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My idea about collections is that you write as hard as you can for some period and what you're really doing during that time is hyper-focusing on the individual pieces - trying to make each one sit up and really do some surprising work.

My idea here is that, inasmuch as certain cognitive tasks and principles are tied to nature's laws, these tasks and principles are indifferent to language, culture, gender, or the particular mode of information that is provided.

My idea in terms of managing a narrative, or in thinking in my creative life, is that you could easily argue that the past, the present and the future all occur simultaneously, and if you can postulate that, then you're not strictly bound to a linear narrative.

My idea of a delicious time is to read a book that is wonderful. But the ruling passion of my life is being a seeker after truth and the divine.

My idea of a good work-out is two hours spent worrying about the bags under my eyes.

My idea of an educated person is one who can converse on one subject for more than two minutes.

My idea of a perfect pet is a really, really big dog! Huge!

My idea of a vacation is to rest quietly in the shade of a blond.

My idea of beauty is somebody that doesn't have to try too much, someone who is effortless and fresh.

My idea of covers is that you should never cover a song and do it exactly like the artist because everyone's always going to compare it to the way the original artists did it, and they're just going to go, 'Oh I like the original better.'

My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.

My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.

My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies.

My idea of professionalism is probably a lot of people's idea of obsessive.

My idea of 'roughing it' is when you have to have an extension for your electric blanket.

My idea of sexy is that less is more. The less you reveal the more people can wonder.

My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.

My idea of what was going on in politics was driven by activism. I came out when I was 17, and right away I started working in the AIDS activist movement. For me, politics was about getting drugs approved and getting prisoners access to the same kind of drugs that you could get on the outside. It was about getting needle exchanges approved. That was politics. These were policy problems that were killing people, and we were trying to get them changed.

My ideas about time all developed from the realization that if nothing were to change we could not say that time passes. Change is primary, time, if it exists at all, is something we deduce from it.

My ideas and creativity are the sources of inspiration for me.

My ideas are not meant to suggest dreams or reality, but a surreal quality.

My ideas for the next collection always happen a couple of months before the show. I have learned to shut up and not bother my assistants with it.

My idea was that the role of the special forces were to train Vietnamese to behave as guerrillas, harassing the supply lines down through the mountains of the, ah, the Viet Cong. And the special American special forces were to train their special forces to do that.

My impression was and is that many programming languages and tools represent solutions looking for problems, and I was determined that my work should not fall into that category. Thus, I follow the literature on programming languages and the debates about programming languages primarily looking for ideas for solutions to problems my colleagues and I have encountered in real applications. Other programming languages constitute a mountain of ideas and inspiration-but it has to be mined carefully to avoid featurism and inconsistencies.

My indifference to money and my spendthrift ways are disgraceful. You have no idea how reckless I am; how often I practically throw money out of the window. I am always making good resolutions, but the next minute I forget and give the waiter eightpence.

My initial idea was I wanted to make it a horror film, very much. At times I do enter that world.

My idea, as the whole world knows, is that the capitalist system now doesn't work either for the United States or the world, driving it from crisis to crisis, which are each time more serious.

My idea for every exhibition is we should be able to see every individual work without being distracted by the others, and it doesn't matter if it's quite crowded.

My idea of absolute happiness is to be in bed on a rainy day, with my blankie, my cat, and my dog.

My idea of a good job would be to be paid really well to sit on my ass all day to look at pictures.

My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person.

My idea of a productive day, as both a child and an adult, was reading for hours and staring out the window.

My idea of a romantic night is to watch action films.

My idea of gambling was walking through Central Park, whistling show tunes.

My idea of good poetry is any dog doing anything.

My idea of happiness is effortless happiness. The things that ground you. For me it's art and cooking, for example, and when I can be with my friends and the people I love and do simple things. That's when I'm the happiest.

My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.

My idea of Hell is to be young again.

My 'Idea of India' calls not just for tolerance, but a celebration of all points of view. Where the sensibilities of every individual are respected

My idea of managing is giving the ball to Tom Seaver and sitting down and watching him work.

My idea of marriage, as of every other partnership, ... is that each member shall contribute to it his or her personality, unrepressed and uncoerced. Thus, and only thus, we obtain the most complex synthesis possible, which may well surpass in beauty, as it surely does in interest and human value, the separate elements of such an association.

My idea of the ideal sex education site doesn't exist.

My idea of the real aristocrat is the master workman, no matter what his line of work may be.

My idea of what God should be is a good guy. I don't think there's any good in killing people in the name of your God.

My ideas are not developed before I actually do the pieces.

My ideas come, and there is a deep desire to create. Sometimes it's stronger than me. Sometimes I have to do projects that I know are almost impossible but I still have to do them. It's like a muscle - if you are a dancer, you need to dance, if you are a creative person, you need to create. It's part of your life.

My ideas had been taking a socialistic shape for many years; but they were lacking in definite outline.

My ideas sometimes get the better of me. Before I clearly explain one, another comes to mind and seizes my attention.

My ideas were confused. In a peculiar way, the unreality of the outer world appeared to be an extension of my own disturbed state of mind.

My idea was that if I took a picture of somebody and years later, or whenever, they would die and if someone wanted to know who this person was, they could take one of these pictures and it would tell who the person was.