Original Quotes

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.

In a way, the history of jazz's development is a small mirror of classical music's development through the centuries. Now jazz is a living form of original music, while classical music has gotten to the end of its cycle in terms of exploring its form.

A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.

No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.

Country music is completely punk-rock. It's the original punk-rock.

When the whole point of Queen was to be original.

In stand-up it really helps to play yourself and talk about your own feelings. You cannot fail to be original if you're just talking about what you think about X, Y and Z. Unless you've got a twin brother who's also a stand-up.

Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.

I admire actors who are bold and try to go forward over the cliche and propose something original to the audience.

A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader.

Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge; history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will - are all gone.

When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.

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.

It's not an act. I love it. It's totally original. People go, 'What's going on with this guy? Why does he sound so weird? What is going on in his brain. I don't know. Just one day I suddenly woke up with a new brain.

Most of my cliches aren't original.

The original settlers of Alaska apparently were Russian.

In some cases, managers and employees have secured pensions beyond their original base salary. It is wrong, the people doing it know it's wrong, and we have to put an end to it.

I know my theories and findings are hard for you to accept because they are so original and extraordinary.

I don't think I'm the world's most die-hard sci-fi fan, but I definitely grew up watching 'Star Trek' religiously - all of them: the original, 'Next Generation,' 'Deep Space Nine,' 'Voyager.' I think sci-fi has an important place in the cinema world. Fantasy is a big part of why films actually exist.

There are many selfish people who are extremely original, then they take those pure ideas and use them to raise themselves up, that is an insincere move.

In the original computer game of Doom, you not only have to kill things. You have to pulverise them.

So the reason that the Bay of Pigs failed was that the original promise made by Eisenhower was not kept by the subsequent Administration. It allowed hostile air to wipe out the approaching invasion force.

I still have my original social security card signed when I was 13.

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.

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

The evidence points to central Asia as man's original home, for the general movement of human migrations has been outward from that region and not inward.

We tend to think of politics as bad, full of dirty tricks, negative ads, big campaigns, but I am here to explore the original meaning of politics, which is positive and has to do with balancing competing interests and looking for solutions.

Our goal has been to stay true to what people most love about the original Pirates! while upgrading, enhancing, and in some cases, re-inventing the game to make it a great experience for today's gamers.

The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also his most difficult task.

I went in with Jack and Leslie, into this room that was lined with brick, and there on the side I can remember very clearly was this small model with plates for the bases - the original model with everything screwed together.