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The trouble with remakes is that people fall in love with the original. It's like peanut butter. If you try to change the taste of… — Sylvester Stallone
I feel like when I went back to my original hair color, a little bit of an edgier side came out. — Ashley Tisdale
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been… — Calvin Trillin
I find that the very things that I get criticized for, which is usually being different and just doing my own thing and just being… — Shania Twain
This is what I learned: that everybody is talented, original and has something important to say. — Brenda Ueland
I guess many game music fans prefer original soundtrack albums. — Nobuo Uematsu
If an original piece of wardrobe came up from Star Wars, I'd probably spend a lot of money on it. — Johnny Vegas
No writer, no matter how gifted, immortalizes himself unless he has crystallized into expressive and original phrase the eternal sentiments and yearnings of the human… — Alfred de Vigny
The original lists were probably carved in stone and represented longer periods of time. They contained things like 'Get More Clay. Make Better Oven.' — David Viscott
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another. — Voltaire
My original concept was to provide a free encyclopedia for every single person in the world. — Jimmy Wales
Duke Ellington was famous for hs very original harmonic patterns. — Lawrence Welk
One of the things I find very difficult about theatre is the repetition - that something can slide away from your original intentions. — Ben Whishaw
There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the… — Elie Wiesel
They've tried to manufacture other Marilyn Monroes and they will undoubtedly keep trying. But it won't work. She was an original. — Billy Wilder
Following 25 children for the TV series 'Child of Our Time' has been extraordinary. The BBC's original plan was to commemorate the new millennium. What… — Robert Winston
It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike… — Virginia Woolf
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age. — Frank Lloyd Wright
I think because we're ourselves, we tend to think we're unique. 'I have problems that are just specific to me.' Then you connect with one… — Chris Hardwick
An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate. — FranÃ§ois-RenÃ© de Chateaubriand
In a time of social fragmentation, vulgarity becomes a way of life. To be shocking becomes more important - and often more profitable - than… — Al Gore
Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible. — Richard P. Feynman
Cyborg writing must not be about the Fall, the imagination of a once-upon-a-time wholeness before language, before writing, before Man. Cyborg writing is about the… — Donna J. Haraway
It is to the credit of human nature, that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates. Hatred,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Theoretically there is no absolute proof that one's awakening in the morning (the finding oneself again in the saddle of one's personality) is not really… — Vladimir Nabokov

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