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Born Originals, how comes it to pass that we die Copies? -- Edward Young
You were born an original work of art. Stay original always. Originals cost more than imitations. -- Suzy Kassem
I had auditioned for 'The Vampire Diaries' years ago before 'The Originals' happened, so I was familiar with that mythology. -- Nathan Parsons
The premise of 'The Originals' are places that have been open 50, 60, 75, 100 years or longer that are still doing it right that maybe a lot of people, particularly the younger generations, have not even thought about. -- Emeril Lagasse
To be honest, going out with Ed after Josh is like moving on to Duchy Originals super-tasty seeded loaf after plastic white bread. (I don't mean to be rude about Josh. And I didn't realize it at the time. But it is. He is. Plastic white bread.) -- Sophie Kinsella
I prefer writing originals. -- Tony Gilroy
My first band, Kid Wicked, we did half covers and half originals. -- Sebastian Bach
The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear. -- John James Audubon
History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
But I can't say that I didn't like John Hammond's performances often better than the originals. -- Warren Zevon
Classics are constantly being re-imagined and transformed, and the originals are none the worse for it; they endure. -- Robert Gottlieb
I love to sing, and I've recorded a few covers and originals with friends, but I haven't written any songs. -- Miranda Kerr
I'm buying records a lot, like, every week I'm just buying old reissues or old originals or new records that I have heard about. -- Tim Gane
We were playing popular music, but we were doing our own arrangements because we were too lazy to sit down and figure out the originals. -- Tommy Shaw
I want to do more audio originals because I think that it is a fascinating medium. If you think about it, this is original storytelling. -- David Hewson
It's in my stars to invent; I was born on Madame Curie's birthday. I have this need for originals, for innovation. That's why I like Charlie Parker. -- Joni Mitchell
So it just goes to show you that it was always the Hells Angels first. They were the originals and all other clubs try and imitate what the Hells Angels have already done. -- Chuck Zito
People who aren't complicated in real life come through as pretty bland on the screen. Most great performers are not very happy and well adjusted. Perhaps that's the price they pay for being originals. -- George Cukor
An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated be necessity. It is marvelous that we are the only species that creates gratuitous forms. To create is divine, to reproduce is human. -- Man Ray
To some degree, yeah, because I have to play a certain number of originals that might be considered avant-garde material. I realize though, that only a few people in the audience actually know what that music is, or understand it. -- Archie Shepp
My mother was a children's librarian. I remember when traditional stories were revised for modern audiences until they bore only a nodding acquaintance with the originals, but were released as 'authentic Indian stories' when they were, in fact, nothing of the kind. -- Patricia Briggs
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. -- George R. R. Martin
I know these are going to sound like school reading-list suggestions, but if you like dystopian fiction, you should check out some of the originals: 'Anthem,' by Ayn Rand; '1984,' by George Orwell; or 'Brave New World,' by Aldous Huxley. -- Sara Shepard
The fans in Canada have been there since day one. They're the originals. When people say that's your roots, that's literally my roots. I've just cut this tree off and replanted it somewhere else and it started growing. But the roots are there. -- Russell Peters
Generally speaking, when Australian winemakers try to make delicate, European-styled wines of finesse and lightness, the wines often come across as pale imitations of the originals. One exception is Australian Riesling, delicious, dry wines meant to be consumed in their first two years of life. -- Robert M. Parker, Jr.
In my head, I consider 'No Turning Back' my 'dipping the toe in the water' album. It was mostly covers of favorite songs, and there were three originals in there. So, it feels like it was just my album to see what the temperature of the water was. -- Imelda May
I've done two remakes, 'Rowdy Rathore' and 'Son of Sardaar,' and I see nothing wrong with it. The originals were in a language that not everyone understands, so when you're making it in another language, you can reach a much wider audience. That's how I look at it. -- Sonakshi Sinha
The other day, a doughnut shop in Portland called Pip's Originals tweeted me telling me that they named a doughnut after me called the 'Dirty Wu.' It is a cinnamon sugar doughnut drizzled with honey and Nutella. It was so good. I just won the Oscar in the sci-fi world. -- Reggie Lee
I've got more than 600 pairs of Ray-Ban sunglasses, from 1950s originals to newer models. I have them on the wall like opticians do so I can pick out a pair that goes with my outfit. I had around 30 pairs, then my husband Rainer started getting them for me as birthday and Christmas gifts. -- Suzi Quatro
There are more copies than originals among people. -- Pablo Picasso
Perfect imitations must share the fate of the originals. -- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
The only good imitations are those that poke fun at bad originals. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
My experience is that sequels are rarely as good as the originals. -- Sarah Dessen
We are all born originals - why is it so many of us die copies? -- Edward Young
The only good copies are those which make us see the absurdity of bad originals. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
History, it is easily perceived, is a picture-gallery containing a host of copies and very few originals. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
How vain is painting, which is admired for reproducing the likeness of things whose originals are not admired. -- Blaise Pascal
How vain painting is, exciting admiration by its resemblance to things of which we do not admire the originals. -- Blaise Pascal
We live in a world of copies and we're fascinated when we encounter the originals (in a museum, for instance). -- Susan Sontag
God makes originals not carbon copies. It's okay to be inspired by someone, but be bold enough to be yourself. -- Tony Gaskins
Conventional nudes based on classical originals could bear no burden of thought or inner life without losing their formal completeness. -- Kenneth Clark
He that would be a master must draw from the life as well as copy from originals, and join theory and experience together. -- Jeremy Collier
We were playing popular music, but we were doing our own arrangements because we were too lazy to sit down and figure out the originals -- Tommy Shaw
Not infrequently, we encounter copies of important human beings; and here, too, as in the case of paintings, most people prefer the copies to the originals. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
You can believe in originals only if you just don't know their context within literature. Certainly I believe in originality, but it lies with the teller, not the tale. -- William Monahan
Most of the classical citations you shall hear or read in the current journals or speeches were not drawn from the originals, but from previous quotations in English books... -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I read world literature and I read French romances in the originals. I had quite a profound knowledge - no, that sounds conceited, but I did have a profound interest in everything spiritual. -- Baldur von Schirach

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