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“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.”

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Author:S. R. Nathan

“I don't want to restrict the life of a play to a particular production. The original actors might leave after the first six months, and I want the play to last 30 or 40 years. You write for the character, not the actor on the stage.”

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Author:Neil Simon

“There is a problem on the so-called commercial stage in New York. The price of a ticket is exorbitant, and there are no longer original productions possible, apparently, on the commercial stage. They are all plays that were taken from either England or smaller theaters, off-Broadway theaters, and so on. The one justification there used to be for the commercial theater was that it originated everything we had, and now it originates nothing. But the powers that be seem perfectly content to have it that way. They don't risk anything anymore, and they simply pick off the cream.”

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Author:Arthur Miller

“I feel responsible to make something original as a Japanese artist. There are lots of singers and guitarists, but I feel that on stage its meaningless to copy something someone has done before.”

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Author:Miyavi

“Once established, an original river advances through its long life, manifesting certain peculiarities of youth, maturity and old age, by which its successive stages of growth may be recognized without much difficulty.”

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Book:Geographical Essays

Source: Geographical Essays

“None of the original love and feel for going on stage is gone. I'm not a true singer. I'm performer, and I need to be on stage.”

Needs Feels Gone Stage Originals Singers Performers

Author:Mark McGrath

“When you reflect upon the significance of Dr. King to this nation, it's criminal that he hasn't had a feature film that was centered around him until now. That, in and of itself, was emotional. But when you're doing scenes on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, with people still living in Selma and now in their 60s and 70s who had actually marched, who were there that original Bloody Sunday, that's humbling... that's deeply moving. You're no longer acting at that stage, you're just reacting, because it takes the filmmaking process to another dimension.”

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Author:David Oyelowo

“[The original Sister Act] is running all over the world now, on-stage as a musical. It lives!”

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Author:Whoopi Goldberg

“I've never written an original piece for film; all the original things I've done are for the stage.”

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Author:Tom Stoppard

“You will never see the four original Pumpkins on stage ever again, unless it's a Hall of Fame thing. But you would never see a tour. There's so much damage, there's no way.”

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Author:Billy Corgan