Quotes About Originality

Very often, people are obsessed with what others think of them. It's like if a flower wants to be a cactus or a palm but it's not. A flower is a flower, and that's enough. That's all you have to do is be a flower.

You know, there's so much imitation and so much pandering in Hollywood.

I had always done these 3D things that you could walk through. They were always done off the seat of my pants without blueprints or course.

I am the only guy in Tollywood who can carry off floral pants and look good.

My high-school papers, my college-application essays, read like Norman Mailer packed in a crunchy-peanut-butter sandwich.

Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.

None but himself can be his parallel.

It's hard to really articulate what the parameters are that make one song parody-able and another song not, but if I can come up with a good enough idea for it, I go for it, and if not, then I have to move on.

When 'Paranoid' came out, how many other 'Paranoids' came out? No shots, just real.

Genre expectations can kill creativity. If you do something different, it will get hated. The best filmmakers can do everything on the approval list and knock it out of the park. For me, I have a hard time being creative when I have to color in between the lines.

An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.

I was motivated to be different in part because I was different.

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

Actually the copies of characters is something I don't particularly like to talk about in articles but just for your information, most characters there's only one.

I don't attend costume parties.

People do ask, 'Are you going to embellish this stuff?' I wouldn't change any of my guitar parts.

I wouldn't be creatively satisfied if all we did were sequels, but in the same breath, I'll say that I wouldn't be creatively satisfied if everything was an original. It's good to use the different parts of my brain. Very different rules apply.

The parts I've got to create are a little bit different to a lot of guys my age.

Sigur Ros make beautiful music. Bloc Party are fantastic and exciting and innovative.

I am brazen. For me, creating means regurgitating, distorting, and assembling everything that has passed through me and continues to do so.

No effete dauber M.

You and I may look at a banana and see a banana. If forced to come up with something more inventive to do with it, perhaps we'd mash it up, or maybe we'd dip it in chocolate, and say 'What a good boy am I.

Rabbi Zusya, when he was an old man, said, "In the coming world, they will not ask me: 'Why were you not Moses?' They will ask me, 'Why were you not Zusya?' "4 The true vocation for every human being is, as Kierkegaard said, "the will to be oneself.

For this reason the famous Hasidic story of Rabbi Zusya remains so important for us today: Rabbi Zusya, when he was an old man, said, "In the coming world, they will not ask me: 'Why were you not Moses?' They will ask me, 'Why were you not Zusya?