Originals Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• The poor Constitution itself is hardly paid any attention to. It's necessary to ignore it because most of what government does these days is clearly unconstitutional. The original idea, as expressed by James Madison, was that states would do 95 percent of the governing. Today, they are little more than administrative subdivisions of the central empire.

  Charley Reese

  Government, Ideas, Doe

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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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• There are moments when television systems are young and haven't formed properly, and there's room for lots of original stuff. Then things become more and more top-heavy with executives who are trying to guarantee the success of things.

  Terry Gilliam

  Trying, Guarantees, Television

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• All religions worthy of the name are now making great efforts to purify their doctrines and return to their original standpoint, all except Christianity! You surely know that the nineteenth century Christianity is not the religion taught by Christ. Christ's religion has been changed and corrupted.

  Virchand Gandhi

  Names, Effort, Doctrine

  "Christian Missions: A Triangular Debate, Before the Nineteenth Century Club of New York". The Monist Magazine, Volume 5, 1895.

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• There is no original sin. You don't have to pay repentance to anything or anybody.

  Desmond Harrington

  Pay, Sin, Repentance

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• I was first published as a paranormal author back in the early 1990s. I was one of the founders of that original wave of paranormal and am the leader of the new wave of paranormal that started at the beginning of this century.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Leader, Firsts, Wave

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• I am planning a one-man art show of original Batman oil paintings that I will show in New York City.

  Bob Kane

  Art, New York, Men

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• It can certainly happen that characters in more sophisticated stories can "take over" as they develop and change the author's original ideas. Well, it certainly happens to me at times.

  Margaret Mahy

  Character, Ideas, Stories

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• My favorite music to sing would be my own songs, my original songs, just because I know them, you know I write the tunes, so my favorite songs are the newest ones that I write. That's what I like to sing the most, because it means something, it's real, it comes from me.

  Paul McDonald

  Song, Real, Mean

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• When I look at a digitally acquired and projected image, it looks inferior against an original negative anamorphic print or an IMAX one.

  Christopher Nolan

  Negative, Looks, Print

  "The Traditionalist". Interview with Jeffrey Ressner, www.dga.org. Spring 2012.

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• Starvation and disease are the original weapons of mass destruction. When you burn fields and kill animals, people are left vulnerable.

  James Nachtwey

  Animal, Mass Destruction, People

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• The new album is a childhood dream come true. Got to sing with Ronnie Spector, got to cover a bunch of songs that were influential in drawing a line between the punk form and original rock and roll.

  Gerald Caiafa

  Dream, Song, Rock And Roll

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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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• Take the particular trick of false names. It seems to us particularly odious. We think when we show our contempt for those who use this subterfuge that we are giving them no more than they deserve. It is a meanness which we associate with criminals and vagabonds; a piece of crawling and sneaking...Men whose race is universally known, will unblushingly adopt a false name as a mask, and after a year or two pretend to treat it as an insult if their original and true name be used in its place.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Men, Thinking, Race

  Hilaire Belloc (1922). “The Jews”

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• Almost any movie, no matter how original, is borrowing from some other movies.

  Oren Peli

  Matter, Borrowing

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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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• If a remake is not good, no one wants to see it and, again, it doesn't hurt the original.

  Sam Raimi

  Hurt, Want, Remakes

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• China also has moved away from its original status of purely producing basic, what you call, consumer commodities and Chinese companies are moving beyond China to various parts of the world.

  S. R. Nathan

  Moving, Chinese, World

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• My own perception is that there are two tiers of countries, one, the original ASEAN, and then the new members. The new members are in various stages of development.

  S. R. Nathan

  Country, Two, Perception

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• Whatever is about you that is translated into your art, that's gonna keep you completly original and fresh and I just think that, that's just the best advice I can give, to an artist creatively.

  Bubba Sparxxx

  Art, Thinking, Giving

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• With the people, especially a people seized of property, resides the aggregate of original power.

  Ezra Stiles

  People, Property

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• Kermit was the Everyman, the original Tom Hanks, but I have a special place in my heart for Fozzie Bear. The classic borderline hacky entertainer.

  Jason Segel

  Heart, Special, Bears

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