#original

Sometimes, if you really want to try something original, you step a little too far out of bounds. I mean, there's a market force that kind of unconsciously keeps you in line a little bit. ↗

— David Zucker

#bounds #far #force #i #keeps

One might almost reckon mathematically that, having undergone the double composition of public opinion and of the author, their history reaches us at third hand and is thus separated by two stages from the original fact. ↗

— Alfred de Vigny

#author #composition #double #fact #hand

I originally just wanted to be an artist. ↗

— Daniel Clowes

#i #just #originally #wanted

Originally, I wanted to be a composer. I always tell people, 'I think of myself as a composer.' ↗

— Ornette Coleman

#composer #i #i always #i think #myself

Harvey never had an original idea or thought in his life. I was out wandering around the country doing charity benefits, mainly, when I asked him to come along. ↗

— Tim Conway

#around #asked #benefits #charity #come

It's Frank's painting on the cover. We were originally going to use a Salvador Dali painting that we got permission from Salvador Dali to use, and Frank found this one, and it really did fit the music much more. ↗

— Alice Cooper

#dali #did #fit #found #frank

Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the texture of the thing. ↗

— Joan Didion

#down #every #go #like #novels

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

#certainty #developed #direction #each #ease

I feel like when I went back to my original hair color, a little bit of an edgier side came out. ↗

— Ashley Tisdale

#bit #came #color #feel #hair

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

#cole porter #drawn #had #him #his