#idea

The informing idea of what you want to say and do, that's what will take you from film school to professional - the idea. That's what is original to you. ↗

— William Friedkin

#film school #idea #informing #original #professional

At the moment, I'm toying with a new idea for a book, but fully engaged with writing screenplays, so the book idea - which needs empty space in my head - is barely formed yet. ↗

— Rose Tremain

#book #empty #empty space #engaged #formed

The idea of being a painter, I've always thought, is better than being an artist or a sculptor. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#artist #being #better #i #idea

We're always attracted to characters who are people we could identify with and yet are put through incredibly tortured or difficult circumstances - the idea being that you don't really know who you are until you've been tested or suffered in some way. ↗

— Erich Hoeber

#attracted #been #being #characters #circumstances

It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil. ↗

— John Maynard Keynes

#evil #good #ideas #interests #vested

Throughout the past, there has been a lack of intimacy, affection, and regard for Islam by Christianity. This, to a large extent, has been due to a lack of knowledge of the great human and spiritual ideals for which Islam and the teachings of Islam stand. ↗

— Aly Khan

#been #christianity #due #extent #great

It was a wonderful time to be young. The 1960s didn't end until about 1976. We all believed in Make Love, Not War. We were idealistic innocents, despite the drugs and sex. ↗

— Margot Kidder

#believed #despite #end #idealistic #innocents

The television industry doesn't like to see the compexity of the world. It prefers simple reporting, with simple ideas: this is white, that's black; this is good, that's bad. ↗

— Krzysztof Kieslowski

#black #good #ideas #industry #like

Today, people tend to credit me with having the original idea and made the first circuits. ↗

— Jack Kilby

#credit #first #having #idea #made

Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love. ↗

— John Locke

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