#original

They've tried to manufacture other Marilyn Monroes and they will undoubtedly keep trying. But it won't work. She was an original. ↗

— Billy Wilder

#manufacture #marilyn #original #other #she

I've got nothing very original to say myself. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#i #myself #nothing #original #say

For me, the original play becomes an historical document: This is where I was when I wrote it, and I have to move on now to something else. ↗

— August Wilson

#document #else #historical #i #me

Robert Altman's 'Nashville' is my all-time favorite film because it covers all the bases - it's original, moving, and has something to say, but also funny and incredibly entertaining. ↗

— Douglas Wood

#also #altman #bases #because #covers

Well, obviously I wanted it to sound as original as possible. I suppose the influences that we had were probably from the actual power point of view we wanted to be like the Who. Vocally we wanted to be like the Beach Boys, whatever was good at the time. ↗

— Roy Wood

#beach #beach boys #good #had #i

It's been a great honor for me to be a player for the Detroit Red Wings, to play for an Original Six franchise. I know I'm far from perfect, but I learned a lot. ↗

— Steve Yzerman

#detroit #far #franchise #great #honor

The original settlers of Alaska apparently were Russian. ↗

— Jeff Goldblum

#apparently #original #russian #settlers #were

No art form points like poetry to this originality of language as to its essential and abiding concern. ↗

— Thomas Harrison

#art form #concern #essential #form #language

The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#another #cemetery #colony #earliest #founders

Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up... a lot of people don't have the courage to do it. ↗

— Helen Hayes

#born #courage #earth #every #grow