Quotes About Originality

It' always so sad to see people spend the rest of their careers just trying to repeat the formula.

Obviously we have a sensibility that's aligned to everything we've done but we try not within certain ways to repeat ourselves.

If you work hard enough I don't think it's possible to just repeat what you're doing.

Each act is virgin, even the repeated ones.

I always feel in improv that nothing is ever as good once it's repeated.

I'm not happy with just repeating myself.

I'm trying to be very aware of not repeating myself.

I never want to cannibalize my act, and I'm really excited that I am going to be able to perform new material. I'm not a huge fan of repeating jokes, and I don't really do any of my old material from old stand-up acts.

I got tired of everybody repeating the same phrases in the hip-hop world.

You will not find me repeating a character or carrying similar mannerism in different films.

We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.

As a writer, as a lyricist, you're just trying to make sure that you're not repeating yourself. And that's a danger for a lot of people. So for me, I just try to keep taking corners and trying to find new paths.

Certainly not every reader has liked every one of my books, but I think that's a good thing because it means I'm not repeating myself.

I never want to repeat myself. I can't imagine anything else as upsetting as realizing I'm redoing something I did before. For some reason, when it comes to film, I'm very good at not repeating myself. Even though in the rest of my life, I'm constantly repeating my mistakes.

I wanted each of my books to be very different from the others, each to be special and uncategorizable, and I knew I could only do that a few times before I was in danger of repeating myself.

The Internet makes the writer work harder - I have to say things here I've never said before, or else be caught out in repeating myself.

I don't like mimicking people. I don't like repeating talking points. I don't like arguing with people just to argue. I like actually coming up with an interesting thing to say that I don't think has been said before in that way.

I think artists can influence only through making music that challenges people, excites them and flips them out. Music that repeats what you know in ever-decreasing derivation, that's unchallenging and unstimulating, deadens our minds, our imagination and our ability to see beyond the hell we find ourselves in.

We need more cartoonists to truly retire when they retire, and not run repeats.

Repeats are the absolute soul-crushing killers of the comics page.

What makes art in general, and literature in particular, remarkable, what distinguishes them from life, is precisely that they abhor repetition. In everyday life, you can tell the same joke thrice and, thrice getting a laugh, become the life of the party. In art, though, this sort of conduct is called 'cliche.'

Normally, however, I try to avoid repetitions of any shot.

We always try to make each film different so they don't get repetitive.

I don't consciously think of any certain direction when I'm writing. I only try not to be repetitive or redundant.