Quotes About Originality

Whenever you're trying to do your own take on a classic piece of literature, it's almost like you're trying to swim up your own stream or drive down your own path.

I would say that is the beauty of Adult Swim is that they're always pushing forward from what they've done in the past, and they're always just trying different styles.

I rely on swing to get wickets, and I continue to do it that way. I have never tried to copy others.

I would love to see more swings in areas that we haven't explored. I can't necessarily tell you what that is - I think you know it when you see it - but I think we've had a lot of the same-themed shows in broadcast, but those shows are still performing.

When it comes to the moves themselves, after I created a style, a lot of guys started doing the same moves I was. I had to switch up my whole offense. Then, when it happened again, I had to switch it up again. It was a hard thing to do, but it helps me grow and helps me not become stale.

I always think it's interesting to switch genres, because if I read a script and I know exactly how to manifest a story, I don't really want to do it anymore, because I've already done it in my head.

I am much more aware of making the plot more original, avoiding contrivance, having the story matter much more. I used to think more about symbols consciously. Now I think much more about the story.

Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad?

I think that of my 21 symphonies, each has its own place.

I have what we call a 'symphony act.' I'm the only comedian, I think, in the country that does it.

I started writing my own symphony. I wrote about a page and a half. My mum and dad took it into music class and gave it, pleased as punch, to the teacher, Miss Montgomery. She played it on the piano for them. So I think they're the only ones that ever heard it.

I was always excited about doing things with people that were ahead of their time, that were sort of out of sync with the rest of society.

Everything isn't about synergy.

At the end of the day, I want to be my own person, I want to be my own performer, and I want to have a finisher that's synonymous with me and not with my mentor.

I played a guitar with a file, and a synthesizer.

I feel like truth resonates, and you can taste when something is synthetic.

Did you hear what you just said?" I say. "That's exactly where your originality lies. In each bone of your body." I go on to explain the root of originality: origin. Origin, as in source, spring, primary being. We are most original when we are most ourselves. Only then are we close to our first source, our fueling passions. Discovering

For something to be beautiful it doesn't have to be pretty.

Painting is the grandchild of Nature.

Everything, indeed, in a work of art should be unedited,--and even the words, by the manner of grouping them, of shaping them to new meanings,--and one often regrets having an alphabet familiar to too many half-lettered persons.

Create. Don't Compete.

Each act is virgin, even the repeated ones.

Why is it the most difficult to throw? Because it is the only one without a model. When

mieux vaut, pour la renommée d'un philosophe, inventer une erreur nouvelle que de redire une vérité qui a déjà été exprimée par d'autres.