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"None of my art is based on how others think i should have done it."
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"I just wanted to play tennis. I started because I wanted to pick up another sport and then as I was slowly getting better I wanted to see how far I can go but I always wanted to be myself. I wanted to be original. I didn't want to copy anybody's style."
"Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else and failing."
"Everyone is looking for the sure thing. They are looking to hedge their bet. They think the way to do that is to go with a proven quantity, a remake of something you have already seen. That is their mindset."
"Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism."
"The most important trait of a writer is an authentic voice. Writers have to have faith in their own voice, and their own way of doing things. Originality is the gem that every writer possesses. Originality also brings on the most merciless attacks. The world resents originality in the beginning writer, and then rewards it abundantly once that writer has been successfully published. Cherish your own voice. Don't try to sound like anybody else. Sound like yourself and take the slings and arrows and keep going."
"Because of this, originality consists in returning to the origin."
"Originals cost more than imitations."
Explore more quotes by Darnell Lamont Walker
"It's okay to not know who you are and what you want. Those with the answers are usually very happy in their own stuck-ness."
"I enabled your tendency to be vulnerable and weak, and your habits of crying when 6,000 others were present for the music."
"As an artist, one of the toughest things to do is getting someone to understand why you think the way you think. And as much as i don't wanna care what they think about my thinking, it comes down to making them understand or watching them leave."
"Because when the night gets here, I'll be the youngest I'll ever be again, so I will laugh and celebrate relative youth."
"Sorrow is what I feel for people who aren't doing what they love. I keep my distance from them as though they're contagious. They are, I believe."
"I think we should throw money at artists, not at girls who take their clothes off because they made a bad choice in life."
"They tell you the story of Job so often to remind you when you lose it all, stay calm. I've always refused it. I hated the story. It made no sense, and then I developed the belief that religion's only purpose is to keep the poor from murdering the rich. And then I found the most dangerous folks are those who have nothing to lose, and I put it all together."
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