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.

Orhan Pamuk

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