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As a novelist, you could say that I am dreaming while I am awake, and every day I can continue with yesterday's dream. Because it… — Haruki Murakami
In the original script, my character was a basketball player rather than a boxer. I didn't think I could pull that off. I'm a little… — Eddie Murphy
A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader. — Vladimir Nabokov
The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what… — V.S. Naipaul
If you can just be yourself, then you have to be original because there's no one like you. — Marc Newson
Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it. — Reinhold Niebuhr
Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Gabriel Garcia Marquez is one of my all-time favorite writers. I feel spiritual when reading his words, even though they're translated. I wish desperately that… — Conor Oberst
In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. — David Ogilvy
The genius of a folk melody or story is not the feeling that it's original but quite the opposite - the feeling that it has… — Susan Orlean
I respect the astute and rigorously unsentimental David Horowitz as one of America's most original and courageous political analysts. He has the true 1960s spirit… — Camille Paglia
Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law. — Thomas Paine
I wouldn't say I'm a very original thinker, but if I have a good experience with something, I'll want to take it further or adapt… — Gwyneth Paltrow
I'm constantly trying to be as original as I can. — Guy Pearce
So if we have anything original to offer, it's to speak from our own life about the society we're in. — Sean Penn
Look, we have existed for 4,000 years - 2,000 years in diaspora, in exile. Nobody in the Middle East speaks their original language but Israel.… — Shimon Peres
Don't treat your heart like an action figure wrapped in plastic and never used. And don't try to give me that nerd argument that your… — Amy Poehler
Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a… — Jane Porter
Very few people are original. There's very little original anything out there. Because to be original means you have to stand alone. — Susan Powter
The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard! — Manuel Puig
One of the biggest obstacles I've overcome in my life was thinking I didn't deserve to be successful. Artistically I'm not as much of a… — Bonnie Raitt
We were tremendously encouraged by the testing of Analyze That. Audiences loved it. They were telling us that they liked it as much as the… — Harold Ramis
An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated be necessity. It is marvelous that we are the only species… — Man Ray
I have one of the original 'Ghostbusters' guns in my house. — Jason Reitman

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