The demand in India is to have a hit, which becomes a promotion for the movie and makes people come to the theater. You have five songs and different promotions based on those. But when I do Western films, the need for originality is greater. Then I become very conscious about the writing.
A. R. Rahman
It's fun, and a laugh for you... you can boo me and feel happy about yourself because you're part of the crowd that did that. But deep down there were people in that crowd booing me because of my Aboriginality.
Adam Goodes
I enrolled to do a TAFE course on Indigenous Studies, and over the next two-and-a-half years of my course I learned so much about my people and my culture in a broader sense. It made me so proud of my Aboriginality and our history in this country, which dates back over 40,000 years.
The thing that I was brought up to prize above everything else is the intellect. There is no problem that the intellect cannot solve, but it never had an original thought. Originality is the realm of the unconscious.
Alan Garner
The British feel of blues has been hard, rather than emotional. Far too much emphasis on 12 bar, too little attention to words, far too little originality.
Alexis Korner
I don't have any problems with what these guys wear because they got their own style and their own originality. That's the way it's supposed to be, man.
Allen Iverson
I thought I was clever enough to write as well as these people and I didn't realize that there is something called originality and your own voice.
Amy Tan
Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.
Ansel Adams
Girls' strength lies in its diversity, and its members have walked in a lot of borrowed shoes to make it that way. 'Solitude' is a bold and sweet example of inspiration trumping originality.
Anthony Fantano
The personality and songwriting of Holy Ghost! trumps the originality card any day.
Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms.
Anthony Storr
Because of this, originality consists in returning to the origin.
Antoni Gaudi
The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler
The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.
I'm someone who speaks my mind, so it was important to me that my publisher value originality and creative expression.
Ava Max
Originality is definitely missing from EDM. There are people looking for it and exploring but I feel it's so big now it is just getting milked. House music is losing all its melody as it becomes more about how dirty the drop is and how energetic it is. It loses touch with what music really is.
Avicii
Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
Beatrix Potter
The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.
Blaise Pascal
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
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
I always try to improve, to find new ways of expressing myself, to keep looking for truth and originality.
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.
Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility.
There was a big horror boom in the '80s, and I liked its originality and what you could get away with.
I respond to authenticity and originality, and I've been a fan of Don Winslow's ever since 'The Power Of The Dog.'
The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality.
Just keep thinking about the good side of ADD - the creativity and the originality it can stimulate.
I am attracted to arguments that have a certain plausible originality to them.
Originality is, for me, the most important quality in a script.
True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.
The difference between eccentricity and originality in historical studies is often difficult to detect at first encounter. When a radically new interpretation of a large segment of history makes its appearance, time is needed to sift the evidence.
Great success in examinations does naturally not as a rule go with originality of thought.
For the individual and for society, the more diversity you have in a field means more ways of solving a problem as well as more creativity and originality.
I think originality is something that's important and catches people's eye.
I think it's a great document of John Stevens' originality. At that time he was already much more fully formed in his conception than I was. I was sort of struggling to keep up, and sometimes it's pretty obvious.
Every director has a sensibility and style, and what works is his originality and conviction.
Young men and young women, full of courage, originality, and genius, are everywhere to be met with.
Originality is the art of concealing your source.
Caesar was a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.
The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything. And I really believe that. And what I try to teach young people, or anybody in any creative field, is that every idea should seemingly be outrageous.
Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist.
But the French writers always had more originality and independence than others, and that regulator, which elsewhere was religion, long since ceased to exist for them.
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
I think more than anything, as a comedian, I grow tired of the unoriginality of 'crazy cat lady' jokes. It's a hacky joke based on an already-played-out stereotype.
Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.
Every time you work, it's a new film, and generally when you work with auteurs, people that write and direct their films, there's always an originality.
Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.
I don't think I've ever made a claim to startling originality.
Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
