Original Quotes

I came to join the Experience by going for an audition for Eric Burdon who was just forming the New Animals at that point, after the original Animals had broken up.

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

The original Mickey Mouse Club, established in the '30s, was designed to attract children to movie theaters.

I'm the original take-orders girl.

Most people think an artist tries to be original, but originality is the last thing that develops in the artist.

The original fairy tale was about the youngest sister going into a room in the castle and finding all the bodies of the wives that came before her - she is confronted with truth, thinking about how often we think we know people and we really don't.

The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!

Very few people are original. There's very little original anything out there. Because to be original means you have to stand alone.

Brian came back in on the road and Al stayed, but Al's the original member of the group.

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.

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

Most original viewers of the Mickey Mouse Club didn't face the crush of family and social problems children have today.

Everybody's idea of a great book is different, of course. For me it's one that makes my jaw drop on every page, the writing is so original.

The Odyssey is, indeed, one of the greatest of all stories, it is the original romance of the West; but the Iliad, though a magnificent poem, is not much of a story.

The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.

I made sure no butt cheek hung out. You know, the original Daisy, Catherine Bach's shorts were shorter than mine.

He considers the theatrical version of Fanny and Alexander an amputated version of what his original film was, and he doesn't really like the shorter film.

I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.

If you want to be original just try being yourself, because God has never made two people exactly alike.

It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many years to realize it.

Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up... a lot of people don't have the courage to do it.

No, we'll never get back together. We'll remain friends, but I see her going in a completely different direction than me musically. But she'll end up doing really well if she continues on the path she's on. Because she's doing something very original.

Mysticism, poor mysticism! When it is underestimated and oversimplified, it comes down from its original sphere and stands beside religion.

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

The new album is a childhood dream come true. Got to sing with Ronnie Spector, got to cover a bunch of songs that were influential in drawing a line between the punk form and original rock and roll.

Regis and I were inducted into the original Bronx Walk of Fame.

I've got nothing very original to say myself.

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.

While listening, to things like western swing, for instance, I'd work something out in my head, then play it on my National; not the same song, but one that captured the feeling of the original tune.

Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the texture of the thing.