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Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.
Edward Gibbon

Learning, Book, Thinking

A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader.
Vladimir Nabokov

Fiction, Fit, Likely

Coming up with something new and original is so exciting.
Adam Lambert

Exciting, Coming

When all the original blues guys are gone, you start to realize that someone has to tend to the tradition. I recognize that I have some responsibility to keep the music alive, and it's a pretty honorable position to be in.
Eric Clapton

Music, Someone, Pretty

We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

Crazy, Become, Minds

I mean, there are only so many notes. What makes something original is how you put it together.
Lenny Kravitz

Mean, Together, Put

I made sure no butt cheek hung out. You know, the original Daisy, Catherine Bach's shorts were shorter than mine.
Jessica Simpson

Made, Sure, Mine

If an original piece of wardrobe came up from Star Wars, I'd probably spend a lot of money on it.
Johnny Vegas

Money, Star, Spend

Duke Ellington was famous for hs very original harmonic patterns.
Lawrence Welk

Famous, Patterns, Harmonic

There is no original truth, only original error.
Gaston Bachelard

Generally, the best recording is the original cast, because that's the way the piece grew: integrally, with them.
Stephen Sondheim

Best, Piece, Recording

I really think that being yourself, being original, being outside the box is starting to be appealing to people.
Miranda Lambert

Yourself, Outside, Starting

Less than fifteen per cent of the people do any original thinking on any subject. The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think.
Luther Burbank

Greatest, Thinking, Less

I started out as an opportunistic renegade. By now, I've lasted long enough to become sort of an American Original Respectable Renegade.
Wolfman Jack

Long, Enough, Become

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

Music, Amateur, Obviously

I was on cruise control from '85 to '95, and it was my fault. There were a lot of self-inflicted wounds, when I was not doing any original material. I wasn't directing. I wasn't writing. That's not who I am.
Sylvester Stallone

Writing, Control, Fault

Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills.
David Mamet

Drama, Films, Operation

All military regimes use security as the reason why they should remain in power. It's nothing original.
Aung San Suu Kyi

Power, Nothing, Why

The only reason I would write a sequel is if I were struck by an idea that I felt to be equal to the original. Too many sequels diminish the original.
Dean Koontz

Reason, Write, Idea

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 is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men.
V. S. Naipaul

Work, Great, Men

But to me, to be original is to be yourself.
Marc Newson

I feel like when I went back to my original hair color, a little bit of an edgier side came out.
Ashley Tisdale

Hair, Color, Bit

I have one of the original 'Ghostbusters' guns in my house.
Jason Reitman

I think romance is a tool, comedy is a tool and drama is a tool. I really just want to tell stories that challenge the viewer, move people, make you laugh, perhaps push an idea about being open-minded but never settle on a genre or an opinion. I hate genre. I like movies that are original in their approach.
Jason Reitman

Movies, Hate, Laugh

Our responsibility as filmmakers is to make things that are fresh, unique and original.
Joel Silver

Unique, Fresh, Filmmakers

The original is unfaithful to the translation.
Jorge Luis Borges

I didn't really see the British punk movement, if that's what it was, as wildly original, because I had been listening so intently to all the New York music since 1973, really.
Steven Patrick Morrissey

Music, Since, Punk

I had known Cole Porter in Hollywood and New York, spent many a warm hour at his home, and met the talented and original people who were drawn to him.
Gene Tierney

Home, Him, Known

An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.
Walter Bagehot

Time, Money, Mind

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 of its own; and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose.
Lafcadio Hearn

Beauty, Great, Respect

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