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But you know, as you say, the original versions of my films are getting out there, slowly.
When writing 'Give and Take' and 'Originals,' the predominant emotion for me was curiosity.
I had CNN on in my hotel room every day while we were filming the pilot for 'The Originals.'
It's great to be paid, but it's better to do something original that's going to be memorable.
The world must become romanticized, and in that way we find again its original meaning for us.
I have found a groove and a combination between originals and mashups that I think works well.
Original work has no floor and no ceiling. You can reach essentially zero readers or millions.
My original idea for the cover was better - decapitate Paul - but he wouldn't go along with it.
But I can't say that I didn't like John Hammond's performances often better than the originals.
I don't view myself as outrageous - that's not the intention. Its to be more and more original.
This is what I learned: that everybody is talented, original and has something important to say.
With the people, especially a people seized of property, resides the aggregate of original power.
New writers seem to pop up from everywhere. And quite a few of them are really good and original.
We are not in the business of being original. We are in the business of reusing things that work.
If you don't hire originals, you run the risk of people disagreeing but not voicing their dissent.
.. you've got to be original, or there will be nothing distinctive or interesting about your playing
If one could only reproduce nature, and always with less beauty than the original, why paint at all?
I did a cover of the James Bond theme, and I felt like such a fraud, because the original is so good.
I am so glad I was able to do 'The Originals,' and I want to be a part of that family for a long time.
The goal of the work is always for it to come across as original material, as transformative material.
Hey, every once in awhile the secondary form works better than the original but it's certainly a rarity.
If you're involved in with something that's original, you know, you'll always go back and try to rehash it.
I'm really just concentrating on making good music, whether it's using a sample or doing an original track.
I love to sing, and I've recorded a few covers and originals with friends, but I haven't written any songs.
The severest critics are always those who have either never attempted, or who have failed in original composition.
'Originals' is a show that is not about struggling as a vampire but reveling in it. It's about embracing vampirism.
Classics are constantly being re-imagined and transformed, and the originals are none the worse for it; they endure.
There is no one just like you, and there never will be anyone just like you, so there's no reason not to be original.
A thousand candles can be lit from one candle, however the life of the original candle is not shortened in the least.
I've never had anyone define purity. You probably can't define purity. Purity is to live according to original design.
The entertainment industry is loaded with extraordinarily talented people. But the true, genuine originals, they're rare.
I had auditioned for 'The Vampire Diaries' years ago before 'The Originals' happened, so I was familiar with that mythology.
Obviously the original 'Tron' was a very influential movie for its time, so to be a part of the second one is very exciting.
There were a lot of fan-made trailers for 'The Originals.' The fans sort of decided it could be a show before anyone else did.
Every condition of the soul has its own sign and expression...So you will see how hard it is to seem original without being so.
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.
Work is an opportunity to bring something forth-to create something, complete something, invent something authentic and original.
They've tried to manufacture other Marilyn Monroes and they will undoubtedly keep trying. But it won't work. She was an original.
There is only one thing better than tradition and that is the original and eternal life out of which all tradition takes its rise.
Peace, like freedom, is no original state which existed from the start; we shall have to make it, in the truest sense of the word.
A lot of our favorite comedies in general are usually directed by writers, whether or not they wrote the original script themselves.
We must be alarmingly enterprising, and we must be startlingly original, and do new and striking things which constitute a revolution.
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.
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.
If you are approaching the music with more reverence than the original guys invested into it, you are effectively doing it a disservice.
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.
Mysticism, poor mysticism! When it is oversimplified and underestimated, it comes down from its original sphere and stands beside religion.
I always thought it would never happen. And then, it became possible. In between commissions, I wrote it as an original screenplay [Allied].
My one hope for Netflix and Amazon is to be a little more art house- and indie-friendly, pushing those just as hard as they push their originals.
the 'total overpaintings' developed... through incessant reworking. The original motif peeped through the edges. Gradually it vanished completely.