You have to be as original as possible. It's a tough thing to come up with something totally original.
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There's no such thing as an original sin.
ELVIS COSTELLO If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.
KEN ROBINSON Remixes come very quickly, because you already have the melody and the vocals. I have a great passio...
TIESTO Very few people are original. There's very little original anything out there. Because to be ori...
SUSAN POWTER It is always possible to create something original.
GEORGE GERSHWIN This is too much reality for a Friday.
AS GOOD AS IT GETS Be yourself. An original is worth more than a copy.
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SUZY KASSEM A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design tha...
FREEMAN DYSON Be original. That's my best advice. You're going to find that there's something that you...
BOB SEGER My original name is Jae-Sang Park, so it's totally different.
PSY Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be.
JEFFREY FRY It's hard to come up with something original... that is why it is so awesome that we are ALL... each...
EDIE BAILEY As cliched as it sounds, if you have an original voice and an original idea, then no matter what any...
DAMON LINDELOF That's the biggest thing: be kind and be original.
LIL REL HOWERY If you're involved in with something that's original, you know, you'll always go back an...
EDDIE MURPHY A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design tha...
FREEMAN DYSON if you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.
SIR KEN ROBINSON If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.
KEN ROBINSON An original something, dear maid, you would wish me to write; but how shall I begin? For I'm sur...
THOMAS CAMPBELL As so often happens with Washington scandals, it isn't the original scandal that gets people in ...
TOM PETRI Try not to be someone else. Be you and be glad you are you
SOTONYE ANGA It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fu...
IRA GLASS There's no such thing as an original sin.
ELVIS COSTELLO The goal of Bible translation is be transparent to the original text - to see as clearly as possible...
LELAND RYKEN If you can just be yourself, then you have to be original because there's no one like you.
MARC NEWSON It's not really an original idea, but there's something that goes along with power and celeb...
JONATHAN DEE As far as the world was concerned, from 1979 to 1996, I didn't publish any original material; it...
ALAN GARNER As you can see, we have come a long way, especially in the amount of original programming on our air...
DAWN OSTROFF I question every word; I write 'the' and immediately feel scorn. It's such an ordinary w...
JEFF LINDSAY I guess if you have an original take on life, or something about you is original, you don't have...
BARBRA STREISAND An original something, dear maid, you would wish me to write; but how shall I begin? For I'm sure I ...
THOMAS CAMPBELL You can be precious about something like 'Blair Witch' and say, 'How dare you approach i...
ADAM WINGARD Coming up with something new and original is so exciting.
ADAM LAMBERT There's plenty of money out there. They print more every day. But this ticket, there's only five of ...
ROALD DAHL In '92, I got my first Broadway show as a performer - 'Crazy for You.' I was in the ense...
CASEY NICHOLAW There are approximately two trillion cells in the human body. You are never alone, there are always ...
DWIGHT W. HAYES I would like to have the original ending to my Lord of the Rings instead of the one they released. I...
RALPH BAKSHI You really have to soak up the culture of the people to get it right. If you're making a fiction...
ROBERT DUVALL I do a great deal of work with young children, and if you give a child a problem, he may come up wit...
EDWARD DE BONO When people are very original, sometimes they are original as a way to resist the mainstream.
MICHEL GONDRY I've written original material before, where I've come up with the idea and the characters m...
ALEX GARLAND When you're playing with aspects of sexuality, certain things have to be hidden. That's what my moth...
CHARLIZE THERON But the Go-Go's are a very original, kind of organic thing.
KATHY VALENTINE Obviously you have to keep [the dancing] in the Bob Fosse style, but Becky has come up with some ver...
JOE BARTON As far as I know, the original 'X-Men' actors will remain in the franchise.
BEN HARDY The poem is a form of texting... it's the original text. It's a perfecting of a feeling in l...
CAROL ANN DUFFY When you're in elementary school, you get these amazing assignments, like to come up with your o...
TONY DITERLIZZI The difference between doing a remix and an original track is that when you do a remix, you obviousl...
KYGO if you are waiting for right excuse then it is good because some conclusions always are necessary fo...
PēTERIS BITāNS We look at MDUFSA as a midcourse correction. It was with some foresight that the sunset provision wa...
MARK E. BRAGER By what principle of original right is it that one-fiftieth or one-ninetieth of a great nation, by c...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN People will turn their noses up at a sequel or that type of thing, but Pixar really works hard - if ...
DAN SCANLON A shortcut is great as long as you know the original route.
KISHAN S CHAUHAN As a hockey player, playing for an Original Six team at Madison Square Garden, where it's packed...
CARL HAGELIN This version of the enchanting fairy tale features an expanded script with eight original songs. The...
DONNA MARCINKO I get to wake up every day and create music. And even when it's a tough moment as far as career ...
NICK JONAS As a condition of the original investment. We have to follow state laws.
JAMES WATSON We've all forgotten how to be original.
PETER JACKSON The tennis calendar is incredibly long, so it's normal to go through ups and downs, and you want...
KYLE EDMUND Sometimes a true original doesn't need to change a thing.
BILLY DEE WILLIAMS If there are similarities, it's simply because the same thoughts that occurred to other people a...
BRAD BIRD It's one thing to be this 'tough chick,' but you also have to be likeable.
LAUREN LEE SMITH Certain remakes are great. Carpenter's The Thing is better than the original.
ALEX WINTER I wanted to honor my heritage and where I came from and keep the name. It was a tough decision to ev...
YVONNE STRAHOVSKI And as you come to know Him, you're becoming like Him. The more you are like Him, the more different...
CRAIG GROESCHEL But to me, to be original is to be yourself.
MARC NEWSON It is not possible to be original by trying to be original - those who attempt this in the arts will...
MICHAEL FOLEY At Pixar, we do sequels only when we come up with a great idea, and we always strive to be different...
JOHN LASSETER It?s not that I want to come back to be a savior or anything like that. I want to come back because ...
ERIC DESJARDINS With any cover, I like to choose songs that affected me strongly already. So it's tough sometime...
MAYER HAWTHORNE There has never been a successful follow-up to the original 'Kong'; the 1970s remake tanked. The ori...
WILLIAM LUHR I think the Chainsaw remake is very good and captures the spirit of the original film. It's true...
TOBE HOOPER It is very difficult to generalise. Everyone's adventure is original.
BERNARD PIVOT Primarily what you're trying to do when you build a compensation package is not that different in so...
GARY OZZELLO As far as base humiliation goes, acting is a tough business. It's a tough, embarrassing thing to...
ADAM SCOTT Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ...
FEREIDOON YAZDI I have thought about Happy Days made into a movie. As far as the original cast not being a part of i...
ERIN MORAN People will be able to watch it as one linear story, which was George's original intention.
HAYDEN CHRISTENSEN You can't totally rebel, otherwise you have to go live on your own, on a desert island. It's...
PATRICK MCGOOHAN [In an era when the supply of films - on DVD, video-on-demand and digital downloading - is exploding...
MICHAEL NATHANSON We believe Marc Klein has come up with an original and very moving love story.
DON GRANGER One other thing, if it's possible, as songwriters, you should also develop yourself as record pr...
BARRY MANN I view the whole thing as a collaboration. As an actor, I always found that to be the most freeing t...
TONY GOLDWYN Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born...
HELEN HAYES Democracy's a very fragile thing. You have to take care of democracy. As soon as you stop being ...
SAM SHEPARD When the whole point of Queen was to be original.
FREDDIE MERCURY Be original; don't be scared of being bold!
ED SHEERAN They just started banging on trash cans and decided to put it together as a thing. It's a really, re...
BERT MCCRACKEN I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible.
DAN QUAYLE To be one, to be united is a great thing but respect the right to be different is maybe even greater...
BONO I think it's important to have as many experiences as possible in life because one day you won...
EMMA ROBERTS You will never see the four original Pumpkins on stage ever again, unless it's a Hall of Fame th...
BILLY CORGAN If your mind is at work, we're in danger of reproducing another cliche. If we can keep our minds...
PETER FALK The real important thing about Digital-Original publication goes beyond the fact that authors make m...
MICHAEL A. STACKPOLE With (Katrina), it's almost like the sequel that doesn't live up to the original. It's certainly a s...
GILBERT GOTTFRIED It isn't the original scandal that gets people in the most trouble - it's the attempted cove...
TOM PETRI Be as soft as possible, if something good and wise wants to shape you; be as hard as possible, if so...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN If the next generation is to face the future with zest and self-confidence, we must educate them to ...
MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI In Paris, you're as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles.
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