#origin

As a novelist, you could say that I am dreaming while I am awake, and every day I can continue with yesterday's dream. Because it is a dream, there are so many contradictions and I have to adjust them to make the story work. But, in principle, the original dream does not change. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#am #awake #because #change #continue

The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#cinema #copying #done #establishing #first

The problem is we disagree about the origin. Is this occupied land or not? ↗

— Hassan Nasrallah

#disagree #land #occupied #origin #problem

You would have thought that after 9/11 the president would have finished the job in Afghanistan, and kept the focus on capturing Bin Laden and his al-Qaeda deputies, but he and his team gave top priority to their original plan to invade Iraq. ↗

— Bill Nelson

#after #al-qaeda #bin #capturing #deputies

Project Xanadu is essentially my trademark. It was originally, and has returned to my arms as that. ↗

— Ted Nelson

#essentially #originally #project #returned #trademark

If you can just be yourself, then you have to be original because there's no one like you. ↗

— Marc Newson

#be yourself #because #just #just be #just be yourself

The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard! ↗

— Manuel Puig

#create #hard #her #his #language

My original name is Jae-Sang Park, so it's totally different. ↗

— PSY

#name #original #park #totally

The powers, aspirations, and mission of man are such as to raise the study of his origin and nature, inevitably and by the very necessity of the case, from the mere physiological to the psychological stage of scientific operations. ↗

— Richard Owen

#case #his #inevitably #man #mere

I wouldn't say I'm a very original thinker, but if I have a good experience with something, I'll want to take it further or adapt it in some way. ↗

— Gwyneth Paltrow

#experience #further #good #i #original