#idea

A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she'll appear in film and it won't work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don't know. ↗

— Oliver Stone

#beautiful #beauty #call #field #film

I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#authorities #autocracy #dictatorship #envied #freedom

My life feels, week to week, incomplete to the level of being pointless if I am not in preparation for the next play or, ideally, into it. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#being #feels #i #i am #ideally

The idea of the state is, or should be, a very limited, prescribed idea. The state looks after the defense of the realm, and other matters - raising revenue to pay for things which are for all of us, and so on. That idea has turned turtle now. The state isn't any longer perceived as an institution which exists to serve us. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#any #defense #exists #idea #institution

Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong. ↗

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

#highest #ideas #moral #music #namely

If a person with a bullet in Dallas can change the world, imagine a person with an idea could do. ↗

— J. Michael Straczynski

#change #change the world #could #dallas #idea

My son had toyed with the idea of writing and trying to write a little bit, so that kind of gave me the bug to write also. ↗

— George Strait

#bit #bug #gave #had #idea

Here we encounter two conflicting concepts with which we must come to grips in our time: the idea of national solidarity and the idea of international cooperation. ↗

— Gustav Stresemann

#concepts #conflicting #cooperation #encounter #grips

Frankly, I was surprised at how generous the Japanese press has been to the idea of a foreigner running Sony. ↗

— Howard Stringer

#foreigner #frankly #generous #how #i

I love the idea of a movie hero in a thriller who is able to get ahead by just his brilliance, and not with a gun or by being an action hero. ↗

— Danny Strong

#action #action hero #ahead #being #brilliance