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Originally I considered myself a singer. -- Molly Ringwald
Originally, 'Popular' was going to be a movie. -- Ryan Murphy
Originally I was not writing songs for myself -- Smokey Robinson
Originally I was not writing songs for myself. -- Smokey Robinson
Originally I'm a big pop-music aficionado, that's my love. -- Danny Boyle
Originally, I didn't want to say too much about the art... -- Joel Houston
Originally, with all the shows, we went looking for belly laughs. -- Norman Lear
Originally, I started acting because I showed interest in movies and TV. -- Gage Munroe
Originally I planned on starting a teapot collection. I really like them. -- Billy Dee Williams
Originally consists in thinking for yourself, and not in thinking unlike other people. -- James Fitzjames Stephen
Originally, ethics has no existence apart from religion, which holds it in solution. -- Herbert Spencer
Originally they wanted me to be Buster but I really like the Tobias part. -- David Cross
Originally, in the early eighties, the drug hypothesis was among the first which occurred to scientists. -- Serge Lang
Originally I wanted to be a diplomat, and by attrition I started giving up that idea. -- John Gimlette
Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron. -- Walter Kohn
Originally, I wanted to be a composer. I always tell people, 'I think of myself as a composer. -- Ornette Coleman
Originally, I came from Texas, and we lived on - I guess you'd call it welfare, what we called relief. -- Carol Burnett
I never really considered acting as a career. I kind of fell into it. Originally, I wanted to be a painter. -- Josh Hartnett
Originally a pupil of Liebig, I became a pupil of Dumas, Gerhardt and Williamson: I no longer belonged to any school. -- August Kekule
Originally, 'The Windup Girl' started as a short story - a very gnarly, complicated short story set in Bangkok that didn't work very well. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
Originally, each human being is a complete and perfect existence. At the same time, we are each living within the one great, large-scale perfection. -- Masami Saionji
Originally a stylist took terrible dresses and did everything she could to make them wonderful. Now, you create an image. It's much more specialized. -- China Machado
Originally I was opposed to gay assimilation and targeted gay marriage as just another effort on the part of gays to resemble their straight neighbours. -- Edmund White
Originally what I used to love was being on a stage and reacting to a live audience and maybe my calling is more in theatre. -- Emma Watson
Originally, theater was my life. It was what I assumed I'd spend my working life doing - if I was lucky. Then along came movies. -- Alan Rickman
Hope is like a path in the countryside. Originally, there is nothing - but as people walk this way again and again, a path appears. -- Lu Xun
From its beginning, fan fiction has been written mostly by women. Originally, this was because of a dearth of interesting female characters in conventional sci-fi. -- Russell Smith
I love living in Brooklyn. Originally I moved there because I could enjoy a bigger space for less money than I would ever get in Manhattan. -- Raquel Zimmermann
Originally, John Kennedy was going to come speak, and then Lyndon Johnson. Because it was October of '62, neither made it because of the Cuban missile crisis. -- David Maraniss
Originally, I wanted to call the band 'Guns 'n Robots.' I still believe that if we had just called ourselves 'Guns 'n Robots' we'd still be together. -- Slash
I always try to write a song, I never just want to write a record. Originally I was not writing songs for myself. Songwriting is my gift from God. -- Smokey Robinson
Originally the film opened with Ryan in the doctor's office, being told his wife is dying. Then we see him walking the streets, and the story is told in flashback. -- Arthur Hiller
Originally, the lyrics to "Girl" were really upbeat, and then it didn't work for me somehow. You need the dichotomy. If you're doing something happy and light, you need the shadows. -- Beck
Originally, I broke the story [The Gunslinger Born] into eight comic books, but when the editors at Marvel thought we should make it more compact, I managed to cut back to seven. -- Robin Furth
In many ways, my entire graphic novel career was a long diversion. Originally, all I wanted to do was to be an underground cartoonist and maybe bring out a groovy underground mag. -- Alan Moore
I think of the meaning of the word testimony. Originally it named the custom of two men holding each other's testicles in a gesture of trust, later to metamorphose into the handshake. -- Alice Walker
GENEROUS, adj. Originally this word meant noble by birth and was rightly applied to a great multitude of persons. It now means noble by nature and is taking a bit of a rest. -- Ambrose Bierce
Emil's [Nava], the video director. Originally, I was meant to do all the stuff that the puppet was doing. I just wasn't that comfortable with doing it, so he had a puppet made. -- Ed Sheeran
Originally marriage meant the sale of a woman by one man to another; now most women sell themselves though they have no intention of delivering the goods listed in the bill of sale. -- Robert Graves
Originally, the burden of proof was on physicists to prove that time travel was possible. Now the burden of proof is on physicists to prove there must be a law forbidding time travel. -- Michio Kaku
Originally, when I wrote the song 'The Sensual World' I had used text from the end of 'Ulysses.' When I asked for permission to use the text, I was refused, which was disappointing. -- Kate Bush
Originally created to serve the poorest and sickest among us, the Medicaid program has grown dramatically but still doesn't include the kind of flexibility that states need to provide better health care for the poor and disadvantaged. -- Fred Upton
Television was first conceived to be used as some kind of telescope, not for broadcasting. Originally, Sworkin, the inventor of television, wanted to settle cameras on rockets so that it would be possible to watch the sky. -- Paul Virilio
Originally, I was interested in athletic pursuits like snowboarding, martial arts and surfing. When I went to the Himalayas and met a number of Buddhist monks I was introduced to a new way of looking at life. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Originally, I was interested in athletic pursuits like snowboarding, martial arts and surfing. When I went to the Himalayas and met a number of Buddhist monks I was introduced to a new way of looking at life. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Originally, I thought, 'Gollum's such a fantastic character, why are you doing him CG? Surely you need to be able to humanise him as much as possible - he's so full of pathos and real emotion.' -- Andy Serkis
Originally the dream was about traveling and developing a job that would permit me to travel. And I decided to go into street performing because it was a traveling job; it would let me go around the world. -- Guy Laliberte
Originally a record producer more or less hired a bunch of professionals to participate in a recording session, the performers and the technicians, and a music director was put in charge. That directly related to a film producer's job. -- Tony Visconti
Originally the big argument was that they wanted to call it "raw and uncut" and I told them I had a problem with that. When you say "raw" it implies that my show is dirty and that's not the case. -- Gabriel Iglesias
Originally, I think, I wanted to be an actor. But I got into broadcasting by accident, if you will, because I needed money to pay for my college education. I applied for a summer announcing job at a couple of radio stations. -- Alex Trebek
[Religion is a] primitive insurance against disaster. ... Originally religion was merely a function of the self-preservative instinct. Offer sacrifices to the gods and save your crops. And even Christianity, after all, insures heavily against the flaws in this life by belief in another. -- Rose Macaulay
Originally, I was in both software and in online computing. The first innovation really was sort of at that time that we're marrying the telephone and the computer so that people wouldn't have to drive to the computer center. We didn't have $1,000 computers. -- Sam Wyly
We didn't have a strong drug scene by any means. Originally, it was just purple hearts, amphetamines, speed or whatever you want to call it. When The Beatles went down south, they sometimes brought back cannabis and gradually the drug scene developed in Liverpool. -- Bob Wooler
Originally I had planned to write just a couple of children's books and then, return the focus on adult literature. A funny thing happened along the way - I kept having new ideas, and then I looked up one day, and 30 years had passed! -- Nikki Grimes
As far as "uncut" I think we all know that you guys cut up the special. Originally it was going to be 2 hours plus and it got chopped down so I said "we can't use those words because it's not going to represent me right". -- Gabriel Iglesias
Originally this was the most important thing about martial arts - to reach a higher level, to become a strong human being. Strong doesn't mean big arms. It means who can be a more strict human being with himself. That is the ideal of martial arts. -- Tsutomu Ohshima
Originally, I wanted a machine that would cost $100. My idea was to spend nothing on the console technology so all the money could be spent on improving the interface and software. If we hadn't used NAND flash memory and other pricey parts, we might have succeeded. -- Shigeru Miyamoto
Originally I wanted somewhere to set my short stories about the sort of people I recognise having grown up with. Carnbeg was staring me in the face all the time, only I had somehow failed to see that. Not seeing the wood for the trees, I suppose. -- Ronald Frame
Originally, I wanted to do humanitarian work. I actually feel that getting into acting, which fate has led me to, is my window and path into humanitarian work. I always said I want to do something important. And I feel this work is what's helping me get there. -- Evangeline Lilly
We don't intend to always keep this necessarily African oriented. Originally I had hoped to have African American Indian of this area, and the Appalachian of this area, but at the same time, just as we have the Haitian room, we will always have room for another exhibit. -- Katherine Dunham
Originally when I went off to work on 'The Lord of The Rings' I got a call from my agent saying that I was just going to do a voice. But I couldn't really approach it like that. To get Gollum's voice I had to play the character. -- Andy Serkis
Salamander: Originally a reptile inhabiting fire; later, an anthropomorphous immortal, but still a pyrophile. Salamanders are now believed to be extinct, the last one of which we have an account having been seen in Carcassonne by the Abbe Belloc, who exorcised it with a bucket of holy water. -- Ambrose Bierce
You know, let me be very clear. I supported Barack Obama originally. -- Bernie Sanders
Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing. -- Dave Barry
I re-invented my image so many times that I'm in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman. -- David Bowie
I wasn't originally a bass player. I just found out I was needed, because everyone wants to play guitar. -- Tina Weymouth
Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. Keeping grief inside increases your pain. -- Anne Grant
Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind. -- Ramana Maharshi
I turned to music originally because of my past and needing a release or an outlet to get out anger or frustration or hurt. -- Christina Aguilera
I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
I've kind of fashioned my life after a Slinky. Bend me in a million shapes, and eventually I'll spring back to what I originally was. -- Sylvester Stallone
The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source of diseases. -- Edward Jenner
In all our associations; in all our agreements let us never lose sight of this fundamental maxim - that all power was originally lodged in, and consequently is derived from, the people. -- George Mason
The deeper I go into mythology, the more I find. I originally did five 'Percy Jackson' books. I thought that would cover Greek mythology and I couldn't have been more wrong. It's ever-expanding. -- Rick Riordan
Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased. -- Adam Smith
Well, we were originally called Huey Lewis and the American Express. But on the eve of the release of our first record, our record label, Chrysalis Records was afraid that we'd be sued by American Express. -- Huey Lewis
Give us a chance to show you that those so-called protective laws to aid women - however well intentioned originally - have become in fact restraints, which keep wife, abandoned wife, and widow alike from supporting her family. -- Martha Griffiths
I do know this: God does answer your prayers, but it's not always in the way you expect. God knows what's best for us, though, so there's no need to worry when things don't go how we originally wanted them to go. -- Lou Holtz
We all are originally sinners as Adam and in Adam, his leprosy cleaving faster to us than Naaman's did to Gahazai, so that even the infant, before it has seen the light of the world, has this blemish inherent in its unborn members. -- John Wycliffe
With twelve horse power at our command, we considered that we could permit the weight of the machine with operator to rise to 750 or 800 pounds, and still have as much surplus power as we had originally allowed for in the first estimate of 550 pounds. -- Orville Wright
Confederation is a compact, made originally by four provinces but adhered to by all the nine provinces who have entered it, and I submit to the judgment of this house and to the best consideration of its members, that this compact should not be lightly altered. -- Wilfrid Laurier
My family originally lived in Brooklyn. Our first apartment was a little place above my father and uncle's hardware store in Coney Island. Now, don't get the impression that we were surrounded by merry-go-rounds, roller coasters and Ferris wheels. Nope, this was a little side street. -- Gilbert Gottfried
Animals that we eat are raised for food in the most economical way possible, and the serious food producers do it in the most humane way possible. I think anyone who is a carnivore needs to understand that meat does not originally come in these neat little packages. -- Julia Child
Sometimes I'll have sections that I'm not quite sure how they fit in the puzzle of a tune, they'll get moved around; what I think was originally a verse ends up becoming the chorus, or what's an intro gets dropped as a hook, things get shifted around a lot. -- Gotye
Before I start, I trick myself into thinking I know what's going to happen in the story, but the characters have ideas of their own, and I always go with the character's choices. Most of the time I discover plot twists and directions that are better than what I originally had planned. -- Neal Shusterman
My father, Oliver Hynes, was an educator. He was originally just a teacher, a very good one, but then he was promoted to be in charge of education for the entire area. He was always an inspirational teacher. He was my big personal supporter, always coming here for the Tony Awards. My mother, Carmel, was a homemaker. -- Garry Hynes
When the idea of 'Chopped' surfaced, it was originally meant to be taped at some guy's mansion with him and his crazy Chihuahua. A stuffy fellow in a tuxedo was to host, and the losing chef's dish was then fed to the dog! I am not kidding, I saw it! I think it is genius! Twisted, but genius! -- Ted Allen
I'm from the Mississippi delta originally. -- Little Milton
My background was in performing originally. -- Cy Coleman
What I wanted originally was six kids. -- Evangeline Lilly
All disgust is originally disgust at touching. -- Walter Benjamin
Finding Nemo' was originally shot in 3D. -- John Lasseter
I originally just wanted to be an artist. -- Daniel Clowes
Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy. -- Aristotle
All Americans come from Ohio originally, if only briefly. -- Dawn Powell
Hip-hop was fast, originally. It was always fast music. -- will.i.am
There's a reason why the form was originally silent -- David Henry Hwang
I'll admit I wanted to be a pilot, originally. -- Kent McCord
Nobody's American," said Wednesday. "Not originally. That's my point. -- Neil Gaiman
I originally wanted to be F. Scott Fitzgerald, but failed. -- Whit Stillman
To me acting originally became an extension of game playing. -- Hugo Weaving
I came to Hollywood originally writing comedy and writing satire. -- Stephen Gaghan
I can rap; that's what I was originally really good at. -- James Paxton
Really good ideas are always good beyond what you anticipated originally. -- David Gelernter
I originally passed on 'Girls' because I thought TV was evil. -- Adam Driver
Most journeys in life rarely end up where we originally intended. -- Ken Poirot
Man's nature, originally good and common to all, should develop unhampered. -- Georg Simmel
I originally started off as a healer before I came to Hollywood. -- Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
Courage originally meant "To speak one's mind by telling all one's heart. -- Brene Brown
We were called The Toilets originally - we were flushed with success. -- Mike Peters
The railroad originally was as completely dissociated from steam propulsion as was the ship -- John Moody
Maybe the package comes in a different shape than we originally thought it would. -- Susane Colasanti
I quit karate originally because it wasn't something that I was initially passionate about. -- Kristin Kreuk
Hypertext, as Nelson [Ted Nelson] originally wrote, is interlinked reading and writing. Links make hypertext. -- Mark Bernstein
Large swaths of what we now regard as basic medical knowledge came originally from naturalists. -- Richard Conniff
What originally led us to serve others by leading them seldom remains our North Star. -- Dan B. Allender
These are the routines that originally 'put me on the map' in the magic world. -- Jay Sankey
I was originally going to become a biochemist, but it just got way too complicated. -- Eugene Jarvis
[YSL creative director] Hedi [Slimane] is a music-obsessed guy. I might've originally met him through Sky. -- Zachary Cole Smith

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