Quotes About Uniqueness

Every writer hopes his or her book will be its own thing.

I would rather be the only horse in a one-horse town than be the third horse in a big city.

Sometimes I get a lot of stuff, being in Houston, being in a conservative place, and wearing weird stuff that I wear. People don't get it sometimes. I like it.

You're allowed to be a little bit weird and still get massive attention. The fact that a Solange can work or a Daniel Caesar can work or even how far Kendrick Lamar has gotten. People are getting more comfortable.

I don't think about how many times how many heroines have said 'I love you' to how many heroes on screen and that I am also doing the same. It is how differently I can say the same thing in my own style or how I can bring a new element into it.

Me and Hughes, we're two different kinds of people.

We are all human beings with our own little knick-knacks and ways of doing things.

I don't want to be like other authors and say that there are only a few story lines in literature. A story is like a human face. We have as many stories as human faces. You might have similar facial features, but they're all a little different.

I wouldn't want to make the same record over and over again or look the same or be the same. I think that's just human life in general, though.

People assume that computers will do everything that humans do. Not good. People are different from each other and they are all really different from computers.

I find it endlessly interesting, endlessly funny, the fact that we're rather arbitrarily divided up into these discrete humans and that your physical self, your physical attributes, your moment of history and the place where you were born determine who you are as much as all that indefinable stuff that's inside of you.

I don't feel like there has ever really been anyone like me, and I'm starting to realize that. Not in a cocky way, but in a very humbling way.

There is something about having babies in your 40s that is unique in both a humiliating and amazing way.

You're not gonna write a hundred songs and have a hundred entirely different ideas. It's a matter of finding the ones that are the freshest and most unique.

Uno no toma prestado el código del vecino.

You are better than any storybook, you are better than anything anyone could make up.

Eres mejor que cualquier libro de cuentos, eres mejor que nada que cualquiera pueda inventar.

People are strange

Ser hija única conlleva una responsabilidad injusta; te educas en la certeza de que en realidad no tienes permitido causar desengaños, ni siquiera tienes permitido morir. No tienes sustitutas que puedan reemplazarte gateando por la casa; eres todo lo que hay. Eso te conduce a desesperarte por ser perfecta y también te vuelve ebria de poder. Así se crean los déspotas.

what we are above all other things, is individual and different.

You're always the person you were when you were born, she says impatiently. You just keep finding new ways to express it.

Even though the Word was originally given in a concrete historical context, its uniqueness centers in the fact that, though historically given and conditioned, this Word is ever a living Word.

no similes. Nothing is like anything else. Things are themselves entirely and do not need interpretation, only a minimal respect for their precise integrity.

Nothing is like anything else. Things are themselves entirely and do not need interpretation, only a minimal respect for their precise integrity.