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“I've always been noted for being original and doing different thing. So for me to hop on the train that's going on would be - shoot, if I wanted to hop on the train, I might as well have hopped on gangsta rap back when it was popular and tried to do that.”

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Author:Will Ferrell

“We are not in the business of being original. We are in the business of reusing things that work.”

Originals Being Original

Book:The Copywriter's Handbook: A Step-By-Step Guide To Writing Copy That Sells

Source: The Copywriter's Handbook: A Step-By-Step Guide To Writing Copy That Sells

“I always took a great deal of pride in being original.”

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Author:Roger Miller

“You don't get on by being original. You don't get on by being bright. You don't get on by being strong. You get on by being a subtle crook.”

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Book:Wolf Hall & Bring Up The Bodies: Two-Book Edition

Source: Wolf Hall & Bring Up The Bodies: Two-Book Edition

“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.”

Source: Virtue and Vice: A Dictionary of the Good Life

“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.”

Source: The Wit & Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations

“If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.”

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Book:The Courage to Create

Source: The Courage to Create

“I find that the very things that I get criticized for, which is usually being different and just doing my own thing and just being original, is the very thing that's making me successful.”

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Author:Shania Twain

“Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.”

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Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“A writer does not own words any more than a painter owns colors. So lets dispense with this originality fetish… Look, listen and transcribe and forget about being original.”

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Author:William S. Burroughs

“I really think that being yourself, being original, being outside the box is starting to be appealing to people.”

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Author:Miranda Lambert

“I've always been obsessed with drums. They fascinate me. Any other instrument - nothing. I play acoustic guitar a bit. But it's always been drums first and foremost. I don't reckon on this Jack-of-all-trades thing. I thing that felling is a lot more important than technique. It's all very well doing a triple paradiddle - but who's going to know you've done it? If you play technically you sound like everybody else. It's being original that counts.”

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Author:John Bonham

“One essential ingredient for being an original in the day of copies is courageous vision.”

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Author:Charles R. Swindoll

“Pretension almost always overdoes the original, and hence exposes itself.”

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Author:Hosea Ballou