#origin

I am Evanescence. I am the only original member. I have basically hired the band. Evanescence has become me. It is mine and it's exactly how I want it to be. ↗

— Amy Lee

#band #basically #become #exactly #hired

I am your original autodidact. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#i #i am #original #your

I didn't go to school much, so I taught myself what I knew from reading. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#i #i am #original #your

We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#clever #crazy #least #many #minds

The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government. ↗

— James Madison

#faculties #first #government #insuperable #interests

I was able to work out all sorts of attitudes to style and event and character, all of which affected the way I came to think about my own writing. I believe that all good writers are original. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

#about #affected #attitudes #believe #came

It can certainly happen that characters in more sophisticated stories can "take over" as they develop and change the author's original ideas. Well, it certainly happens to me at times. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

#certainly #change #characters #develop #happen

All I had, originally, were pages of Nolan's dialogue. I think his character serves the story in a nice way. He's a Greek chorus for the goings-on in the Hamptons. ↗

— Gabriel Mann

#chorus #dialogue #greek #had #hamptons

Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery. ↗

— Horace Mann

#conditions #devices #education #equalizer #great

A more complex - but only slightly more original - way to feel out of it is available at the hip and pretentious nightclubs and bars along the Sunset Strip. ↗

— Merrill Markoe

#available #bars #complex #feel #hip