#original

When the whole point of Queen was to be original. ↗

— Freddie Mercury

#original #point #queen #whole

The results of any traumatic experience, such as abuse, can only be resolved by experiencing, articulating, and judging every facet of the original experience within a process of careful therapeutic disclosure. ↗

— Alice Miller

#any #articulating #careful #disclosure #every

I did a cover of the James Bond theme, and I felt like such a fraud, because the original is so good. ↗

— Moby

#bond #cover #did #felt #fraud

I'm very lucky to work in so many different arenas of the entertainment industry and I do enjoy them all, but making music - original music - in the studio or live onstage is definitely my favorite thing to do. ↗

— Bill Mumy

#definitely #different #enjoy #entertainment #entertainment industry

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

A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#fit #likely #masterpiece #original #reader

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

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#fails #good #his #man #many

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