Originals Quotes - Page 38

• Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself. Boredom sets into boring minds. The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

  Arthur Koestler

  Mistake, Discovery, Long

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• My wanting to write books annihilates the original root impulse that would have me bravely and blunderingly working on them.

  Sylvia Plath

  Book, Writing, Roots

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.523, Anchor

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• The mind grows by self revelation. In play the child ascertains what he can do, discovers his possibilities of will and thought by exerting his power spontaneously. In work he follows a task prescribed for him by another, and doesn't reveal his own proclivities and inclinations; but another's. In play he reveals his own original power.

  Friedrich Frobel

  Children, Self, Play

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• Superior leaders are willing to admit a mistake and cut their losses. Be willing to admit that you've changed your mind. Don't persist when the original decision turns out to be a poor one.

  Brian Tracy

  Mistake, Cutting, Loss

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Jan 12, 2011

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• Failure does not exist. Once you hit the construction zone road blocks, follow the detour signs to get back to ur original path.

  Behdad Sami

  Block, Doe, Detours

  Twitter post from Aug 15, 2014

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• Reality is the original Rorschach.

  Malaclypse the Younger

  Reality, Rorschach

  Malaclypse The Younger (2013). “Principia Discordia: The Magnum Opiate of, Malaclypse the Younger”, p.85, Lulu Press, Inc

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• He brought a sensibility and a hard-edged reasonableness to operating restaurants that had a lasting impact on me and still affects how I run all our restaurants today. The passing of 'Restaurant Man' - the original gangsta 'Restaurant Man,' my father - was the passing of an era. No one can replace him.

  Joe Bastianich

  Running, Father, Men

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• The echo is, to some extent, an original sound, and therein is the magic and charm of it. It is not merely a repetition of what was worth repeating in the bell, but partly the voice of the wood; the same trivial words and notes sung by a wood-nymph.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Echoes, Voice, Nymphs

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.89, Xist Publishing

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• Timing is everything. That's a cliche. Now. If I'd said that a long time ago, I'd have been original.

  Demetri Martin

  Long, Timing, Cliche

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• The wisdom of the masses is not always wise. You could put a lot of things to a vote-you could have put anti-miscegenation laws to a vote, and that would have passed pretty handily. Either all people are created equal-or they're not. You're either buying into the original premise of America-or you're not.

  Jon Stewart

  Wise, Law, America

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• I loved the old stories in National Lampoon, like the original story the movie Vacation was based on. I used to laugh at them until I cried.

  Drew Carey

  Vacation, Laughing, Stories

  "Stand-Up Guy". Interview with Nick Gillespie & Steve Kurtz, reason.com. November 1, 1997.

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• Charlie Chaplin is the greatest artist of the 20th century. He takes me from laughter to tears in seconds. And he was one of the very first funny men. It's like the original violins were made in Cremona and there's never been any better since. Sometimes the best come right off the bat.

  Emo Philips

  Laughter, Artist, Men

  Interview with Sanjiv Bhattacharya, www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2006.

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• Purim, one of my favorite holidays. It's like the original drag queen's holiday. It's when all the Jewish men go for it and feel no guilt for a change.

  Sandra Bernhard

  Queens, Holiday, Men

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• With Katrina, it's almost like the sequel that doesn't live up to the original. It's certainly a shocking event and a tragedy, but somehow as a big event it doesn't seem to carry as much weight with the public as 9/11 did.

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Tragedy, Events, Weight

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• That was part of the whole original concept. We were thinking, it's off-season, let's do a really fun, local-oriented event, raise money for good causes and bring some music to the valley.

  Andy Kaufman

  Fun, Thinking, Events

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• Any good movie or script usually, if they're doing their job, gives the highest platform possible for an actor to leap off of, and that script was very high up there. It was a very smart, tight script. There was a lot of improv, as well, once we got to the set, but a lot of the original script was also in there.

  Justin Theroux

  Jobs, Smart, Giving

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm bored with the same genre, the same remakes of things. I like original ideas and high-concept things where it's off the page and kind of fantastical.

  Nina Dobrev

  Ideas, Bored, Pages

  "Nina Dobrev’s New Chapter". Interview with Michael Peña, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 8, 2015.

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• You know, what I didn't know was how many people in the tech world the original movie had such an impression on. That's really interesting to me because a lot of the people who created this technological revolution that we're all living through were kids when Tron came out, and they saw Tron and it impacted them.

  James Frain

  Kids, People, Interesting

  Source: collider.com

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• I got like a list of things at the beginning. There were ten things that Bryan made for each one of us, and he drew us our own personal picture of our character that was in color. And uh, I just have a copy of it, I think that they're going to do something special with the originals at the end, like presenting them to us.

  Johnny Simmons

  Character, Thinking, Color

  "Johnny Simmons On Set Interview SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD - Read or Listen Here". Interview with Matt Goldberg, collider.com. May 25, 2010.

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• Yeah, because we wanted to go back to the original tone. It's one of the original movies like The Muppet Movie, Muppets Take Manhattan, The Great Muppet Caper. Those kinds of movies. So that was really important that we hit that tone and those have a lot of cameos in them and so Jason and I started asking people and everyone we asked just wants to do it.

  Nicholas Stoller

  People, Important, Jason

  Source: collider.com

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• There is something really so iconic about the original Predator, and it is exciting. It's not just special effects. It's not like you bring a puppet in, these are characters and so we were involved in developing the look and the attitude of all the characters.

  Gregory Nicotero

  Attitude, Character, Special

  Source: collider.com

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• I remember once, I read in a horoscope, because I'm an Aries, I read this terrible thing, which really affected me, which said, "You will never be original. You will always be an interpreter." (Laughs) I thought, "Oh my God." You know, I had to live with that on my back for [all my life].

  Andy Serkis

  Laughing, Aries, Remember

  Source: collider.com

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• You know, there's an economy in lyric-writing that doesn't afford you, or at least me - I usually start off with nine or 10 verses and then boil it down to two or three that are half the length of the original verses. I think for me it's about what you leave out [rather] than what you put in. I'm not sure that the songs help me figure anything out so much as they're a distillation of the original question.

  J Tillman

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I find that with fantasy, you lose yourself in it a lot. It's great to be able to go into a dark theater or turn off the lights in your house and just get sucked into this world. I remember watching Star Wars when I was a little kid when they did the re-release of all the originals. I couldn't even read yet but my uncle took me and he would read me the opening as the words were coming up on the screen. I just remember being so sucked into that and thinking, "I want to be Luke Skywalker."

  Austin Butler

  Stars, Uncles, War

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• I think I have quite traditional views on original sin, grace, and the real but difficult nature of we humans being able to learn something true about being human that we didn't know before. And yet the consequences of this traditional view are really quite radical.

  James Alison

  Real, Thinking, Views

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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