Quotes About Originality

It's really cool because it's all exactly my vision. I'm not watering anything down.

I think if you're too concerned with being cool or hip or liked, you can't really make good TV because sincerity and coolness are opposites.

The courage to be yourself is the essence of hip hop

It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

If you're able to be yourself, then you have no competition. All you have to do is get closer and closer to that essence.

The world has improved mostly because unorthodox people did unorthodox things. Not surprisingly, they had the courage and daring to think they could make a difference.

The fact is ones own voice is not heard anywhere else. Its a challenge to be yourself. It takes a lot of courage.

Every really new idea looks crazy at first.

The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions, inspirations, flashes of genius.

The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

You're unusual. That's better than popular if you have some courage.

To create one's own world in any of the arts takes courage.

You can't make a difference until you dare to be different.

Nobody has yet proven that taking a chance and doing something unique that an audience isn't used to is a bad idea. What the theater lacks is that kind of courage.

My dad was this sort of avant-garde guy who did all kinds of weird things. He was a true original and anybody who met him never forgot him.

When I was a kid my Dad never let me sing Patsy Cline songs for one simple reason: they've already been done.

You know, you always want to just do your own thing - I mean some people want to be exactly like their parents - Ibut I wanted to do my own thing and I ended up doing a kind of mix of my mom and dad.

Competition is the death of art.

Before his death, Rabbi Zusya said "In the coming world, they will not ask me: 'Why were you not Moses?' They will ask me: 'Why were you not Zusya?

What is perfection, anyway? It's the death of creativity.

My capacity for invention is flash hot stark, I thought. Sucker sunshade. Disembodied radar-reconnaissance. Not to mention Bitter Chocolate Death and Killer Zebras. Pity about the rest of me.

There's a cardinal rule in book publishing that applies equally to brain surgery and auto mechanics: "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." Since people are still buying the original Where Is God When It Hurts?

Every woman has to have something which singles her out, which catches the eye, which makes her the center of attention.

Personne ne peut me dire une richesse nouvelle