#origin

When I write an original story I write about people I know first-hand and situations I'm familiar with. I don't write stories about the nineteenth century. ↗

— Satyajit Ray

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I came to join the Experience by going for an audition for Eric Burdon who was just forming the New Animals at that point, after the original Animals had broken up. ↗

— Noel Redding

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In the original draft I was 27 and Peter was 55 in the script. That's not the same as a guy in his 40s and a dad in the end of his 70s. It's a different point in both our lives. ↗

— Paul Reiser

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I am your original autodidact. ↗

— Doris Lessing

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

— Doris Lessing

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Painting is the aesthetic side of the object but it has never been original, has never been its own goal. ↗

— Kazimir Malevich

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Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills. ↗

— David Mamet

#carnival #degenerated #drama #films #offer

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

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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

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If you make something good and interesting and not ridiculing someone or being offensive, the creators of the original material will like it. ↗

— Christian Marclay

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