Originals Quotes - Page 6

• We may divide thinkers into those who think for themselves and those who think through others. The latter are the rule and the former the exception. The first are original thinkers in a double sense, and egotists in the noblest meaning of the word.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Thinking, May, Firsts

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• Every original idea is first ridiculed, then vigorously attacked, and finally taken for granted.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Taken, Ideas, Firsts

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• It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature that a man, having once shown himself capable of original writing, is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Writing, Men, Literature

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.715, Library of America

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• A temperate Diet frees from Diseases; such are seldom ill, but if they are surprised with Sickness, they bear it better, and recover sooner; for most Distempers have their Original from Repletion.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Disease, Bears, Sickness

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.49, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors; by trying at the outset to imitate them; by daring then to be original; by destroying one's first productions.

  Andre Maurois

  Book, Reading, Writing

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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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• 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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• Re-writing is different from writing. Original writing is very difficult.

  David Cronenberg

  Writing, Different, Difficult

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• You should take notes whenever you hear interesting or original language.

  Randa Abdel-Fattah

  Interesting, Language, Notes

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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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• 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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• 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'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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• 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 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 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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• 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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