As long as you can Houdini your way out of the Sisyphean constraints then originality happens. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
We should imitate the great classics. We would miss, and that miss would be our originality. — Raymond Radiguet Copy Share Image
On parochial school I was told I had an overabundance of original sin. — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate. — François-René de Chateaubriand Copy Share Image
“I don't make people comfortable but that's what couches are for.” — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image
“Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. So said Voltaire, the realist.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
A man who has not enough originality to think out a new title for his book will be much less capable of… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“The paths your idols took closed behind them and you'll have to grope around in the weeds, trying to cut your own… — Yvonne Woon Copy Share Image
Being unique is a lifelong process. It's difficult to be fresh and new all the time but it's the only way to… — Edwin Mamerto Copy Share Image
I offer originality: you don't know what my films are like until you go to them. I think that's the reason I've… — M. Night Shyamalan Copy Share Image
Every time you work, it's a new film, and generally when you work with auteurs, people that write and direct their films,… — Isabella Rossellini Copy Share Image
Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden. — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
Books only spoil the originality of genius. Very well for those who can't think for themselves - But when one has made… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
The first thought inside whose mind has it appeared? He should be awarded the Nobel Prize for originality! — Mariana Fulger Copy Share Image
The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even - if you will - eccentricity. That is, something… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
The thing that I was brought up to prize above everything else is the intellect. There is no problem that the intellect… — Alan Garner Copy Share Image
Do not shun this maxim because it is common-place. On the contrary, take the closest heed of what observant men, who would… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
It is always better to win somebody's heart with originality and simplicity on any accomplishment than feel good on anybody's or everybody's… — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
The world of art, I have suggested, is full of fakes. Fake originality, fake emotion and the fake expertise of the critics… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Design is not the act of amazing an audience with the novelty of forms or materials; it is the originality that repeatedly… — Kenya Hara Copy Share Image
All these teachers and [screenwriting] books mean you see movies that have been worked over by more committees wielding more rules, that… — Paul Schrader Copy Share Image
After some time passed in studying - and even imitating - the works of others, I would recommend the student to endeavour… — Henry Peach Robinson Copy Share Image
Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else and failing. — Raymond Radiguet Copy Share Image
Originality is way overrated. To make, you need to take. All great artists do. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
Be the one who speaks out above the crowd when everyone else follows the norms. — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
The personality and songwriting of Holy Ghost! trumps the originality card any day. — Anthony Fantano Copy Share Image
Real progress is progress in charity, all other advances being secondary thereto. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
A man's originality is not only the most beautiful, but the best personality of his life. — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
Never change your originality for the sake of others, because no one can play your role better than you. So be yourself,… — Qaiffah Copy Share Image
“Get off the treadmill of consumption, replication, and mediocrity. Begin lifting the weights of creativity, originality, and success.” — Ryan Lilly Copy Share Image
“In a world of masks, facades, and duplicated originality, authenticity is a rare and precious gift!” — Erick "The Black Sheep" G Copy Share Image
“Anyone who follows others never passes them by, and anyone who does not know how to do good works on his own… — Michelangelo Buonarroti Copy Share Image
God broke the mold after He made you. Your DNA is UNIQUE. Your thumbprint is DISTINCT. You were born ORIGINAL; dont die… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Originality is not writing the story that has never been told, but writing the stories only you can tell.” — M. Kirin Copy Share Image
“The quality of economists cannot be measured … by the nature of the economic life which surrounds them, but only by the… — Emil kauder Copy Share Image
“The originals are not original, but that Emersonian irony yield to the Emersonian pragmatism that the inventor knows how to borrow.” — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
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