Commonplace Quote by Franklyn Ajaye Download Open image “Originality is never embraced as quickly as the commonplace.” — Franklyn Ajaye ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Commonplace Creativity Originality
Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Originality is not doing something no one else has ever done, but doing what has been done countless times with new life, new breath. — Marie Chapian Copy Share Image
When people are very original, sometimes they are original as a way to resist the mainstream. — Michel Gondry Copy Share Image
You must study their deliveries, their use of their bodies, their timing, and their use of audio and vocal effects. — Franklyn Ajaye Copy Share Image
I have no desire to be hip to the latest black slang and do the stereotypical black thing. I was a Richard Pryor fan,… — Franklyn Ajaye Copy Share Image
Walking back and forth also helps by creating the illusion that you are thinking of the routines on the spot, giving your performance a… — Franklyn Ajaye Copy Share Image
Moving to Australia was not a career move, but a quality of life issue. It has no guns, no God, and no gangster rap.… — Franklyn Ajaye Copy Share Image
Evaluate every performance on: stage presence, concentration, delivery, material and lessons learned. — Franklyn Ajaye Copy Share Image
Obviously the audience has veto power signified by whether they laugh or not, but you-not them-retain the ultimate power to decide what they're going… — Franklyn Ajaye Copy Share Image
This whole urban rap thing needs to be pulled back some. The ghetto is being glorified, and there's nothing good about the ghetto except… — Franklyn Ajaye Copy Share Image
Black people drink lots of beer. However, you won't see us skiing down a mountain for one, or see us diving for Frisbees on… — Franklyn Ajaye Copy Share Image
Be prepared to cut your little extra lines that come after a big punchline and move on to the next joke or routine to… — Franklyn Ajaye Copy Share Image
In addition to listening to the audience's laugh, you want to listen to their silence. Is it bored or interested silence? The silence is… — Franklyn Ajaye Copy Share Image
An aspiring comedian must be determined to get to his or her true feelings on a subject and convey that to the audience. Figure… — Franklyn Ajaye Copy Share Image
When I've mentioned things that I thought only happened to me, or thoughts that I felt had only had crossed my mind, the audience… — Franklyn Ajaye Copy Share Image
It was just the sort of yatch you'd expect a rock promoter to have. Mirrored ceilings, marble, Jacuzzis and leopard-skin everything, it made the… — Pamela Anderson Copy Share Image
It would be a piece of ingenuousness to accuse the man of today of his lack of moral code. The accusation would leave him… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Finally, the scariest thing about abuse of any shape or form, is, in my opinion, not the abuse itself, but that if it continues… — Alan Cumming Copy Share Image
Security is a component of everyday life that one spending time in Washington, D.C., gets accustomed to. Metal detectors, police vehicle barriers and heavily-armed… — Mike Crapo Copy Share Image
Funerals and weddings were commonplace, and nothing could have been so interesting to them as the coming of the end of the world ...… — Edward Eggleston Copy Share Image
To be original is to discover the commonplace of a thousand years--to face at first the sneer that no one would have thought of… — Gerald Stanley Lee Copy Share Image
Ever since childhood I have scorned the commonplace limits so often set upon human ambition. Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Great geniuses have the shortest biographies. Their cousins can tell you nothing about them. They lived in their writings, and sotheir house and street… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The profession of music is lacking in horse sense, not only because the commonplace variety of horse is absent from its operations, but because… — Harry Partch Copy Share Image
Which are the people who have influenced us most? Not the ones who thought they did, but those who had not the remotest notion… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
