Originals Quotes - Page 3

• 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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• I'll think of the idea and then I'll write something down, then within that there will be a joke or two which is the original thing which I thought was funny.

  David Cross

  Writing, Thinking, Ideas

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• You know, sex is actually not so original as the way people love or the stories behind each relationship, which is what you remember. Sex is sex in the end.

  Jane Campion

  Sex, People, Stories

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

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• I encourage the translators of my books to take as much license as they feel that they need. This is not quite the heroic gesture it might seem, because I've learned, from working with translators over the years, that the original novel is, in a way, a translation itself.

  Michael Cunningham

  Book, Years, Needs

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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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• I always say that the characters in Jane Austen's original books are rather like zombies because they live in this bubble of immense wealth and privilege and no matter what's going on around them they have a singular purpose to maintain their rank and to impress others.

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Book, Character, Zombie

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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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• Obviously with the onset of cable and satellite, there are more opportunities for programming and original programming, so it creates more opportunities for actors and producers and directors and everything.

  Anthony Michael Hall

  Opportunity, Directors, Actors

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• Well, let's go back to the original intent of Social Security. It is an insurance contract.

  Chuck Hagel

  Social, Contracts, Wells

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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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• What I'm saying is individuals have better ideas if they're connected to rich, diverse networks of other individuals. If you put yourself in an environment with lots of different perspectives, you yourself are going to have better, sharper, more original ideas. It's not that the network is smart.

  Steven Johnson

  Smart, Ideas, Perspective

  "'Eureka moments' and other myths about tech innovation" by John D. Sutter, www.cnn.com. October 15, 2010.

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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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• If you ever want to get the facts straight about me or the Batman, please write to the original source, myself, for the truth, instead of second guessing.

  Bob Kane

  Writing, Guessing, Want

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• I feel like the original 'Mad Max' created such a vivid world, that to go back and re-imagine it and kind of replay in that sandbox sounds like fun to me.

  Riley Keough

  Fun, Mad, Sound

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• I've always felt that really good prequels should be original movies.

  Damon Lindelof

  Should, Felt

  "Damon Lindelof Explains How Ridley Scott’s ‘Prometheus’ is Connected to the ‘Alien’ Films" by Peter Sciretta, www.slashfilm.com. June 28, 2011.

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• Coming up with something new and original is so exciting.

  Adam Lambert

  Something New, Exciting

  "Q&A with American Idol's Adam Lambert". Interview with Stephanie Snipes, www.oprah.com. June 16, 2009.

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• I was able to work out all sorts of attitudes to style and event and character, all of which affected the way I came to think about my own writing. I believe that all good writers are original.

  Margaret Mahy

  Attitude, Believe, Writing

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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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• I think people would actually be surprised by what we put out. Unfortunately the shadow that the original founders cast was that they were just artists that can't write books so people swept the whole of Image with that paintbrush.

  Todd McFarlane

  Book, Writing, Artist

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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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