Perfect imitations must share the fate of the originals.
I love to sing, and I've recorded a few covers and originals with friends, but I haven't written any songs.
With the people, especially a people seized of property, resides the aggregate of original power.
Of the original phenomena, light is the most enthralling.
It is always possible to create something original.
What gets me excited is the original principle.
We never set up Yandex to imitate what others were doing. We've been in the business longer than other search engines and have created many original products.
I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center.
But to me, to be original is to be yourself.
I have done a lot of work in Hollywood myself. I worked in television for roughly 10 years, from the mid-'80s to mid-'90s. And I was on staff at a couple of shows. I did some feature films, including originals and adaptations.
Human beings can't see anything without wanting to destroy it. That's original sin. And I'm going to destroy it. Death is going to die.
One Original Thought is worth 1000 Meaningless Quotes.
Some of us have great original ideas and some of us depend on adaptations.
My experience is that sequels are rarely as good as the originals.
If you are approaching the music with more reverence than the original guys invested into it, you are effectively doing it a disservice.
As long as there's something original going on, that's all that matters.
My original intention was to spend the money in my lifetime.
It's great to be paid, but it's better to do something original that's going to be memorable.
But you know, as you say, the original versions of my films are getting out there, slowly.
I always thought it would never happen. And then, it became possible. In between commissions, I wrote it as an original screenplay [Allied].
