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• Some of us have great original ideas and some of us depend on adaptations.

  Frank Darabont

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• There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original.

  Judith Butler

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• We Americans love original ideas. But truly, there are already plenty of good ones out there, ours for the taking. If I were too proud to copy the ideas of others, I likely wouldn’t have even a fraction of my current success.

  Mohnish Pabrai

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• You can imagine a soul as being a detailed, elaborate pattern that exists very clearly in one brain. When a person dies, the original is no longer around. But there are other versions of it in other people’s brains. It’s a less detailed copy, it’s coarse-grained.

  Douglas Hofstadter

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• Original ‘Dallas’ fans, please come back, because it’s the same show 20 years later – same drama.

  Josh Henderson

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• Sometimes, in order to imitate the original, it is necessary to put something that is not in the original into a portrait in marble.

  Gian Lorenzo Bernini

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• So for everybody who allows themselves to be separated from me because I said ‘African’ instead of ‘Nubian’ or ‘Black’ or ‘Kemet’ or ‘original’ or ‘Israelite,’ don’t be so foolish. I say ‘African’ because the continent of Africa is the land from which we all originate. It is the word that we are most familiar with right now.

  Sister Souljah

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• I am not really certain how original my contribution to music is as I am obviously an amateur.

  Patti Smith

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  An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.

  Stephen Fry

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• A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.

  Freeman Dyson

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• I don’t think American independent films have ever really been particularly experimental, except for the original guys from the ’60s who were huge influences, like Stan Brakhage, Robert Breer, and Stan van der Beek. They were the true independents.

  Gus Green Van Sant Jr.

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• First of all, in the old days, if you wanted to show someone getting shot on film, all you could do was place an effect in the original take. And if you wanted to brighten somebody’s face and leave the rest of the room dark, that was a very expensive process.

  George A. Romero

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• Sometimes, if you really want to try something original, you step a little too far out of bounds. I mean, there’s a market force that kind of unconsciously keeps you in line a little bit.

  David S. Zucker

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• 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

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• I’m trying to focus on original material. That is what I’ve had my luck with.

  Idina Menzel

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• The most successful people are so original.

  Idina Menzel

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• This is what I learned: that everybody is talented, original and has something important to say.

  Brenda Ueland

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• I was the original socially depraved shy ghetto kid.

  Bob Cousy

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  Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everybody I’ve ever known.

  Chuck Palahniuk

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• Obviously everybody knows that I’m an original songwriter and I got my band. And the guys in ‘Sugar Money,’ no matter what, are part of my family and they always got something to do with me, and I don’t care if they just hang out with me.

  Bo Bice

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