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Quotes About Original

In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to whom the idea first occurs.
~ Francis Darwin
I've always said time and time again that I hate anything conventional.
~ Ekta Kapoor
It was important for the first piece of original music that I release to have a timeless feel because that's the type of music I want to make.
~ Chloe Kohanski
The Bowery was a place that would let us do original songs - not just covers - but we would have to work for tips, so we learned how to work an audience. In order to keep our jobs, we had to keep people happy, so that meant playing the latest Lynyrd Skynyrd and ZZ Top or Merle Haggard.
~ Randy Owen
The original title for 'In the Mood for Love' was called 'A Story About Food.' The idea was to tell a love story through different courses.
~ Wong Kar-wai
No, it's interesting to remake a film for the contemporary audience today. I think it's a good idea; it needs to respect the original idea. Don't just take the title and change everything else.
~ Dario Argento
'Dynasty' is such an appealing title in and of itself, not even knowing about the original series. It's a word that evokes power and legacy and a certain level of epic-ness.
~ Sallie Patrick
Some 'Terminator' fans are outraged that I'm playing Sarah Connor. They think I'm not muscly enough. To be honest, I'm a little tired of the comparisons to Linda Hamilton. I know she will always be the original Sarah Connor, but when people see what I bring to the role, they will look at her with new eyes.
~ Lena Headey
The meaning of freedom is in the U.S. Constitution. Republicans want to live by the document's original meaning.
~ Thomas Peterffy
I was actually quite surprised how many more mythologies there are about mermaids than the ones our society knows. I was so pleasantly surprised for 'Siren' to add quite an original idea to that: One that is a predator. One that is very intelligent but still has to survive in the ocean with all of its challenges.
~ Eline Powell
The realm of making microbudget stuff will always be totally in our control. Most of the time, we just pay for those out of pocket. Then there is stuff that's too expensive for us to pay for, and we want partners on, like 'Togetherness' and 'Animals' and some of our original Netflix movies.
~ Mark Duplass
Detail tends to be the first casualty of reproduction.
~ Sarah Churchwell
Details tend to be the first casualty of reproduction.
~ Sarah Churchwell
It's an expression of grief for an original loss.
~ Sarah Manguso
Normal is boring. Who wants that?
~ Sarah Mlynowski
It was then she said I had grown cynical. I said, that I had always been cynical—she had only never called it that. She had said rather that I was brave. She had called me an original. She had seemed to admire me for it.
~ Sarah Waters
I took the song The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face from a folk singer called Bonnie Dobson. I knew her and she had a record with that track on it.
~ Gordon Lightfoot
Presumption is our natural and original malady. The most vulnerable and frail of all creatures is man, and at the same time the most arrogant.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Cult movies are basically movies Hollywood missed the first time - that they should have gotten - and then the fans got it and made it successful.
~ Troy Duffy
I am outraged that the Gorillaz have infringed the copyright of my song 'Time Warp,' claiming their song 'Stylo' to be an original composition.
~ Eddy Grant
Obviously the original 'Tron' was a very influential movie for its time, so to be a part of the second one is very exciting.
~ Serinda Swan
There, standing at the piano, was the original good time who had been had by all.
~ Kenneth Tynan
I get it that remakes are a drag to hear about. I'm on the Internet all the time. I know what they say. Like there's no original ideas in Hollywood.
~ Michael De Luca
To repeat: her voice has life. It possesses a quality not present in the original, revealing how a nymph can return a different and more meaningful story, in spite of telling the same story.
~ Mark Z. Danielewski