Quotes About Uniqueness

be you and not someone else

All life is variation upon certain themes

I am alone here in my own mind. There is no map and there is no road. It is one of a kind just as yours is.

There are ways to do things, ways to act with people, and I do not understand them. I cannot understand what people mean when they talk. I do not do things right. I do not feel things right. I do not see things right. I am not...I'm not made of the same thing as everyone else.' The baker took in a deep breath. 'I think if you'll look around, my boy,' he said gently, 'you'll find that no one is quite right. But we all do the best we can.

Tugs used to think that everyone's name was in the dictionary, and when she had realized it was only hers, both Tugs and Button, she felt suddenly fond and possessive of it, as if this book were put here for her guidance alone.

Generalization is impossible. It is an insult.

We all have the right to be different, don't we?

People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.

The secret is not to write about what you love best, but about what you, alone, love at all.

Il y avait dans cette coïncidence surprenante, quasi inouïe, le signe d'une rencontre mystérieuse et d'une histoire qu'il fallait vivre.

Respect... is appreciation of the separateness of the other person, of the ways in which he or she is unique.

'Nutty Professor' was me going, 'Say what you want to say, but I can do this, and you can't, and nobody else in the town can do this.'

Not to invent yourself is to be false. To follow preordained rules is a profound betrayal of what it means to be human.

I didn't know when I was growing up that this was a very special program, that this wasn't going on in other parts of the country. Now I realize that I was lucky.

I never want to play a show where it feels overly programmed, processed, and all that. For anybody that comes to one of our shows, the goal for me is to make sure that's their show. That nobody else is going to see that show ever again. You know what I mean? I try to make it different every day.

To get to New Orleans you don't pass through anywhere else. That geographical location, being aloof, lets it hold onto the ritual of its own pace more than other places that have to keep up with the progress.

Every project has to stand on its own. It's a different identity within each project, and I feel like that's the way it should be.

Every single project deserves a different approach.

When you are developing something, you have to look at it individually. You can't compare and contrast it to the projects around it, because that way madness lies.

Don't try to stand out that much for prom. Be yourself.

I was so big, so I had to always come up with my own creations. Like, when I would do junior prom and stuff, I would have stuff specially made or added to my outfit. I definitely was always into trying to do something a little over and beyond.

I don't pronounce all my words exactly how they do on the BBC. I am who I am.

If anything, who I am and my background helped propel me and helped me stand out.

I really don't have a lot in common with the people who attend the Comic Con. It's like assuming that all people who write prose are the same.