Quotes About Originality

If a story is no good, being based on Hamlet won't save it.

Every novel is brand-new. It's never been written before in the history of the world. At the same time, it's merely the latest in a long line of narratives—not just novels, but narratives generally—since humans began telling stories to themselves and each other.

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.

Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.

The merit of originality is not novelty, it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man.

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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.

For our senior picture, they said, 'Black or navy blazer.' And I thought, Why do I want to look like everybody else?

For me, being a complete artist means not necessarily just being in front of the camera, but being behind the camera or being the originator or creator of something.

My definition of cool is finding your own definition of cool and not necessarily taking your lead from what other people tell you or from what you might read from magazines or see on TV.

A gastronomical supermeal didn't necessarily have to involve the things I had brought from other top kitchens.

What I wanted to hear didn't exist, so it was necessary for me to go out and create it.

Innovation is a necessity.

I needed to be myself and find my own identity.

Needless to say, I like to create a unique sound for each project I do.

Maybe the mainstream needs someone like me.

France needs to find something that makes it stand out. It's not enough for it to do almost as well as its neighbors.

Mozart and Neil Diamond may have begun with the same idea, but that a work of art is more than an idea is confirmed by the difference between the 'Soave sia il vento' and 'Kentucky Woman.' We have different words for 'art' and 'idea' because they are two different things.

My songs are like cheap Neil Young copies.

Me and Stormzy. We're gonna do an album. We're gonna do an album of Nelson Riddle arrangements in grime form. It's gonna be called 'Griddle'.

If I play somebody's mixtape, if it gets on my nerves halfway through because it's too loud or everything sounds the same, it makes me want to approach every song I do differently. I don't want somebody saying, 'That's enough of this,' when they listen to my music.

It's so amazing that you can give somebody like David Fincher 'House of Cards,' and he can do whatever he wants - Netflix doesn't say, 'Oh, you can't do that,' or, 'We need a subplot here about this.' It's pretty neat that it is allowing the creatives to be creative.

Being on Netflix lets us be experimental. We can do crazy things.

I want to make my own Netflix originals.