I was a huge fan of the original ‘Star Trek,’ and I’d never even dreamed that I would someday be captain of a starship.
The whole point of ‘Acid Rap’ was just to ask people a question: does the music business side of this dictate what type of project this is? If it’s all original music and it’s got this much emotion around it and it connects this way with this many people, is it a mixtape? What’s an ‘album’ these days, anyways?
At one time Tribune Syndicate emptied out their storeroom. They put tables full of original cartoons down in the lobby and said take one if you want one. The comics were simply a burden to them.
For me, the original play becomes an historical document: This is where I was when I wrote it, and I have to move on now to something else.
Brian came back in on the road and Al stayed, but Al’s the original member of the group.
Nevertheless, if I have at times been able to make original contributions in the accelerator field, I cannot help feeling that to a certain extent my slightly amateur approach in physics, combined with much practical experience, was an asset.
If a remake is not good, no one wants to see it and, again, it doesn’t hurt the original.
With ‘Futurama,’ I wanted to do unrequited love, and David Cohen agreed, and although our original plan was never to have Fry and Leela get together, we finally just said, ‘You can only string the fans along so far.’
I have lots of records, quite a collection, actually, that I stole from my mom. I have the original ‘Thriller’ album and I have a really great ‘Elton John’s Greatest Hits,’ and I also have a N.E.R.D. album. Records sound more original. They have more edge.
We were tremendously encouraged by the testing of Analyze That. Audiences loved it. They were telling us that they liked it as much as the original. We recorded the laughs in the theater.
I am not really certain how original my contribution to music is as I am obviously an amateur.
I have done a lot of work in Hollywood myself. I worked in television for roughly 10 years, from the mid-’80s to mid-’90s. And I was on staff at a couple of shows. I did some feature films, including originals and adaptations.
It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many years to realize it.
I’ve always been open to the idea of an adaptation that does its own thing, that freely diverges from the original as long as it’s true to the spirit.
But the Go-Go’s are a very original, kind of organic thing.
In its heyday, the car was an expression of technical flair and design genius: the original Mini, the Beetle, the 2CV, and the Fiat 500 were all, in their various ways, inspired incarnations of functionality.
‘Original Sin’ is, for me, a murder mystery with a huge cast that plays out on a grand stage.
Hippies? Why, I’m the original.
If your mind is at work, we’re in danger of reproducing another cliche. If we can keep our minds out of it and our thoughts out of it, maybe we’ll come up with something original.
The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages.
People always talk about the lyrics of Leonard Cohen, but I like his melodies. They are very defined and original.
It’s true that the original idea was mine, but what you see today is the work of probably tens of thousands of the world’s best engineers, all concentrating on improving the product, reducing the cost, things of that sort.
I feel like everything is inspired by something else. There is no 100 percent original thought.
Believe it or not, my introduction to scary literature was ‘Pinocchio.’ My mother read it to me every day before naptime when I was three or four. The original ‘Pinocchio’ is terrifying.
All too often, when creative people pick out someone else’s creative work as an inspiration, what they end up with is very, very far from the original.
I still have my original love for acting. That’s why I feel so lucky. I think that’s what sustains me in the sort of leaner times.
I really like the grittiness of early Amon Tobin – I’m a huge fan of his old music, and I tried to borrow from it, not emulate it. I don’t love my own original work.
We Americans love original ideas. But truly, there are already plenty of good ones out there, ours for the taking. If I were too proud to copy the ideas of others, I likely wouldn’t have even a fraction of my current success.
I have one of the original ‘Ghostbusters’ guns in my house.
The only acceptable cravat is the original Croat one.
We have a documentary film festival in Mexico. It’s really original. It’s called Ambulante, and it’s a film festival that travels around several cities in Mexico.
I’m the original co-sponsor of an assault weapons ban.
I always took a great deal of pride in being original.
I’ve done two remakes, ‘Rowdy Rathore’ and ‘Son of Sardaar,’ and I see nothing wrong with it. The originals were in a language that not everyone understands, so when you’re making it in another language, you can reach a much wider audience. That’s how I look at it.
Obviously with the onset of cable and satellite, there are more opportunities for programming and original programming, so it creates more opportunities for actors and producers and directors and everything.
I was in the original cast of ‘Wicked’, and that got a bad review in ‘The New York Times,’ and it’s the most successful thing that’s ever been put onstage.
Honduras was the original ‘banana republic,’ and its poverty remains extreme.
I tell myself I write because I want to say something true and original about the nature of evil. That is very ambitious – to say something about the human condition that hasn’t been written before. Probably I will never succeed but that is what I strive to do.
By the 1880s, baseball was entrenched in the Cape’s sandy soil. Semipro teams, commonplace before World War I, were organized into the first Cape Cod League in 1923 – Orleans joined the four original teams five years later. By 1940, the league had foundered on financial shoals and disbanded.
Obviously everybody knows that I’m an original songwriter and I got my band. And the guys in ‘Sugar Money,’ no matter what, are part of my family and they always got something to do with me, and I don’t care if they just hang out with me.
Because of my New Line upbringing, half my heart goes to scrappy independents, and half goes to mainstream, down-the-middle pop culture events. And even with those, to try to keep something fresh and original with them and try to do things that the majors miss.
Country music is completely punk-rock. It’s the original punk-rock.
It would seem, therefore, that this constitutional safeguard may no longer serve its original purpose, especially when, as we learned last year, some acts of perjury may now be acceptable – in this world, at least, if not the next.
My metaphor for translation has always been that translation is really a performance art. You take the original and try to perform it, really, in a different medium. Part of that is about interpretation and what you think the author’s voice really is.
I was in Siena and decided I wanted to write a story set there. Then I discovered that the original story of Romeo and Juliet was set in Siena. It occurred to me that this was too much of a gift – I had to do it. That’s how I ended up writing a parallel story to Romeo and Juliet.
Classics are constantly being re-imagined and transformed, and the originals are none the worse for it; they endure.
The original version of ‘Nuthin’ but a ‘G’ Thang’ was made to a Boz Scaggs song; I can’t remember the name of the song.
I’ve liked Kiss from when I was three years old. I’ve seen them, the real deal, with all the original members when they came back in ’96 and all that, and that’s fine.
I do worry that it’s impossible to write something original, that there’s nothing that a human hasn’t already thought of. But I can put it out of my mind and get on with what I’m doing.
I am, I think the only surviving member of the original Battle Creek church. The church was disbanded, with the exception of thirteen members, in 1870.
When I was growing up in South Korea in the ’70s and early ’80s, the country was too poor to buy original records. Everything was bootlegged.
Obviously the original ‘Tron’ was a very influential movie for its time, so to be a part of the second one is very exciting.
My original idea was to photograph Princess Diana in her tiara. But then I thought, am I interested in seeing another picture of her as a royal person, or would I rather see what she is actually about? And that’s why I decided to do her without jewels, without shoes, without trimmings.
I find that the very things that I get criticized for, which is usually being different and just doing my own thing and just being original, is the very thing that’s making me successful.
I am outraged that the Gorillaz have infringed the copyright of my song ‘Time Warp,’ claiming their song ‘Stylo’ to be an original composition.
After the Volcker Fund collapsed, I got another grant from the Lilly Endowment to do a history of the U.S., which I worked on from 1962-66. The original idea was to take the regular facts and put a libertarian assessment on everything.
