Originals Quotes - Page 13

• Books and movies inspire me, but I do my best to keep my stories as original as possible.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Book, Inspire, Stories

  "Nicholas Sparks, Author of 'Nights in Rodanthe' and 'The Notebook'". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. September 17, 2008.

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• I love being directed. Because it's another thought, it's another fresh idea. You're so grateful for an original idea that you haven't had.

  Diana Rigg

  Grateful, Love Is, Ideas

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When virtue is pictured as innocence and innocence equated with childlikeness, the implication is obviously that knowledge and experience are no longer media of goodness, but have become in themselves contaminating. This is a very despairing outlook, in its way as black as Augustine's original sin, for it supposes that original goodness will in all likelihood be defiled...It surrenders the attempt to represent virtue in a mature phase.

  Marina Warner

  Media, Black, Phases

  Marina Warner (2013). “Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism”, p.248, OUP Oxford

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• Before I start carving the idea must be almost complete. I say 'almost' because the really important thing seems to be the sculptor's ability to let his intuition guide him over the gap between conception and realization without compromising the integrity of the original idea; the point being that the material has vitality - it resists and makes demands.

  Barbara Hepworth

  Integrity, Ideas, Intuition

  "The Studio 132:643". as cited in Voicing our visions, - "Writings by women artists", ed. by Mara R. Witzling, Universe New York 1991, p. 279, 1946.

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• Work restores humankind and all its attributes to the savage animal condition that was its original intended state.

  Elfriede Jelinek

  Work, Animal, Savages

  Elfriede Jelinek, Michael Hulse (1992). “Lust”, Profile Books

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• Fatal human malice is the staple of narrators, original sin the mother-fluid of historians. But it is a risky enterprise to have to write of virtue.

  Thomas Keneally

  Mother, Writing, Narrators

  Thomas Keneally (2013). “Schindler's List”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• Poetry is creative expression; Prose is constructive expression... by creative I mean original. In Poetry the words are born or reborn in the act of thinking... There is no time interval between the words and the thought when a real poet writes, both of them happen together, and both the thought and the word are Poetry.

  Herbert Read

  Real, Writing, Mean

  "English Prose Style". Book by Herbert Read, 1928.

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• For the Second Amendment to do its job, the other side must become much better informed. I watched an action-adventure program last night that asserted that the famous AK-47 - the original peoples' rifle (and Authority's greatest mistake) - is rare in this country, and that the only ones here were originally smuggled in from the Middle East, or possibly from South America. The idiots who wrote this mess seemed unaware that after legal imports - mostly from China - were illegally cut off by executive order, they began to be manufactured here.

  L. Neil Smith

  Country, Jobs, Mistake

  "Tastes Like Chicken". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. March 28, 2010.

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• The whole movie thing has never been a source of great pride for me, in that Burt Reynolds, who starred in the picture, butchered the original script I had written for the late Steve McQueen, and the result, while a massive moneymaker, was lashed by the critics. But like the old joke about Pierre the Bridge Builder, The Cannonball Run is indelibly inscribed on my so-called career portfolio, and few conversations with strangers pass without the subject of the picture arising.

  Brock Yates

  Running, Pride, Bridges

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• Originality is another criterion of aesthetic value. We may formulate an originality principle, according to which highly valuable works of art provide hitherto unavailable insights.... Notice that, although originality is a necessary condition of high aesthetic value, it is far from a sufficient condition. Many original works have little or no aesthetic value. An artwork may present a novel but uninteresting perspective, or one that is original but wrong.

  James Young

  Art, Perspective, Principles

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• Evolution teaches us the original purpose of language was to ritualize men's threats and curses, his spells to compel the gods; communication came later.

  Gene Wolfe

  Communication, Men, Purpose

  Gene Wolfe (2009). “The Best of Gene Wolfe: A Definitive Retrospective of His Finest Short Fiction”, p.111, Macmillan

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• The idea of Curious Yellow, of surrender to a higher cause, seems to appeal to a certain small subset of humanity. These people manipulate the worm, customizing its payload to establish quisling dictatorships in its shadow, and the horrors these gauleiters invent in its service are far worse than the crude but direct tactics the original worm used.

  Charles Stross

  Ideas, Yellow, People

  Charles Stross (2006). “Glasshouse”, p.164, Penguin

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• I never did know exactly what was meant by the term "The Beats," but let's say that the original meeting, association, comradeship of Allen Ginsberg, myself, Michael McClure, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Philip Whalen, who's not here, Lew Welch, who's dead, Gregory Corso, for me, to a somewhat lesser extent (I never knew Gregory as well as the others) did embody a criticism and a vision which we shared in various ways, and then went our own ways for many years.

  Gary Snyder

  Years, Vision, Criticism

  "The Beat Vision". Book by Arthur Knight, 1986.

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• The clearsighted eye turns the light back to see its own Original Nature.

  Frederick Franck

  Eye, Light, Turns

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• We are a breed apart from the rest of humanity, we theatre folk.We are the original displaced personalities, concentrated gatherings of neurotics, egomaniacs, emotional misfits and precocious children.

  Herman J. Mankiewicz

  Children, Emotional, Personality

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• It's impossible in our postmodern era for anyone to be original - for anybody to do what Jackson Pollock did.

  Irving Sandler

  Eras, Impossible, Modernism

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• There is no such thing as a completely original technique or subject.

  Donald Lambert

  Technique, Originality, Subjects

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• I print giclees for artists and photographers for a livelihood. My original idea was to somehow combine the two.

  Donald Lambert

  Artist, Ideas, Two

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• Original artistic invention demands that even the inventor be surprised.

  Judith Schaechter

  Demand, Artistic, Invention

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• the 'total overpaintings' developed... through incessant reworking. The original motif peeped through the edges. Gradually it vanished completely.

  Arnulf Rainer

  Incessant, Motifs, Edges

  Arnulf Rainer, Rudolf Herman Fuchs, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Haags Gemeentemuseum (1989). “Arnulf Rainer: an exhibition”, Not Avail

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• Idolatry is still a socially cohesive force - its original function.

  Julian Jaynes

  Force, Function, Idolatry

  Julian Jaynes (2000). “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind”, p.347, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The original sin of Republicans is greed. Everyone understands greed. Everybody wants to get theirs. The original sin of Democrats is pity. Greed is more attractive, and a better motivator, than pity.

  John Scalzi

  Greed, Want, Republican

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• It is a commonplace observation that liberals believe in the perfectibility of man while conservatives believe in the endurance of original sin. Superficially, that would suggest that conservatives take a more understanding and indulgent view of individual lapses, while liberals take a more harshly judgmental one. In fact, we know, quite the opposite is the case.

  William A. Henry III

  Believe, Men, Views

  William A. Henry, III (2015). “In Defense of Elitism”, p.157, Anchor

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• The original of morals lies with the thought that 'the community is more valuable than the individual' (Menschliches 2.1.89

  John Carroll

  Lying, Community, Moral

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• Unless the fundamental categories of economics such as 'property' were to be redefined in a radically personal way the liberal rationalist curse which had established economics as a scientific discipline cut off from human interests would proliferate. Economic models ... have failed to incorporate any meaningful index of individual benefit other than the original utilitarian one, ... the index of increasing income or an increasing flow of commodities.

  John Carroll

  Meaningful, Cutting, Economic Models

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