Originals Quotes - Page 2

• The original Dean Martin Comedy Hour handed me some hysterical sketches. I've got highlights on tons of these variety shows, given to me by their great writers. I'd love to be doing all that again.

  Ruth Buzzi

  Comedy, Hysterical, Hours

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• Obviously everybody knows that I'm an original songwriter and I got my band. And the guys in Sugar Money, no matter what, are part of my family and they always got something to do with me, and I don't care if they just hang out with me.

  Bo Bice

  Guy, Band, Care

  "Rocking Runner-Up Bo Bice Wants To Show What He's Really About". Interview with Corey Moss, www.mtv.com. May 25, 2005.

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• I was in the original cast of Wicked, and that got a bad review in The New York Times, and it’s the most successful thing that’s ever been put onstage.

  Norbert Leo Butz

  New York, Successful, Wicked

  "Norbert Leo Butz And The Root Of Evil". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 27, 2012.

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• I think everybody needs healing. My understanding of human beings is that we were created in the image of God but we are all fallen, and Jesus died for us so that we can be redeemed. Every Christian is in a process of healing in some way. God's original creation was good, and in some ways fallen away from that. And in every area of our life we need to be healed and restored and to become more Christ-like.

  Nicky Gumbel

  Christian, Jesus, Healing

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• No 'mise en scène' has the right to be repeated, just as no two personalities are ever the same. As soon as a 'mise en scène' turns into a sign, a cliché, a concept however original it may be, then the whole thing - characters, situation, psychology - become schematic and false.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Character, Two, Personality

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• When hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world went to the Yukon to look for gold, the original prospectors had already claimed most of it.

  Howard Blum

  People, Gold, Looks

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• I've written original material before, where I've come up with the idea and the characters myself, and that's definitely very different to working with someone else's characters and stories.

  Alex Garland

  Character, Ideas, Different

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Often, the idea that there can be a wide range of translations of one text doesn't occur to people - or that a translation could be bad, very bad, and unfaithful to the original.

  Lydia Davis

  Ideas, People, Unfaithful

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• Star Wars, the original movie, was all the various old genre of pictures: the swashbucklers, the war movies, all those things were put n there in a different look.

  Bruce Boxleitner

  Stars, War, Different

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• I think it's my nature to try and make original content, and that's what I've done, is just try and approach things in an original way, and do things differently.

  Darren Aronofsky

  Thinking, Trying, Done

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• I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.

  Piers Anthony

  Elements, Want, Guilty

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• Up until college age I was using the typical little-boy dummy that sits on the knee and makes woodpecker jokes. My first original character didn't happen until later, and that was Jose the Jalapeno on a Stick.

  Jeff Dunham

  Character, Boys, College

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at The Washington Post, The New York Times, and the three original TV networks.

  Carl Bernstein

  New York, Years, Three

  "Carl Bernstein: Is Phone-Hacking Scandal Murdoch's Watergate?". www.newsweek.com. July 9, 2011.

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• Country music is completely punk-rock. It's the original punk-rock.

  Neko Case

  Country, Rocks, Punk

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• The level of detail and craft is something that's inscribed within the original design concept. And so when I begin to draw, I know what kind of detailing I want the building to have.

  Tadao Ando

  Design, Details, Levels

  Interview with Architectural Record, www.coldbacon.com. May 2002.

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• I have always credited the writer of the original material above the title: Mario Puzo's The Godfather, Bram Stoker's Dracula, or John Grisham's The Rainmaker. I felt that I didn't have the right to Francis Coppola's anything unless I had written the story and the screenplay.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Directors, Titles, Stories

  Buography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Nations sometimes flourish by denying the crimes that brought them into being. Only when the original invasion, occupation, extermination or usurpation has been safely thrust into the political unconscious can sovereignty feel secure.

  Terry Eagleton

  Political, Occupation, Invasion

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• I think original voices get noticed. But most importantly, I think you should have a story to tell.

  Chetan Bhagat

  Thinking, Should Have, Voice

  "Q&A: Chetan Bhagat on His New Book". Interview with Diksha Sahni, blogs.wsj.com. September 19, 2011.

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• It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud.

  Ira Glass

  Fun, Loud, Carver

  "Ira Glass: Live and Uncut". Interview with Ana Marie Cox And Joanna Dionis, www.motherjones.com. August 11, 1998.

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• I am outraged that the Gorillaz have infringed the copyright of my song 'Time Warp,' claiming their song 'Stylo' to be an original composition.

  Eddy Grant

  Song, Warp, Copyright

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• 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

  School, Ideas, Want

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• All too often, when creative people pick out someone else's creative work as an inspiration, what they end up with is very, very far from the original.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Inspiration, People, Creative

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• Y Tu Mama Tambien' is one of the first unrated movies to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. But many video stores won't take a movie that's not rated, so I had to make the movie an R.

  Alfonso Cuaron

  Awards, Video, Firsts

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• How many of the original songs survive intact from the slave cabins? Probably not many in their original form. Time has transformed them like light in a prism. What we hope to present is a version of those spirituals, and they speak not just to black Americans, but to people worldwide.

  Kathleen Battle

  Song, Light, People

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• To be honest, I found the 3D in 'Avatar' to be inconsistent and while ground breaking in many respects, sometimes I thought it overwhelmed the storytelling. Technology aside, I wish 'Avatar' had been more original in its storytelling.

  Mark Canton

  Technology, Wish, Overwhelmed

  "The SUNDAY FUNNIES: James Cameron Hates Piranha 3D and Taylor Lautner Lawsuit Updates" by Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. September 5, 2010.

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