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“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.”

Thinking Way Writing Believe Character Able I Believe My Own Attitude Style Events Originals Work Out Affected Good Writers

Author:Margaret Mahy

“My favorite music to sing would be my own songs, my original songs, just because I know them, you know I write the tunes, so my favorite songs are the newest ones that I write. That's what I like to sing the most, because it means something, it's real, it comes from me.”

Knows Writing Mean Real Would Be Song My Own Originals My Favorite Tunes Favorite Song Favorite Music

Author:Paul McDonald

“My own perception is that there are two tiers of countries, one, the original ASEAN, and then the new members. The new members are in various stages of development.”

Two Country My Own Stage Development Members Perception Originals Various Stages Of Development Asean

Author:S. R. Nathan

“For my own films, I would like to see 'Bullet in the Head' remastered. The original cut was actually almost three hours.”

Film Three Hours My Own Cutting Originals Bullets

Author:John Woo

“I think it was when I was 12 when I entered a singing competition. I sang my own original song for an audience of 1,000 people.”

People Thinking Song My Own Audience Singing Originals Competition

Author:Birdy

“Painting myself for others, I have painted my inward self with colors clearer than my original ones. I have no more made my book than my book has made me--a book consubstantial with its author, concerned with my own self, an integral part of my life; not concerned with some third-hand, extraneous purpose, like all other books.”

Made Book Self Hands Purpose My Own Color Painting Concerned Thirds Originals Inward

Book:The Complete Works: Essays, Travel Journal, Letters

Source: The Complete Works: Essays, Travel Journal, Letters

“Anything that has to travel all the way down from your cerebellum to your fingertips, there's a lot of things that can happen on the journey. Sometimes I'll listen to records, my own stuff, and I think god, the original idea for this was so much better than the mutation that we arrived at.”

Thinking Way Ideas Sometimes Happens Stuff My Own Records Journey Originals Fingertips Original Ideas Mutation

Author:Elvis Costello

“Hollywood. It lacks originality. Remake sucks.' But I had to look deeper into it from my own perspective. We are not trying to compete with the original at all and that's what allowed me to pull the trigger without any hesitancy.”

Trying Looks My Own Perspective Hollywood Originals Deeper Originality Triggers Remakes

Author:Colin Farrell

“I wasn't intentionally trying to create my own path or be original, it was just I needed to say certain things and I needed to express myself, and that's how it came out.”

Trying Certain My Own Path Needed Originals

Author:Emeli Sande

“In my own experience as president of Brazil I observed first hand many of the trends that Nam identifies in this book, but he describes them in a way that is as original as it is delightful to read. All those who have power-or want it-should read this book.”

Way Want Should Firsts Book Hands President My Own Originals Trends Delightful Brazil

Author:Fernando Henrique Cardoso

“I think the transition between singing covers on a reality show to being able to do my own thing was really exciting. I'm no longer singing covers every second, and people are actually getting to hear my own original music.”

People Thinking Shows Reality Able My Own Singing Exciting Originals Transition Every Second Reality Shows Original Music

Author:Melanie Martinez

“On the show [the Voice] I obviously wasn't allowed [singing my own original music], because it's not that type of show. I think it's really cool that I get to do my own thing now.”

Thinking Shows Voice My Own Type Music Is Singing Originals Really Cool Original Music

Author:Melanie Martinez

“Curiously enough, the only two plays that I've done very much revision on were the two adaptations - even though the shape of them was pretty much determined by the original work. With my own plays, the only changes, aside from taking a speech out here, putting one in there (if I thought I dwelled on a point a little too long or didn't make it explicit enough), are very minor; but even though they're very minor - having to do with the inability of actors or the unwillingness of the director to go along with me - I've always regretted them.”

Ifs Littles Long Two Done Enough Play Actors My Own Shapes Directors Speech Originals Determined Minors Inability Adaptation Explicit Revision

Book:Conversations with Edward Albee

Source: Conversations with Edward Albee

“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.”

Different My Own Successful Originals Just Being Being Different Being Original

Author:Shania Twain

“It seems priggish or pollyannaish to deny that my intention in writing the work was to titillate the nastier propensities of my readers. My own healthy inheritance of original sin comes out in the book and I enjoyed raping and ripping by proxy. It is the novelist’s innate cowardice that makes him depute to imaginary personalities the sins that he is too cautious to commit for himself.”

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Author:Anthony Burgess

“Mister Cameron - I have read the unexpurgated Ovid, the love poems of Sappho, the Decameron in the original, and a great many texts in Greek and Latin histories that were not though fit for proper gentlemen to read, much less proper ladies. I know in precise detail what Caligula did to, and with, his sisters, and I can quote it to you in Latin or in my own translation if you wish. I am interested in historical truth, and truth in history is often unpleasant and distasteful to those of fine sensibility. I frankly doubt that you will produce anything to shock me.”

Ifs Knows I Can Wish My Own Doubt Produce Fine Fit Originals Historical Details Greek Gentleman Shock Latin Sensibility Precise Translations Love Poems Cameron Distasteful Historical Truth

Author:Mercedes Lackey

“But the original was there as well—more jaded and rudimentary, functional rather than romantic. It fit not just the yellow house but another door, deep within my own heart. One that had been locked so tight for so long that I was afraid to even try it for fear of what might be on the other side”

Trying Wells Heart Long Might House Sides My Own Doors Fit Originals Yellow Locked Deep Within Jaded

Book:Lock and Key

Source: Lock and Key

“In the last two months I have been very busy with my own mathematical speculations, which have cost me much time, without my having reached my original goal. Again and again I was enticed by the frequently interesting prospects from one direction to the other, sometimes even by will-o'-the-wisps, as is not rare in mathematic speculations.”

Has Beens Two Sometimes Lasts Goal My Own Interesting Months Cost Originals Mathematics Busy Mathematical Again And Again Speculation Prospects Two Months One Direction Wisps

Author:Carl Friedrich Gauss

“I'll develop my own image. I'm an original man. A one and only. I just need some help.”

Men Needs Helping My Own Originals Originality

Book:Plays

Source: Plays

“We have focused on the miracle-thing and I think we often overlook the message of Hanukkah. To me, the core of the holiday is the cleaning of the temple.... The accomplishment was in restoring the temple to the purpose for which it was built. Now think of the temple as a symbol. Perhaps it represents my life. The world has tried to use me for its own (perhaps good, but none-the-less extrinsic) purposes. But now I can rededicate myself to my own original purpose.”

Thinking World I Can Use Purpose My Own Messages Built Miracle Originals Focused Core Symbols Accomplishment Holiday Temples Cleaning Restoring Using Me Hanukkah

Author:Ralph Levy

“My own view, which does not rely solely on religious faith or even on an original idea, but rather on ordinary common sense, is that establishing binding ethical principles is possible when we take as our starting point the observation that we all desire happiness and wish to avoid suffering.”

Source: Ancient Wisdom, Modern World: Ethics for the New Millennium

“Everybody wants to write a hit song, but in Nashville people want to write the best song, which was my original intention as a singer/songwriter. ... I left because I could no longer make records that sounded less and less like me. I tried to please people instead of believing in my own strength, until the only thing I could do was walk away.”

People Want Writing Believe Song Left My Own Walks Records Please Originals Intention Singers Like Me Songwriting Songwriters Singer Songwriters Nashville

Author:Melissa Manchester

“I had to de-program myself. From myself. Had to reinvent rituals of purification. So full of the vagrant pollutions of others. It was time to detox. Not only from alcohol, sex, and drugs, but from needy leeches who looked to swab me with their sores. Detox from my own needy lechery. Had to locate the center wound and cauterize. Undo the original sin, the origin of my sickness...Had to learn to replace Them, It, Want, Hurt, Anger, Sorrow, Loss, with Power, Healing, Wisdom, Fulfillment, Satisfaction.”

Want Sex Hurt My Own Loss Sin Healing Sorrow Drug Program Originals Satisfaction Alcohol Wounds Fulfillment Sickness Ritual Pollution Needy Original Sin Purification Vagrants Leeches Lechery

Author:Lydia Lunch

“But I owe something to Vincent, and that is, in the consciousness of having been useful to him, the confirmation of my own original ideas about painting. And also, at difficult moments, the remembrance that one finds others unhappier than oneself.”

Ideas Moments Difficult My Own Consciousness Painting Originals Oneself Remembrance Confirmation Original Ideas Difficult Moments

Book:Gauguin's Intimate Journals

Source: Gauguin's Intimate Journals

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