Originals Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• The original Dean Martin Comedy Hour handed me some hysterical sketches. I've got highlights on tons of these variety shows, given to me by their great writers. I'd love to be doing all that again.

  Ruth Buzzi

  Comedy, Hysterical, Hours

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• I was a huge fan of the original Star Trek, and I'd never even dreamed that I would someday be captain of a starship...

  Scott Bakula

  Stars, Captains, Fans

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

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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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• I have lots of records, quite a collection, actually, that I stole from my mom. I have the original 'Thriller' album and I have a really great 'Elton John's Greatest Hits,' and I also have a N.E.R.D. album. Records sound more original. They have more edge.

  Elisha Cuthbert

  Mom, Sound, Albums

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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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• Often, the idea that there can be a wide range of translations of one text doesn't occur to people - or that a translation could be bad, very bad, and unfaithful to the original.

  Lydia Davis

  Ideas, People, Unfaithful

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• All too often, when creative people pick out someone else's creative work as an inspiration, what they end up with is very, very far from the original.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Inspiration, People, Creative

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• You'll see a lot more blood in 'Saw' movies or something like that than you will in either of the 'Last House' movies. I kind of think it owes more to 'The Virgin Spring' which is the original source material, the Bergman movie.

  Garret Dillahunt

  Spring, Thinking, Blood

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

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• From a writing point of view, you now have teams of screenwriters working with a director. What's lost in the process is the power of that one heart, brain, gut and soul that makes something an original piece of writing.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Team, Writing, Heart

  "I felt I had befouled myself" by Duncan Campbell, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2004.

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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 prefer writing originals.

  Tony Gilroy

  Writing

  "Talking With Tony Gilroy". The Washington Post Live Online discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. September 27, 2007.

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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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• It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud.

  Ira Glass

  Fun, Loud, Carver

  "Ira Glass: Live and Uncut". Interview with Ana Marie Cox And Joanna Dionis, www.motherjones.com. August 11, 1998.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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