I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original.
Aaliyah
My advice to female directors is not to wait until you feel like your ideas have been pre-certified or until you think you've gotten some approval for them. Then it's too late! Follow your gut. That's hard to do, but the only way to be original.
Abigail Disney
We're all just cats trying to be original, which is what I think being a B-boy is about.
Aesop Rock
Guys is supposed to be able to be original and dress like how they want to dress. The NBA can't dress no grown man.
Allen Iverson
I want to encourage Filipino artists to be original, write your own songs and don't be afraid to go outside the box and try new things.
apl.de.ap
By definition a sequel can't be original. So you've got to figure out what worked the first time around.
Barry Sonnenfeld
If you're doing something like 'Arcadia' by Tom Stoppard, which has been done millions and millions of times, and it's been played some unbelievably well-respected actors, there's a lot more pressure there. But I try not to think about all the other people who have done it before me. You've got to try and be original.
Bel Powley
You've gotta be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for?
Bernadette Peters
If you want to be original just try being yourself, because God has never made two people exactly alike.
Bernard Meltzer
Be original. That's my best advice. You're going to find that there's something that you do well, and try to do it with as much originality as you can, and don't skimp on the words. Work on the words.
Bob Seger
I don't care what you're playing. You can be playing EDM music. Well, guess what? That came out in the early '80s. There's no way to be original. All you can do is put yourself into it and do the best you can.
Brittany Howard
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 having noticed it.
C. S. Lewis
I love the idea of a tiny window between the back stoop and the pantry, where the milkman would pass through the cheese. But of course, there is no milkman anymore. So somebody coming by the house and seeing the window would say, 'Oh, that must be original, because that's where the milkman passed the cheese through to the pantry.'
Chris Van Allsburg
I've always felt that really good prequels should be original movies.
Damon Lindelof
We try our hardest to be original, but the truth is, in a real ER, you get similar kinds of cases over time. We try to embrace the distinctions of different characters going through similar storylines.
David Zabel
Be original; don't be scared of being bold!
Ed Sheeran
In stand-up it really helps to play yourself and talk about your own feelings. You cannot fail to be original if you're just talking about what you think about X, Y and Z. Unless you've got a twin brother who's also a stand-up.
Eddie Izzard
There's only a certain number of movies I'm going to get made, and it's important to me that they each be original somehow.
Edward Zwick
When the whole point of Queen was to be original.
Freddie Mercury
If you are going to do something, you have to do it for yourself, and that's what I try to do. I try to be authentic and try to be original, so that's what I try to be. A lot of people try to build big brands but have received bad advice, and they don't try to be authentic and real with themselves.
Giannis Antetokounmpo
Horrors, I believe, should be original - the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.
I hope that the things that I sing about will be an inspiration for people to be original.
I just wanted to play tennis. I started because I wanted to pick up another sport and then as I was slowly getting better I wanted to see how far I can go but I always wanted to be myself. I wanted to be original. I didn't want to copy anybody's style.
An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
I look for the character to be something interesting, the script to have a good story and be original, and a director that I admire.
I don't try to be original; I just always want to do something that excites me.
Maybe you have a particular type of sound you want to go for, but if you really want to be original, there's no real recipe for that. For me it's just about letting it come to you... if you can let your head clear out, then almost anything is available.
I don't really follow trends - I don't like wearing what other people are wearing. I just like to be original!
People always ask me who my role models are and who I want to be like, and I don't wanna be like anybody; I wanna be me. I look up to a lot of people, and they have had great influences on me, but I wanna be original and different.
Always be original. Never duplicate what you've seen another actor do. Be true to the character that you've been given, and the rest will come easy.
That's the biggest thing: be kind and be original.
Most people think an artist tries to be original, but originality is the last thing that develops in the artist.
If you can just be yourself, then you have to be original because there's no one like you.
But to me, to be original is to be yourself.
Even when I was a hip-hop DJ I always kept it classy. The motto is always 'flashy but classy.' You've got to be original and stand out from the crowd and take some chances. But you've always got to keep it classy.
If contemporary artists sincerely seek to be original, unique, and new, they should begin by disregarding the notions of originality, individuality, and innovation: they are the cliches of our time.
Good fiction is about asserting the beauties of the world, inventing a new, positive thing. Where am I going to get that? And it should be original; it should not be cliched. So the way I looked at history was not to accuse it of failure.
I think people are afraid to be original.
Ideas do not need to be esoteric to be original or exciting.
We've all forgotten how to be original.
I got everything from someone. Nobody can be original.
I've been writing since I came to Nashville when I was 17. I've been blessed to have written with so many of the biggest names around. They took me under their wing and taught me the ways of writing. They saw something special in me, which feels great. Every song on my record is going to be original, and that's just a really cool feeling.
The golden age was when people were starting to understand what hip-hop was and how to use it. I was lucky to come up then. Everybody wanted to be original and have substance; it was somewhat conscious... There was an integrity that people respected.
I'm hoping that fans will enjoy finally having a 'SpongeBob' comic book from me. All the stories will be original and always true to the humor, characters, and universe of the 'SpongeBob SquarePants' series.
Very few people are original. There's very little original anything out there. Because to be original means you have to stand alone.
