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Quotes About Original

I've been writing since I came to Nashville when I was 17. I've been blessed to have written with so many of the biggest names around. They took me under their wing and taught me the ways of writing. They saw something special in me, which feels great. Every song on my record is going to be original, and that's just a really cool feeling.
~ RaeLynn
My claim is simply that the literary approach is one necessary way to read and interpret the Bible, an approach that has been unjustifiably neglected. Despite that neglect, the literary approach builds at every turn on what biblical scholars have done to recover the original, intended meaning of the biblical text.
~ Leland Ryken
The original text of New York is all below Chambers Street.
~ Pete Hamill
I have one rule when adapting any text: nothing gets added; all the words are the original author's own. But in the ordering and recreation of the story, I can do as I please, and to me, the heart and the point of 'Dracula' is appetite.
~ Kathe Koja
I did my doctoral dissertation on the lectionary readings that we use at mass and how you have biblical texts that have been taken out of their original Bible context and put together for mass, and now they form a new text. Out of that new text, there is an interplay of new meaning.
~ Blase J. Cupich
He was an original, an innovator, and his influence will forever live on in our culture. Whether they know it or not, all DJs have been influenced by him. Thank you, DJ AM.
~ Clinton Sparks
I loved 'Pulling.' It was so original and hilarious. I remember being very sad when it finished. I'd love to start a campaign to bring it back, but if I did, the actors would probably say, 'We're fine. We're all really busy, thanks. Please don't!'
~ Sophie McShera
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.
~ Mike Figgis
That is the problem with comedy in India. Spoofing sells. Come up with original comedy about the hilarious nation we are, with funny accents and odd rituals, and we get into trouble.
~ Cyrus Broacha
'The Simpsons' is a tough act to follow, so I thought it was best not to do what they do.
~ Stephen Hillenburg
Opera is the original marriage of words and music, and there's a theatre element, a dramatic element. It's right up my alley.
~ Shane Koyczan
I did a cover of the James Bond theme, and I felt like such a fraud, because the original is so good.
~ Moby
An adaptation leads the cinema-goer to the original to find out what they're missing and if they already know the book, it can still illuminate a theme, a character, an idea.
~ David Nicholls
And thus the name Katholik? Ekklesia begins to be used, as it is here, to mean "the original Church known everywhere". And that original Church, Theophorus insists, is always recognizable as the one that "clings inseparably" to a bishop appointed by the Apostles.52
~ Rod Bennett
Nick and Simon had come to a natural end of their working relationship with Warren, which obviously opened the door for a reunion of the original five.
~ Roger Andrew Taylor
La oposición de izquierda... creyó necesario reconstruir la anatomía nacional, volver al nacionalismo revolucionario original (cardenista e incluso zapatista) y desarrolló una actitud populista de desconfianza ante la democracia electoral.
~ Roger Bartra
The discarding of the icon by both the Brahmo and Arya Samaj was almost a knee-jerk reaction. It was seen as a pollution of the original religion but possibly the jibe of idol worship may have enhanced this reaction.
~ Romila Thapar
After the original rapture of conversion had settled in, (Bob) Dylan backed away from his obviously Christian lyrics and returned to his more metaphorical use of language.
~ Ron Jacobs
Another reason Bible translation can be difficult is that there is a historical barrier between the original documents and the modern translator.
~ Ron Rhodes
Those women who fought the original battles suffer more than most. Hated and opposed when originally pushing down the barriers, they now often have to face contempt from a society which takes for granted their achievements.
~ Rosalind Coward
But certainly for the present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, representation to reality, the appearance to the essence... illusion only is sacred, truth profane. Nay, sacredness is held to be enhanced in proportion as truth decreases and illusion increases, so that the highest degree of illusion comes to be the highest degree of sacredness.
~ Ludwig Feuerbach
IfI wanted to eat an apple, and someone punched me in the stomach, taking away my appetite, then it was this punch that I originally wanted
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
A verdade é que minha mãe era cândida como a primeira aurora, anterior ao primeiro pecado.
~ Machado de Assis
Marriageability was the original title of The Harvest.
~ Amy Hempel