I was sure 'Summer Heights High' would be a cult ABC thing; I had no idea it would be such a big hit.
I'm definitely attracted to the idea of people that have these big aspirations that the audience know might never happen, but they're lost in them.
Perhaps I shouldn't have been influenced by the idea that my name could be spread across the entire world.
There is a strange idea abroad that in every subject the ancient book should be read only by the professionals, and the amateur should content himself with modern books.
If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilised morality to savage morality.
So the idea that there is nothing essential, in the sense that there are no human universals, is dogma. Ask most anyone who is going to be shot at dawn.
Revenge is a particularly interesting concept, especially the notion of whether or not it exists outside of just an abstract idea.
Knowledge is merely brilliance in organization of ideas and not wisdom. The truly wise person goes beyond knowledge.
The idea of goodies and baddies has always fascinated me, and what people consider to be a goodie or a baddie, because I've never seen any of my characters as baddies.
If there's a criticism of 'Cassadaga' that I agreed with, it's that we left things in the oven too long, that songs were overstuffed, with too many ideas competing for space.
I think there's so much about Rasta culture that's interesting. Just the idea of preaching one-ness, that we're all in this together.
In photo shoots, I rely on instinct. Which is not to say I don't bring ideas to a project or consider it beforehand.
I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter.
When I write on 'SNL,' I've found I'm most productive while collaborating and joking with friends and not being firmly attached to any one idea.
Students need to learn how to think critically, how to argue opposing ideas. It is important for them to learn how to think. You can always cook.
As long as I was breathing with the contractions and not pushing against them, I felt better. That idea is fundamental-to feel pain and not to resist; to go towards it. It is an incredibly spiritual practice.
The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea for a better one; the essence of theology is that it holds its truths to be eternal and immutable.
My life's all I got and Heaven is all in my brain, and when I feel I'm in Hell my ideas are what get me through pain.
Most poets are elitist dregs more concerned with proving their skill with a dictionary than communicating ideas with impact.
i'm going to bed before either of you come up with another clever idea to get us killed or worse expelled
Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated.
