Quotes About Originality

I am a writer - that is what I am before being a performer or musician. I love waking up in the morning and then going to sleep that night with something that did not exist.

You just do what you love, and then a style happens later on.

I love people like Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, people who create and write their own stuff - especially when there's just not enough cool, interesting characters out there.

I love Mikhail Bulgakov. He is very original and takes the story to unexpected places. I didn't realise political writing could be so funny.

I like mixing things. I wear a lot of boots. Love boots. And then jeans, but I like to wear them with a really ruffly top. Or I love high-waisted anything.

I love clothes, so when I wear clothes, they're usually somebody's. You know, I'm not wearing Kmart.

I don't have to compete in the charts. I can just be myself as a musician, a songwriter and play with the musicians that I really love.

I love the idea of creation and creativity.

In fact, I think my life is always going to be difficult, because I am trying to do something... "original" is a big word. It's kind of pathetic, but I have to love what I'm doing.

I love doing it. Every building is like a person. Single and unrepeatable.

I believe that love--not imitation--is the sincerest form of flattery. Your imitator thinks that you can be duplicated your lover knows you can't.

Why are you trying so hard to fit in when you were born to stand out?

Be uniquely you. Stand out. Shine. Be colorful. The world needs your prismatic soul!

Personality begins where comparison leaves off. Be unique. Be memorable. Be confident. Be proud.

It's me being me making you be you...

It's easy to make up weird stuff. It gets trickier when you want the weird stuff to be interesting and make sense.

I think a lot of snowflakes are alike...and I think a lot of people are alike too.

I think … you know how they say no two snowflakes are ever alike?" She nods. "Well, I don't think that's true. I think a lot of snowflakes are alike … and I think a lot of people are alike too.

Akthent on thee latht thyllable.

weirdness was the coin of the realm in San Francisco.

Man creates. the machine duplicates. In each case a different principle is appealed to, a different characteristic, called into being. To create is to cause to exist a thing that is unique. To duplicate is to cause to exist a thing that is uniform.

But, really, why does anyone create? You feel a...restlessness inside, a need to make something new, something no one has ever seen before. You want to add to the beauty and the richness of the world with a gift, an offering that is uniquely yours. It's an act of selfishness and generosity, all rolled into one.

Every story, the moment it's written down, will be reread," she said. "And every rereading will be a reinterpretation. In that sense, there is not an original story and there is not an original message.

The colonel could swear with vehemence and originality when he was angry, spilling his oaths in a pretty pepper and disproving Talleyrand's definition of swearing as the means by which the inarticulate gave themselves the impression of eloquence.