#origin

It's easier to play a dim character, for me, because I have a natural bent for comedy. It's not intrinsic for me to be crafty, so I would have to go outside for a source of origin. I think of myself as pretty dim. ↗

— Stephen Root

#bent #character #comedy #crafty #dim

Our prime minister could embrace and forgive the people who killed our beloved sons and fathers, and so he should, but he could not, would not, apologise to the Aboriginal people for 200 years of murder and abuse. The battle against the Turks, he said in Gallipoli, was our history, our tradition. The war against the Aboriginals, he had already said at home, had happened long ago. The battle had made us; the war that won the continent was best forgotten ↗

— Peter Carey

#anzac #australia #black-armband #hisitor #forgiveness

Nick and Simon had come to a natural end of their working relationship with Warren, which obviously opened the door for a reunion of the original five. ↗

— Roger Andrew Taylor

#door #end #five #had #natural

It seems difficult, sometimes, to believe that there was a time when sentiments now become habitual, sentiments that imply not only the original imperative of conduct, but the original metaphysic of living, were by no means altogether habitual. ↗

— Lascelles Abercrombie

#become #believe #conduct #difficult #habitual

Don't be a blueprint. Be an original. ↗

— Roy Acuff

#original

My background was in performing originally. ↗

— Cy Coleman

#originally #performing

Punk was originally about creating new, important, energetic music that would hopefully threaten the status quo and the stupidity of the 1970s. ↗

— Jello Biafra

#creating #energetic #hopefully #important #music

My original inspiration was my mom: a few years after the death of my dad, she started dating one my teachers! ↗

— Meg Cabot

#dad #dating #death #few #inspiration

There is no original sin. You don't have to pay repentance to anything or anybody. ↗

— Desmond Harrington

#anything #original #original sin #pay #repentance

A wonderful area for speculative academic work is the unknowable. These days religious subjects are in disfavor, but there are still plenty of good topics. The nature of consciousness, the workings of the brain, the origin of aggression, the origin of language, the origin of life on earth, SETI and life on other worlds...this is all great stuff. Wonderful stuff. You can argue it interminably. But it can't be contradicted, because nobody knows the answer to any of these topics. ↗

— Michael Crichton

#brain #conjecture #consciousness #darwinism #evolution