I surrender the idea of having some kind of control over the arc of my career a lot of the time because you never know what tomorrow's going to bring.
The idea is to have global standards. There is so much travel that if you just had a regional standard, it would probably ultimately have to be changed.
The dreadful truth is that when people come to see their MP they have run out of better ideas.
When a truth is necessary, the reason for it can be found by analysis, that is, by resolving it into simpler ideas and truths until the primary ones are reached.
Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth.
Erin Gruwell: I love you. Steve Gruwell: You love the idea of me.
Aunt Edna: Is this your idea of a good restaurant? Dog killer!
I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.
I like the intimacy of independent films and I like the idea that people aren't being paid necessarily as much money as some one on a studio film.
The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.
You work to earn money. But in Japan, that idea has a bad image, and you're not supposed to say that.
It's not often that the idea of continuing something for a potentially long period of time sounds exciting to me, because I really am a gypsy by nature.
Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.
It's part of my nature. I get excited when trying out new stuff, whether it be an idea or equipment. It stimulates my juices.
Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.
For a long time, I really struggled with the idea of being an actor because I really felt that I should be in the Peace Corps.
Rather than diminishing the idea of 'truly needing' a relationship - and trying to deny it, shame it, or talk ourselves out of it - why not just celebrate it? It's exactly what the world needs.
I did want a boy child because I had this romantic idea that a boy child when he's 16 takes his mother out for dinner.
The idea of being a novelist is really romantic, but it's kind of the same as being president of the United States - it's not gonna happen.
We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.
I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.
