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“I did a lot of reading of the Bible and became fascinated with the idea of the Rapture. It's pretty wild. I hadn't heard of it until I was in college.”

Ideas Reading Heard College Fascinated Rapture

Author:Tom Perrotta

“I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.”

Ideas Morning Sunday Good Morning Sunday Morning Morning After

Author:Michael J. Fox

“The idea of 'talking white,' a lot of people grew up around that, just the idea that if you speak with proper diction and come off as educated that it's not black and that it's actually anti-black and should be considered only something that white people would do.”

People Ifs Should Ideas Speak Black White Talking Grew Grew Up Educated Diction

Author:Chance the Rapper

“I knew I wanted to be some kind of artist from about 12. I met a neighbour who drew cartoons, and I had an idea I wanted to be a cartoonist - or something that involved Indian ink, at any rate.”

Kind Ideas Wanted Artist Involved Mets Rate Indian Cartoon Ink Neighbour Cartoonist

Author:Edward Ruscha

“At all times, think like a writer, and keep those antennae twitching - that way, you pick up new ideas.”

Thinking Way Ideas Picks All Time New Ideas Twitching

Author:Ian Rankin

“I took the first James Kelman novel, 'The Bus Conductor Hines', home to my dad. I thought, 'My dad will like this; it's written in Scots.' But my dad said: 'I can't read that.' He was reading James Bond and John le Carre. That was part of what attracted me to crime - the idea of getting a wide audience.”

Firsts Said I Can Ideas Home Reading Novel Audience Written Crime Dad My Dad Wide Bus Conductor Scots

Author:Ian Rankin

“You need a great idea, but then you've got to carry it through. If you get it right, you're going to be a critical success. But not everyone who works hard gets it right, or has the success they deserve: there's an element of luck.”

Ifs Needs Ideas Hard Hard Work Elements Deserve Luck Critical Great Idea

Author:Ian Rankin

“While a lab Director can get done the things that he regards as important, he has the more important job of bringing out the best ideas of the broader scientific community.”

Important Ideas Done Jobs Community Directors Regard Labs Important Jobs Bringing Out The Best

Author:Burton Richter

“I had various jobs, I taught a SAT class, I was a bartender, I had a day job at an office and was making short films. I got grants from NYSCA and NEA for an idea, which later became 'Huckabees,' about a guy in a Chinese restaurant who had microphones on every table and heard every personal conversation and would write perversely personal fortunes.”

Writing Ideas Jobs Film Guy Class Heard Taught Conversation Office Tables Fortune Various Chinese Sat Restaurants Grants Microphones Day Jobs Bartender Short Films

Author:David O. Russell

“I had never been to a fashion show before going to the Burberry show last month. It was an extraordinary spectacle. I was incredibly green and had no idea what an undertaking it is. I also have a new respect for models because they are so close to the front row and must be so self-conscious.”

Ideas Self Shows Lasts Fashion Fronts Months Models Conscious Green Extraordinary No Idea Self Conscious Undertakings Fashion Show Burberry

Author:Eddie Redmayne

“If you're an English actor and turn up in America, they don't have an opinion about where you sit. They have no idea what auditions to send you to, so they send you to everything.”

Ifs Ideas America Turns Actors Opinion No Idea Auditions

Author:Eddie Redmayne

“I think part of the fun of being an actor is getting to work with different directors and seeing their take on it, what they're passionate about. They all have different ideas about your character.”

Thinking Ideas Different Character Actors Fun Seeing Directors Passionate Different Ideas

Author:Elizabeth Reaser

“The idea is that that there is no such thing as an external enemy.”

Ideas Enemy

Author:Guy Ritchie

“And Twin Peaks, the Film is the craziest film in the history of cinema. I have no idea what happened, I have no idea what I saw, all I know is that I left the theater floating six feet above the ground.”

Knows Ideas Film Left Saws Happened Feet Six Theater No Idea Cinema Twins Floating Craziest Twin Peaks

Author:Jacques Rivette

“For some reason, some of my best solutions and ideas are triggered in those dark theaters, usually totally unrelated to what's going on onscreen. I also enjoy hiking in the foothills and mountains close to Sacramento. I always have to bring a pen and paper to jot down sudden thoughts and ideas. So inspiration arises from countless sources.”

Ideas Reason Inspiration Enjoy Dark Source Mountain Paper Solutions Theater Arise Pens Hiking Thoughts And Ideas Sacramento

Author:James Rollins

“I feel connected to that idea of wanting to belong to something, to have a sense of purpose as a man on the planet.”

Men Feels Ideas Purpose Planets Connected

Author:Jeremy Renner

“And as a filmmaker, I'm trying to unhook myself from this idea that unless you have a brilliant, long, enormously lucrative theatrical run, that your movie somehow failed. And I don't believe that.”

Trying Believe Long Ideas Running Don't Believe Brilliant Filmmaker Theatrical

Author:Josh Radnor

“You know what I want? The answer is, I truly don't know what I want. I don't want to do a television series. I want to do dramas as well as comedies, but I have no idea what kind or in what order. Just give me the chance at them.”

Knows Want Giving Wells Kind Ideas Order Chance Answers Comedy Television Drama Give Me Series No Idea

Author:Michael J. Fox

“The enmity of such a party towards Socialism does not mean that the members are only prejudiced against it because they do not know it; it means that they are possessed of bourgeois ideas, and wish to determine their policy accordingly.”

Knows Mean Doe Ideas Wish Party Policy Members Determine Socialism Possessed Bourgeois Enmity

Author:Karl Radek

“Dance has helped me with everything. It was a great foundation for discipline, hard work and, unfortunately, the ever-elusive idea of perfection. It lends itself easily to fight choreography, because that's what it really is. Choreography. And knowing how to move with someone.”

Ideas Hard Moving Fighting Knowing Hard Work Discipline Perfection Foundation Elusive Choreography

Author:Keri Russell

“Maybe because I didn't have a huge film career right off the bat, I've been able to create something different, which is so important to me. That's myself, my idea of who I am.”

Important Ideas Different Able Film Careers Huge Who I Am Bats

Author:Kim Raver

“As someone who's been doing a lot of classical theater recently, I loved the idea of getting to run around in Steven Alan, and not be in a corset and a wig, and not have a dialect, and get to be in a 90-minute play with no intermission, and get to do real comedy.”

Ideas Real Play Running Comedy Minutes Theater Wigs Dialect Corsets Intermission

Author:Lily Rabe

“To really be on stage and not know what you're going to say, and to be able to say something that makes people laugh, or do something that's sort of abstract or off the beaten path and have people connect to it by just putting your ideas together, that really makes me happy.”

People Knows Ideas Able Together Laughing Path Stage Abstract Beaten Making People Laugh Make Me Happy Beaten Path Off The Beaten Path

Author:Mary Lynn Rajskub

“Furthermore, even if ideas were gettable - say, stacked in a secluded cave like the Dead Sea scrolls - I wouldn't go there. An 'idea,' especially one adhered to from start to finish, can be disastrous for a compelling piece of fiction.”

Ifs Ideas Fiction Pieces Sea Compelling Caves Secluded

Author:Ron Rash

“When I'm shooting on location, you get ideas on the spot - new angles. You make not major changes but important modifications, that you can't do on a set. I do that because you have to be economical.”

Important Ideas Majors Spots Shooting Location Angle Modification Major Change

Book:Satyajit Ray: Interviews

Source: Satyajit Ray: Interviews

“Now that I finally have the time for it, this web surfing stuff turns out to be as interesting and fun and addictive as you've all been telling me. Zipping from link to link, chasing an idea across the noosphere, sucking up information like a killer whale - way cool.”

Way Ideas Turns Fun Stuff Interesting Information Links Killers Chasing Surfing Whales Killer Whales Surfing The Web

Author:Spider Robinson

“Not surprisingly, troubled economic times often beget proselytizers of wacky, extreme ideas.”

Ideas Economic Extremes Begets Wacky Tough Economic Times

Author:Steven Rattner

“When I finished a song that I thought was good, I thought, I don't know where that came from, so I have no idea if I can do that again. I'm talking like, a hundred and fifty songs down the line. I still feel that.”

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Author:Trevor Rabin

“I was obsessed with this idea that these things that you collect, they just say so much about who you are. I can't say it came from hard-nosed business analysis... It was just something I really want to see built.”

Want I Can Ideas Hard Built Who You Are Analysis Obsessed

Author:Ben Silbermann

“The idea that you can live off the grid and just do your own thing is a very American idea - that you should be able to do your own thing, if you want to, if you're willing to pay the price for it. I think the price has gotten higher and higher.”

Ifs Thinking Want Should Ideas Able Pay Willing Higher Pay The Price Grids

Author:Dana Spiotta

“I'm a very private person, so I didn't like this idea of tweeting about me. And then I realized, 'Oh, this is actually a brilliant device in terms of interacting with the fans'. It's a lovely way to just get back, to thank the fans for watching the show. And to live tweet is kind of like getting the rewards of doing live theatre.”

Way Kind Persons Ideas Shows Term Fans Rewards Theatre Brilliant I Realized Lovely Devices Get Back Tweet Interacting Live Theatre

Author:Darby Stanchfield

“I know in this time of great technological advancement, the idea of reading a book seems almost anachronistic, but I think it's worth preserving.”

Thinking Knows Book Ideas Seems Reading Technological Advancement Technological Advancement

Author:Garth Stein

“In the '90s there were these great end of the world movies like 'Armageddon' and 'Deep Impact'... I always liked the idea of what people on the ground are doing, not so much the people who are trying to stop the world from ending.”

People World Trying Ideas Ends Impact End Of The World Armageddon Deep Impact

Author:Lorene Scafaria

“I've been obsessed with doomsday for a long time - the idea that different cultures respond to it differently, and religions will change people's outlook on it.”

People Long Ideas Different Culture Long Time Obsessed Outlook Different Cultures Doomsday

Author:Lorene Scafaria

“The big ideas always come in flashes. I don't really craft stories that much. I genuinely don't know where these people come from and I've often wondered if writing is just a socially acceptable form of madness.”

People Ifs Knows Writing Ideas Stories Bigs Form Madness Crafts Acceptable Flash Big Ideas

Author:Taiye Selasi

“I'm interested in character and dialogue and exchange of ideas.”

Ideas Character Dialogue

Author:Alexander McCall Smith

“I just like to have the ideas. Other people can help see them through.”

People Ideas Helping

Author:Amy Sedaris

“An idea can be as flawless as can be, but its execution will always be full of mistakes.”

Ideas Mistake Execution Flawless

Author:Brent Scowcroft

“Well not really to get attention, but to entertain, but you know to show some elements of rural life as well, it kind of blended all in, its kind of like a mockery in a sense, kind of stab back at people that have those stereotypical ideas of the south.”

People Knows Wells Kind Ideas Shows Attention Elements South Mockery Bubba Rural Life

Author:Bubba Sparxxx

“Australia is properly speaking an island, but it is so much larger than every other island on the face of the globe, that it is classed as a continent in order to convey to the mind a just idea of its magnitude.”

Mind Ideas Faces Order Islands Australia Continents Globes Magnitude

Book:Two expeditions into the interior of Southern Australia: during the years 1828, 1829, 1830 and 1831 with observations on ... New South Wales

Source: Two expeditions into the interior of Southern Australia: during the years 1828, 1829, 1830 and 1831 with observations on ... New South Wales

“For me, the American promise isn't just an idea or a theory - it's my life story.”

Ideas Stories Theory Promise Life Story

Author:Cristina Saralegui

“I've always been tremendously interested in criminal law. It goes to a deep interest I have in prisons and the criminal element, and what we do as a society with it. I've always been touched by the idea of criminality.”

Ideas Law Interest Elements Prison Criminals Touched Criminality Criminal Law

Author:Elizabeth Strout

“In Europe, there is so much tradition, and everyone has established ideas as to what art should be and what it has always been.”

Should Art Ideas Europe Tradition

Author:Esa-Pekka Salonen

“Cold Case Files and similar shows do bang up business, which points to a certain thirst for details in the viewership, but it seems like all the news chat shows continue to force the myth that Americans can’t stand detail and have no interest in an idea that can’t fit on a bumper sticker.”

Ideas Shows Seems Certain Force Interest Cases Cold Fit News Details Myth Thirst Bangs Files Bumper Sticker Bumper Sticker Cold Case

Author:Hal Sparks

“Frankly, I was surprised at how generous the Japanese press has been to the idea of a foreigner running Sony.”

Has Beens Ideas Running Presses Generous Foreigners Sony

Author:Howard Stringer

“It was but then, when you're, one of the great poisonous events that have infected us all who were in South Africa is that the idea of difference is drip fed into your veins. It's that that you fight.”

Ideas Fighting Differences Events South Feds South Africa Veins Poisonous

Author:Janet Suzman

“The problem is that the right doesn't need any ideas to govern, but the left can't govern without ideas.”

Needs Ideas Problem Left

Author:Jose Saramago

“A lot of people don't give much thought to what they believe, and it's easy for them to hold what often are two conflicting ideas in their head at the same time.”

People Giving Believe Two Ideas Easy Conflicting Ideas

Author:Lee Strobel

“The idea of transformation - playing something I'm not - is the bit I enjoy most about acting.”

Ideas Bits Enjoy Acting Transformation

Author:Mark Strong

“It is true that of far the greater part of things, we must content ourselves with such knowledge as description may exhibit, or analogy supply; but it is true likewise, that these ideas are always incomplete, and that at least, till we have compared them with realities, we do not know them to be just. As we see more, we become possessed of more certainties, and consequently gain more principles of reasoning, and found a wider base of analogy.”

Knows May Ideas Reality Found Principles Knowledge Greater Gains Certainty Reasoning Description Possessed Incomplete Exhibits Analogies

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Lives of the poets

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Lives of the poets

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