#original

I was watching Monster's Ball, which is a fabulous movie. It's just a little gem: beautifully shot, and shot in a way I never would have done. It made me feel very old, really, because it wasn't eccentric for its own sake, it was just very original. ↗

— Adrian Lyne

#beautifully #because #done #eccentric #fabulous

As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound. ↗

— Harold MacMillan

#liberals #mixture #none #offer #original

I was able to work out all sorts of attitudes to style and event and character, all of which affected the way I came to think about my own writing. I believe that all good writers are original. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

#about #affected #attitudes #believe #came

It can certainly happen that characters in more sophisticated stories can "take over" as they develop and change the author's original ideas. Well, it certainly happens to me at times. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

#certainly #change #characters #develop #happen

Painting is the aesthetic side of the object but it has never been original, has never been its own goal. ↗

— Kazimir Malevich

#been #goal #never #object #original

If you make something good and interesting and not ridiculing someone or being offensive, the creators of the original material will like it. ↗

— Christian Marclay

#creators #good #interesting #like #make

When you take something apart, you get a great sense of what it took to originally put it together. ↗

— Christian Marclay

#get #great #originally #put #sense

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#ambition #be strong #bury #destroys #else

A more complex - but only slightly more original - way to feel out of it is available at the hip and pretentious nightclubs and bars along the Sunset Strip. ↗

— Merrill Markoe

#available #bars #complex #feel #hip

I admire actors who are bold and try to go forward over the cliche and propose something original to the audience. ↗

— Berenice Marlohe

#audience #bold #cliche #forward #go