#original

How are we suppose to thrive when everything we do in life is done to hinder us? We know more from the streets than from school. More from movies than books. The world is constantly trying to contain you, to make your life harder. You have to break free from this viscous current. Don't you see? Or you will be swept away into a sea of ordinary. ↗

— B.S. Wood

#difficulties #hope #inspirational #learning #motivational

In Harvest of Stars, there is this notion, not original with me of course, that it will become possible to download at least the basic aspects of a human personality into a machine program. ↗

— Poul Anderson

#basic #become #course #download #harvest

Originally, I came from Texas, and we lived on - I guess you'd call it welfare, what we called relief. ↗

— Carol Burnett

#called #came #guess #i #i came

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

When we look back, the only things we cherish are those which in some way met our original want; the desire which formed in us in early youth, undirected, and of its own accord. ↗

— Willa Cather

#back #cherish #desire #early #formed

When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves. ↗

— Dogen

#discover #once #original #our #selves

There's no such thing as an original sin. ↗

— Elvis Costello

#original sin #sin #such #thing

Always think that in any area of the arts, you get maybe ten percent of people who are creative, original... and the rest are generally following on, copying. ↗

— Hugh Hopper

#any #area #arts #copying #creative

I recently watched Peter Brook's Lord of the Flies, and it wasn't a favorite film. Then I saw the one that was made in 1990, which in my opinion didn't match up to the original. ↗

— Brendan Fraser

#favorite #favorite film #film #flies #i

The original Mickey Mouse Club, established in the '30s, was designed to attract children to movie theaters. ↗

— Annette Funicello

#children #club #designed #established #mickey