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Throughout my life, there are four people I've met who were truly original people. The other three were Groucho Marx, Jim Morrison, and Pablo Picasso. — Alice Cooper
I just admire people like Woody Allen, who every year writes an original screenplay. It's astonishing. I always wished that I could do that. — Francis Ford Coppola
Without a doubt, I was born to want to make cinema, but the kind of cinema I want to make is not like commercial movies,… — Francis Ford Coppola
Saturn Return is just the return of your planets to their original position. — Billy Corgan
You will never see the four original Pumpkins on stage ever again, unless it's a Hall of Fame thing. But you would never see a… — Billy Corgan
I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very… — Roald Dahl
There will never be another Ed Koch. He was an original, but he represented a significant, if shrinking, segment of American Jewry who refused to… — Alan Dershowitz
Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes… — Joan Didion
A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original… — Freeman Dyson
Like the rest of us, Tom Paulin is a bundle of contradictions. At its finest, his work is brave, adventurous, original and wonderfully idiosyncratic. — Terry Eagleton
Words derive their power from the original word. — Meister Eckhart
A barn with cattle and horses is the place to begin Christmas; after all, that's where the original event happened, and that same smell was… — Paul Engle
Superman's original name was Kal-El, or Swift God. His father's name was Jor-El. Superman was clearly drawn as a modern-day god. — Bruce Feiler
I think anyone who has, you know, is in any sort of artistic pursuit, kind of goes up and down with the way they feel… — Will Ferrell
It definitely wasn't like, 'Hey, I'm going to steal that, and nobody's going to know.' The original 'T.R.O.Y.' came out in 1992, and it was… — Lupe Fiasco
Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work. — Gustave Flaubert
There are no original ideas. There are only original people. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Even when I was a hip-hop DJ I always kept it classy. The motto is always 'flashy but classy.' You've got to be original and… — Mayer Hawthorne
I look for the character to be something interesting, the script to have a good story and be original, and a director that I admire. — Josh Hartnett
Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to… — Helen Hayes
I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center. — Seamus Heaney
But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty… — Lafcadio Hearn
The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity. — Eric Hoffer
The original fairy tale was about the youngest sister going into a room in the castle and finding all the bodies of the wives that… — Alice Hoffman
Kind 'Guardian' readers have been forwarding me round robin Christmas newsletters for years now: lengthy missives full of perfect children, exotic holidays, talented pets and… — Simon Hoggart

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