Don't let anyone else hold your pen if you are writing your story. — Sushan R Sharma Copy Share Image
As a young artist, especially in rap and at that time that I came out, originality was big. — Rakim Copy Share Image
Whatever goal, man has reached is due to his originality plus his brutality — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“Originality is a myth perpetuated by the naive, the romantic, and the unscrupulous.” — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know. — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Human nature has a much greater genius for sameness than for originality. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Shadows are people who don't know the difference between being an individual, and being a close copy. Step out of the path,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
'Deadpool' is massively successful because they made a very unique movie. That uniqueness and originality, try to imitate that. Not, 'How about… — Lexi Alexander Copy Share Image
“Common people are often enough; that is why God made so many of them. Your job is to be--- EXTRAORDINARY.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Select only things to steal that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic.… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
Strive for originality in thought and action. Be first; Be different; And be daring. Only then will you make a significant difference… — Ernie J Zelinski Copy Share Image
It may be conceit, but I believe the subject will interest the public, and I am sure that the views are original. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Geniuses can be scintillating and geniuses can be somber, but it's that inescapable sorrowful depth that shines through-originality. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything. — George Lois 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
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
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
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
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
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 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
Of course, there are hundreds of novels and authors that have influenced me. But to choose three, they are: Stephen King/The Stand… — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
Regarding The Music Man, Jay Nordlinger wrote: The Music Man (for which Willson also wrote the lyrics) is an astonishing creation. It… — Meredith Willson Copy Share Image
This is the time for every artist in every genre to do what he or she does loudly and consistently. It doesn't… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“Every story has already been told. Once you've read Anna Karenina, Bleak House, The Sound and the Fury, To Kill a Mockingbird… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“Take a drawing by Matisse, a simple curve of a leg or a shoulder. Is there a basis, at the beginning when… — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
“The "pathology of normalcy" rarely deteriorates to graver forms of mental illness because society produces the antidote against such deterioration. When pathological… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“If originality is a “sense of novelty and freshness” then, in the act of constructing ourselves, originality is not the goal. We… — Gabby Bess Copy Share Image
The Bible is full of interest. It has noble poetry in it; and some clever fables; and some blood-drenched history; and some… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
To admire on principle is the only way to imitate without loss of originality. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. — Jehan Fostanes Nayga Copy Share Image
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