the wrong guy drifts through my mind.

  Donald E. Westlake

  Two, Guy, Mind

  The Book Reporter interview, www.bookreporter.com. April 6, 2001.

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• Some of my ideas were shot down by Lucasfilm because they stepped on territory that has been reserved for the movies. I didn't have a problem with that.

  Walter Jon Williams

  Movie, Territory, Problem

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• The President today once again took the opportunity to reiterate his old, failed national security strategies and present them to the American people as new, dynamic ideas intended to better protect the American people.

  Ellen Tauscher

  Opportunity, People, President

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• This was a really big opportunity. This script was even mediocre. The idea was great, but Jay came on with his guys made it great and very specific. It all came together well.

  Sean William Scott

  Opportunity, Guy, Together

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• When I began writing science fiction in the middle 60s, it seemed very easy to find ideas that took decades to percolate into the cultural consciousness; now the lead time seems more like eighteen months.

  Vernor Vinge

  Writing, Science, Fiction

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• Science fiction still is an idea genre.

  Sheri S. Tepper

  Science, Fiction, Genre

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• And suddenly, like light in darkness, the real truth broke in upon me; the simple fact of Man, which I had forgotten, which had lain deep buried and out of sight; the idea of community, of unity.

  Ernst Toller

  Truth, Real, Simple

  Ernst Toller (1934). “I was a German: the autobiography of Ernst Toller”

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• I think I just have an idea in my head about how big an adventure game should be, so it's hard for me to design one that's much smaller than Grim Fandango or Full Throttle. There's just a certain amount of scope needed to create a complex puzzle space and to develop a real story. At least with my brain, there is.

  Tim Schafer

  Real, Adventure, Thinking

  "Press Start: Double Fine kickstarter lacks cash, Japan to get Xbox One in 2014, and more" by Keith Stuart, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2013.

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• Close observation of children at play suggests that they find out about the world in the same way as scientists find out about new phenonoma and test new ideas...during this exploration, all the senses are used to observe and draw conclusions about objects and events through simple, if crude, scientific investigations.

  Judith Rodin

  Children, Simple, Play

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• I think it's even harder because I think as always, Hollywood is sort of glamour central for the world, and the entire world looks to it for not only entertainment, but the whole idea of the youth factor and youth being sold to our culture via young actors and actresses.

  Anthony Michael Hall

  Thinking, Style, Actresses

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• One of the goals of the Feminist Elite is to reinforce to women the idea that men are obsolete.

  Tammy Bruce

  Men, Goal, Feminist

  Tammy Bruce (2004). “The Death of Right and Wrong: Exposing the Left's Assault on Our Culture and Values”, p.80, Crown Forum

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• I would like new people with new ideas to come into it and change it.

  Neville Marriner

  People, New Ideas

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• You get ideas from other people all the time.

  Jared Harris

  People

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• We are coming out of a century that was taught that one way of looking at the world, that one form of behavior, is as valid as another. The idea of true evil has been blown away.

  Dean Koontz

  True Evil, Literature, World

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• First of all, it was such an honor to be chosen. You had to be voted in by players and coaches that time. But having it in Hawai'i was a brilliant idea.

  Dan Fouts

  Sports, Player, Honor

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• I had the idea that I should beat up every player I tangled with and nothing ever convinced me it wasn't a good idea.

  Ted Lindsay

  Player, Tangled, Brilliant

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• No, sometimes we just have to take liberties because the idea was so good. I wish we'd just gone with the idea that Patsy had been a man. It would have been fantastic.

  Jennifer Saunders

  Men, Wish, Liberty

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.

  Ad Reinhardt

  Artist, Thinking, Doe

  Ad Reinhardt, Barbara Rose (1991). “Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt”, p.143, Univ of California Press

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• It's a very good idea that we have a third term Labour government led by Tony Blair for a full term.

  Peter Mandelson

  Government, Brilliant, Blair

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• I have no plans for a future Jemima Shore mystery, but would write one tomorrow if a good idea came to me.

  Antonia Fraser

  Writing, Tomorrow, Brilliant

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• Some stars like to hide behind the whole idea of acting. But really good actors are not hiding at all. They're not afraid to be disliked, to be a little unsavory.

  Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

  Stars, Acting, Actors

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I had no idea that it was gonna take off the way it did. I thought we made a good movie.

  Morgan Spurlock

  Good Movie, Way, Brilliant

  Interview With Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. May 4, 2004.

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• It's not a good idea to put your wife into a novel; not your latest wife anyway.

  Norman Mailer

  Writing, Wife, Brilliant

  Norman Mailer, Michael Lennon (1988). “Conversations with Norman Mailer”, p.90, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• It is a good idea to know which publishers publish which stories. For example, there is no sense in sending a picture book text to a publisher who does not publish picture books.

  Margaret Mahy

  Book, Example, Doe

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