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“Every original idea is first ridiculed, then vigorously attacked, and finally taken for granted.”

Firsts Ideas Taken Originals Granted Taken For Granted Original Ideas

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“Gormenghast, that is, the main massing of the original stone, taken by itself would have displayed a certain ponderous architectural quality were it possible to have ignored the circumfusion of those mean dwellings that swarmed like an epidemic around it s Outer Walls.”

Mean Certain Quality Taken Wall Stones Originals Ignored Dwelling Epidemics Gormenghast

Book:Titus Groan

Source: Titus Groan

“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.”

Way Play Problem Seems Used Taken Risk Stage New York Picks England Theater Originals Productions Used To Be Justification Cream Tickets Broadway

Author:Arthur Miller

“If you're a painter, it's simply taken for granted that you'll spend a lot of time in museums studying great paintings, but if you're a cartoonist, it used to be very hard to see an original cartoon drawing.”

Ifs Hard Used Study Taken Painting Originals Drawing Painter Used To Be Granted Museums Cartoon Cartoonist Taken For Granted

Author:Bill Watterson

“I remember on a Friday afternoon getting a phone call from Grant Simmons saying, "Mike," we got to be pretty good friends; "Mike, the Sheriff is closing us down on Monday. If you'd like to drive into the studio tomorrow morning, you can have anything you want." So rather than go in and take home piles and piles of cels of Spider-Man what did I take home? Two pages of original art that got sent out to the west coast. Now of course if I'd have taken all the rest of that stuff home I could probably have retired a lot earlier.”

“I think anybody that is going to be taken seriously in [music] industry needs to produce their own original music.”

Thinking Needs Taken Produce Industry Originals Music Industry Original Music

Author:Paul Oakenfold

“The quote is always fascinating because it changes out of context, becomes different and sometimes more mysterious. It has a directness and assertiveness it may not have had in the original. I think the quality of inaccessibility, the mystery, is important - that whatever matters can't be taken in on just one reading or one seeing. This is certainly a quality of the little of art that lasts.”

Thinking May Littles Art Important Different Sometimes Matter Lasts Reading Quality Taken Seeing Mystery Originals Mysterious Just One Fascinating Assertiveness Of Context

Author:Susan Sontag

“I don't believe in "original sin." I don't believe in "guilt." I don't believe in villains or heroes - only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents. This is so simple I'm ashamed to say it, but I'm sure it's true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that's why I don't understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.”

Source: New Selected Essays: Where I Live

“Seeing this gradation and diversity of structure in one small, intimately related group of birds, one might really fancy that from an original paucity of birds in this archipelago, one species had been taken and modified for different ends.”

Different Ends Might Science Taken Seeing Groups Evolution Diversity Bird Originals Structure Species Related Fancy

Book:On the Origin of Species

Source: On the Origin of Species

“Kids have *_____ never* taken guidance from their parents. If you could travel back in time and observe the original primate family in the original tree, you would see the primate parents yelling at the primate teenager for sitting around and sulking all day instead of hunting for grubs and berries like dad primate. Then you'd see the primate teenager stomp up to his branch and slam the leaves.”

Ifs Kids Parent Taken Tree Dad Sitting Originals Teenager Guidance Branches Hunting Yelling Slam Sitting Around Berries Primates Back In Time Sulking

Author:Dave Barry

“Maybe I should have taken a few chances. That's not to say I want to go make Star Wars, but I need to shift my career into the studio world. That's where my head was at when I thought of the original plot.”

World Want Needs Should War Stars Chance Careers Taken Should Have Originals Studios Plot

Author:Edward Burns

“Much of the geographical work of the past hundred years... has either explicitly or implicitly taken its inspiration from biology, and in particular Darwin. Many of the original Darwinians, such as Hooker, Wallace, Huxley, Bates, and Darwin himself, were actively concerned with geographical exploration, and it was largely facts of geographical distribution in a spatial setting which provided Darwin with the germ of his theory.”

Years Facts Inspiration Past Science Taken Particular Theory Hundred Concerned Originals Setting Settings Biology Exploration Distribution Germs Spatial Huxley

Author:David Stoddart

“This thing is but a puny imitation of a much grander system whose laws you know, and I am not able to convince you that this mere toy is without a designer or maker; yet you profess to believe that the great original from which the design is taken has come into being without either designer or maker! Now tell me by what sort of reasoning do you reach such an incongruous conclusion?”

Knows Believe Able Law Taken Design Originals Mere Conclusion Designer Reasoning Convince Makers Toys Imitation

Author:Isaac Newton

“These are the days when men of all social disciplines and all political faiths seek the comfortable and the accepted; when the man of controversy is looked upon as a disturbing influence; when originality is taken to be a mark of instability; and when, in minor modification of the original parable, the bland lead the bland.”