Quotes About Originality

Who can copy Garbo?

I see a lot of people try to come out and copy me, duplicate me, and give it the old college try, but at the end of the day, there's only one Chael Sonnen.

I can understand when people copy people of the past and make the future their own.

I can't copy nature.

I had my own mind made up in that I was going to do my own thing. I wasn't going to copy from this guy or that guy.

Even if you try to copy a film shot by shot, you still can't. It's still your own film.

I'd rather do my own performance than copy someone else's.

I don't try to make the guitar sound like the harpsichord or lute. That makes you end up being like a bad copy.

People said when I started, 'Why don't you just copy your father's style?' I had to be myself, singing my songs in my own way.

The main problem I've always had with fashion media is that women are encouraged to copy other women.

If your entire conception of what's possible in fantasy only comes from other fantasy books, you're going to go on to create a copy of a copy of a copy. There's nothing original there, nothing dynamic. Which is fine if that's your goal, but I've always wanted to do something no one else was doing before.

Beauty can grow as a whole, since you shouldn't copy other people.

In my films, they say the action sequences are very local and not international. But why should I copy from English films?

I don't want to be a copy of anyone else.

I am too big to copy anyone.

I've realized now that I just want to be myself. I don't necessarily want to wear an exact copy of something on the runway, because that's not really what style is to me.

There was a time when not many people had access to Malayalam films. So those who did have access went on to copy the films, add a few bits, and present it like it was their own.

I'm forced away from what I would call my music. I can't do another thing like 'Maxinquaye.' But if people didn't go out and copy it, I might have done another three or four 'Maxinquayes.' Which is terrible.

You cannot just copy and paste Carlo Ancelotti. He's been coaching for 20 years now and I have never heard a player complaining about him.

It's okay to be inspired by somebody else, but don't copy somebody else.

Obviously, don't copy everything we do.

It's really hard to copy another actor and be successful. In fact, that's usually the reason people are not good, because they're copying something they've seen, but, for some reason with their face and their body, it doesn't work.

Shading is more like copying. And certainly I do copy, but I'm making drawings, and I'm not trying to make them with the shading.

You don't want to just do 'me too' companies that are copying what others are doing.