Quotes About Uniqueness

On the one hand, Sylvie loves the feeling of being like everybody else... on the other hand when she feels most like a freak is when shes getting away with not being one.

There are no original ideas. There are only original people.

Most of our children are not prodigies, or even particularly gifted in any one field, but they all have the potential to shine as individuals in some way if given the right conditions.

Annie Biggs was her

In all those women there is not one to match you. They have known my flesh. You have known my heart, and stolen my soul.

Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do -- can love things that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops, or we can make music. You know what to do.

Do not expect the mind of your son is to resemble yours, as your figure is reflected by the image in the glass; he was formed, like you, to use his own judgment, and he claims the high privilege of his nature.

I love to invent words but even when I think I've invented one or a new variation on a word, I often find that someone else has already made use of it.

It never crosses my mind whether certain readers will like or dislike certain characters. They are who they are.

We are all 99.9 percent genetically equal. It is one one-hundredth of one percent of genetic material that makes the difference between any one of us.

To be individual, my friends, to be different from others, is the only way to become distinguished from the common herd. Let us be glad, therefore, that we differ from one another in form and in disposition. Variety is the spice of life, and we are various enough to enjoy one another's society.

Originality is really important.

Anything is respectable in its own realm.

People are not ants or bees. We do not reason or love or live or die collectively.

I don't want to be a reasonable facsimile of anyone.

People have different reasons for the way they live their lives. You cannot put everyone's reasons in the same box.

On Being John Malkovich and the cinema of the absurd, I do enjoy it. I wish there were more like it. The very fact that there can't be more like it is one of the reasons it's admirable.

I didn't rebel in the way a lot of people do.

That is who my people are - the oddballs, the rebels, and the geeks. That's what I am, so it's what I naturally feel connected to.

The best advice I've received is to be yourself. The best artists do that.

I like to do things in my own way and have my own personal language, but I can't control how it's received.

I feel that my ear candy is a little different from the ear candy most people are receiving right now.

A lot of people can have a lot of different influences, everyone can be compared in some way to someone whether they are from 60 years ago or more recent.

The thing with food is that you can give 20 people the same recipe and the same ingredients, and somebody's going to make it better than somebody else, and that's the creativity of it. It's like music. You could have a bunch of people playing the same piece, and somebody's gonna play it better.