When I was first starting to write plays, I quite literally had never heard of the idea of studying playwriting. I wouldn't… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
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Whether or not regime change is a good idea or a bad idea. I don't think because I think the regime change… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
I'm done. I'm going to go to bed and read important books about theater." "It would would be easier if you just… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
What objectivity and the study of philosophy requires is not an 'open mind,' but an active mind - a mind able and… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Transcendental Meditation gives you what you need, when you need it. It's literally changed my life. Some of the clearest ideas or… — Hugh Jackman Copy Share Image
I'm not saying I don't ever improvise because I do that quite a lot, especially with other people, but generally I've got… — Thighpaulsandra Copy Share Image
The space that I can call mine.. is so small that my ideas have become small. I am like a caterpillar in… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
I would come to understand there is no poem separable from its source. I began to see that poems are not just… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
This is the law of prosperity: When apparent adversity comes, be not cast down by it, but make the best of it,… — Ralph Waldo Trine Copy Share Image
The compelling thing about making art—or making anything, I suppose—is the moment when the vaporous, insubstantial idea becomes a solid there, a… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
The vast majority of people support the idea of an enlightened, modern union of countries demonstrating solidarity. Film director Wim Wenders recently… — Martin Schulz Copy Share Image
The most rapid way to change a root thought, or sponsoring idea, is to reverse the thought-word-deed process. Do the deed that… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Slavery naturally tends to destroy all sense of justice and equity. It puffs up the mind with pride: teaches youth a habit… — David Rice Copy Share Image
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I read once that [Pablo] Picasso felt if an artist ever felt totally satisfied with a work she ceased to be an… — Milo Copy Share Image
“These are the attributes of Bullshit people; they will...blur your imagination, take your endowments for a piece of debris, make you ridiculous,… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
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Nothing bonds a group of people better when they are thrown into a situation where they have no idea what's going on… — Michael Stahl-David Copy Share Image
Well, you have absolutely no idea what a nightmare it was to be on a set, trying to figure out how I… — Michael Jeter Copy Share Image
It's hard not to be enthusiastic when you like what you're doing and I love what I do. I love writing stories,… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
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Art is actually based on the notion that if you would really celebrate an idea or a principle, you must think, you… — Maya Deren Copy Share Image
I am beginning to know what it feels like to be a woman. To have people looking at you all the time.… — John Mayer Copy Share Image
Everybody has his own great ideas about what my art should be. But I can do whatever I like and there aren't… — Raymond Pettibon Copy Share Image
Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become… — Dogen Copy Share Image
We always have a take that's 'one for fun', so once you've got what you need, you can do what you like.… — Guy Ritchie Copy Share Image
Recovery challenges the established order and as such, is a 'great idea' along with the ideas of evolution or a 'round earth';… — Laurie Davidson Copy Share Image
In doing everything, from coming up with the ideas and putting them on paper till doing the final edits, you are always… — Andrew McCarthy Copy Share Image
Certainly since then many people have taken a lot of those ideas and ridden them for years and years and made careers… — Arto Lindsay Copy Share Image
To tell you the truth, I'm not unhappy about it. I'm not even sure that I like the idea of adapting novels… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Knitting is repetitive, rewarding, and calms me down like a warm bath. But it takes up juuuust enough brainspace that I can't… — Vera Brosgol Copy Share Image
I love how I can see [on Twitter] some of the thoughts and ideas of my favorite cultural figures and still also… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
We shouldn’t be afraid to embrace whimsy, that nagging idea that life could be magical; it could be special if we were… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Th left laugh at the idea that you think we might have been on the verge of losing America. They laugh at… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I realized why I need to start a new company. Not for the money. Not because I'm 'bored'. But because a company… — Derek Sivers Copy Share Image
I'm concerned with our autonomy. I don't like the idea of people collecting information on me in general, but I particularly don't… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
... I have no idea who's steering, and I don't really care .. I just keep going whatever the inclination is ...… — Neil Young Copy Share Image
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