Originals Quotes - Page 27

• My experience is that sequels are rarely as good as the originals.

  Sarah Dessen

  Sequels

  Interview with Adele Walsh, www.persnicketysnark.com. April 18, 2010.

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• Money is the original sin in politics and I am not sinless.

  Barack Obama

  Sin, Original Sin

  Interview with Tim Russert on NBC News' "Meet the Press", www.presidency.ucsb.edu. November 11, 2007.

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• Living is the original art. As a young man I wanted to be a poet and I learned along the way that I already was a poet.

  Mark Nepo

  Art, Men, Way

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• John Dorschner, one of our staff writers here at Tropic magazine at The Miami Herald, who is a good friend of mine and an excellent journalist, but a raving liberal, wrote a story about a group that periodically pops up saying that they're going to start their own country or start their own planet or go back to their original planet, or whatever. They were going to "create a libertarian society" on a floating platform in the Caribbean somewhere. I know there's never going to be a country on a floating anything, but if they want to talk about it, that's great.

  Dave Barry

  Country, Good Friend, Groups

  ""All I Think Is That It's Stupid": An Interview with Dave Barry". Interview with Glenn Garvin, reason.com. December, 1994.

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• The first video I shot for "A Zip and a Double Cup"â€"I have two versions, a remix video and a the originalâ€"because I wasn’t really trying to do anything. I just came home and got kind of high and shot a video in the parking lot. I just shot the video how I wanted to do it and posted it online and the next day it went crazy.

  Juicy J

  Crazy, Home, Two

  Source: www.sfstation.com

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• If we're talking about the science fiction or action genres, I've always tried when I could to do them in a way that's not just cookie-cutter - that they bring something fresh or original to it, have some kind of ideas to it. I've been fortunate, in some sense, to do those kinds of movies that are unique.

  Keanu Reeves

  Unique, Talking, Ideas

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Be personal, and original. Try to work clean. Stay away from topical material, as it does not allow you to craft it to make it better for later. And always remember that it is the fans who will make you or break you.

  Gabriel Iglesias

  Trying, Fans, Doe

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• I write whatever shows up. That's good enough for me. I'm part of the first generation that wants to still do original material and not tour around as an oldies act.

  Lou Reed

  Writing, Generations, Want

  Lou Reed (2015). “Lou Reed: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations”, p.84, Melville House

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• No matter how successful the remake is, it seems to me it's forgotten quickly after and it's the original that still lives on.

  Rob Zombie

  Successful, Matter, Forgotten

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• Once I grew up and realised 'What am I doing?' I started re-listening to the music I was playing and I realised there was so much finesse - it was dynamic and simple but I wanted to be authentic to the original songs.

  Eric Hernandez

  Song, Simple, Listening

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• Anything that has to travel all the way down from your cerebellum to your fingertips, there's a lot of things that can happen on the journey. Sometimes I'll listen to records, my own stuff, and I think god, the original idea for this was so much better than the mutation that we arrived at.

  Elvis Costello

  Thinking, Journey, Ideas

  "Summit Talk". Option magazine Interview with Tom Waits, tomwaitsfan.com. July 1989.

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• I think some bands thrive on the idea of changing instruments. When they're off their real instrument, the ability to go very far from the original idea is reduced.

  Tom Waits

  Real, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: tomwaitsfan.com

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• I never stopped writing music, I just stopped writing songs. I've been writing music continually ever since the last album of original tunes, "River Of Dreams" in '93.

  Billy Joel

  Dream, Song, Writing

  "Backstage With Billy Joel: The Billboard Cover Story Interview (Exclusive)". Interview with Ray Waddell, www.billboard.com. January 31, 2014.

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• In fact, I think my life is always going to be difficult, because I am trying to do something... "original" is a big word. It's kind of pathetic, but I have to love what I'm doing.

  Ethan Hawke

  Thinking, Trying, Facts

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Words also are filters. They have to be translated. Even in the original language, there is interpretation and some ambiguity. If there's a cultural difference between the writer and the reader, that might come out in words. But with pictures, there's more efficiency.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Differences, Filters, Might

  Interview with Joshuah Bearman, believermag.com. August 1, 2006.

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• Certainly the beat writers I've known who carried forward the original, you know, I'd say that came together in the 1940s and 50s. So I was inheriting in a way some of that ethos.

  Anne Waldman

  Ethos, Together, Way

  Source: logosjournal.com

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• Original philosophy is always "deviant" or even subversive.

  Mario Bunge

  Philosophy, Deviants, Subversive

  Source: deutsche-denker.de

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• In the scientific community you find competent teachers and original researchers, just as in the musical community you find many good performers but very few good composers.

  Mario Bunge

  Teacher, Community, Musical

  Source: deutsche-denker.de

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• For me the form, the stanzaic shape, is an endorsement, proof that I'm engaged with the Latin or Greek at an original level, that my versions are explorations.

  Michael Longley

  Latin, Greek, Levels

  Source: www.poetrymagazines.org.uk

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• There are a lot of disadvantages with the YouTube stigma, because no one wants to be known as just a cover band. It's all about the original music.

  Alex Goot

  Band, Want, Youtube

  Source: www.meldmagazine.com.au

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• Writing original songs is much, much harder (I think) because you only have yourself to conjure up EVERY single moment a listener is going to hear. It's a craft that goes directly from your brain to their ears. You can never be sure that what you're writing is gonna be good enough to keep a listener engaged and truly experience something. It's a shot in the dark.

  Alex Goot

  Song, Single Mom, Writing

  Interview with Kenneth Wong, www.popcultureonline.net. 2014.

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• Will Rogers once said it is not the original investment in a Congressman that counts; it is the upkeep.

  John F. Kennedy

  Political, Upkeep, Politics

  John F. Kennedy, Dominique Enright (2003). “The Wicked Wit of John F. Kennedy”, Michael O'Mara Books

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• Lifetime is television for women. Yet for some reason, there's always a woman getting beaten on that channel. "In a Lifetime original, Meredith Baxter-Berney gets beaten with a rod. In a Lifetime original, Rod."

  Jim Gaffigan

  Funny, Television, Comedy

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• Now, I don't mean to say that being wrong is the same thing as being creative. What we do know is, if you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original. If you're not prepared to be wrong. And by the time they get to be adults, most kids have lost that capacity. They have become frightened of being wrong. And we run our companies like this, by the way, we stigmatize mistakes. And we're now running national education systems where mistakes are the worst thing you can make.

  Ken Robinson

  Running, Business, Mistake

  "How Do Schools Kill Creativity?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. October 03, 2014.

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• I love teaching poetry writing. Students come into the class thinking poetry has to be one way, then leave having created pieces that are wholly original, that have - quite literally - never been made before.

  Cate Marvin

  Teaching, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.redividerjournal.org

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