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  • Susan Sontag Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it is felt to be obscene - in the original meaning of that word: ill-omened, abominable, repugnant to the senses.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Bruno Dumont Cinema builds memories; great films continue to exist in the spectator's mind. We are naturally capable of and prone to nostalgia. A spectator will reconstruct a film he or she has seen, years later, and may even change their original opinion. One critic, for example, once gave the finger to one of my films; later he wrote me to apologize.
    Bruno Dumont
    French film director and screenwriter (1958 - )
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  • Billy Graham Death wasn't part of God's original plan for humanity, and the Bible calls death an enemy - the last enemy to be destroyed.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Oscar Wilde Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Allan Sloan Don't commit to being a columnist unless you're willing to do it right. Report your behind off, so you have something original and useful to say. Say it in a way that will interest someone other than you, your family and your sources.
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  • Abdul Kalam English is necessary as at present original works of science are in English. I believe that in two decades times original works of science will start coming out in our languages. Then we can move over like the Japanese.
    Abdul Kalam
    11th President of India (1931 - 2015)
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  • C. S. Lewis Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
    A Year with C. S. Lewis
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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  • Carl Hiaasen Everybody's idea of a great book is different, of course. For me it's one that makes my jaw drop on every page, the writing is so original.
    Carl Hiaasen
    American writer, author and journalist (1953 - )
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  • Bjorn Ulvaeus Everyone should pursue whatever is original in oneself. That's the way for a long life in music.
    Bjorn Ulvaeus
    Swedish songwriter, producer, member of ABBA (1945 - )
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  • August Wilson 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.
    August Wilson
    American playwright (1945 - 2005)
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  • Jane Porter Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.
    Jane Porter
    English writer (1776 - 1850)
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  • Bille August He considers the theatrical version of Fanny and Alexander an amputated version of what his original film was, and he doesn't really like the shorter film.
    Bille August
    Danish director, screenwriter, and cinematographer (1948 - )
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  • Norman O. Brown I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property.
    Norman O. Brown
    American scholar, writer and philosopher (1913 - 2002)
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  • Samuel Johnson I found you essay to be good and original. However, the part that was original was not good and the part that was good was not original.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Andrew Lloyd Webber I guess the thing is that we remained huge friends after the original Phantom movie, when we decided it wouldn't take place and we just saw each other socially over the years so we were friends.
    Andrew Lloyd Webber
    English composer and impresario (1948 - )
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  • Billy Joel I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.
    Billy Joel
    American singer-songwriter and pianist (1949 - )
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  • Anne Stevenson I like rhyme because it is memorable, I like form because having to work to a pattern gives me original ideas.
    Anne Stevenson
    American-British poet and writer (1933 - 2020)
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  • Bruce Johnston I really dig The Byrds. I think they are the most underrated - in their original form - pop group.
    Bruce Johnston
    American singer, songwriter (1942 - )
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  • Aaliyah I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original.
    Aaliyah
    American singer, actress and model (1979 - 2001)
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