Many readers fail to realize this, but 'The Color Purple' is a theological text. It is about the reclamation of one's original God: the earth and nature.
If you want to be original just try being yourself, because God has never made two people exactly alike.
I don't know much about God. But if everything does originate with God, then certainly songs do as well.
Originally, theater was my life. It was what I assumed I'd spend my working life doing - if I was lucky. Then along came movies.
It is essential for genetic material to be able to make exact copies of itself; otherwise growth would produce disorder, life could not originate, and favourable forms would not be perpetuated by natural selection.
Scientists have no agreed theory of the origin of life - plenty of scenarios, conjectures and just-so stories, but nothing with solid experimental support.
The lessons learned as we try to build ever more sophisticated nanomachines will almost certainly inform our understanding of the origins of life.
I think that water is immediately interesting. It's just, as an element, it is full of life. It is associated with origin; it is bright - it reflects you.
So if we have anything original to offer, it's to speak from our own life about the society we're in.
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.
You know, sex is actually not so original as the way people love or the stories behind each relationship, which is what you remember. Sex is sex in the end.
Strive to become the best version of your original self. That's where your true fulfillment in life lies.
I have previously been a very enthusiastic consumer, and I didn't think about the origins of garments enough.
For origin and development of human faculty we must look to these processes of association in lower animals.
Of course, there is no reconciliation between the theory of evolution by natural selection and the traditional religious view of the origin of the human mind.
When I was a kid, 'Star Wars' was it. Like, it's in your DNA. I'm old enough to have seen the original one.
Liberalism is a most important by-product of Rationalism, and its origins and ideology must be clearly shown.
Originally I studied as a musician, a classical pianist. That was my career before I took up acting in my late 20s.
Don't become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin.
It is only in the shadows, when some fresh wave, truly original, truly creative, breaks upon the shore, that there will be a rediscovery of the West.
It's really hard to make an original movie of any kind that succeeds in the theatrical market place, in the wide release market place.
