Originality Quotes
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Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.
John Stuart Mill
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Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
Brock Blassingame
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Should we all confess our sins to one another we would all laugh at one another for our lack of originality
Kahlil Gibran
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About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
Josh Billings
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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
Herman Melville
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Originality is the art of concealing your sources
Benjamin Franklin
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Originality now is rare in the cinema and it isn`t worth striving for because most work that does this is egocentric and pretentious. What is most enjoyable about the cinema is simply working with a language that is classical in the sense that the image i...
Wim Wenders
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[On why he passed on Fatal Attraction (1987)] There wasn`t a grain of originality in it - it was Play Misty for Me (1971) with Michael Douglas filling in for Clint Eastwood. Also, the original version, the script I read, had Glenn Close winning in the end...
John Carpenter
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I haven`t come across any recent new ideas in film that strike me as being particularly important and that have to do with form. I think that a preoccupation with originality of form is more or less a fruitless thing. A truly original person with a truly ...
Stanley Kubrick
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The burden of originality is one that most people don`t want to accept. They`d rather sit in front of the TV and let that tell them what they`re supposed to like, what they`re supposed to buy, and what they`re supposed to laugh at. You have Beavis and But...
Marilyn Manson
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I wish, and I wish so much for the film industry right now. I wish so much for originality and I wish so much and I think that we`re caught in this difficult cycle right now because our studios are corporations now. I keep talking about the old 1940s, whe...
Sarah Gellar
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When I was coming up, we weren`t trying to get a hit or get paid, we were just trying to do our thing. The only thing we were really trying to do was to be recognized for our originality.
Bootsy Collins
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When I came up, it was all about originality and collective research. There is an awful lot of imitation going on now.
Steve Lacy
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What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.
Alan Stark
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Producing a game that encompasses such originality and innovation has been an incredible experience and we are very excited to unveil Getting Up. This tour is our way to celebrate its launch and say thanks to all of our supporters.
Anita Foster
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People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Miller
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Originality`s the thing. You can have tone and technique and a lot of other things but without originality you ain`t really nowhere. Gotta be original.
Lester Young
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Originality`s the thing. You can have tone and technique and a lot of other things but without originality you ain`t really nowhere. Gotta be original.
Lester Young
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Originality is, for me, the most important quality in a script.
Douglas Wood
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Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens
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Just keep thinking about the good side of ADD - the creativity and the originality it can stimulate.
Alan Seay
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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.
Robin Cousins
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I love romantic comedies. I like to watch them and I like to be in them. It`s something that`s increasingly difficult to find that spark of originality that makes if different than the ones that come before.
Julia Roberts
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I always try to improve, to find new ways of expressing myself, to keep looking for truth and originality.
Burt Lancaster
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Great success in examinations does naturally not as a rule go with originality of thought.
Albert Lasker
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As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
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[Jane Smiley is renowned for the variety and originality of her work. Writing in the] Washington Post Book World ... one of the premier novelists of her generation, possessed of a mastery of craft and an uncompromising vision that grows more powerful with...
Barry Baker
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Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever h...
C.S. Lewis
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Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.
Abdul Wasay
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About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
Adam Donaldson
