Original Quotes · Page 19

If youre not prepared to be wrong, youll never come up with anything original.

— Suman Rai

“A copy loses it's value. Be an original. You are meant to shine. Be You”

— Darlene Dawne

I have always thought if you are going to make a film, it's much better to have an original script that will…

— William Boyd

If 200 songs are coming every year, there should be a ratio that at least 150-180 songs should be original.

— Amaal Mallik

The original writer is not he who refrains from imitating others, but he who can be imitated by none.

— François-René de Chateaubriand

Madonna was the original but now everyone is a Material Girl if they want to be.

— Amelia Dimoldenberg

HBO is the original subscription video-on-demand company. We were repurposing first-run movies, and then we added original programming.

— Jeff Bewkes

“Nothing that happened in the past is anything we can change. And it shouldn’t interfere with the happiness of the present.”

— Linda Armstrong

The golden age was when people were starting to understand what hip-hop was and how to use it. I was lucky to…

— Rakim

Robert Altman's 'Nashville' is my all-time favorite film because it covers all the bases - it's original, moving, and has something to…

— Douglas Wood

The first feature film I did, when I did 'Night Shift,' I improvised quite a bit because I would improvise at the…

— Michael Keaton

I've often thought that we left the original 'Phantom' with a little bit of a cliff hanger, and I thought, 'Well, why…

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

My idea of covers is that you should never cover a song and do it exactly like the artist because everyone's always…

— Glenn Danzig

You don't learn from good people - they've found what works for them and are completely original; you learn from the people…

— Helen McCrory

Classics are books which, the more we think we know them through hearsay, the more original, unexpected, and innovative we find them…

— Italo Calvino

In the original 'Star Wars' movie, there is a small toaster-sized and shaped robot on the Death Star that guides Stormtroopers to…

— Colin Angle

Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it.

— Reinhold Niebuhr

I'm original and unique, I'm my own person & if you don't like it...

— Anonymous

I think it was when I was 12 when I entered a singing competition. I sang my own original song for an…

— Birdy

I didn't want the original lineup of the Ramones to break up. I was a fan.

— Marky Ramone

Independent films are really the best ones out there. They're the most original stories, and they're very good.

— Taika Waititi

There are not going to be hundreds of cable networks doing original programming; they won't be able to sustain the model.

— Kevin Reilly

I felt that The Who had ended because we'd lost touch with our original Shepherd's Bush audience.

— Pete Townshend

There are a lot of musicians in my life. But movies came first for me. That was my original passion.

— Damien Chazelle

I always say that my favorite game was Original Adventure, published by both Microsoft and Apple Computer back in 1980.

— Roberta Williams

Every life I start with her, my original sin. I know myself through her.

— Ann Brashares

If Kona were to get a new logo, it would have to be a original character, not some well know one.

— Jimmy Piersall

“To be successful, love yourself and be originally you. Discover what you were born to do and do it well.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

“Be original. That’s all that matters…Take inspiration from others, but always make something new.”

— Tomas Lindberg

For anybody that's looking at getting into comedy as stand-up or otherwise, the best advice to give is: Be original. Always.

— Deon Cole

Before Jason Bourne, before Jack Ryan, there was Bond, James Bond, the original two-dimensional, world-saving secret agent.

— Alex Berenson

GOD made you an original do not let the world turn you in to a copy:D!!

— Sarah Moores

If you can just be yourself, then you have to be original because there's no one like you.

— Marc Newson

Even before the movie was made, people already thought I was the original Lurch.

— Carel Struycken

Honduras was the original 'banana republic,' and its poverty remains extreme.

— Elliott Abrams

If I feel like something needs to be updated, I'll break my neck to outdo the original.

— DJ Premier

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

— Samuel Johnson

Imitation always stinks. When I take photos, I don't go back. I don't look at the past. I'm always original.

— Carine Roitfeld

The original Byrds were very much Beatles-influenced, and then we gradually got our own sound. We started mixing things together more.

— Roger McGuinn

I was pretty young when I saw the original 'Planet of the Apes', and for a time in the seventies, I was…

— Gregory Keyes