Originals Quotes - Page 22

• 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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• Zimbabweans are so smart and witty and able to weave together tons of situations and experiences into terminologies that are just utterly original.

  Danai Gurira

  Witty, Smart, Together

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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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• 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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• 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 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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• I'll think of the idea and then I'll write something down, then within that there will be a joke or two which is the original thing which I thought was funny.

  David Cross

  Writing, Thinking, Ideas

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• You know, sex is actually not so original as the way people love or the stories behind each relationship, which is what you remember. Sex is sex in the end.

  Jane Campion

  Sex, People, Stories

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

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• Yes, influences are enriching, and they can be found in every work of art, even the most original.

  Lukas Foss

  Art, Influence, Found

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• The original 'Scream' is one of those classic things, but it totally pokes fun at itself too. It's never taking itself too seriously, which is why I think it's such a cult classic.

  Shenae Grimes

  Fun, Thinking, Classic

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• Obviously with the onset of cable and satellite, there are more opportunities for programming and original programming, so it creates more opportunities for actors and producers and directors and everything.

  Anthony Michael Hall

  Opportunity, Directors, Actors

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• Well, let's go back to the original intent of Social Security. It is an insurance contract.

  Chuck Hagel

  Social, Contracts, Wells

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• Hey, every once in awhile the secondary form works better than the original but it's certainly a rarity.

  Jaime Hernandez

  Hey, Form, Rarity

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• What I'm saying is individuals have better ideas if they're connected to rich, diverse networks of other individuals. If you put yourself in an environment with lots of different perspectives, you yourself are going to have better, sharper, more original ideas. It's not that the network is smart.

  Steven Johnson

  Smart, Ideas, Perspective

  "'Eureka moments' and other myths about tech innovation" by John D. Sutter, www.cnn.com. October 15, 2010.

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• If you ever want to get the facts straight about me or the Batman, please write to the original source, myself, for the truth, instead of second guessing.

  Bob Kane

  Writing, Guessing, Want

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• I feel like the original 'Mad Max' created such a vivid world, that to go back and re-imagine it and kind of replay in that sandbox sounds like fun to me.

  Riley Keough

  Fun, Mad, Sound

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• Coming up with something new and original is so exciting.

  Adam Lambert

  Something New, Exciting

  "Q&A with American Idol's Adam Lambert". Interview with Stephanie Snipes, www.oprah.com. June 16, 2009.

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• I was able to work out all sorts of attitudes to style and event and character, all of which affected the way I came to think about my own writing. I believe that all good writers are original.

  Margaret Mahy

  Attitude, Believe, Writing

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• I tell myself I write because I want to say something true and original about the nature of evil. That is very ambitious - to say something about the human condition that hasn't been written before. Probably I will never succeed but that is what I strive to do.

  Jo Nesbo

  Writing, Evil, Ambitious

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• It's time to start really writing some stuff, and I really wanted to write some stuff in the vein of the original Misfits, and this was really the first step in that direction.

  Gerald Caiafa

  Writing, Stuff, Firsts

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• Complete knowledge of the nature of an analytic function must also include insight into its behavior for imaginary values of the arguments. Often the latter is indispensable even for a proper appreciation of the behavior of the function for real arguments. It is therefore essential that the original determination of the function concept be broadened to a domain of magnitudes which includes both the real and the imaginary quantities, on an equal footing, under the single designation complex numbers.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Appreciation, Determination, Real

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• The original mixed ancestry of the Jews and their subsequent history of intermixture with every people among whom they have lived and continue to live.

  Ashley Montagu

  People, Ancestry, Jew

  Ashley Montagu, (2013). “Man's Most Dangerous Myth: The Fallacy of Race”, p.223, Read Books Ltd

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• The whole point of 'Acid Rap' was just to ask people a question: does the music business side of this dictate what type of project this is? If it's all original music and it's got this much emotion around it and it connects this way with this many people, is it a mixtape? What's an 'album' these days, anyways?

  Chance the Rapper

  Rap, People, Doe

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• My claim is simply that the literary approach is one necessary way to read and interpret the Bible, an approach that has been unjustifiably neglected. Despite that neglect, the literary approach builds at every turn on what biblical scholars have done to recover the original, intended meaning of the biblical text.

  Leland Ryken

  Biblical, Done, Way

  Leland Ryken (1984). “How to Read the Bible as Literature”, p.12, Zondervan

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• Seventy percent of what I write, I throw out. I can write very easily, but writing original things is the hard bit.

  Mike Rutherford

  Writing, Percent, Seventies

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