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Whoever has an original thing to say, it is sort of a threat to the status quo. -- Steve Lacy
The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also his most difficult task. -- Robertson Davies
Preaching is the most original thing I've ever done. There's nothing familiar about it. You have to be brave. -- George Foreman
It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud. -- Ira Glass
I'll think of the idea and then I'll write something down, then within that there will be a joke or two which is the original thing which I thought was funny. -- David Cross
I am like the Jack Nicholson of the Kings - every single game. If there was a game tonight I wouldn't be here. I used to play hockey. That was my original thing. My first thing, I wanted to play professional hockey. -- Rob Zombie
There's no such thing as an original sin. -- Elvis Presley
There's no such thing as an original sin. -- Elvis Presley
But the Go-Go's are a very original, kind of organic thing. -- Kathy Valentine
There is no such thing as a completely original technique or subject. -- Donald Lambert
Certain remakes are great. Carpenter's The Thing is better than the original. -- Alex Winter
What bugs me are parodies - they're never as special as the original thing. -- Max Tundra
Remakes are a difficult thing 'cause some people feel very protective of the original. -- Carey Mulligan
My experience is that an original and compelling idea for a novel is a rare thing. -- James Thayer
If there's one thing for which I admire you, it's your original discovery of the Ten Commandments. -- Thomas Reed
The easiest thing I can say is simple, but paradoxical in this era of total sampling: Be original. -- DJ Spooky
You know, all 'The Karate Kid' fans from the original are parents these days. I think it's a cool thing. -- William Zabka
I think the important thing about staying creative and staying sharp and original is not to look back too much. -- Wes Craven
Most people think an artist tries to be original, but originality is the last thing that develops in the artist. -- Lukas Foss
Reverb does that thing where you make one sound and it grows to 20 times its original size and fills everything up. -- Alex Scally
Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it. -- Reinhold Niebuhr
On Update, the only real original thing was trying to take away the cleverness of the punchline and make it as blunt as possible. -- Norm MacDonald
There is only one thing better than tradition and that is the original and eternal life out of which all tradition takes its rise. -- James Russell Lowell
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 found. -- Calvin Trillin
Then be sure of one thing: The Is has imagined it quite a bit better than you have. The original sin is to limit the Is. Don't. -- Richard Bach
An opinion, though it is original, does not necessarily differ from the accepted opinion; the important thing is that it does not try to conform to it. -- Andre Gide
One who is caught in thought loses one's original nature. All he knows are words and descriptions. When he sees the actual thing, he fails to perceive it. -- Dalai Lama
Original minds are not distinguished by being the first to see a new thing, but instead by seeing the old, familiar thing that is over-looked as something new. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Badness cannot succeed even in being bad in the same way in which goodness is good. Goodness is, so to speak, itself: badness is only spoiled goodness. Evil is a parasite, not an original thing. -- C. S. Lewis

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