Original Quotes
1861 Original quotes by 1452 unique authors
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Sarah Cornwell has a brilliant eye for the telling detail, and a wonderfully original way of embodying family history. I was captivated by her memorable…
— Andrea Barrett
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There's no original evil left in the world. Everyone's just recycling pain. (257)
— Keith Ablow
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As a young woman, Ama Ata Aidoo the freedom fighter vowed never to write love stories. Let’s delight in the fact that over the years…
— Amina Mama
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If we study history and anthropology we will find that all over the world the original people are Black people who migrated from Africa. This…
— Runoko Rashidi
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I just wanted to play tennis. I started because I wanted to pick up another sport and then as I was slowly getting better I…
— Jana Novotna
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By remaining constrained in one's environment or country or family, one has little chance of being other than the original prescription. By leaving, one gains…
— Rabih Alameddine
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If you haven't read Zomburbia, you haven't read about zombies. This is a new take and it is scary, freaky, and original. Gallardo resets the…
— Nancy Holder
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I like to think I opened doors for other women, although that wasn't my original intention.
— Diahann Carroll
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There's no such thing as an original sin.
— Elvis Presley
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If you feel driven and compelled to make your work and to be fiercely original and have something unique to say, in a compelling way,…
— David Knopfler
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I have thought about Happy Days made into a movie. As far as the original cast not being a part of it, wow, I don't…
— Erin Moran
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It is better to be good than to be original,
— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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For me it is the direct contact of artist to material which is original, and it is the earth and his contact to it which…
— Isamu Noguchi
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My art is grounded in the belief of one universal energy which runs through everything: from insect to man, from man to spectre, from spectre…
— Ana Mendieta
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A daily creative project is like a marathon. It's a ridiculously daunting task, but making an original creation every day gives you an incredible sense…
— Noah Scalin
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Fox-terriers are born with about four times as much original sin in them as other dogs.
— Jerome K. Jerome
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I had no expectation that the Prince would offer me the unprecedented and unfettered access to the original and entirely untapped sources on which this…
— Jonathan Dimbleby
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When my children were born, I didn't have them baptized because I felt baptism was about erasing Original Sin - something the Church said children…
— Olympia Dukakis
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To be alive, it seemed to me, as I stood there in all kinds of sorrow, was to be both original and reflection, and to…
— Teju Cole
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There has never been an 'original' sin: each is quite banal.
— Edward Abbey
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