Quotes About Originality

I made an a capella cover of Kesha when everyone else was listening to Miles Davis and people didn't like it. They imitated me.

I think its really cool when someone can be more than an actor or a musician. But theres no one who I know who has done it the way that I want to do it. I guess I aspire to be the first Miles.

I think the cereal milk is my most proud achievement.

I don't do something because I think it will sell 30 million albums. I couldn't care less. If it sells one, it sells one.

No, I would never in a million years compare anything we've done to anything we've previously done. I don't believe in it - I think it's bad.

I don't make Mills & Boons kind of films.

I don't want to be anyone's mimic.

I'm not a mimic.

TV is all about learning to write in someone else's voice, so if you do it long enough without selling your own project, they assume you don't have your own voice; you're just a good mimic.

Mine is not an autonomous imagination.

I have read a lot about what I am and who I am: 'mini,' a copy, simply 'more of the same.' Dear delegates, I stand before you as I am and as life made me and I am proud of that.

You know, by the time you get to the fourth film in a franchise you're really mining for something different. You're really looking for a way to go about things that the audience hasn't already seen.

I don't say I was the first, because, who knows, maybe there was a guy out in Minnesota doing it before me.

I want people to understand that from the minute Lady Gaga arrived, she created a new set of rules: being different is good; embrace it.

I wouldn't change myself, even if I could. I like myself. And the minute you're not true to yourself, you're in trouble.

The word creativity is closely linked to the word genius, since both words have the root meaning 'to give birth.' Essentially, creativity designates the capacity to give birth to new ways of looking at things, the ability to make novel connections between disparate things, and the knack for seeing things that might be missed by the typical way of viewing life.

Every person is a unique and autonomous person and actually, considered independently, the greatest artwork of all time...

Wir sollten immer daran denken, daß es auch noch etwas anderes auf der Welt gibt als die Gewöhnlichkeit.

We want strangeness in our stories, but we want familiarity, too. We want a new novel to be not quite like anything we've read before. At the same time, wee look for it to be sufficiently like other things we've read so that we can use those to make sense of it.

On one level, everyone who writes anything knows pure originality is impossible. Everywhere you look, the ground is already camped on. So you sigh and pitch your tent where you can, knowing someone else has been there before.

I hate to be what is called a clever girl--there are too many of that sort now!

Because what's the use of learning that I am one of a long row only - finding out that there is set down in some old book somebody just like me, and to know that I shall only act her part; making me sad, that's all. The best is not to remember your nature and your past doings have been just like thousands' and thousands', and that your coming life and doings'll be like thousands' and thousands'.

the appearance of the third and youngest would hardly have been sufficient to characterize him; there was an uncribbed, uncabined aspect in his eyes and attire, implying that he had hardly as yet found the entrane to his professional groove.

The thought of Pascal's was brought home to him: "A mesure qu'on a plus d'esprit, on trouve qu'il y a plus d'hommes originaux. Les gens du commun ne trouvent pas de différence entre les hommes.