Originals Quotes - Page 20

• The civilization of cities is breeding a new race of monks who have none of the original religious drive towards chastity, but are just incapable of facing the responsibilities of marriage.

  Kylie Tennant

  Religious, Responsibility, Race

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• For the integrated human being there is no past: there is only the continual transformation of original experience.

  Vivian Gornick

  Past, Transformation, Being There

  Vivian Gornick (1978). “Essays in feminism”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• I was the original Cinderella girl, looking for the happy ending in the fairy story. But my fantasy prince never came.

  Evelyn Keyes

  Girl, Fairy Stories, Fantasy

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• Fiercely original and uncommonly lovely, The Witch's Boy is equal parts enchanting and haunting. Kelly Barnhill is master of truly potent and unruly magic; luckily for readers, she chooses to use her powers for good.

  Anne Ursu

  Boys, Lovely, Magic

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• It's hard to find really original, compelling works of fiction, for women especially. I find that these true life stories about these women that I'm so blessed to play are some of the most compelling stories, and the truth is stranger than fiction.

  Hilary Swank

  Blessed, Play, True Life

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• What I've always seen in writers and artists is the courage it takes to make an original work of art. I think the real risks in literature are linguistic and intellectual, and I hope we can highlight those, as well as political courage.

  Salman Rushdie

  Art, Real, Thinking

  Source: lareviewofbooks.org

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• The Greeks used to use the same stories, the same mythology, time after time, different authors. There was no premium placed upon an original story, and indeed, Shakespeare likewise. A lot of people wrote plays about great kings. They didn't expect a brand-new story. It was what that new author made of the old story. It is probably the same now. We disguise it by inventing what seem to be new stories, but they're basically the same story anyway.

  Arthur Miller

  Kings, Play, People

  Interview with William R. Ferris, www.neh.gov. March/April 2001.

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• There is a problem on the so-called commercial stage in New York. The price of a ticket is exorbitant, and there are no longer original productions possible, apparently, on the commercial stage. They are all plays that were taken from either England or smaller theaters, off-Broadway theaters, and so on. The one justification there used to be for the commercial theater was that it originated everything we had, and now it originates nothing. But the powers that be seem perfectly content to have it that way. They don't risk anything anymore, and they simply pick off the cream.

  Arthur Miller

  New York, Taken, Play

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• The process of writing is a process of learning; and much has become clearer to me in the attempt to transform my original rough notes into what I hope is an intelligible presentation.

  Paul A. Baran

  Writing, Notes, Process

  Paul A. Baran (1968). “Political Econ of Growth”, p.9, NYU Press

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• That the means of imperialist policy overshadow almost entirely its original ends has tremendous implications.

  Paul A. Baran

  Mean, Ends, Policy

  Paul A. Baran (1968). “Political Econ of Growth”, p.119, NYU Press

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• Just as a salesperson is never extreme or original or overdressed, so the TV retailers never do anything to distract their audiences from the real product, the commercial.

  Jennifer Stone

  Real, Television, Tvs

  Jennifer Stone (1988). “Mind Over Media: Essays on Film and Television”

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• Landscaping is the great cardinal sin of modern architecture. It's not your garden, it's not a park - it's a formless patch of grass, shrubbery and the occasional tree that exists purely to stop the original developer's plans from looking like a howling concrete wilderness.

  Ben Aaronovitch

  Garden, Tree, Parks

  Ben Aaronovitch (2013). “Broken Homes”, p.144, Hachette UK

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• If you're involved in with something that's original, you know, you'll always go back and try to rehash it.

  Eddie Murphy

  Trying, Knows, Involved

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

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• I was the original voice of Mattels Barbie for an 80s claymation workout video.

  Jodi Benson

  Workout, Voice, Barbie

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• I feel like everything is inspired by something else. There is no 100 percent original thought.

  Ne-Yo

  Original Thought, Inspired, Feels

  "Singer-songwriter Ne-Yo". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. February 16, 2011.

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• The best imitation in the world is not half as good as a poor original.

  Luise Rainer

  Half, World, Imitation

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• God knows that all sorts of gentlemen knock at the door; but whenever used in strictness and with any emphasis, the name will be found to point at original energy.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Names, Doors, Gentleman

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.343, Modern Library

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• Every individual nature has its own beauty. One is struck in every company, at every fireside, with the riches of nature, when he hears so many new tones, all musical, sees in each person original manners, which have a proper and peculiar charm, and reads new expressions of face. He perceives that nature has laid for each the foundations of a divine building, if the soul will build thereon.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Expression, Soul, Individuality

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2447, Delphi Classics

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• For my own films, I would like to see 'Bullet in the Head' remastered. The original cut was actually almost three hours.

  John Woo

  Cutting, Three, Bullets

  Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. August 15, 2007.

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• There's so many ways to do stand up, and I think, for awhile, people weren't really maximizing the freedom of it. We were all kind of doing a similar kind of stand up, and I started to see some original voices come out of Boston.

  Greg Fitzsimmons

  Thinking, Boston, Voice

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• While majority opinion may not take kindly to forms of modern art, that same majority has also been hostile to most original and radical innovations, such as automobiles or airplanes or transatlantic cables or Protestantism or the theory that the earth is round and not flat.

  Alfred H. Barr, Jr.

  Art, Airplane, Innovation

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• The more original a short-story writer, the odder looking the assortment of things he or she puts together for a story.

  Carol Bly

  Together, Story Writers, Stories

  Carol Bly (1990). “The passionate, accurate story: making your heart's truth into literature”

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• Invisible Beasts is a strange and beautiful meditation on love and seeing, a hybrid of fantasy and field guide, novel and essay, treatise and fable. With one hand it offers a sad commentary on environmental degradation, while with the other it presents a bright, whimsical, and funny exploration of what it means to be human. It's wonderfully written, crazily imagined, and absolutely original.

  Anthony Doerr

  Beautiful, Mean, Hands

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• We have a documentary film festival in Mexico. It's really original. It's called Ambulante, and it's a film festival that travels around several cities in Mexico.

  Gael Garcia Bernal

  Cities, Mexico, Festivals

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• I use throughout the term 'liberal' in the original, nineteenth-century sense in which it is still current in Britain. In current American usage it often means very nearly the opposite of this. It has been part of the camouflage of leftish movements in this country, helped by muddleheadedness of many who really believe in liberty, that 'liberal' has come to mean the advocacy of almost every kind of government control.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Country, Believe, Mean

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