Best 153 quotes in «originals quotes» category

You were born an original work of art. Stay original always. Originals cost more than imitations.

A lot of our favorite comedies in general are usually directed by writers, whether or not they wrote the original script themselves.

Allen Ginsberg was a remarkable guy. He was himself. He was an original.

A poor original is better than a good imitation.

Am I reserved? I think I agree with that. I don't think I'm particularly original. I am quite homey, though. But then I'm also quite transient. I quite like being nomadic.

Be as unique and original as possible.

A thousand candles can be lit from one candle, however the life of the original candle is not shortened in the least.

Be original; don't be scared of being bold!

Born Originals, how comes it to pass that we die Copies?

Be yourself.  An original is always worth more than a copy.

Classics are constantly being re-imagined and transformed, and the originals are none the worse for it; they endure.

Certain remakes are great. Carpenter's The Thing is better than the original.

But the Go-Go's are a very original, kind of organic thing.

Disobedience was man's Original Virtue.

Coming up with something new and original is so exciting.

Disobedience is man's original virtue.

Don't be a blueprint. Be an original.

Duke Ellington was famous for hs very original harmonic patterns.

Don't be afraid to borrow. The great men, the most original, borrowed from everybody.

Don't follow in my footsteps. Be original, and create your own path. Be a trailblazer! Do you! Be better than me. Do you! Be happy and have joy in your life.

Every spoof gives more power to the original.

Every original poet has a new insight, or rather introduces a new power.

Hey, every once in awhile the secondary form works better than the original but it's certainly a rarity.

Happiness is your original nature, it is YOU, minus your neurosis

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

History, it is easily perceived, is a picture-gallery containing a host of copies and very few originals.

Home is oneness, home is my original nature. It is right here, simply in what is. There is nowhere else I have to go, and nothing else I have to become.

I am not an original thinker-but I am an original listener.)

I always thought it would never happen. And then, it became possible. In between commissions, I wrote it as an original screenplay [Allied].

I ain't got an original thought in my head. If it ain't got the scent of divinity to it, I ain't interested in it

I am the original Material Girl.

I did a cover of the James Bond theme, and I felt like such a fraud, because the original is so good.

I'd like to be an original, to be myself and not a pale copy of anyone else.

I don't view myself as outrageous - that's not the intention. Its to be more and more original.

If a remake is not good, no one wants to see it and, again, it doesn't hurt the original.

I am not really certain how original my contribution to music is as I am obviously an amateur.

If someone has already done a role I'm about to do, I won't watch the original until after I'm finished playing the role.

If they haven't heard it before it's original.

I focus my energies more so on staying original.

If you are approaching the music with more reverence than the original guys invested into it, you are effectively doing it a disservice.

I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property.

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

If you, like, consciously think about being cool, you're not cool. If you consciously think about being, like, different or original, you ain't different or original.

If you're involved in with something that's original, you know, you'll always go back and try to rehash it.

I hate that we're always called "the all-female Ghostbusters," because you wouldn't refer to the original as "the all-male Ghostbusters.

Imitations only better the original.

I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center.

Inherit the Wind is a wonderful play, and I was in the original with Paul Muni

I'm really just concentrating on making good music, whether it's using a sample or doing an original track.

In sinners and repenters you have the original division of labor.