Quotes About Originality

A problem I've always had with fashion magazines is that women are encouraged to copy other women. While I suspect that many men enjoy copying other men (consider the idea of the alpha male and beta males), and while part of what makes a man "superior" is how close he can get to "embodying manliness

But style, I also learned, is not about strictly copying others, because style is not transferable.

The most compelling women are the ones who are distinctive, who are most like themselves and least like other women.

Be original. Be true. Be you.

Do a loony-goony dance 'Cross the kitchen floor, Put something silly in the world That ain't been there before.

My skin is kind of sort of brownish Pinkish yellowish white. My eyes are greyish blueish green, But I'm told they look orange in the night. My hair is reddish blondish brown, But it's silver when it's wet. And all the colors I am inside Have not been invented yet.

Draw a crazy picture,Write a nutty poem,Sing a mumble-gumble song,Whistle through your comb.Do a loony-goony dance'Cross the kitchen floor,Put something silly in the worldThat ain't been there before.

Still, I know how to use the little I have, my flat stomach and rather flatter chest, my slightly bowed, but strong and flexible legs. I produce plenty of phlegm. I have clever hands and a stare that could take the silvering off a mirror. Men flatter themselves they are original in admiring me. How confused they are when they find out they have competition. (There is no desperation like that of a lover who has decided to do you a favor, and finds himself waiting in line.)

The majority of the books of our time give one the impression of having been manufactured in a day out of books read the day before.

Michelle Rodriguez is like the most original person on the planet. She's so straight up, uncensored all the time. Be ready. I love her for that.

It's really important that we not replicate what came before us, but we do something of our own, that's reflective of our own time, of contemporary society.

At one time they've been the most important thing to me. So I can't hear our records on the radio, I can't stand it, because they sound so out of what everyone else is doing.

Over a long period of time, living as if you were someone else is no fun.

Artists have been getting ripped off since the beginning of time, probably. But on the other hand, it might be nice to write songs. We certainly could.

Even the art of quoting is a conservative art most of the time, in order to propel the same ideas and the same self-congratulatory importance.

I want to be a designer for my time.

If you're trying to do what's popular now, you're way behind already. By the time you record it and do it and try to copy it, it's moved on.

I couldn't say there is a formula to songwriting. Each time is a unique experience.

Being unique is never easy, and often, by the time culture catches up with you, there are only a few people who notice.

I try to be original in every piece of music I do, and of course I probably fail every time.

In some ways, you can say that at any time in any writer's career: 'He might have run out of ideas.'

Filmmakers get into trouble when they're watching too many DVDs and quoting all the time.

Creatives are feared and ridiculed... and at the same time highly valued for their ability to see things that others do not.

I'm a woman for all seasons. I mix 'n' match, do designer and high street - keep all my good pieces. I design all my evening and cocktail dresses most of the time as I dislike what is out there.