Quotes About Originality

I make a lot of my own clothes. I don't like wearing the same thing everybody else wears.

Nobody's unique. Everybody copies off of each other. Everybody wears the same type of stuff. Nobody's an individual anymore.

Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

I can't really change for a climate. I've got to be Theophilus London in any weather.

It's refreshing to see a woman who can artfully weave her individuality into an otherwise safe ensemble.

I have to challenge myself, and I have to challenge the reader. We should be weaving and working on new stories and not the same story over and over.

I don't need to wait for someone else to get a bright idea and say, 'I wanna work with this guy.' I can do my own thing and drop it right on the Web and bypass you and your bright idea.

My Web site, everything I write in there is from me.

Being web video 'experts'/'pioneers,' whatever you may want to call us, has us always thinking about content that is outside the box, inherently viral in itself and good for web video audiences, as you can't just put out a good piece of content and expect it to be seen.

After Chuck Berry died, it seemed web sites popped up like mushrooms to show where he'd taken the guitar introduction to 'Johnny B. Goode' from to prove that his music was nothing new, that it was only ignorance, or vanity, that led his listeners to think that not only was the music different - they might be, too.

When I do web shows, I want to do something that is good and different.

Create a website that expresses something about who you are that won't fit into the template available to you on a social networking site.

If you are successful, you will be cloned. That's life. In fact, it's a sign that you've made it when clones of your website, mobile app, and business start cropping up.

I was never the girl who tore pictures out of wedding magazines.

It's important to still look like yourself on your wedding day, so I didn't do anything drastic.

I don't follow trends. I make each cake for a particular wedding, or event.

I'm the sort of person who wants to wear a wedding dress to a wedding.

People are scared to make something that doesn't look like another film that made a lot of money. It means we get 'Four Weddings And A Funeral' made again and again.

Whenever anyone says I've taught them things by me being myself, I'm always like, 'Really? I just thought that was like, Wednesday for me. I was just wearing a kilt and a sleeveless top in a Rotary Club, it wasn't that big of a deal.'

Basically, we used to have a rule at 'Saturday Night Live' that you're not allowed to bring up 'The Simpsons' at the rewrite table, because 'The Simpsons' has done every joke there is. Every week there would be guys going, 'The Simpsons did that.' I go, 'C'mon.' And 'South Park,' too.

Everybody has their own style. If you went to the movies every week and everybody acted the same way Tom Cruise did, boy, wouldn't that suck?

Personally, I do movies the way I cook: I put in what I like in case nobody else likes it and I have to eat it for the rest of the week.

I tend to gravitate toward people who are a bit more eccentric and creative and artistic in some ways. And I like bringing disparate kinds of creative people together to create some great work, even to share points of view on a new direction.

Innovation, being avant garde, is always polemic.