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Originality is genius. If you respect and care for it, it will take you on the ride of your life.
Originality is dangerous. It challenges, questions, overturns assumptions, unsettles moral codes.
As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.
Young men and young women, full of courage, originality, and genius, are everywhere to be met with.
I've been working on the way my originality, my body, my face, my original form is perceived by me.
The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.
Just keep thinking about the good side of ADD - the creativity and the originality it can stimulate.
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
Writers tend to consider distinction and originality as virtues, but they are anathema to publishers.
Don't compare yourself to anyone. Be happy to be the wonder unique, very special person that you are.
There was a big horror boom in the '80s, and I liked its originality and what you could get away with.
For me, the arts are just an endless source of intelligence, brilliance, imagination, and originality.
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
Every film has to be the next something else; originality isn't celebrated because you can't market it.
Originality is something that is easily exaggerated, especially by authors contemplating their own work.
Some people say I was very brave, but I really just didn't know any better. All I had was my originality.
I always try to improve, to find new ways of expressing myself, to keep looking for truth and originality.
Should we all confess our sins to one another we would all laugh at one another for our lack of originality
Following the West is not surrendering. Following the West, the best of the West, is following originality.
Newton expected no money from establishing his originality but rather desired recognition for his excellence.
My advice to all new writers - male or female - it isn't easy, but forge ahead and be true to your originality.
Of course quality is important but is it not the quality of an individual's originality that is most important?
Most people think an artist tries to be original, but originality is the last thing that develops in the artist.
I respond to authenticity and originality, and I've been a fan of Don Winslow's ever since 'The Power Of The Dog.'
Caesar was a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
If in many of my productions terror has been the thesis, I maintain that terror is not of Germany, but of the soul.
The transposition that a painter makes with an original vision gives to the representation of nature a new interest.
Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.
It is a matter of perfect indifference where a thing originated; the only question is: Is it true in and for itself?
Enemies are often former or potential friends who have been denied - or think that they have been denied - something.
When I came up, it was all about originality and collective research. There is an awful lot of imitation going on now.
Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.
I'm someone who speaks my mind, so it was important to me that my publisher value originality and creative expression.
The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality.
We are the ORIGIN of our art, its homeland. Viewed this way, ORIGINALITY is the process of remaining true to ourselves.
Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
Thankfully, as much as Hollywood is interested in brands, I think people are still looking for originality and freshness.
Photography is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting one's own originality. It's a way of life.
Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
U2 is an original species... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
There was a part of me that felt afraid of people in Hollywood going: '**** Hollywood with their total lack of originality!'.
Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.
From an art perspective, I don't know how you get better than 'Beetlejuice.' In terms of originality and a look, it's 100% unique.
Derivative writers seem versatile because they imitate many others, past and present. Artistic originality has only itself to copy.
Whoever the master is whom you prefer, this must only be a directive for you. Otherwise you will never be anything but an imitator.
Frivolity, under whatever form it appears, deprives attention of its power, thought of its originality, and sentiment of its depth.
Success is no proof of virtue. In the case of a book, quick acclaim is presumptive evidence of a lack of substance and originality.
People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.
Our originality shows itself most strikingly not in what we wholly originate but in what we do with that which we borrow from others.
Ice dance should not be seen as a rigid conformist form of figure skating. There is a great deal of freedom and originality to be had.