Ideas Quotes - Page 24

• When you are reading, someone has done a lot of work on your behalf, someone has had ideas and has then written and corrected and improved them so that they can be shared.

  Margaret Mahy

  Reading, Done, Behalf

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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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• The idea of the show is that it's active and that children will become involved and watch the show, but also participate in the show. And I didn't know if that would work.

  Steve Burns

  Children, Watches, Shows

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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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• When shooting in the dark, it is a good idea to use a machine gun.

  Craig Reucassel

  Dark, Gun, Machines

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• I do want to write about Jane Whitefield again, but only when I have a good enough idea - something I've figured out about her that's news and that's worth a reader's time.

  Thomas Perry

  Writing, News, Want

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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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• There's been a number of erroneous biographies, articles and so on written about Billy and we both thought it would be a good idea to produce a true one.

  Pamela Stephenson

  Numbers, Would Be, Biographies

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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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• There are a lot of people who would laugh at the idea of me being a good singer.

  Nancy Sinatra

  People, Laughing, Singers

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

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• I have found out one thing and that is, if you have an idea, and it is a good idea, if you only stick to it you will come out all right.

  Cecil Rhodes

  Sticks, Brilliant, Found

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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'm no interior decorator, but just I have a feeling that plastic plants in the bathroom... probably not a good idea.

  Kyan Douglas

  Feelings, Bathroom, Brilliant

  "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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• Sequels are very rarely a good idea, and in any case, the success of the book changed my relationship with the club in some ways.

  Nick Hornby

  Book, Clubs, Way

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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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• I've never seen bad drawing destroy a good idea. On the other hand, I've never seen a good drawing save a bad idea.

  Paul Conrad

  Hands, Drawing, Brilliant

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• That's why I ended up leaving school - because it required so much time, and it was such an excellent idea. I figured I would regret not going full force with this idea. It seemed we could make something of it.

  Shawn Fanning

  Regret, School, Leaving

  "Q&A: Napster creator Shawn Fanning". Interview with Giancarlo Varanini, www.zdnet.com. March 3, 2000.

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• One should be willing to throw away a dozen ideas to come up with a good one, just as one should throw away a dozen words to come up with the right one.

  James Gunn

  Dozen, Brilliant, Should

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• Neophyte writers tend to believe that there is something magical about ideas and that if they can just get a hold of a good one, then their futures are ensured.

  Lynn Abbey

  Believe, Literature, Brilliant

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