And so they pitched the show to me. It sounded like a good idea. We pitched the show back, and got it sold and got it on the air. And that's kicking the tail.
If an ad campaign is built around a weak idea - or as is so often the case, no idea at all - I don't give a damn how good the execution is, it's going to fail.
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.
I understand about this idea of terror and what it means to Americans and this idea that we can't just walk around free like we did; life has changed.
I love the idea of expanding the universe of games to some extent. At one point, they were kind of limited to boys, fanboys and whatever. I like the idea of liberation for games.
The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment.
When we're in the shower, when we're thinking about our idea - boy, does it sound brilliant. But the reality is that most of our ideas are actually terrible.
Well, I try not to think about the general public since I have no idea what the general public is and I don't think anybody does.
I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.
Sí, a veces la idea más absurda, la idea más fantástica en apariencia, se apodera de nosotros con tal fuerza que acabamos por creerla realizable.
A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible.
The wrong idea has taken root in the world. And the idea is this: there just might be lives out there that matter less than other lives.
There's no way I would have thought I would have had the career that I did and the longevity. Absolutely no idea.
One of America's strengths has always been its openness to the new: both new ideas and new people.
The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowhere.
The idea led me into the research, which continues to give me more ideas for the story.
I've always believed that if you support reform or you support a particular idea that you ought to fund that idea first and not the system.
Some of the ideas that come from the fringe of the far right are just so implausible that it is hard to take those ideas seriously.
Great ideas and small consistent actions with love can change the world from above.
The intellect is a cold thing and a merely intellectual idea will never stimulate thought in the same manner that a spiritual idea does.
The most powerful idea that's entered the world in the last few thousand years - the idea of grace - is the reason I would like to be a Christian.
