I think that ideas exist outside of ourselves. I think somewhere, we’re all connected off in some very abstract land. But somewhere between there and here ideas exist.
DAVID LYNCHInside, we are ageless and when we talk to ourselves, it’s the same age of the person we were talking to when we were little. It’s the body that is changing around that ageless center.
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Life is filled with abstractions, and the only way to make heads or tails of it is going through intuition.
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The day you catch an idea you fall in love with, even a small one, is a beautiful day.
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I don’t like the word ironic. I like the word absurdity, and I don’t really understand the word ‘irony’ too much. The irony comes when you try to verbalize the absurd. When irony happens without words, it’s much more exalted.
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Don’t make a film if it can’t be the film you want to make. It’s a joke, and a sick joke, and it’ll kill you.
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I don’t know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn’t make sense.
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We’re all like detectives. We want to figure things out. Life, you know, we want to figure out life, and we want to figure out what’s going on, so it’s beautiful. It’s beautiful that people are thinking.
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I like to remember things my own way. How I remembered them, not necessarily the way they happened.
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My cow is not pretty, but it is pretty to me.
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I like darkness and confusion and absurdity, but I like to know that there could be a little door that you could go out into a safe life area of happiness.
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There is an ocean of pure vibrant consciousness inside each one of us.
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The big treasury is an ocean of infinite creativity. It’s a creativity that creates everything that is a thing – it’s mighty powerful creativity.
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I started Transcendental Meditation in 1973 and have not missed a single meditation ever since. Twice a day, every day. It has given me effortless access to unlimited reserves of energy, creativity and happiness deep within.
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Mystery is the number one conjurer of ideas.
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New mysteries. New day. Fresh doughnuts.
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Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas. But wood can translate ideas, too. You have wood and then you get a chair. Some ideas are for different things.
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When you have something that brings a real emotion, that’s the power of cinema.
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Be true to yourself. Don’t take no for an answer. And start your Transcendental Meditation.
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There’s always fear of the unknown where there’s mystery.
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The more unknowable the mystery, the more beautiful it is.
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Many things happen that we don’t know the significance of until a little bit later.
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We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.
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Negativity is the enemy of creativity.
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Sugar does make people happy, but then you fall off the edge after a few minutes, so I’ve really pretty much cut it out of my diet. Except for cupcakes. I like those.
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Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way.
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Through the darkness of future past, the magician longs to see, one chance out between two worlds, fire walk with me!
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Inside, we are ageless and when we talk to ourselves, it’s the same age of the person we were talking to when we were little. It’s the body that is changing around that ageless center.
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