No Idea Quotes - Page 4

• The fact is, when I wrote 'Juno' - and I think this is part of its charm and appeal - I didn't know how to write a movie. And I also had no idea it was going to get made!

  Diablo Cody

  Movie, Writing, Thinking

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• I went back and listened to the first three albums I made and tried to figure out what was special about them, why people keep going back to them. I think it was because I didn't know what I was doing. I had no idea if they were going to play it on the radio or anything. All I did was write songs, so that's what I got back to.

  Brian McKnight

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• Books. People have no idea how beautiful books are. How they taste on your fingers. How bright everything is when you light it with words.

  Rachel Kadish

  Beautiful, Book, Writing

  Rachel Kadish (2007). “Tolstoy Lied: A Love Story”, p.235, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You have citizens who don't understand how government works and they're kind of soured on it. All they do is criticize. They have no idea that they can make things happen.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Government, Ideas, Citizens

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• The histories which we have of the great tragedy give no idea of the general wretchedness, the squalid misery, which entered into every individual life in the region given up to the war. Where the armies camped the destruction was absolute.

  Rebecca Harding Davis

  War, Army, Ideas

  Rebecca Harding Davis (1904). “Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography”, p.76, Vanderbilt University Press

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• You know, as you compose music, you're just off in your own world. You have no idea where reality is, so to have an idea of what people think is pretty hard.

  Roy Lichtenstein

  Reality, Thinking, Ideas

  "New Again: Roy Lichtenstein". Interview with David Bowie, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 20, 2012.

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• After you do a joke a few times, you have material that you know works. Although sometimes I have a joke that has worked a bunch of times and then one night it’ll flop. And that’s when I really take a hard look at myself and say: "Well, that crowd is obviously wrong. That crowd has absolutely no idea what it’s talking about."

  Aziz Ansari

  Night, Talking, Ideas

  "Aziz Ansari Interview". Interview with Jessica Hundley, www.askmen.com.

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• Women! I have no idea. I don't know anything about women at all. They're a complete mystery to me.

  Bryan Ferry

  Ideas, Mystery, Ferry

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• You have no idea how fragile an actor's self-worth is.

  Elia Kazan

  Self Worth, Ideas, Actors

  Elia Kazan, Jeff Young (1999). “Kazan: the master director discusses his films : interviews with Elia Kazan”, Newmarket Pr

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• I hold no candle for George Osborne whatsoever. He has no strategic skills, is a hopeless chancellor, has no idea how most people have to live and his policies are failing and hurting millions.

  Alastair Campbell

  Hurt, Skills, Ideas

  "Would you have booed George Osborne at the Paralympics?" by Alastair Campbell and Danny Kelly, www.theguardian.com. September 8, 2012.

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• I learned how to horseback ride in English style, which is very hard, by the way. I had no idea how challenging it was. I've always ridden horses, but Western is like riding a horse in a rocking chair, as opposed to English, where you have to balance and hold on with your legs.

  Minka Kelly

  Horse, Ideas, Challenges

  "Minka Kelly Interview CHARLIE’S ANGELS". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 25, 2011.

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• When I was 14 I would pick up my brother's bass guitar, and I would just pound on it, having no idea how to play it.

  Steve Burns

  Brother, Guitar, Play

  "Ex-'Blue's Clues' host Steve Burns an indie rocker at heart" by Joe Dangelo, www.mtv.com. April 29, 2002.

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• I have no idea what goes on in another person's mind. As a legislator, I need to be good at persuading people, counting votes and getting to 50 percent plus one. I don't go back and say, 'Why did this person get to the right position?' It's only, 'Are you yes or are you no?

  Tammy Baldwin

  Ideas, People, Mind

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• Never reveal your insecurities to a man, because nine times out of 10 they have no idea they even exist.

  Emmanuelle Chriqui

  Men, Ideas, Insecurity

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

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• People who have no idea it's me when they first see me playing something, and later they realize, 'That's her from whatever it is,' it's a great compliment that they can forget.

  Linda Cardellini

  Ideas, People, Firsts

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

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• I don't think the space station is innovative. Going to the moon was innovative because we had no idea how to do it.

  Peter Diamandis

  Moon, Thinking, Ideas

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• Well people often ask me how I felt growing up with a father who was a politician and who was often away. But when I'm asked that question I often reflect on my inability really to be able to answer it in any relative sense because I never grew up with a father doing anything else. So I just have no idea what it would be like otherwise.

  Alexander Downer

  Growing Up, Father, Ideas

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

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• I had no idea that 'Less Than Zero' was going to be read by anyone outside of Los Angeles, and it's - believe me, as the writer of the book I'm somewhat amused and intrigued by the idea that 25 years later it's still out and people are still reading it.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Zero, Reading, Believe

  "Novelist Bret Easton Ellis". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. June 29, 2010.

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• People think the gold medal is yours and they say you're going to win - but they have no idea how hard it is. People aren't doing it negatively - they're mostly lovely and they really do want you to win - but they don't understand the difficulty and intensity of competition.

  Jessica Ennis

  Thinking, Winning, Ideas

  "Jessica Ennis: 'I'm getting to that point where I'm ready to peak'". Interview with Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. May 21, 2012.

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• I have no idea what I'm doin'. I've never seen me.

  Mose Allison

  Ideas

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself and how little I deserve it.

  William Gilbert

  Ideas, Inferiority, Littles

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• I started writing by doing small related things but not the thing itself, circling it and getting closer. I had no idea how to write fiction. So I did journalism because there were rules I could learn. You can teach someone to write a news story. They might not write a great one, but you can teach that pretty easily.

  Amy Hempel

  Writing, Ideas, News Stories

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• My earliest acting memory is making up a play for my mom and dad called The Lonesome Baby. I have no idea what The Lonesome Baby was about. I just remember the title. But I'm sure it was an epic.

  Jane Horrocks

  Mom, Baby, Memories

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• Looking back now at my first World Cup experience, I didn't know what was going on. I was a newbie and I had no idea what to expect.

  Cobi Jones

  Ideas, World, Cups

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• When I start any book, I have no idea what I'm going to do.

  Jon Krakauer

  Book, Ideas

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