Quotes About Originality

Usually, the best ideas come from other people's good ideas, which then, after a short gestation period, become your ideas.

My feeling has always been that 'Good Eats' would have never happened had it been left to a committee.

For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not bettered by the borrowers, among good authors is accounted Plagiarè.

Songwriting as an art is a bit archaic now. Just writing a song is not good enough.

I realised all the good ideas were taken before I was even born.

Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.

It is perfectly easy to be original by violating the laws of decency and the canons of good taste.

For me, clothes are about individuality. When I wear things that are different and it works, it makes me feel good.

I'm good at coming up with wacky characters and funny dialogue.

All good writers are sensitive to clichés and endeavor to avoid them

One nice thing about telling a clean joke is there's a good chance no one's heard it before.

A lot of good ideas are actually bad ideas because, since they sound good, everybody's already doing them.

[The people that worked on The Simpsons] just had good taste. They knew how to execute absurd jokes.

If you try to create a type, you may end with nothing. If you do a good job of creating an individual, you may succeed at creating a type.

I don't have any money to hire actors. I just need to get people who are going to do a good job being themselves.

Teaching creativity to your child isn't like teaching good manners. No one can paint a masterpiece by bowing to another person's precepts about elbows on the table.

I thought weirdness was a good thing. I don't mean that defensively, either. I thought it was something to be cultivated.

Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don't expect.

Comedy Central does a really good job of finding totally different comedies.

In nature two things do not occur-the wheel and good taste.

Sly Stone doesn't make good albums: only good records. His style is so infinite and revolves around so many crucial aspects that it has only come together perfectly on a handful of his singles.

If you try to do a look-alike and an impersonation, then that's just not conducive to good drama.

We've seen so many films now, that you have to be on par with the best films that have preceded you. You just can't make any movie and it will be good

In a sense, a hit belongs to the person who made it popular, but if a tune is good enough to attain tremendous success, then it certainly deserves more than one version, one treatment, one approach.