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Quotes About Originality

I like to make the music that I really love. You're supposed to make your favorite music that no one else played, and I'd like to just keep it at that and not really change it at all.
~ Joshua Homme
I love stories and I don't like to repeat myself. And I look for new stuff, and as they say it gets harder.
~ Peter Weir
I've chosen films that are different compared to the conventional Bollywood films we all know and love.
~ Hrithik Roshan
I'll show up at Fashion Week with a mink on with a lion head biting my shoulder. I would love that. Oh my God, with a jaguar tail on my shoes. Something crazy.
~ Iman Shumpert
I love inventing names, but I also collect unusual names, so that I can look through my notebook and choose one that suits a new character.
~ J. K. Rowling
I love Lady Gaga. She's not afraid to take risks and be herself.
~ Jackie Evancho
Everything that can be created has already been done in creation. As human beings, we can only imitate, not create as such.
~ Jaggi Vasudev
I love drawings, so I've always enjoyed making drawings that exist on their own.
~ Jasper Johns
I love creativity, with no fear of what people think.
~ Jean-Charles de Castelbajac
I've always had a love for making things my own.
~ Jennifer Hudson
Write what you would love to read. Finish what you begin to write. Your voice is uniquely yours and we are all waiting to hear it.
~ Jody Lynn Nye
I do love genres, but I love finding new ways into the genre, or making that world fresh again.
~ John Hillcoat
I didn't come after Elvis and Dylan, I've been around always. But if I see or meet a great artist, I love 'em.
~ John Lennon
Invent. I love inventing, that's my first passion.
~ Kellan Lutz
I love doing collaborations - it's always good to do something that's out the box.
~ Kelly Rowland
Anytime something becomes a success in this way you always get imitators. I'm an imitator of the guys I love. I imitate people like Frank Miller, who is a huge inspiration to me.
~ Mark Millar
I love the fact that no one's ever bought my record because they were enamoured of the way I look. Maybe one person. There must be someone out there with compromised taste.
~ Moby
I love the idea of people being themselves in films.
~ Neill Blomkamp
Penelope (the parrot) squawked, 'I'll do it because I want to but not because you tell me to!' Mary was certainly surprised at that because she thought that she had made up that brilliant remark. She didn't dare to look at her mother….
~ Betty MacDonald
Shakespeare used 17,677 words in his writings, of which at least one-tenth had never been used before. Imagine if every tenth word you wrote were original. It is a staggering display of ingenuity. But
~ Bill Bryson
The reality is that no one can be authentic by trying to be like someone else. There is no doubt you can learn from their experiences, but there is no way you can be successful trying to be like them. People trust you when you are genuine and authentic, not an imitation.
~ Bill George
You need to be who you are, not try to emulate somebody else.
~ Bill George
I like my smock. You can tell the quality of the artist by the quality of his smock. Actually, I just like to say smock. Smock smock smock smock smock smock.
~ Bill Watterson
Verbing weirds language.
~ Bill Watterson