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My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.
T Bone Burnett / Musician
Ideas
Produce
Records
Original Idea
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It is the original idea that is unique, not the object itself.
Victor Vasarely / Artist
Unique
Original
Itself
Object
Original Idea
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An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.
Stephen Fry / Comedian
Funny
Book
Hard
Library
Witty
Original
Idea
Too
Full
Must
Original Idea
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'Sabotage' was a work for hire. It wasn't my original idea or script or anything.
David Ayer / Film Director
Sabotage
Original
Hire
Original Idea
Script
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Today, people tend to credit me with having the original idea and made the first circuits.
Jack Kilby / Electrical Engineer
Credit
Today Me People
Original
Original Idea
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The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.
Eric Hoffer / Philosopher
Antichrist
Ideas
Mediocrity
Real
Turns
Water
Wine
Original
Idea
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There may be no less original idea than the notion that our hearts hold dominion over our heads.
Nancy Gibbs / Essayist
Dominion
Heart
Ideas
May
Notion
Heads
Hearts
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I work off of my early demos. I'll keep adding on top of that, but I usually gravitate towards whatever that original idea was.
Adam Granduciel /
Demos
Adding
Original
Early
Gravitate
Towards
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The original idea of the web was that it should be a collaborative space where you can communicate through sharing information.
Tim Berners-Lee / Computer Scientist
Space
Communicate
Ideas
Information
Should
Original
Idea
Through
Collaborative
Original Idea
Sharing
Web
Where
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I don't think anybody came into the movie business to be unoriginal and plagiarising and not having an original idea in their brain.
Jeremy Thomas /
Movie Business
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I often wonder why people remake movies. Is there just a lack of imagination out there that they can't come up with an original idea?
Michael Beck /
Wonder
Remake
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I didn't expect major labels would embrace MySpace, and the original idea for music on the site was the unsigned bands, the independent bands.
Tom Anderson /
Labels
Site
Myspace
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As cliched as it sounds, if you have an original voice and an original idea, then no matter what anybody says, you have to find a way to tell that story.
Damon Lindelof / Television Writer
Ideas
Matter
Voice
Cliched
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Harvey never had an original idea or thought in his life. I was out wandering around the country doing charity benefits, mainly, when I asked him to come along.
Tim Conway / Comedian
Benefits
Charity
Harvey
Life Doing Never
Wandering
Mainly
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Similarities in the vampire genre are so rampant that there's really no such thing as an original idea - only an original take on an idea that's been done before.
Jeaniene Frost / Author
Genre
Vampire
Original Idea
Rampant
Similarities
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It's just like music when you reckon it up. It's like listening to Pavement it's just The Fall in 1985, isn't it? They haven't got an original idea in their heads.
Mark E. Smith / Singer
Pavement
Original
Heads
Original Idea
Reckon
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Writing is much more satisfying on a certain level than acting ever was. Because you're not interpreting someone else's original idea, you can come up with your own.
Michael Beck /
Interpreting
Satisfying
Original
Certain Level
Original Idea
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Our original idea was to help three or four hundred candidates in the first election run for the Ohio State legislature and the California legislature around the country.
Pete Du Pont / Lawyer
California
Candidates
Election
Legislature
Ohio
Original Idea
State Legislature
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I write new lyrics as I'm traveling and I like to record in the place where I had the original idea. Sometimes I rerecord when I get back to Barcelona because I have more-power studio there.
Manu Chao /
Barcelona
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The original idea was to make it easy to publish content on the Web and find an audience. What we learned from publishers is that the thing they want the most is more readers and more revenue.
Trip Adler /
Publish
Publishers
Revenue
Original Idea
Readers
Web
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No, it's interesting to remake a film for the contemporary audience today. I think it's a good idea; it needs to respect the original idea. Don't just take the title and change everything else.
Dario Argento / Film Director
Contemporary
Everything Else
Good Idea
Remake
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Title
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It's not really an original idea, but there's something that goes along with power and celebrity that starts to make you feel like you're impervious to certain forces that the rest of us have to live with.
Jonathan Dee / Novelist
Impervious
Forces
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It's true that the original idea was mine, but what you see today is the work of probably tens of thousands of the world's best engineers, all concentrating on improving the product, reducing the cost, things of that sort.
Jack Kilby / Electrical Engineer
Concentrating
Cost
Engineers
Improving
Reducing
Today
Best Work World
Original
Idea
Mine
Original Idea
Product
Tens
Tens Of Thousands
Thousands
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The original idea before Mint was a life and goal planning system I called Carpe Viva. The idea was that all of life's goals, from buying a house, getting an MBA, or learning Spanish could be quantified in both time and money.
Aaron Patzer /
Buying
Mint
Planning
Time And Money
Life Time Learning
Life Time Money
Original Idea
Spanish
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After the Volcker Fund collapsed, I got another grant from the Lilly Endowment to do a history of the U.S., which I worked on from 1962-66. The original idea was to take the regular facts and put a libertarian assessment on everything.
Murray Rothbard / Economist
Assessment
Endowment
Fund
Ideas
Libertarian
Collapsed
Grant
Original Idea
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I try to construct a picture in which shapes, spaces, colors, form a set of unique relationships, independent of any subject matter. At the same time I try to capture and translate the excitement and emotion aroused in me by the impact with the original idea.
Milton Avery / Painter
Capture
Emotion
Excitement
Impact
Independent
Shapes
Subject Matter
Translate
Unique
Picture
Aroused
Original
Colors
Construct
Original Idea
Relationships
Same Time
Spaces
Subject
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Well, it was never supposed to be like that. Walt died before we had finished. The original idea of Walt's was that you came down there, into the caves, and there were no pirates. But they had been there just seconds before! There was a hot meal on the table, steaming.
John Hench / Designer
Artist
Caves
Died
Finished
Ideas
Pirate
Seconds
Walt
Original
Meal
Original Idea
Pirates
Table
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No baby boomer has a completely original idea, but after 13 years on 'Today' and another 11 on 'Dateline,' almost 30 years total at NBC, I felt the urge to find out what was 'behind the camera.' I had the feeling there was 'something more,' though 'more' might be less.
Jane Pauley / Journalist
Nbc
Boomer
Camera
Original Idea
Urge
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The whole idea is preserving the music and the art and not having us and our faces and our individual characters distract from that. That was the original idea, and now it's really become part of what Tool is. It has allowed us to really concentrate on our music and our show.
Justin Chancellor /
Faces
Allowed
Original
Distract
Original Idea
Preserving
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My original idea was to photograph Princess Diana in her tiara. But then I thought, am I interested in seeing another picture of her as a royal person, or would I rather see what she is actually about? And that's why I decided to do her without jewels, without shoes, without trimmings.
Mario Testino / Photographer
Diana
Jewels
Photograph
Princess
Royal
Shoes
Original Idea
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An Internet meme is a hijacking of the original idea. Instead of mutating by random change and spreading by a form of Darwinian selection, Internet memes are altered deliberately by human creativity. There is no attempt at accuracy of copying, as with genes - and as with memes in their original version.
Richard Dawkins / Ethologist
Change
Accuracy
Altered
Copying
Creativity
Form
Genes
Hijacking
Ideas
Internet
Memes
Selection
Attempt
Version
Original
Idea
Darwinian
Deliberately
Human
Instead
Meme
Original Idea
Random
Spreading
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You must take a definite idea, set it in the centre of your thinking, and then logically arrange your furthest thoughts in such a way that they are all closely linked with the original idea. Even if you do this for only a minute, it can be of great importance for the rhythm of the physical and etheric bodies.
Rudolf Steiner / Philosopher
Centre
Definite
Importance
Linked
Rhythm
Arrange
Original
Bodies
Closely
Great Thinking Thoughts
Furthest
Logically
Minute
Original Idea
Physical
Such A Way
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I was actually quite surprised how many more mythologies there are about mermaids than the ones our society knows. I was so pleasantly surprised for 'Siren' to add quite an original idea to that: One that is a predator. One that is very intelligent but still has to survive in the ocean with all of its challenges.
Eline Powell /
Ocean
Intelligent
Predator
Original Idea
Pleasantly
Siren
To Survive
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The original idea of being anonymous - it was a great, naive idea on paper in 2008, not knowing to what degree we'd be touring or to what extent this was going to be a professional operation. That regimen is very hard to live by. What I hadn't foreseen was the fans and their willingness to embrace that and play along.
Tobias Forge /
Embrace
Foreseen
Not Knowing
Willingness
Anonymous
Extent
Operation
Original Idea
Regimen
To Live By
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The original idea of blog publishing was that writer and reader would be on the same level. That it would be a conversation - not a lecture. People lost sight of that. We didn't. Kinja is designed to break down the walls of the ghettos. So that everybody - editor, writer, source, subject, expert, fan - can be a contributor.
Nick Denton / Journalist
Publishing
Reader
Sight
Blog
Contributor
Designed
Editor
Lecture
Original Idea
Same Level
Walls
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Studios are often very nervous of things they don't recognize, by which I mean things that haven't been done before, and therefore, they take a really original idea, and they recognize the originality, and then they try and make it look like something they recognize. So they try to turn it into something far more procedural.
Joe Wright / Film Director
Nervous
Studios
Original
Original Idea
Procedural
Recognize
Therefore
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Digital photography is, by definition, unfinished. You don't feel that after every 24 or 36 shots you have to change your film - you know you can go on for ever if you want. You can see the result immediately, and find out if your original idea is worth going on with or not, whether it can be corrected, whether it can be improved.
Abbas Kiarostami / Film Director
Digital
Unfinished
Change Your Feel
Original
Corrected
Definition
Immediately
Improved
Original Idea
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The way Fatboy Slim layers motifs is the same as 18th-century baroque counterpoint. You have an idea, then you have an answer to the idea in another voice, then you have a counter idea accompanying the original idea, and you build up your texture like that. I'm really into Kruder and Dorfmeister at the moment, and they do the same thing.
Charles Hazlewood / Conductor
Baroque
Layers
Slim
Texture
Accompanying
Counter
Original Idea
Same Thing
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More than often, what you see, or what we've been able to recreate, has usually been a tampered-with version of what I have in my head, because the original idea has always been bigger. Every time I am in the mode of creating a show, there's always some level of gravity that comes in play, either of a monetary sort, or there's a space issue.
Tobias Forge /
Gravity
Mode
Original Idea
Recreate
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