Quotes About Originality

Home is an invention on which no one has yet improved.

If you are going to write, say, fantasy - stop reading fantasy. You've already read too much. Read other things; read westerns, read history, read anything that seems interesting, because if you only read fantasy and then you start to write fantasy, all you're going to do is recycle the same old stuff and move it around a bit.

Even 'Bonanza' was derivative of other westerns and, of course, other westerns were derivative of 'Bonanza.'

There have been several Duchesses of Westminster but there is only one Chanel!

I don't want any gimmicks. The fact that people think that Whack is a gimmick is so crazy.

I made 'Whale Rider', I saw that to be specific and authentic is to be universal, and I've continued to work in an identical way ever since.

I've been telling my students, 'Imitate, imitate.' And they say, 'Well, what if I plagiarize, or what if I'm not original? I want to be myself.' And I always tell them, 'Your self will shine through'... If you allow yourself to feel deeply and honestly, what you say won't be like anyone else.

I would just randomly blurt out things like, 'What if a man showed up today and was carrying an umbrella, but it wasn't raining?' Eventually, people started to call me weird.

Everyone always gets a little irritated by imitators, but mostly I'm flattered. What if you never did anything anyone wanted to copy?

What if Macauley Culkin were black in 'Home Alone?' Most people would write it differently... but I would write it the same way.

If you spend your days doing what you love, it is impossible to fail. So I go about my days trying to bring something into the world that wasn't in the world before. And then everyone gets furious about it. And then I sit back and say, 'I did that!'

And write what you love - don't feel pressured to write serious prose if what you like is to be funny.

I think, at the end of the day, it comes down to authenticity and creating what you love.

First and foremost, play what you love to play. Don't try to jump on a bandwagon or a trend or a popular musical craze.

Find what you love to do and you'll never work a day in your life, that's true. But also always try to fill a niche. What can you try to do that is different?

I don't want to be fake. I'm just being me. And I have the power to break stereotypes and whatever useless rules that society puts on us.

I learned, when I look in the mirror and tell my story, that I should be myself and not peep whatever everybody is doing.

I'm not playing a role. I'm being myself, whatever the hell that is.

Whatever I do, I do it because I want to do it and because it's completely, 100% me.

I always like to create things that get attention. It used to be a problem when I wasn't famous. Now, I can do whatever I want and people have to accept it.

I'm not your typical preppy put-together girl that wears high heels or whatever. I love unique pieces.

Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.

I learned a long time ago with guitars and amps or anything else, whatever band I'm in, I'm just going to sound like me anyway, so I just stay true to that.

Pavel Durov only knows how to copy great products like Facebook and 'WhatsApp'; he never had and will never have original ideas.