I’m a lion in a strange land.

Every creative project starts as an imitation. You begin by mapping what you already know or have previously seen onto the situation. But if you iterate and recombine enough, it becomes an original.

I think it’s my nature to try and make original content, and that’s what I’ve done, is just try and approach things in an original way, and do things differently.

The people you think are the happiest are usually the saddest; that’s because they see more and feel deeper than others do. They are the sensitive and they see beyond the veil of what’s tangible...

When the word is heard consult the source, and beware the messenger.

Reading a good book is an escape to an alternative life, writing a good book is the closest thing to actually living that life.

Time is the big bang, the original force of the universe.

Unlike a fountain that circulates the same water in an enclosed, perpetually recycling system, a human being circulates thoughts in an unlimited reservoir of self.Don’t limit yourself to being a mere fountain when you contain...

You are not an afterthought. You were well thought out by God, and that is why you look, think and speak like no one else.

The fastest way to die is to live a lie

Be different. Be original. Nobody will remember a specific flower in a garden filled with thousands of the same yellow flower, but they will remember the one that managed to change its color to purple.

When you’re the only sane person, you look like the only insane person.

Red may be bold on lips….but I prefer mine naked, without enhancement, so you know exactly what you are getting

Just because it’s something original, eccentric or you’re not used to it; doesn’t mean it’s wrong.

A book written within, contains ideas and thoughts from all over, where each page explains itself.

Normality is the new eccentric.

Saxon and I had no business even attempting any type of relationship with each other. We were gunpowder and one hell of a spark, and I wasn’t about to test our combustibility.

I don’t want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.

The world is full of same ol’ same ol’. Be the difference; a rarity not a clone.

Why be a copy, when you’re the master copy mankind is looking for?

I was shooting for a Telugu film at the Taj Mahal in Agra, and there were all these women and children pointing and screaming , ‘Rowdy Rathore.’ But I am not really ‘Rowdy Rathore.’ I...

Greetings, cybernuts! This is I.B. Nosey, your official unofficial reporter!

I did a ‘Children of the Corn’ remake for Sci Fi Channel. I play the Peter Horton role from the original, and Candace McClure from ‘Battlestar Galactica’ is my Linda Hamilton.

Disney usually doesn’t do pitches for original ideas.

If you have one person you’re influenced by, everyone will say you’re the next whoever. But if you rip off a hundred people, everyone will say you’re so original.

God doesn’t create imitations, so He designed you naturally. It’s ungratefulness to dream of putting on unnatural self. You have no right to fake God’s design!

But the Go-Go’s are a very original, kind of organic thing.

I’ve gotten to a point where I wouldn’t direct someone else’s material. It would only be something totally original.

Wow, that’s original.

Why be a copy, when you’re a master copy mankind is looking for?

I’m 60, and I did 60-year-old women songs. I’m not trying to be the Hip-Hop Queen, although I am the original Hip Hop Queen.

A distaste for the new is not always fear of the unknown, but sometimes ambition. Some people don’t like the new way simply because they never got a chance to master the old way.

I wouldn’t say I’m a very original thinker, but if I have a good experience with something, I’ll want to take it further or adapt it in some way.

We would have to invent the U.N. if we did not have it, which is not an original thought.

It is conventional to call ‘monster’ any blending of dissonant elements. I call ‘monster’ every original inexhaustible beauty.

CoMMOn SeNSe iS nOt sO cOmMOn aMoNg coMMon pEOPLe…

You do not exist to serve the illusion. The illusion exists to serve you.

He considers the theatrical version of Fanny and Alexander an amputated version of what his original film was, and he doesn’t really like the shorter film.

The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.

I started out as an opportunistic renegade. By now, I’ve lasted long enough to become sort of an American Original Respectable Renegade.

This song Emily by Joanna Newsom attaches my body to my soul which sails out and around me desperately trying to escape all the time. I still don’t understand it’s original meaning.

Starvation and disease are the original weapons of mass destruction. When you burn fields and kill animals, people are left vulnerable.

You should take notes whenever you hear interesting or original language.

Obviously with the onset of cable and satellite, there are more opportunities for programming and original programming, so it creates more opportunities for actors and producers and directors and everything.

Honduras was the original ‘banana republic,’ and its poverty remains extreme.

When you are convinced that what you offer is yours, whether it be mediocre or of standard quality, your originality will make people love you in a way you did not expect.

in no way confirm the presence of their original creators.

I’d say my writing voice is original, and I don’t think you’ll find another quite like it. This makes me sad, because when all my clones arrive sometime in the future, their only hope is...

Get off the treadmill of consumption, replication, and mediocrity. Begin lifting the weights of creativity, originality, and success.

Well, let’s go back to the original intent of Social Security. It is an insurance contract.