Originals Quotes - Page 19

• When you're an immigrant, you're at the bottom of the ladder. You might not be at the bottom of the ladder economically. Those contradictions led me to feel that the role in society I was given didn't jive with my sense of myself. I think, in fact, that is the case with most people. Everybody feels themselves to be in an original relationship to creation, and feels confined by their social role.

  Vijay Seshadri

  Thinking, People, Ladders

  "You Are Vijay Seshadri". Interview with Laura Standley, logger.believermag.com. June 10, 2014.

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• If you want to be a writer in the world you really have to sit down and say, 'Why do I want to do this and why was I drawn to it to begin with?' And keep reminding yourself to return to that original impulse.

  Dorianne Laux

  World, Want, Down And

  "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. April 2, 2013.

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• If you're really special, meaning you're doing something unique and original, it could scare people.

  Nicolas Cage

  Unique, People, Special

  Press conference with Nicolas Cage, Tye Sheridan and David Gordon Green, www.moviesonline.ca. April, 2014.

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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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• Somewhere along the way, the idea, which I think was initially to get some fair transaction between people, went out the window. And what came in was, the most you can get and the least you can give. That's why cars are the way they are nowadays. It's just an erosion of all the things that were true and right about the original idea.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Thinking, Erosion, Ideas

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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 solving of almost every crime mystery depends on something which seems, at first glance, to bear no relation whatever to the original crime.

  Elsa Barker

  Firsts, Bears, Mystery

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• Darkness, thou first great parent of us all,
  Thou art our great original!

  Thomas Yalden

  Art, Parent, Darkness

  Thomas YALDEN (1833). “The Poetical Works of Thomas Yalden: to which is Prefixed, a Biographical Sketch of the Author, by the Editor. Magnet Edition”, p.5

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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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• I have a theory that no child ever does outgrow its ungratified legitimate desires; though subsequent maturity may bring him to the point where his original desire has reached such astounding proportions that the original object can no longer possibly appease it.

  Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

  Children, Maturity, Desire

  Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (2012). “The Sick-a-Bed Lady: And Other Tales”, p.215, The Floating 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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• Deep within all of us there is a yearning to be brave. And like all of our deepest, truest and best yearning, it comes from how we were made.Courage-the power to do the right thing even when it is scary and hard- resonates deeply with the original shape of our soul.

  Gary Haugen

  Brave, Scary, Soul

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• The original 'Edge of Darkness' was fantastic, a fabulous series. It was of its time, but this film version shows that times really haven't changed.

  Ray Winstone

  Darkness, Fabulous, Film

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• On the musical side, I always wanted to kind of carry on Pink Floyd's sound. You know, Pink Floyd always had such an original, creative and masterful sound, but there are no new albums. My thought was that there's a way to keep their sound alive.

  Corey Feldman

  Creative, Musical, Alive

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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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• When I first got out of drama school, my original manager tried to get me to change my name because people were having trouble spelling it and saying it.

  Joe Manganiello

  Drama, School, Names

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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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• Although I performed in high school, my first real experience with theater was performing with a student-run organization at Vanderbilt University called The Original Cast where I learned that I loved performing and especially loved theater people.

  Nancy Allen

  Running, Real, School

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• God makes originals not carbon copies. It's okay to be inspired by someone, but be bold enough to be yourself.

  Tony Gaskins

  Being Yourself, Inspired, Enough

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