Be willing to get fired for a good idea.
I have learned over the course of my many years that it is a bad idea, usually, to investigate piteous weeping but always a fine thing to look into a giggle.
Nor does the idea of a moral order asserting itself against attack or want of conformity answer in full to our feelings regarding the tragic character.
The writers and producers always have an idea, then they cast the role and the instrument starts to tell them how to play the music.
In my books, my idea is always to explore social context and social forces.
I've often said that there's no such thing as writer's block, the problem is idea block
When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought this was a good idea
Somehow people get the idea I think we should be given gumdrops whenever we do anything of value.
The big reason why folks leave a small town,' Rant used to say, 'is so they can moon over the idea of going back. And the reason they stay put is so they can moon about getting out. ' Rant meant that no one is happy, anywhere.
In the early '90s, there was such a limited idea of what you could see on TV.
No idea will work if people don't trust your intentions toward them.
Siobhan said that when you are writing a book you have to include some descriptions of things. I said that I could take photographs and put them in the book. But she said the idea of a book was to describe things using words so that people could read them and make a picture in their own head.
We all are [normal]. Their idea of normal just happens to be different to some other people's idea of normal. But this is the world we live in. Some people simply cannot accept something that is outside of their experience.
I'm more interested in the idea of role-playing in general than the idea of role-playing in art. I like the childlike quality of making pretend or the optimistic idea of pretending something's happening when it's not.
The idea that anyone would think their religious ideas make them morally superior is just preposterous.
The idea that all problems either have a solution or can be shown to be pseudo-problems is not one I share.
I went to the top of the mountain in television and could do anything I wanted, but I wanted to do an independent film, which results in you paying your own way, fighting like hell to get distribution, and maybe 30 people will see it. That was a good idea.
I would say that, apart from being a writer, I have also always been very conscious of the idea of a 'world elsewhere'.
I'm interested in complexity, in the mathematical sense, as well as the idiomatic sense. The idea of emergence - that it's possible for complex patterns to arise out of many simple interactions - is fascinating.
Every time we choose action over ease or labor over rest, we develop an increasing level of self-worth, self-respect and self-confidence. In the final analysis, it is how we feel about ourselves that provides the greatest reward from any activity. It is not what we get that makes us valuable, it is what we become in the process of doing that brings value into our lives. It is activity that converts human dreams into human reality, and that conversion from idea into actuality gives us a personal value that can come from no other source.
