#original

For me, the original play becomes an historical document: This is where I was when I wrote it, and I have to move on now to something else.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

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The original settlers of Alaska apparently were Russian. ↗

— Jeff Goldblum

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The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas. ↗

— Franz Grillparzer

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Well, let's go back to the original intent of Social Security. It is an insurance contract. ↗

— Chuck Hagel

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Ideas which have been developed simultaneously or in immediate succession in the same mind mutually reproduce each other, and do this with greater ease in the direction of the original succession and with a certainty proportional to the frequency with which they were together. ↗

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

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I had known Cole Porter in Hollywood and New York, spent many a warm hour at his home, and met the talented and original people who were drawn to him. ↗

— Gene Tierney

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Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another. ↗

— Voltaire

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I was an original member of the Actors' Studio. ↗

— Eli Wallach

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True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision. ↗

— Edith Wharton

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I wasn't originally a bass player. I just found out I was needed, because everyone wants to play guitar. ↗