Eccentricity is originality that leads nowhere.
Detachment, lack of sentimentality, originality, a lot of things that sound rather empty. I know what they mean. Let's say, "visual impact" may not mean much to anybody. I could point it out though. I mean it's a quality that something has or does not have. Coherence. Well, some things are weak, some things are strong.
Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality.
My advice to all new writers - male or female - it isn't easy, but forge ahead and be true to your originality.
Let me not follow in the clamor of the world, but walk calmly in my path.
Object to merit and distinction, and you're setting your face against quality, independence, originality, genius against all the richness and variety of life. When you hold back the successful, you penalize those who need help.
Most of my cliches aren't original.
Profundity and originality are attributes of single, if not singular, minds.
Originality is undetected plagiarism.
I'm not only a romanticist but a romantic myself. I take it for granted the originality matters.
All cases are unique and very similar to others.
I've never had a good game plan. At a certain point, making independent films became more and more appealing to me because I like freshness and originality.
Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
Originality consists of returning to the origin. Thus, originality means returning, through one's resources, to the simplicity of the early solutions.
To contest an author's right to create a poetic or realistic work is to want to force him to change his temperament, challenge his originality, refuse to allow him to use the eye and the intelligence nature has given him.
If they haven't heard it before it's original.
Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.
Great success in examinations does naturally not as a rule go with originality of thought.
True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.