There is no such thing as originality. It has all been said before, suffered before. If a person knows that, is it… — Clive Barker 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
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
I think fashion today is horrible. Just open your eyes and look! What's good about it? There's no originality. Here and there,… — Iris Apfel Copy Share Image
Console yourself, dear man and brother; whatever you may be sure of, be sure at least of this, that you are dreadfully… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
These short stories establish Sontag's originality . . . her unique vision, her success with experiments in the form . . .… — Doris Grumbach Copy Share Image
True originality has its foundations in the soul, not in the mind, and when there is an effort to create something different… — Ignacy Jan Paderewski Copy Share Image
“The novelty and freshness you'll bring to the field won't come from the new ideas you think up. Truly new ideas are… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Suppose Mozart had tried to be original? It would have been like a man at the North Pole trying to walk north,… — Keith Johnstone Copy Share Image
“When I wrote this song I felt pretty unoriginal because everybody writes love songs, and everybody feels like their love is the… — Tegan Quin Copy Share Image
“I owe all my originality, such as it is, to my determination not to be a literary man. Instead of belonging to… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“No matter what is happening, in most cases there is a path forward. Move forward appreciating facts, holding a picture of the… — Grace Gibraltar PhD Copy Share Image
All men who have sense and feeling are being continually helped; they are taught by every person they meet, and enriched by… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Wherein lies a poet's claim to originality? That he invents his incidents? No. That he was present when his episodes had their… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
To be the authentic is to be detached and stand aside from oneself and the work so that the working process can… — Joshua L. Goldberg Copy Share Image
Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don’t… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
I think true originality is perpetual. It's always rolling along. True originality is not like this award or trophy you get if… — Mr. Carmack Copy Share Image
“When we reject our origins, we become the product of whatever soil that we find ourselves planted; the colors of our leaves… — Mike Norton Copy Share Image
No man who values originality will ever be original. But try to tell the truth as you see it, try to do… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
To contest an author's right to create a poetic or realistic work is to want to force him to change his temperament,… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
The burden of originality is one that most people don't want to accept. They'd rather sit in front of the TV and… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
Learn how to follow the will of God, the reason why sometimes we fail as human being is because we tend to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Detach the writer from the milieu where he has experienced his greatest sense of belonging, and you have created a discontinuity within… — Henry Roth Copy Share Image
It's the originality of Pauls Toutonghi's voice and vision that makes this such a remarkable novel. Toutonghi is a true daredevil of… — Skip Horack Copy Share Image
There's not a lot of pretty, young female artists that's out. It's a lot of talent out there, but they don't know… — Tyga Copy Share Image
The demand in India is to have a hit, which becomes a promotion for the movie and makes people come to the… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
Every true poet, I thought, must be original and originality a condition of poetic genius; so that each poet is like a… — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
I admire anyone who can come up with something original. But not originality alone, because there can be originality in stupidity, with… — Charles Mingus Copy Share Image
I would rather be the author of one original thought than conqueror of a hundred battles. Yet moral excellence is so much… — William Benton Clulow Copy Share Image
“I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a by-product. The course was more plodding than heroic: I did… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed from one another. The instruction we find in books is like… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years… — Steve Martin 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
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
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
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
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
Just remember that when people bitch about you, they are doing it because they have their own insecurities. They feel threatened by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Men have their intellectual ancestry, and the likeness of some one of them is forever unexpectedly flashing out in the features of… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
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